society

My first Yu-Gi-Oh! meetup seemed doomed to disaster after I unwittingly used an illegal deck against a perfect stranger. Little did I know, friendship and community were in the cards.

A business collapse. A child’s leukemia diagnosis. A realization that life could be different. For three Manitoban women, midlife became the moment to rethink work and to rebuild their careers on their own terms.

Working abroad has become a billion-dollar industry in the Philippines and provides for many Filipino families, but at what cost to those who leave and those who are left behind?

A job interview begins the moment someone walks into the room. What they are wearing is part of the first impression that follows.

As the gap between community need and government support widens, Winnipeg’s non-profit staff are caught in a violent undertow that is felt in every shift.

Caught in the space between my old and new home, I discovered that travelling a great distance was the shortest path back to myself.

When journalist and cartoonist Gabrielle Drolet’s hands first started hurting, she thought she could push through the pain, but it never went away. Her debut memoir, “Look Ma, No Hands” explores life with chronic pain — and a healthy sense of humour.

Award-winning author Madeleine Thien challenges society’s reliance on memory and the distortion of truth from those in power in her new philosophical novel “The Book of Records.”

Baybayin, an ancient script pre-dating Spanish colonialism in the Philippines, is making a resurgence. Its defiance against near-extinction is a testament to how cultural identity can be found through a script almost lost, especially for diasporic Filipinos seeking to reconnect with their ancestral heritage.

A miracle drug? An easy way out? How about neither. Like most things, using Ozempic as a weight loss tool is more nuanced than its reputation suggests. One Winnipeg woman shares her story with GLP-1.

If you enter any eighth-grade classroom in Manitoba, about every fourth student would fail to read at the standard reading level. Literacy skills are on the decline in Manitoba and after the COVID-19 pandemic, this decline became more drastic. With students spending less time reading and more time on screens, the issue remains: What are Manitobans doing to improve children’s literacy?

“Abinojii Mikanah” – it’s the name that’s been in everyone’s mouths, but not because they’re learning to pronounce and appreciate it. From historical and linguistic perspectives, there are many reasons for place names to change and move forward as society does the same.