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Reclaiming what it means to be ‘French Enough’

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Jacob Davis
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) kicked off Francophonie Month on March 1 by streaming Fransaskois singer-songwriter and filmmaker Alexis Normand’s 18-minute film French Enough. The film is set at Normand’s family cabin near...
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Letting out a ‘Big Deep Sigh’

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Alex Braun
In the post-Phoebe Bridgers indie landscape, confessional songwriting has become the standard, and the more gut-wrenching the better.  But what gets lost in this chase for authenticity is what makes confessional songs actually great —...
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A play within a play on Royal MTC stage

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Jessie Krahn
Alice Childress was almost the first Black woman playwright to have her work appear on Broadway in 1955 with her wry and potent meta-comedy Trouble in Mind. But when producers requested a happier ending and...
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UMFM show spotlight — ‘Scary Hours’

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Alex Braun
After dark, after hours, demon time, scary hours. Things slow down at night, things feel different in the dark, and the spirits and emotions that stay hidden during the day rise up. We all have dark...
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Festival du Voyageur as a first-timer

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Jacob Davis
Despite living in Winnipeg for nearly a decade, I had never attended Festival du Voyageur before this year, even with the high acclaim it has received from all my friends who were born and...
Ebunoluwa Akinbo
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Nevertheless, they are ‘Still Here’

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Grace Anne Paizen
Ukrainian U25 Men’s National Team forward Gleb Krivoshapkin distinctly remembers the day his family learned that the Russian army had invaded their city last February. They were prepared to defend themselves with what they...
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’Toban about town — Coffee Culture

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Jessie Krahn
Aside from a few chains sporadically peppering Pembina highway, Winnipeg South is sorely lacking coffeehouses. Even a few of the Starbucks locations that used to work as base camps for rogue U of M...
Faith Peters

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