Christmas Shoebox Drive provides gifts for those in need
This year’s 3rd annual Christmas Shoebox Drive was a huge success thanks to the generosity of Winnipeggers who provided gifts to children living in Winnipeg’s inner city.
Celebrating a global culture of oneness
Sunday, December 22, 2013 marked the one year anniversary of what is being dubbed as a planetary shift in consciousness — an online movement created by a group working to heal the world.
Idle No More Round Dance at mall
Several hundred members and supporters of Idle No More gathered at Polo Park Mall’s centre court in Winnipeg Friday evening to sing and to dance. Idle No More spokesperson explains why in this video report.
Power of forgiveness resonates this Christmas
Ah the ‘Joy of Christmas’ … and the ‘Sadness of Christmas’. No other time of year manages to invoke both extremes so completely.
Gambling seniors looking for company more than big win
What compels our seniors to gamble? Is it the need to seek others for social contact? Or the need to hang around a large, noisy building? Or the chance to win the big one?
Christmas shines light on what it’s like to be poor
Holiday season allows us to see what poverty really means to those we know as Winnipeg’s poor. “It makes me feel unworthy in the world, like a third class person in my own city, in this rich country.”
Neighbourhood book store offers more than just books
McNally Robinson, the city’s premier bookstore, is a regular host to a myriad of events, many of which are literary, and still others that are musical and educational.
Closure of Heinz plant will throw hundreds out of work
While trying to get the ketchup out of a bottle the other day, I thought of the not-so-joyous Christmas it will be for employees of the Heinz plant in Leamington, Ontario.
This mysterious thing called willpower
What could you do if you had more willpower? Here are some tips and techniques for strengthening your self-discipline.
Winnipeggers affirm “Human Rights and Religious Diversity for All Canadians”
About 200 people gathered in Winnipeg to celebrate the UN Declaration of Human Rights and to voice objections to Quebec’s proposed Charter of Values.