Category: feature writing
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Building community in the West End for 26 years, one supper at a time
When Travis and Stephanie Unger bought a rooming house in the West End in the summer of 1999, their intention was simply to live with others. Twenty-six years later…
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Slow fashion: the sustainable approach to style
Source: Winnipeg Sews Fast fashion is the world’s second-largest polluter; its consequences are frightening at an incomprehensible scale. Fortunately, it has a cure: slow fashion. I talked with textile educators and artists to gain an understanding of slow fashion as a lifestyle, business, and mindset. What is slow fashion? “Slow fashion is … a mindset…