Go Jets go
Since 1996, the year Winnipeg lost its beloved professional hockey team, the most popular and polarizing topic of sports bar conversation has been: “Will the…
Winnipeg
Escape from Winnipeg
i was born in Winnipeg. Or rather, the wrong part of Winnipeg. Growing up in the North End isn’t the greatest way to spend one’s…
Elvis in a bell jar
If the city is a blight, and the suburbs a cancer, then the empty husks of brick and mortar must be the atrophied heart, beating…
Winnipeg ghost-fish in winter
Manitoba? it used to be a lake — a sea, nearly, and Winnipeg was a swamp. It teemed with life: fish, mammals, sea monsters. Today,…
What’s my excuse?
We were born here, what’s your excuse? having moved to Winnipeg almost five years ago from my hometown of Dawson Creek, B.C., this is a…
Winnipeg, what an experience
What can I say about the city known as the ’Peg. This is what I know: muddy waters, the centre (heart) of this continent, “Winterpeg”…
Music you can count on
yes, winnipeg is tiny, and that sucks for a lot of reasons. I can’t tell you how often I check imaginary text messages to avoid…
Our communal backyard
my favourite place in Winnipeg is the stretch of Churchill Drive that runs from the pump house just off of Jubilee Avenue and Cockburn Street…
White out
May 3rd, 1995, “Black Wednesday.” The day this city’s heart and soul was boxed and sold. The day this city was knocked out cold, colder…
Dear Winnipeg,
I write this letter in hopes to clear the air between you and I. Ever since last summer, there has been an obvious strain on…