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Brawlers, scientific marvels, and high flyers

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Lukas Thiessen
Premier Championship Wrestling (PCW) was founded by a triumvirate of Winnipeggers including current owner Andrew Shallcross, Mike Davidson, formerly of Top Rope Championship Wrestling (TRCW), and businessman John Nguyen. Today, the Winnipeg promotion has...
Arts & Culture

‘Winnipeg is the unofficial hub of the Aboriginal music community in...

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Lukas Thiessen
In May 2013 Statistics Canada released the first data from the 2011 National Household Survey, which replaced the former long-form census. Significant facts about the population of young Aboriginal people in Winnipeg and the...
Arts & Culture

The sound of violence

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Lukas Thiessen
Nicholas Krueger confronts the assumption that violent screech is a term for the sound made by a novice violin student playing the instrument for the first time. Classically trained at Centenary Suzuki School in...
Arts & Culture

One artist, many hands

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Lukas Thiessen
When the site at the Forks was excavated for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), 400,000 mostly Aboriginal artifacts were unearthed. Now, when visitors to Canada’s newest national museum enter the postmodern building, they...
Arts & Culture

Dancing for the darkness

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Lukas Thiessen
Grave Clothes,” one of the three songs on the freshman release from local trio the Party Dress, is suited for use in a film by David Lynch or Quentin Tarantino. On this 7” EP,...
Arts & Culture

When our humanity meets mental illness

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Lukas Thiessen
If you want to be confronted with the challenges of being human sans heavy-handed preaching, then check out the upcoming production of The Valley at Prairie Theatre Exchange (PTE). The play is the newest by...
Arts & Culture

6,000 years of trade

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Lukas Thiessen
For at least 6,000 years, international trade occurred at the confluence of what we now call the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Cree, Anishinaabe, Sioux, and Nakoda traders made use of these waterways long before...
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