Walkers defend water, oppose pipeline on 125 km trek
Grassroots Indigenous Water Defence walkers go the distance in fight against proposed pipeline.
Zoo unveils heavy horses in journey back to pioneer days
Assiniboine Park Zoo’s McFeetors Heavy Horse Centre educates and entertains year round.
Will climate refugees in Canada finally spur action on climate change?
Sometimes what it takes to understand something on this scale is to see its effects on the health of a single person or a community.
Anishinaabe Water Walk highlights pipeline threat
Grassroots Indigenous Water Defence seeks to unite Treaty 3 Peoples against construction of highest volume tarsands pipeline on continent.
Manitoban competes with the best out west
Manitoba mountain biker uses his ‘Canadian Shield pedigree’ in BC multi-day cross country racing adventures.
Joys of gardening cultivated in downtown neighbourhood
West Broadway Community Gardens Coordinator discusses the truly amazing growth of gardening in the West Broadway neighbourhood.
Newcomers find community, kinship at local music festival
New Canadians arriving in Winnipeg are introduced to their new country by volunteering at a rural music and art festival. What could be more Canadian than that?
Winnipeg’s hidden summer gem
After three years of having its dock-to-dock bus service dry-docked because of adverse conditions, the Splash Dash Water Bus is back in service this summer.
Latest oil spill prompts calls to find a better way
As if the oil industry in Canada wasn’t under enough stress with falling world prices, the news from northern Alberta gets worse, not better.
Province’s policy of ‘let it burn’ fuels worsening fire situation
The average fire season in western Canada has been growing steadily since 1945 and one climate activist questions government approach to combatting such disasters.