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  • The carsharing alternative

    The ever-increasing demands of private car ownership hold Winnipeg’s infrastructure captive. Parkades suck up valuable real estate, multi-lane highways seemingly run through every intersection, and important services are frequently placed in distant industrial parks.

  • Post-post-punk

    Within music circles, the prefix “post” is often attached to an ever-growing array of genres including post-rock, post-metal and post-harcore.

  • Cycling safety

    As summer winds down, Winnipeg’s cycling safety remains in question. Despite some progress with various speed reductions in neighbourhood zones, poor city planning and toxic car culture still make Winnipeg’s biking community feel unsafe.

  • AI: Tool or threat to creativity?

    A recent lawsuit filed by 17 authors, including renowned fantasy novelist George R. R. Martin (the author behind Game of Thrones), against OpenAI has sparked a heated debate on the ethics of AI (artificial intelligence) and its relationship with copyright infringement in the digital age.

  • Privileging ‘official’ sources

    Even when the Winnipeg Free Press newsroom is empty, it’s rarely silent.

  • Safe surrender sites are anti-abortion virtue signaling

    This winter, a firehall in Landmark, Man. announced the opening of a Hope’s Cradle, a service that allows people, usually mothers, to safely surrender their infants in a temperature-controlled bassinet.

  • The world through two wheels

    The bicycle is one of the simplest forms of transportation on the planet.

  • Before my obituary

    As the family’s resident copy editor, I was tasked with proofreading my grandfather’s obituary before publication.

  • Zero fares

    Security concerns are impacting Winnipeg Transit’s image and discouraging ridership.

  • Shutting down hate on campus

    Earlier this month, professor Joanne Boucher gave a talk at the University of Winnipeg (U of W) provocatively titled “The Commodification of the Body: The Case of Transgender Identities.”

  • Embracing the curl

    Growing up a curly girl in Manitoba was a struggle.

  • Beyond the clubs

    Months ago, I nervously showed up to an Out There Winnipeg (OTW) queer volleyball practice for the first time.

  • A family like mine

    It’s nearly impossible to pin down what exactly constitutes a family. 

  • Why more people have become okay with grocery theft

    In January, Global News reported that soaring grocery prices may have led to an increase in theft at Canadian grocery stores.

  • I struck out on my own

    When I first moved out of my old place with roommates and into an apartment all by myself, my parents back in India were worried.

  • Left behind culinary culture

    If breathing is our most instinctual act, then eating is our most human.

  • Diagnosed as female

    The film doesn’t matter, although I’ve only seen a handful in theatres over the past few years.

  • The cost of commodifying pleasure

    It was blue, sparkly, worn like a Finger Monster and possibly bought at a gas station.

  • When words fail

    In a guest essay for the New York Times, author Rachel Aviv describes reporting on clinics for people experiencing the early stages of psychosis and meeting “many young patients who were struggling to express what was happening to their minds.”

  • Abortion (mis)representation

    I didn’t know what happened, except that “the guy had a dirty knife and a folding table.”

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