Austin Grabish
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An investigative reporter with a proven track record of breaking stories that matter.
I file daily local
and national stories for TV, radio and online.
I'm a diligent multi-platform reporter with over a decade of experience filing daily local and national stories for online, TV, radio and print on tight deadlines and quick turnarounds.
I’ve broken stories that have been picked up by international news outlets including the New York Times and Washington Post. I've been on the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for further insights into my stories.
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By Austin Grabish

People gather at a large rally in Steinbach, Man. in protest of public health orders that limit group sizes and forces churches to close. Some in attendance believed their religious freedoms were being violated.

Tattoo artist Phil McLellan calls out the provincial government for not letting his shop resume business during Manitoba's first COVID-19 reopening phase in May 2020.

Seidu Mohammed, a Ghanian asylum seeker who fled the United States on foot in the dead of winter for Canada in 2016, looks at his bandaged hands in hospital after learning he would have to lose all his fingers, a toe and maybe an arm following the frigid trek to freedom.

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces arrive in a Hercules aircraft on the Shamattawa First Nation in northern Manitoba to help fight COVID-19 on the remote fly-in reserve, which ripped through the community.

Shoppers learn to walk in one lane with new printed markers on the floor of CF Polo Park mall meant to keep people distanced apart. The mall reopened in May 2020 following a month-long lockdown.

Robert Russell, a resident of a large Winnipeg homeless encampment, prepares for the city to soon bulldoze the camp.

Ghanian Asylum seeker Seidu Mohammed at his very first Pride. He lost all his fingers to frostbite after fleeing on foot to Canada in the dead of winter on Christmas Eve in 2016.

Thousands protest in Winnipeg streets during a June 2020 Black Lives Matter rally after George Floyd dies in Minneapolis police custody.

Afghan war vet Geoff Logue with his service dog Luna on Sunday April 4, 2021, a day before he put her down. Luna was one of the first service dogs to be certified for veterans living with PTSD in Canada, and together with Logue, inspired a change in policy allowing service dogs to be on military bases.