Vibrant installations illuminate Folk Fest
Whether towering over the campground or tucked among the trees, Winnipeg Folk Festival (WFF) art and animation installations welcome festival goers and encourage a sense…
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Grassy Narrows: Learning through action
Last month, 22 University of Manitoba students took part in a two-week program that situated them directly in the context of the Anishinaabe of Northenwestern…
With friends like Trudeau and McKenna, Canada’s environment doesn’t need enemies
In 1879, Leonard Tilley said of a young Canada, “The time has arrived when we are to decide whether we will be simply hewers of wood…
Leafing creatively
Winnipeg artist and photographer Joel Penner has created a unique art and science project that creatively showcases the concepts of life and death via artistic…
Catch and release
University of Manitoba graduate student Amélie Roberto-Charron is a migratory bird researcher currently studying the migration habits of the Canada Warbler.
City girl gone bush
It’s been just over one month since my return from a five-week placement at a boreal garden working with the Grow North Corporation in Leaf…
Screening the truth
Local filmmakers, film connoisseurs, and any others who feel the gravitational pull towards the stories not often told or the roads less travelled should set…
Smells like tree spirit
An international team of researchers recently found a missing link in one of the mysteries surrounding climate change. Published in the journal Nature, the study…
A Warrior approaches
It was two weeks before Halloween last year when a blockade organized by the Mi’kmaq Warriors Society was confronted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The blockade in New Brunswick was in response to shale gas exploration by SWN Resources Canada, a Houston-based firm.
Idle No More supporters gather for national day of action
Protestors walked from Bloodvein, Hollow Water, Brokenhead, and Little Black River First Nations to the Manitoba Legislature on Jan. 28, where they met local Idle…