Ethan Cabel

  • Eating local, avoiding the chain gang

    Since 1997, Ciao! magazine has highlighted the best of Winnipeg’s exploding restaurant scene with a focus on tracking new, local trends.

  • State of the city speech reflects on finances, development

    Mayor Sam Katz’s state of the city speech, hosted by the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce on Feb. 4, mentioned a number of new developments in Winnipeg while chiding the provincial government over access to more revenue.

  • U of W students battle the elements during last hockey game of the Spence Street Hockey League

    As heaps of snow engulfed every corner of the city on Friday, Jan. 28, the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) SnoWeek wrapped up with the last game of the Spence Street Hockey League (SSHL).

  • Breaking down barriers

    People with disabilities are fighting back against a society dominated by sexual stereotypes. In growing numbers, they are not only embracing their sexuality, but are broadening the very definition of sex itself.

  • More than just a massage

    Girls as young as 12 have been drawn into doorways and propositioned for sex outside the Broadway Neighbourhood Centre (BNC), a large recreation and education facility for West Broadway youth.

  • Manitoba Public Insurance comes under fire from conservative think tank

    Manitobans could be facing higher insurance premiums and increased unemployment rates due to a new and “misguided” environmental policy by Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI), says the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP).

  • Grassroots activists slam Youth for Christ once more

    “God raped Mary.”
    That was the message many Winnipeggers received over the holidays as posters by an anonymous, anti-Christian group cropped up in downtown Winnipeg, sparking controversy throughout the community.

  • Winnipeg becomes Art-i-Peg

    Nothing summarizes the ugly decay and subtle beauty of Winnipeg like a walk down the Exchange District’s Adelaide Street.

  • Long-term strategy needed for 2011 municipal budget, say critics

    With the 2011 municipal budget fast approaching, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is calling for an end to Winnipeg’s 13-year property tax freeze – a policy they describe as a “financial straitjacket.”

  • Roadblocks remain in removing Portage and Main barricades

    The barricades that block off the famous Portage Avenue and Main Street intersection from pedestrian traffic are likely to remain intact despite statements by mayor Sam Katz to the contrary.

  • West End BIZ AGM discusses safety improvements, diversity

    Winnipeg’s West End is alive with parks, multi-ethnic storefronts and safety patrols, all thanks to the West End Business Improvement Zone (BIZ), which held its annual general meeting (AGM) on Wednesday, Nov. 17 at DeLuca’s Restaurant.

  • Municipal election results are false, says former mayoral candidate

    Local filmmaker and former mayoral candidate Ed Ackerman believes that he was unlawfully excluded from the Oct. 27 civic election and has appeared in court five times in order to have the election re-called with his name on the ballot.

  • Federal control over reserve land keeps aboriginals in poverty, say critics

    All across Canada, First Nations residing on federal reserves are subject to abject poverty and social ailments, wrapped up in what some view as a cycle of economic dependence on the federal government. In order to break that cycle of poverty, calls for full aboriginal ownership of reserve land are being heard around the country.

  • The highs and lows of political polls

    Whether the main mayoral candidates were neck-and-neck or making a one-sided breakthrough, Winnipeg’s civic election was all about the horse race – a race that hinges on the volatile highs and lows of political polling.

  • Katz scores another four years

    After a long and arduous civic campaign, defeated mayoral challenger Judy Wasylycia-Leis has finally pencilled in some “me-time.”

  • The Life Aquatic

    Everywhere you look there are stunning aquatic ecosystems, contained in glass and housed in living rooms, dental offices and businesses throughout Winnipeg.

  • Slacking off in sex ed

    In high school, the pressure to change who you are, and the struggle to fit in, can consume everything. It can linger from the moment you enter Grade 9, right up until graduation.

  • The Better Voter Series: Endorsements liven up civic campaign

    This year’s civic election candidates have garnished an unprecedented number of endorsements, with everyone from the Winnipeg Police Association, the Manitoba NDP and Green Party leader Elizabeth May weighing in on the municipal campaign.

  • The Better Voter Series: Desolation in downtown Winnipeg

    For years downtown Winnipeg has been littered with surface parking lots, taking up vast swathes of space in what was once the most densely populated area in the city.

  • Reflecting back: Twenty years after Meech Lake

    Twenty years ago, a Manitoba MLA named Elijah Harper altered the course of Canadian democracy.

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