Health

  • Shaving, waxing, tweezing

    I keep checking under my chin for this one persistent hair that grows in fits and starts.

  • We all pay a price

    Sayings like “the bigger the dream, the harder the grind” and “hustle, don’t sleep” echo the toxic productivity ingrained in Canada’s cultural consciousness.

  • An impossible choice at HSC

    When Kakeka ThunderSky walked into the Health Sciences Centre (HSC) emergency department on Feb. 9, she never imagined the hospital would ask her to choose between receiving medical care and keeping her daughter out of the Child and Family Services (CFS) system.

  • A limited support system

    At the start of this month, Manitoba’s provincial government formally recognized Eating Disorders Awareness Week and announced plans to further fund local eating-disorder programs.

  • City briefs

    Physicians to receive overtime bonus// Menstruation products @ U of M// Lawsuit against Headingley Correctional Centre// Lack of First Nation fire resources// Manitoba child-poverty rates worst in Canada// Annual Women’s Memorial March for MMIWG2S

  • The value of informed decisions

    Only 57 per cent of young Canadians say the sex education they received at school was or will be useful, according to a study published last year.

  • Tales from the chronic keepers

    There’s a new major cannabis syndicate in town, and they’re making a big splash.

  • Ecosexuality: I kiss the ground I walk upon

    Performance artist and sexologist Annie Sprinkle and her partner, University of California art-department chair and professor Beth Stephens, are credited with popularizing what is recognized today as ecosexuality.

  • Healthcare gaslighting isn’t just greed - it’s violence

    Another week, another abysmal event in Manitoba’s healthcare spiral.

  • Preventing burnout among students

    In the 2022 Canadian Student Wellbeing Survey, 53 per cent of students attending post-secondary education reported feeling stressed while balancing school commitments, jobs, extracurricular activities and their health and wellbeing.

  • The cost of commodifying pleasure

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

  • City briefs

    Pet fosters needed// Lions Place residents protest pending sale// Don't let it go to waste// Fast-track recruitment plan for doctors// Clean Slate Program funding// Mobile drug testing

  • Out of the closet and into the streets

    The term “safe space” can be traced back to lesbian and gay bars in the 1960s.

  • Lingering symptoms

    In December, after nearly three years of masking up, sanitizing my hands and limiting my social engagement, 

  • 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.”

  • Deicing’s impact on Lake Winnipeg

    Most Winnipeggers can recall a time they slipped down frozen porch steps or skidded through an icy road’s stop sign.

  • City briefs

    Volunteer at Festival du Voyageur// CF Polo Park development plan// Millennium Library to reopen Monday// Provincial campaign to end school absenteeism// Affordable Indigenous housing coming to Young Street// First Nation-led feasibility study expected in March

  • Winnipeg lags to adopt city-run composting

    Winnipeg remains the largest Canadian city without a city-run composting program.

  • Winnipeg lesbians and their ‘ring of keys’

    Alison Bechdel, a lesbian graphic novelist, published her memoir Fun Home in 2006, where she both processes her grief over her dad’s death and notes moments where she comes face-to-face with her dad’s queerness and her own budding sexuality.

  • Grey areas

    My sister and I call them “grey areas.”

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