Culture
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Seeking space for a safer space
Organizations like the Mount Carmel Clinic’s Sage House work to provide a variety of supports to cisgender and transgender women in the sex work industry.
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City Briefs
Scares to stave off the existential dread // Waste Reduction Week reminders // Online poetry and prose reading // Learn about historical booze // COVID-19 freezes City inspections // Virtual convocation
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In Place opens at the WAG
The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s newest exhibit, In Place, draws from the gallery’s permanent collection and features artworks from 42 Manitobans, spanning from 1970 to today.
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Eating fresh when it’s freezing
In our cold northern climate, getting fresh, local produce in the winter can be a challenge, especially in the downtown area.
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Supporting and encouraging emerging voices
This fall, Lauren Carter starts her term as writer-in-residence at the Millennium Library.
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Arts Briefs
Bîstyek // Mutual aid workshop // Reconciling Ways of Knowing // Pandemic’s Box Puppet Slam // LURE // Back in the Day
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Critipeg: Gen:Lock
Season 1 is available on RoosterTeeth.com
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Happy trails
Staff photographer Keeley Braunstein-Black explores local hiking options in this week’s cover feature.
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Silver linings
As someone who rarely leaves the house these days, going for a COVID test felt like the biggest adventure I’d taken in months.
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Fluffy “spooky” pancakes
What makes these pancakes spooky is eating them in “spooky season,” of course! Put the batter in Halloween-y cookie cutters if you have them.
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Horoscopes
On Thursday, October 8, the moon continues its transit of curious Gemini until it enters protective Cancer at 11:45 AM. There could be feelings of discontent in relationships or an uncomfortable choice regarding personal relationships, money, or possessions.
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The antisocial dilemma
Social media algorithms aren’t mysterious, scheming voices instructing us to do this or that. They aren’t telling us anything new or introducing brand-new behaviours or ideas from scratch.
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Are you there, diagnosis? It’s me, Hannah.
Shortly after giving birth to my first and only child, I was diagnosed with postpartum depression. It was the wrong diagnosis.
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Pandemic may increase domestic violence
November is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the risk of violence has only increased with the ongoing stress and restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Getting home safe(r)
In the time of COVID-19, some may feel uncomfortable riding public transit.
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NCTR hosts online panel on reconciliation
“Reconciliation is a gift that has been given to us by survivors so that we can all collectively be part of leaving behind a better Canada.”
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City Briefs
Gearing up for the byelection // New infill guidelines Q-and-A // Love After the End book launch // Imagining a better recovery // Webinar Wednesdays // Indigenous governance and co-operative models
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The spookiest Halloween yet
Although Halloween may look and be experienced differently this year, there are still indoor and outdoor activities planned around Winnipeg to keep the holiday spirit alive.
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Diaphanie finds something better
Heather Thomas, former lead singer of ATLAAS, has entered a new stage of her music career.
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Arts Briefs
Theory at home // Reel Pride // Winnipeg Film Group Workshop // Free Sunday at the WAG // Storying Violence