Cover Stories
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Confronting weight stigma
Discrimination against a person’s weight or size, also known as sizeism, is an issue that affects many people in their day-to-day lives.
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Temporary custodians
The reasons why people collect things are as unique as the collectors themselves.
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Shifting the stigma
Stigma surrounding taking medication for mental health and mental illnesses, as well as stigma around mental health in general, has decreased in recent years. This shows through both sociological and medical points of view.
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Limelight to twilight
Winnipeg exists in an odd cultural space; we’re self-deprecating but have fierce hometown pride.
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Sex workers are not illegal
Since a law change in 2013, sex work in Canada is not illegal. Currently, sex work falls under the category of asymmetrical criminalization, meaning the purchase - not the sale - of sex is illegal.
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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.
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Role of the police in Winnipeg
Winnipeg has a long and complex history with policing. Many inner-city neighbourhoods and marginalized groups experience issues with safety but have had, at times, a strained relationship with the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS).
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Man up
What is the measure of a man?
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Surviving gentrification
The past 15 years have been transformative for Winnipeg’s Exchange District.
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Here comes a regular
Sometimes community is built through a combination of habit, routine and convenience. Returning to the same place over and over again, and seeing the same familiar faces, can help people develop a sense of belonging.
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Who’s the boss?
Sometimes, shattering the glass ceiling can leave an entrepreneur under a microscope.
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Crypto-currencies: Cryptic or Critical?
Winnipeg’s crypto-community covets a currency, and Bitcoin Teller Machines (BTMs) are popping up around the city.
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Monumental or mundane?
Every place has a history. When people travel, they often make a point of visiting historic sites, getting to know the culture and the history of the place they are visiting.
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Peg City Puppers
Winnipeg may lag behind other urban centres in many measures of pet-friendliness, but some locals are taking steps to make this a more dog-friendly and dog-loving city.
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Intimate knots
In the modern era, kinbaku is no longer used to bind one’s enemies. Rather, it has been popularized as a form of sexual bondage or BDSM (an umbrella term that refers to bondage/discipline, domination/submission, and sadism/masochism) often referred to as shibari, which means “to decoratively tie.”
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The true drama of animal rescue
Many dive into the animal rescue community in Manitoba expecting it to be filled with big-hearted people, then find the humans involved are not treated well at all.
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Pedalling toward empowerment
Women, queer and non-binary people can find empowerment and self-sufficiency through learning and practising bicycle mechanics.
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To the Classroom and Beyond
Traditionally, we’ve been taught about the environment in a way that’s broken down and broken apart. Educating within the confines of four brick walls separates us from the world we’re trying to learn about and other humans we’re learning with.
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Curating history
Heritage museums exist to tell a story and to preserve local history. It is the job of museum curators to make that history accessible to everyone that visits.
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Off the Mats
Homelessness and addiction, and the resources that help