Winning on and off the track
“I’m going pretty fast,” I think to myself as I race around the track at the St. James- located indoor kart track facility, Speedworld. Just…
Manitoba
No shelter from this storm
Classified by meteorologists as a “weather bomb,” Lake Winnipeg’s recent storm has left a chaotic clamouring that can be heard from many sides of the…
Committed to the wilderness
The landscape of northern Manitoba is both breathtaking and inspiring. The area around Fisher Bay is no exception. It is a large tract of pristine…
Just another day at the beach
In the shadow of what could very well be North America’s largest oil disaster — certainly constituting much more than a spill — a look…
Racism and poor decisions
Last month, Eric Russel Daniels was shot to death by the Winnipeg Police after refusing to release the machete he happened to be carrying. Also…
Babes, boats and Burts and Burts and Burts of beer
Summers in Manitoba are unparalleled. For anyone who has not seen the sun rise over a marsh in the middle of nowhere, or woken in…
Field trip
“Every year,” he started, “Macleans magazine puts out an annual review of Canadian universities. And every year, the University of Manitoba doesn’t do so great….
Looks like it’s time to buy a brew-kit
So. Beer prices in Manitoba have just gone up. I found this out the hard way, like a rube, when I hit up the Zoo…
Look at me, I met a deadline!
Those of you reading the papers may have noticed that there is quite the debate going on in the editorial section of the Winnipeg Free…
Bury me beneath tall-grass prairie
“O bury me not on the lone prairie, where the wild coyote will howl over me, where the buffalo roams the prairie sea, O bury…