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News Briefs
Overdose prevention training // Thrive Week // Public reading with David Chariandy // Climate Action Plan // Waverley underpass
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PROFile: Jan Stewart
While Professor Jan Stewart is the dean of The Gupta Faculty of Kinesiology and Applied Health until the end of next June, she says she’s still working on her ongoing research projects.
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Crystal Clear
People may be familiar with common diseases and illnesses like diabetes, asthma, cancer, cerebral palsy or epilepsy. However, the disease that I live with is not well known or talked about very often, if at all.
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CRITIPEG: Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada
Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, the new anthology by Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA), is the first book on feminist art across all media ever published in Canada.
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Queering sex toys
According to Jack Lamon, sex is fundamental to everyone. The worker-owner at Come As You Are (CAYA), a co-operatively-run sex shop in Toronto, explains that to express one’s sexuality in today’s society is radical.
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A conversation between art forms
Contemporary dancers are branching out to collaborate with other art forms. According to Johanna Riley, interim company manager at Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers (WCD), this crossover is a natural evolution for the genre.
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The unreliable narrator of Heavenly Bodies
After a well-received run at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival this summer, the experimental one-woman show Heavenly Bodies is being revived.
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More women stand up to the mic
Women and non-binary folks are often underrepresented in many domains, including comedy.
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Arts Briefs
Isolated Landscapes gathering // Nomadic Massive // In-Between Days talk // Roger Roger and Bike Winnipeg // Curatorial talks
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Whose House? Ashley’s House!
Ashley Burdett spends her days as a hairstylist and her nights as a stand-up comedian.
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When you’re having fun
It’s hard to believe we’re three-quarters of the way through what we call “fall” already.
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Role of the police in Winnipeg
Winnipeg has a long and complex history with policing. Many inner-city neighbourhoods and marginalized groups experience issues with safety but have had, at times, a strained relationship with the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS).
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Un-Supermarket
A comic by Sari Habiluk
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Two spirit & QPOC creatives write back
On October 20-22, 2017, the University of Winnipeg hosted a weekend conference, “C2C: Two-Spirit (2S) & QPOC (queer People of Colour): A Call to Conversation with LGBT and Allies.”
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CKUW radio marathon hits airwaves Nov. 8th
The annual CKUW Student Radio Marathon will take place this Nov. 8 from 6 a.m. to midnight. The marathon allows the voices of University of Winnipeg (U of W) and collegiate students, as well as faculty and staff to be heard all day on the station.
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PROFile: Department Assistant Rachel Berg
Rachel Berg is the office manager for the department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the department of Religion and Culture. As an office manager, she oversees everything for those departments.
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U of W to receive two biomass boilers
Two new 100 kWh biomass boilers will be installed at the University of Winnipeg (U of W) this year.
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Disease and low diversity puts trees at risk
Many residential streets in Winnipeg are lined with trees, but a lack of diversity in tree species puts this canopy at risk from threats like Dutch elm disease.
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Ownership and handling of cultural materials in collections contested
Curators and community stakeholders say questions of who rightfully owns artifacts in museum collections bring up important ethical issues.
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News Briefs
Winter donations // Finding Rainbow Summit // Winnipeg cannabis jobs // Stop Violence rally // Pet photos with Santa
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