Human Rights…er, well, mostly.

Stu Murray is heading up the new Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg.  I hadn’t realized the vast experience he has with human rights – and by that I mean denying them to vast communities of people.
The gauzy glow of human rights, or, the crinoline of Canadian human rights
Murray was a member of the Conservative [...]

Change the ‘Hood

Featured in today’s Winnipeg Free Press are two articles based on the research that Elizabeth Comack and three other academics are doing on gang violence in Winnipeg’s inner city and north end.  They met with gang members back in August and discussed the ways in which they see gang violence changing in Winnipeg.  As per [...]

Deal with Disability

I was directed to this blog via someone on Twitter, and while I usually don’t take the time to read through someone’s entire blog, I couldn’t stop reading when I checked this one out.  Eva is a 26-year-old woman with Cerebral Palsy who has a video camera attached to her wheelchair so that she can [...]

Smacked With His Righteous Hand…

I awoke this morning and prepared to get a few errands done before heading to April’s place to help sandbag, as she lives on the Red River, which is rising dangerously close to her house.  I was greeted with this in my inbox:
Thanks to Karen for sending me this!
I can only find this hilarious.  If [...]

New Year, New Perspectives

Holy moly.
The last month has gone by in a friggin’ flash.  Matt and I jet-setted off to Cuba on December 29th for a glorious week down there with his family, a trip that his grandmother treated all 16 of us to.  I was so excited to be able to see the country that I’ve heard [...]

A Little Bit of So Much Truth

Last night was the last film of the CCPA’s third series of Popcorn With Your Politics. The screening was a follow-up to Jill Irene Friedberg’s Granito de Arena, called Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth) that follows the public schoolteachers of Mexico’s poorest region, Oaxaca, as they fight for [...]

Amazing.

The following 6 1/2 minutes sent chills up my spine and brought tears to my eyes.

Fucken eh, Keith Olbermann.  Fucken eh.

Hacking and Coughing Social Justice

Last night was the CCPA’s annual fundraiser.  This year it was held at the Pyarmid Cabaret and featured the musical wizardry of Jessee Havey, John K. Sampson, and DJ Kasm.  I have been helping out a bit over the past few weeks – getting posters up, asking businesses for silent auction donations, and creating as [...]

Where in the World is Spurlock’s Humility?

Tonight is date night, so apartment plans are on hold until the weekend, and tonight we’re going for dinner and to Winnipeg’s indie theatre, Cinematheque, to see Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson. I’m looking forward to seeing it as Thompson is one of my favorite writers.  Plus, I need something to [...]

Time Flies When You Sleep 12 Hours a Night

I feel lately like I have been both sleeping far too much and not enough – last night we went to bed at 9:00pm and I woke up at 8:30am. Who does that? Students that only work part time and haven’t started writing their thesis yet, that’s who.
This past week has been pretty [...]