Environment
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Unclear critical-minerals strategy sparks demand for answers
While navigating the climate crisis, governments have to balance people’s needs with the planet’s health. Switching to wind turbines and electric cars obviously helps wean communities off coal and oil. However, renewable energy systems come with their own environmental risks.
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The world through two wheels
The bicycle is one of the simplest forms of transportation on the planet.
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What makes a 15-minute city?
Winnipeg depends on cars. This is partially due to urban sprawl, an unreliable public-transit system and an overall lack of walking and cycling infrastructure.
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Build it, and they shall bike
In 2021, Coun. Matt Allard, then the chair of Winnipeg’s infrastructure and public-works committee, requested increased funding for active transit.
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Why more people have become okay with grocery theft
In January, Global News reported that soaring grocery prices may have led to an increase in theft at Canadian grocery stores.
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Ecosexuality: I kiss the ground I walk upon
Performance artist and sexologist Annie Sprinkle and her partner, University of California art-department chair and professor Beth Stephens, are credited with popularizing what is recognized today as ecosexuality.
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Shelter from the cold
Surviving winter in Winnipeg is a death-defying experience.
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City briefs
Rapid Access to Addiction Medicine (RAAM) clinic// Local Black History Month events// Carbon Tax Relief Fund cheques// Community tree-planting program// McLaren Hotel transforms// Sexual-assault nurse examiner program expands
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Deicing’s impact on Lake Winnipeg
Most Winnipeggers can recall a time they slipped down frozen porch steps or skidded through an icy road’s stop sign.
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Winnipeg lags to adopt city-run composting
Winnipeg remains the largest Canadian city without a city-run composting program.
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‘Canadians have connections to lakes and forests’
In October, the University of Winnipeg (U of W) bestowed geography associate professor Dr. Nora Casson with the Erica and Arnold Rogers Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship.
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City briefs
Budget shortfalls// Winnipeg Transit fares increase// Use of solar energy in Winnipeg// Petition to ban horse slaughter// Brady Road landfill reopened// Progress on National Inquiry into MMIWG action plan
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City briefs
Treaty knowledge centre opens at The Forks// Record numbers for pedestrian fatalities// De-escalating violent situations workshop// Initiative to increase campus safety and awareness// First Nation-led committee to study feasibility of landfill search// Freedom Convoy reunion confusion
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City briefs
Treaty knowledge centre opens at The Forks// Record numbers for pedestrian fatalities// De-escalating violent situations workshop// Initiative to increase campus safety and awareness// First Nation-led committee to study feasibility of landfill search// Freedom Convoy reunion confusion
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Growing a new Leaf
The line to purchase tickets to enter The Leaf is long.
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Favourite local outdoor gathering place
1. The Forks
2. Munson Park
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Thinly veiled criticism
It felt like progress, when, two decades into my eating-disorder recovery, I stepped on a hospital scale and didn’t register the number
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Escaping holiday consumerism
ArtsJunktion is a creative space filled with shelves of paper scraps organized by colour, buttons ordered by size and piles of fabric scraps, reclaimed wood and old magazines.
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A burial ‘good enough for Jesus’
Death is an uncomfortable topic, especially since everyone’s inevitable demise could harm the planet. It seems people can’t even die without adding to their carbon footprints.
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‘It’s both or neither’
In 2018, Greta Thunberg sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks to protest the lack of government action to mediate the climate crisis.
