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Summertime Sadness
While summer is, for many students, a time to save up for an eighth of a year's tuition (or five months rent) through the Federal Student Workers Program or Manitoba's Green Team program, for students with disabilities those living with mental illness and neurodivergent students, it is also a time of financial exclusion.
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Manitoba Highland Gathering
June 23 and 24 // With its 52nd year approaching, the Manitoba Highland Gathering will be dressing up for this year's visitors.
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sākihiwē
June 15 to 17 // Making Indigenous music accessible to Indigenous families is the goal for the first sākihiwē music festival.
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Manitoba Night Market and Festival
June 10 and August 12 // The Assiniboia Downs kickstarts the summer with a fun and exciting festival that offers a variety of food choices, kids' activities and a place to hang out with friends and family.
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Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
June 1 to 3 // The Winnipeg Underground Film Festival is back for its sixth year and promises exciting experiences for lovers of visual and performance art.
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Summer festival staples
Manitoba is home to a plethora of festivals, and choosing which ones to preview from a list of over 100 is a daunting task.
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For everyone?
There are a handful of words or turns of phrase that are unofficially banned from our lexicon at The Uniter.
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10th Annual Summer Festival Guide listings
Here are our listings of over 100 festivals across Manitoba this summer!
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The fight for safety under censorship
Since its advent, the internet has been a key resource for keeping sex workers safe, a venue for hearing their opinions on policy and a tool for making money.
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Bird and Astro
A comic by Eric H.
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Public waterworks
Breaking down in front of a boss, many moons ago, was the beginning of the end of my time at my job.
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Cottage class
Whenever I go out to my parents’ cabin at Bel-Air, Man., I make a point of accessing the water directly from my aunt and uncle’s cabin, which is a waterfront property a couple of doors down, by way of the staircase they’ve constructed leading down to the rocky beach.
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Americans might think we are nice
Recently, I travelled to Guatemala and Mexico. During my time there, I met a number of individuals who told me I was “a very nice Canadian girl,” who expressed concern for my safety and who asked why I didn’t have a Canadian flag on my backpack.
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Halfway to somewhere
There is one space that we cannot escape, that is always with us, constantly mediated by our perceptions of self and how others perceive us. This space is our own body.
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Trade and leisure at The Forks
The Forks has a history stretching back thousands of years, according to the book The Forks, A Meeting Place Transformed by Sheila Grover and Greg Thomas.
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Land, water and the health of the environment
A thesis written by Natasha J. Szach argues that preserving water will give the Indigenous community a chance to move from being a stakeholder into a partner when governing the Canadian people.
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Rocking out from a young age
Young musicians benefit greatly from taking part in the music scene.
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When Winnipeg went dry
Imagine living in a tense and highly mobilized political climate.
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Winnipeggers agree that water is life
Enbridge’s proposed Line 3, a pipeline renewal project, will skirt the northwest of Winnipeg.
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In water
Callie Lugosi is a photographer and writer based in Winnipeg, Man., Treaty One territory and the birthplace of the Metis Nation.
University of Winnipeg and downtown community newspaper