Message of hope for LGBT youth
The “It Gets Better” campaign, which supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) youth, is reaching further with a video from the RCMP. RCMP officers…
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Crime beat
October saw several accounts of criminal activity at the University of Manitoba. Ten thefts were reported from Oct. 1 to 31, nine of them being…
Fifty shades of more pleasure
Dr. Reece Malone, Winnipeg sexologist and sex educator, held a seminar that was the first of its kind on Nov. 10 to discuss sexual empowerment,…
Climate change and the community: Participate in local discussion on the effects of climate change.
For thousands of years humans have taken for granted that we would have winter and summer, a planting season and harvest season. Suddenly we’re finding…
Carl Sagan Day! Eloquent popular scientist remembered, fifteen years after his death
Two weeks ago, the Center for Inquiry of Fort Lauderdale in Florida celebrated the fourth annual Carl Sagan day. Since 2009, they have hosted educational…
Doom-soul
Al Spx of Cold Specks offers up her most intimate inner-workings on the band’s first album, the Polaris Prize Nominated I Predict a Graceful Explosion…
Going Deep with Jodie Layne
Babes in Toyland If you’ve been reading my columns, then you know I think masturbation is great and we should all be doing more of…
Take it or leave it, we don’t give a shit
There’s something really refreshing about listening to a band that creates uncontrived, unadulterated music without apology – music created for the sole purpose of creating…
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Beginning this month and running till February, the Cinematheque will be showing several films as part of their new series called We Rise Above: New…
Re-Configuring Abstraction
With the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s recent exhibition Winnipeg Now showcasing contemporary Winnipeg artwork and the Plug In ICA’s series of exhibitions titled My Winnipeg, Mary…