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PRIDE
June 5-14 Various venues in Winnipeg Mostly free, some ticketed events
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NIVERVILLE OLDE TYME COUNTRY FAIR
June 12-13 Niverville, Mb $25 early bird weekend pass, $15 for a Friday or Saturday day pass
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FUN FOR A CAUSE
June 12-21 Red River Exhibition Park, 3977 Portage Ave $15 at the gate, plus midway tickets/passes ($10-55)
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CHILDREN AT PLAY
June 4 - 7 The Forks Ticket Price: $11.35 per single ticket and $9.95 per ticket if you're buying more than four at a time
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BACK 40 FESTIVAL
June 7 Morden Park, Manitoba Ticket Price: $15
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FLATLANDERS BEER FESTIVAL
June 4-5 from 7-10 pm MTS Center $44.95
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The 7th Annual Summer Festival Guide
36 Manitoba fests and the advice you need to make it through.
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The Urban Issue 2015
Winnipeg is _______.
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West End Snapshots: Mall Centre
Today, most people pass by the Mall Centre complex at 491 Portage Ave., now the U of W’s AnX, and don’t give it too much thought. When it was built in 1963-64, however, it was celebrated as a unique, multi-use complex for Winnipeg’s downtown.
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Winnipeg Is: The Merchants
What was once a notorious hotel in Winnipeg’s North End will soon be home to academic and community engagement.
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Winnipeg Is: Community renewal
It may have taken ten years and $217 million, but the University of Winnipeg may have finally filled in its “moat."
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Winnipeg Is: Slow to wake up
Downtown Winnipeg is an emerging district. The thing is, emerging takes time. Think about yourself emerging from bed on a dark, Winnipeg winter morning. It’s a process.
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Winnipeg Is: Embracing the Trimbee era
Dr. Annette Trimbee, U of W graduate and former Alberta Deputy Minister of Advanced Education, is now well in to her first year as U of W’s President and Vice-Chancellor. Many exciting things have happened under her watch including the recent $825,000 grant to develop the Graduate Studies program. Dr. Trimbee joined us over the phone to reflect on her year, current issues on campus and the future of the U of W.
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Winnipeg Is: Strange bylaws
It’s no surprise that governments waste an absurd amount of time on arbitrary and unnecessary endeavors. Important tasks get put on the backburner while resources are wasted on the least pressing issues. There are few examples more emblematic of this dichotomy than the weird historical legislation of Winnipeg’s psychics.
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Winnipeg Is: UNICITY
It’s deceiving to look at the map of Winnipeg and think of it as simply “one city.” A massive, sprawling hunk of Manitoba, dotted with Slurpee cups and Jets jerseys. It’s only when you look at the individual communities, each area operating a little bit differently than the next, do you get a sense of who lives here.
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Winnipeg Is: Heritage
Heritage buildings are a valued part of Winnipeg’s cityscape and could be receiving more protection than they traditionally have.
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Winnipeg Is: Food Sharing
Everybody’s gotta eat, but not everybody can afford to eat well. Eating healthy, locally produced food is trending across the county, but eating well doesn’t have to be limited to the summer gardening months. Despite our long winters there are many organizations around Winnipeg working to promote local food production and sharing year-round.
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Winnipeg Is: Opportunities/Limits
Why do you live in Winnipeg?
Isolated in the middle of the continent and frigid temperatures for half of the year, the reasons people settle in Manitoba’s capital city are as vast as the suffocating fields surrounding the perimeter highway.
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Winnipeg Is: Sex Work
Prostitute. Sex worker. Victim. Whore. Sexually exploited woman. A woman who sells sex has probably been described vivaciously as many, if not all, of these terms at some point in time. She is named by others occasionally with accuracy but often with a deluded discourse that crumbles upon closer examination.
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Winnipeg Is: A boys club
Running a music venue is a bit of an odd occupation, with no clear path for training, a small cadre of colleagues who are all doing something a little different, and no guarantees of security.