News
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City briefs
Indigenous Affairs book launch // Classic play to grace U of W again // Nominations for faculty and staff awards // Ex-Winnipeg reservist jailed // Bell “Let’s Talk” Day // Report outlines actions helping graduates succeed
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Stories Left Untold
Winnipeg’s Métis history is being explored by new public art works.
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Arts briefs
Plant This Movie // Pizza fundraiser for Arts Junktion // Winterruption Winnipeg // Sweet on Sustainability // Indigenous Is Not a genre // Two solo exhibitions at Plug In ICA
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The three rules of fight clubs in Winnipeg
“The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club. The second rule of fight club is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB.”
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PROFile: Karen Ridd
For Karen Ridd, becoming an instructor for the Conflict Resolution Studies program at Menno Simons College was the result of an unexpected but adventurous journey.
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Wesmen victorious in Classic
On Monday, Dec. 30, the University of Winnipeg (U of W) Wesmen women’s volleyball team defeated their local rivals, the University of Manitoba Bisons, to win the 53rd annual Wesmen Classic tournament.
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Crossing borders and advocating for rights
Labman’s new work “explores how rights, responsibilities and obligations intersect in the absence of a legal scheme for refugee resettlement from the Indochinese crisis of the 1970s to the Syrian crisis of the 2010s,” according to the U of W website.
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A toolkit for building bridges
On Wednesday, Jan. 15, “Fostering Safe Spaces for Dialogue and Relationship-building between Newcomers and Indigenous Peoples” launched at Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre at 10 a.m., as hosted by Immigration Partnership Winnipeg.
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Strategizing for instability
“We’ve been put in a position of, I wouldn’t say panic, but an unsustainable position,” Koroluk says.
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City briefs
Latin elegy through comics // AYO youth meetup // Women’s March Winnipeg // Statistics Canada on campus // No Idea No Problem // U of W prof explores workplace bullying
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Solidarity at Portage and Main
On Jan. 10, Portage and Main became the scene of a solidarity protest.
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Actively accesible
Accessibility is a contentious topic in the Winnipeg arts scene.
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PROFile: Paul Lawrie
In the University of Winnipeg’s expansive history department, Dr. Paul Lawrie’s area of focus lies in American History.
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Province to issue mandate letters to post-secondary institutions
On Sept. 18, 2019, Manitoba’s provincial government announced a 100-Day Action Plan.
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Path to the top of the Bench
How do judges become judges? What are the requirements to be able to sit on the bench and have the power to dictate people’s lives? Can a judge ever be “fired?”
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City briefs
New collective agreement ratified // Anti-war solidarity rally // UWinnipeg launches new justice centre initiative // Winnipeg Police Cause Harm condemns proposed transit security // Environmental studies seminar // Winnipeg Foundation announces new grants
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Winnipeg on display
The Manitoba Museum unveiled the Winnipeg Gallery, its newest addition, this past fall. Roland Sawatzky, head curator of the Winnipeg Gallery, says “there is no other place (in the province that) tells the actual history of the city ... We also wanted it as an introduction to the Urban Gallery cityscape, which shows Winnipeg around 1920, but there is no real context in there, so we felt we needed to tell the larger story."
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City roots
In order to get a sense of how Winnipeggers were thinking about trees during the first couple decades of the 20th century, I returned to local newspaper archives.
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Favourite Winnipeg Winter Activity
1. Skating on the River Trail
2. Staying indoors
3. Festival du Voyageur -
Favourite U of W Prof.
1. Tracy Whalen / Alyson Brickey / Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land (Three-way tie)