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Arts & Culture / Comics / July/August 2022 / Visual Art

The Surprising Appeal of Winnipeg’s Garbage Hill

June 21, 2022June 23, 2022 - by Jonathan Dyck

How I developed an appreciation for a green space with a past life as a municipal dump

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Society

The Women Who Stood With Tina Fontaine

October 16, 2019November 1, 2019 - by Joanna Jolly

How the death of a 14-year-old Indigenous girl galvanized a community

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Society

Who Can Call Themselves Métis?

December 29, 2017September 23, 2021 - by Chris Andersen

With the latest census surge in the Métis population, it’s time to start talking about how we define the term

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Illustration by Irma Kniivila
Feature / July/August 2017

Anger and Indifference on Lake Winnipeg

June 26, 2017June 4, 2020 - by Mark Mann

Is the viscous green sludge that coats the water an ecological disaster—or just a nuisance for beachgoers?

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Illustration by Chloe Cushman
Feature / November 2016

Mennonite Pride

October 20, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Josiah Neufeld

Lessons in LGBT rights from a surprising source

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Environment / November 2015

Cub Scout

October 20, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Susan Peters

Foster care in Winnipeg’s polar bear orphanage

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Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
Environment / March 2015

Sucked Dry

February 23, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Josiah Neufeld

A First Nations suffers so Winnipeg can have water

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Photograph by Bryan Scott
Arts & Culture / November 2014

Faulty Tower

October 29, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Adele Weder

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights as tourist trap, failed memorial, and white elephant

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Image courtesy the Muses’ Company
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Katherena Vermette

November 22, 2013October 6, 2018 - by Natalie Zina Walschots

An interview with the winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry

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Photograph by Jason Verwey
Society

Luminous Ford

November 9, 2013May 15, 2022 - by Adele Perry

Whiteness, race, and Toronto’s mayoral meltdown

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