The opposite of Canada’s newest national museum?
Eight months before the grand opening of the controversial Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), a small and heroic venture in Winnipeg’s Chinatown presents an…
Arts & Culture
The Good, The Bad, The Critic
French director Michel Gondry has had quite an unusual filmography, ranging from the beloved Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to the poorly received superhero…
Jason Baerg goes back home and into the future
Visual artist Jason Baerg has recently gone back to his hometown of Sarnia, Ontario—a place in which he has not lived since 1995—as part of…
More than Just TV
At some level, we’re all looking for a place to belong. For the last five years the Just TV program at the Broadway Neighbourhood Centre…
Atheists at work
There are many people in the Keystone Province who do not believe in God. For some, lack of belief is a non-issue, for others, it…
The 10 commandments of exam week
1. Thou shalt not leave studying to the last minute. Although getting a good sleep is better for your memory than an all-night cram session,…
Beauty without a challenge
“Art has to relate to the world, and people are fucking exhausted.” Christian Worthington, a Winnipeg painter of works at once abstract and classical, does…
Ease the chill of winter
Now that we have a decent layer of snow on the ground, it’s clear that winter is really here. The season brings a laundry list…
‘An honest, fun, and raw show’
If you take four Toronto stand-up comedians—Dave Merheje, Aisha Alfa, Garrett Jamieson, and Ben Beauchemin, three of whom are former Winnipeggers—put them at the Park…
Together, science and art address our planetary psychopathology
This December, Winnipeg will host the premiere of an arts and sciences exhibition that will travel to many other countries. The exhibition, Toxicity, spawned from…