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Justice

The Winnipeg Police Service Is Booming—Despite Blatant Failures

September 20, 2024September 20, 2024 - by James Wilt

The force is notorious for targeting Indigenous people. Why does it keep cornering more public spending?

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December 2022 / Society

Cops on Substack: How Police Are Using PR to Combat Criticism

October 26, 2022October 26, 2022 - by Julia-Simone Rutgers

New communication strategies by law enforcement reveal a crisis in public trust

A hand holds a hat out, as if asking for change. Inside the hat is a small scene of a boarded up house, with people entering on the left. A figure on the right is telling a person to leave, who exist the house and walks down to a tent.

September/October 2022 / Society

No Place to Live

September 21, 2022March 10, 2023 - by Julia-Simone Rutgers

One person’s search for a place to call home shows a public housing system stretched to its limits

A comic of a small green hill with a Hollywood-style sign that says Garbage Hill

Arts & Culture / July/August 2022

The Surprising Appeal of Winnipeg’s Garbage Hill

June 21, 2022June 30, 2022 - by Jonathan Dyck

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

Podcasts

Canada’s Encampment Crisis: Episode 2 of The Deep Dive

January 24, 2022February 2, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

As housing inequality rises across the country, many Winnipeg residents have been left without a place to call home

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Justice

Why I Decided to Join a Class Action Against the Royal Winnipeg Ballet

October 23, 2019October 25, 2019 - by Serena McCarroll

I have been speaking out about alleged misconduct and abuse of power for years. Now seventy other women have added their own voices

Closeup of a woman's crossed arms, holding a photo of a young girl (Tina Fontaine).

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

Strikers overturn a streetcar in Winnipeg, June 21, 1919.

Current Affairs / June 2019 / Society

What the Winnipeg General Strike Can Teach Us about Class, Capitalism, and Greed

April 29, 2019July 2, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

In 1919, 35,000 workers ground Winnipeg to a halt. We may never again see another strike like it

November 2016

Mennonite Pride

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

Lessons in LGBT rights from a surprising source

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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The Winnipeg Police Service Is Booming—Despite Blatant Failures

Why I Decided to Join a Class Action Against the Royal Winnipeg Ballet

The Women Who Stood With Tina Fontaine

What the Winnipeg General Strike Can Teach Us about Class, Capitalism, and Greed

Mennonite Pride

Sucked Dry

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