Category: Articles
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Winnipeg cycling community’s stop-as-yield advocacy unfruitful after nearly five months
On Aug. 22, 2024, the Winnipeg cycling community came together in a demonstration calling for the government to implement a law known as the Idaho stop.
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Contest-winning Winnipeg students begin work on warming hut for The Forks
A group of Grade 10 students from Exchange Met school have begun work on their contest-winning warming hut design, “The Present,” which will soon be found at The Forks.
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Looming nuclear devastation unites global youth
Recent research estimates a 20-50% chance of nuclear war in the next 100 years, youth from four countries were told at a recent summit in Winnipeg.
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Slow fashion: the sustainable approach to style that doesn’t destroy the climate
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…
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Dead White Man’s Clothes, the result of our superfluous clothing consumption
Photo: velichor Where does clothing go when you’re done with it? A lot of it ends up in Kantamanto Market, one of the largest secondhand clothing markets in the world where over 30,000 vendors attempt to sell the ~15,000,000 garments that pass through it every week. The Journey A stained t-shirt is tossed onto an…
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Manitoba’s First Medicinal Herb Farm
What appears to be the province’s first ever medicinal herb farm has arrived. Awaken Herbs, found 40 minutes northeast of Winnipeg, will be offering a large variety of high-quality herbs through weekly U-Picks, a CSA program, and bulk dried herb sales.