By Maggie Macintosh , Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Winnipeg Free Press Manitoba’s newest student-designed warming hut doubles as a public awareness campaign for a child advocacy centre. Bison Run School has partnered with the Toba Centre for Children and Youth to create “Cozy Up With a Book.” The triangular structure, which mimics an upside-down novel, is being decorated with information about the local charity that supports young victims of abuse and their families. A QR code installed on the outside of the hut will take anyone who scans it to the centre’s website. “Toba Centre gives a kid a voice when they feel like they don’t have one,” said Arya Samim, one of the Grade 7 students who’s spent the better part of the 2025-26 school year working on the…







