Cover Stories
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Spreading the sound
The crowd swells inside and surrounds the orange temporary fencing in the Maryland Food Fare parking lot. Fontine serenades the lot filled with people, dogs, bicycles and other odd assortments. It’s a warm fall evening on a day packed with music and art. One of those Winnipeg days where people can’t decide which event to attend. Everything is the same as before, yet a little different.
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Connecting in a creative haven
Josiah Koppanyi is a Winnipeg-based painter, illustrator and muralist whose work explores nostalgia and faith. He shares his home with his wife, Vanessa, and Caesar, a pet lizard affectionately known as Cease Bees.
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Challenges for daycares
Behind Richardson College for the Environment sits a small orange building full of much smaller people. Atop three bubble-like windows, the building reads “University of Winnipeg Students’ Association Day Care.”
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Blocked Out
When users open Instagram on any device, search the name of any Canadian news organization and pull up the related account page, they’re met with a blank screen and the statement “People in Canada can’t see this content. In response to Canadian government legislation, news content can’t be viewed in Canada.”
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City support for libraries is overdue
Libraries are intersections of cultures, knowledge and accessibility within cities.
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Shaving, waxing, tweezing
I keep checking under my chin for this one persistent hair that grows in fits and starts.
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Graffiti and beyond
With more than 20 years of experience, Winnipeg graffiti artist Sean McRae has successfully created a safer space for the graffiti community, hip-hop enthusiasts and creative minds alike to gather and restock on paint supplies and new ideas with zero judgment on skill level.
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Up in flames
In the middle of the night on Saturday, Feb. 11, Point Douglas resident Candace-Rae Hamilton awoke to the sound of sirens.
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Standing with Ukrainians
Svitlana Poliezhaieva comforted her two children while hiding in the basement.
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Frozen streets paved with gold
Here in the dead of a frozen Canadian winter, the palm trees of Hollywood can seem lightyears away.
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You gotta see it to believe it
In the 1960s and ’70s, country and blues music dominated the Main Street strip in Winnipeg.
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Out of the closet and into the streets
The term “safe space” can be traced back to lesbian and gay bars in the 1960s.
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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.
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Beading beyond bars
A little over three years ago, Sandra Burling’s daughter started dating a man whose mother, Tryli Anderson, was incarcerated.
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Growing a new Leaf
The line to purchase tickets to enter The Leaf is long.
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There and back again
Whether it’s baking sourdough bread, hiking, playing video games, fostering pets or learning a new language, there is no shortage of hobbies out there.
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Blue spotlight on the drug-supply crisis
In Winnipeg’s inner city, and places like Tim Hortons, blue lights in public washrooms are becoming commonplace.
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Academia, ableism, and collective action
Studies have shown that online learning was difficult for many students. This is not news.
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The beat goes on
Musician and Into the Music employee Jason Churko has always felt at home in record stores. He fondly recalls early memories visiting music shops, which were among his most formative experiences as a child.
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Confronting consent
High-school students are calling on provincial and territorial governments across Canada to make comprehensive education about sexual violence, relationships and consent part of health curriculums.
