Opinion
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Screen-Based Activism
We live in an age where our voices can be heard by the masses with just a few clicks of a button.
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Halfway to somewhere
The perception people often have of someone being successful usually goes hand in hand with seeing that person as happy.
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Your new favourite band(s)
Over the next week, voting is open for this year’s Uniter Fiver contest. The top five finalists this year – Baseball Hero, Dinner Club, House Handshake, Jamboree and Mister K – were chosen from among this year’s open call to bands.
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Spoiler alert: Horror is smart
Some weeks ago, in a moment of spontaneity sponsored by happenstance and financial permission, I treated myself to the recently-released Suspiria remake.
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On walk friendliness in Manitoba
Walkability is a broad concept, with an ambiguous working definition along the lines of “how friendly a place is to walking."
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Back in action(ish)
By now, it might be starting to sink in that it really is January. It really is a new year. And we really are back to whatever routines that entails … kind of.
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Celebrating 30
This week’s issue is a special one, though its theme and format has shifted throughout the years.
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Of remembrance and struggle
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), observed on Nov. 20 each year at the University of Winnipeg and in hundreds of cities around the world, is an event whose purpose defies a universal definition.
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Spirit of the Buffalo Camp five months strong
A few kilometres southeast of Gretna, Man. sits a spacious lodge on a dirt road, steps away from the Canada-US border.
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Ch-ch-ch-ch changes
There’s a subtle thread of shifts and changes running through some of the articles in this week’s issue.
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This Remembrance Day saw more than a dozen services and ceremonies throughout the city. At sunset, church bells throughout Winnipeg – and across Canada – rang out to mark the 100 years that have passed since the armistice that ended the First World War.
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Queer gatherings beyond fear
When the poet Eileen Myles came to town to launch their book Evolution, a dinner was organized in their honour featuring local queer poets and writers at all stages of their careers.
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Halfway to somewhere
When my house burned down at age 13, I assumed that all material evidence of my childhood was lost forever.
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Near the end
For those not living in the context of an academic calendar, mid-November could seem like an odd time to start going on about almost being in January. We’ve barely even got enough snow to cover the grass!
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The professionals don’t know what’s best
At first glance, harm reduction might seem to be a combination of two simple words – ones that appear to be easily understood and put into action. How hard can reducing harm be?
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Outdigenous
Another election has come and gone, and I think I speak for everyone when I say, “Yes, but what about the next episode of Riverdale?”
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Snowy stories
That white stuff is swirling about outside, and it may prompt some Winnipeggers to turn their focus to more indoor activities – at least until we’ve collected enough ground cover for building snow sculptures!
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When will weed be as boring as soup?
Working in media as a sober person during the time of cannabis legalization has been an incredibly strange experience.
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Feeding Diaspora
Eating food from another culture has become a common example of cultural appreciation. Unsurprisingly, however, when we consider bell hooks’ writing on “Eating the Other,” it isn’t so simple.
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History isn’t over
This week’s cover story asks important questions about who records and collects history, and who can access it.