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The Queer Space Speaker Series at the Winnipeg Art Gallery highlighted the power of community, bringing together queer voices to connect, share experiences, and push forward conversations on identity and rights. 🌈✨ While surveys show growing allyship in Manitoba, gaps in belonging, representation, and understanding, especially around gender diversity, underscore the ongoing need for inclusive sp...

Winnipeg’s historic Pantages Theatre is set for a major comeback 🎭, with a $62M revitalization effort aiming to blend preservation with modern, multi‑use design. The project is being hailed as a model for creative reuse and downtown renewal. https://u-channel.ca/pantages-theatre-restoration-signals-potential-future-for-historic-spaces/

Dans cet épisode de Radio Des Petits Hiboux, les enfants découvrent la lecture comme une expérience partagée et un véritable voyage intérieur. 🌟 Qu’est-ce que cela veut dire de lire ? Comment les histoires deviennent-elles une partie de nos souvenirs et de nos émotions ? Pourquoi certains livres restent-ils avec nous longtemps après les avoir terminés ? Les jeunes auditeurs exploreront comment la...

Dans cet épisode de Radio Des Petits Hiboux, les enfants explorent le monde fascinant du jazz. 🎺 Qu’est-ce que le jazz et pourquoi est-il si unique ? Quel instrument choisir pour commencer quand on apprend la musique ? Les jeunes auditeurs découvriront aussi comment rester motivés lorsqu’on débute un instrument et pourquoi le jazz permet autant de liberté et de créativité. À travers des explicati...

Thousands of red-sided garter snakes are emerging from limestone dens near Narcisse, Manitoba, forming one of the world's largest snake gatherings. 🐍🌱 Thanks to the colder-than-normal spring❄️, there's still time to visit this rare wildlife spectacle, and an opportunity to learn more about these often misunderstood creatures. ✨ https://u-channel.ca/colder-spring-gives-visitors-more-time...

Grant’s Old Mill in Winnipeg will be dismantled for safety but rebuilt, offering a chance to preserve its educational value and history. 🌾🏗️ Meanwhile, a local historian warns that many original Manitoba landmarks lack support and may be lost forever, highlighting the urgent need for preservation efforts.🏚️⚠️ https://u-channel.ca/while-grants-old-mill-will-be-rebuilt-other-manitoba-landmarks-face...

The University of Manitoba’s Campus BioBlitz is bringing people together to document local biodiversity and rediscover their connection with plants, animals, and ecosystems around them. 🌱📸🦋 By combining citizen science, Indigenous knowledge, and small everyday actions, the event shows how everyone can help protect nature and support biodiversity. ✨ https://u-channel.ca/how-a-campus-bioblitz-is...

The Canadian Red Cross urges Manitobans to prepare for emergencies before they happen by understanding local risks, creating a family communication plan, and building a personalized 72‑hour emergency kit 🧰. Strong planning, mental readiness, and community connections can make all the difference when disaster strikes.🌪️ ⚡️

The FascinAsian Film Festival celebrates 5 years of growth, expanding into Winnipeg, Calgary, and Edmonton while spotlighting local filmmakers, diverse stories, and strong community connections . With record attendance, emerging artist recognition, and vibrant programming, the festival continues to build momentum and amplify Asian voices across Canada. https://u-channel.ca/fascinasian-film-festiva...

The Manitoba Museum has opened “The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act” , a powerful exhibit uncovering a largely forgotten chapter of Canada’s past and the human cost of exclusion and discrimination. 📜🏛️ By bringing these stories to light, the exhibit reminds us that understanding history is essential to creating a more just future. ✨ https://u-channel.ca/exhibit-exposes-the-human-co...

Dans cet épisode de Radio Des Petits Hiboux, les enfants découvrent le mystérieux Domovoy, un petit esprit protecteur venu des légendes slaves. Qui est ce drôle de gardien de la maison ? Pourquoi aide-t-il les familles et cache-t-il parfois de petits objets ? À travers des histoires amusantes et magiques, les jeunes auditeurs voyageront dans le monde du folklore et des traditions anciennes. Une av...

In this episode of Radio Des Petits Hiboux, young listeners will discover the fascinating world of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most famous painters in the world. Who was Van Gogh? Why did he love painting stars, sunflowers, and nature? Children will travel through colors, imagination, and inspiring stories about this unique artist. A creative, educational, and artistic adventure for the whole fam...

Radio Des Petits Hiboux vous invite à partir à la découverte des lapins et de leurs adorables bébés ! Les jeunes auditeurs apprendront comment vivent les lapins, comment s’appellent leurs petits, ce qu’ils mangent et pourquoi ils sont si doux et rapides. Une émission amusante, éducative et pleine de tendresse pour tous les amoureux des animaux.

🎬✨ Celebrate Asian Heritage Month at the FascinAsian Film Festival , May 1–3 at WAG‑Qaumajuq! Experience powerful films by local and international Asian filmmakers during the Year of the Fire Horse. 🔥 Hazel, a programmer for the FascinAsian Film Festival, shares how reviewing submissions from across Canada and beyond revealed bold, fresh stories centred on Asian diaspora, family, and trailblazi...

🎬✨ Celebrate Asian Heritage Month at the FascinAsian Film Festival , May 1–3 at WAG‑Qaumajuq! Experience powerful films by local and international Asian filmmakers during the Year of the Fire Horse. 🔥 Anthony, a Winnipeg‑based filmmaker, stunt actor, and programmer for the FascinAsian Film Festival, shares how making low‑budget action shorts led him from submitting films to helping program the...

🎬✨ Celebrate Asian Heritage Month at the FascinAsian Film Festival , May 1–3 at WAG‑Qaumajuq! Experience powerful films by local and international Asian filmmakers during the Year of the Fire Horse. 🔥 Winnipeg‑based filmmaker and photographer Angeline Javier discusses her short film All the Words , which explores immigration, family, and generational parallels through the story of a Filipino da...

🎬✨ Celebrate Asian Heritage Month at the FascinAsian Film Festival , May 1–3 at WAG‑Qaumajuq! Experience powerful films by local and international Asian filmmakers during the Year of the Fire Horse. 🔥 Jessica, co-director of the FascinAsian Film Festival Winnipeg, shares how the festival goes beyond screenings with industry panels, community-building, and programming themed around the Year of t...

🎭✨ Rubaboo – A Métis Cabaret brings powerful storytelling, music, and humour to Royal MTC on Treaty One, weaving Métis history, resilience, and heart into an intimate cabaret experience rooted in the Red River homeland. 🌾🎶 Created by Andrea Menard with music by Robert Walsh, the show invites audiences into a shared circle of truth, healing, and joy, where laughter and song move us through diff...

Content warning: This episode discusses self-harm, suicide, and sexual assault. 🎧💛Take a mental health break with the Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba and U Radio as we explore how music helps us express, regulate, and heal. Join Stephanie Westdal, Rita Chahal, and us in the studio for a powerful conversation on how music supports the journey of mental wellness. 🎶✨

Content warning: This episode discusses self-harm, suicide, and sexual assault. Music creates a powerful container for healing, giving people shaped by trauma a safe way to express the unspeakable, regulate emotions, and reconnect with others through creativity and shared experience. 🎶💛 From youth programs to survivor songwriters, music opens doors to connection, validation, and hope, reminding...

🔧 Education is being reimagined at R.B. Russell Vocational School, where the Waabishkaa‑Makwa Arts, Technology, Inspiration Lab transforms hands-on learning through trades, technology, and culture. ✨ Rooted in reconciliation and accessibility, the lab empowers students to build real-world skills, explore their passions, and shape their futures together.

✨ Manitoba is investing $5.2 million to reopen specialized menopause care through the new Manitoba Menopause Clinic in southwest Winnipeg, restoring services eliminated in 2017 and expanding access across the province.

🌬️⚡ The Métis‑led Fleury Winds project is a proposed 200‑MW wind farm near Neepawa, majority‑owned by the Manitoba Métis Federation, representing a $500M investment in clean energy and long‑term economic self‑sufficiency. 🌱 If approved, it will deliver renewable power, create jobs, and honour Métis leadership while generating stable revenue for community programs. https://u-channel.ca/metis-led-...

Thousands of families across Manitoba, gather at Winnipeg’s two Hindu temples, which have grown from a basement gathering to major cultural and community hubs offering education, wellness, and celebrations. With a $400,000 provincial grant helping repair the Dr. Raj Pandey Hindu Centre’s aging roof, the temples continue to support a growing, welcoming community and invite all Manitobans to connect...

After a long winter of snow and thaw❄️, Winnipeg streets are revealing higher litter levels, with every area showing pockets of severe trash, especially cigarette butts 🚯. Community members are already stepping up to help clean up, and organizations hope education and small actions will make a big difference this spring. 🌱🧹 https://u-channel.ca/litter-levels-rise-across-winnipeg-after-long-wint...