Volume 72, Number 10

Published November 16, 2017

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  • Women in film

    The Winnipeg film industry has been growing in recent years. In 2016, the film industry in Manitoba brought in $127 million in production, and Carole Vivier, CEO of Manitoba Film and Music says this year is anticipated to exceed $150 million.

  • Speak out

    On Nov. 22, along with QPOC Winnipeg and Black Space Winnipeg, we'll be hosting the first Uniter Speakers Series event of this season.

  • Whose House? James and Jessica’s House!

    James Korba and Jessica Nagy have only been living together since August, but the couple says that a theme to their home has quickly emerged.

  • Arts Briefs

    B-Zone yoga // Minipeg Art Party // FLESH + MACHINE // Leanne Betasamosake Simpson // Keith Price Double Quartet 

  • Workshops show that improv is for everyone

    Improv is a life skill, according to Riva Billows, executive director of Common Crow Improv Co.

  • CRITIPEG: Accumulation of Moments Spent Under Water with the Sun and Moon

    Charlene Vickers’ Accumulation of Moments Spent Under Water with the Sun and Moon is an art show with the future on its mind. 

  • The New Customs - All Walls Fall

    A neo-folk duo from our very own city, The New Customs is made up of locals Emma Cloney and Dale Brown. 

  • Petric follows feuds with balance

    Winnipeg country music fans will soon have a new album to help keep them dancing through the winter months. 

  • Reconsidering Black Friday

    The Friday following American Thanksgiving is widely known as Black Friday. But to some, it is celebrated as Black Friday’s antithesis, Buy Nothing Day.

  • Speaker Series: Policing Black Lives

    Robyn Maynard, Black feminist writer, activist, educator and author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present, will be speaking as part of the Uniter Speaker Series on Nov. 22.

  • PROFile: Sarah Bezan

    Sarah Bezan is an instructor, and she’s currently teaching an English 1A course called Animal Metamorphosis in Fiction at the University of Winnipeg.

  • News Briefs

    Six Seasons Indigenous research // Transit garage expansion project // Infill housing panel discussion // New Directions in Classics // UWinnipeg theatre students perform // Winnipeg Santa Claus Parade

  • Opinions on opening Portage and Main Differ

    On Oct. 25, 2017, Winnipeg City Council voted 10 to five in favour of a motion to spend $3.5 million to do design and repair work at the Portage Avenue and Main Street intersection. 

  • Past, present and future of Winnipeg curling clubs

    Curling clubs are weathering social changes, but many community members continue to use them for recreation, including both the sport itself and the atmosphere.

  • TDOR vigil to be held on campus

    What started as a web project in the late ’90s has since evolved into an annual vigil.

  • Wesmen volleyball team adds golden prospects

    The Wesmen women’s volleyball team might have more potential than their mid-season 1-5 record indicates.

  • Renewing the future of energy

    On Oct. 5, TransCanada cancelled its $15.7 billion plans for the 4,000-kilometer proposed Energy East oil pipeline that would have transported oil from Alberta oil sands projects to supply refineries in the east.

  • Fashion Streeter

    I think I look like a marshmallow