Career and Community Experiences
Please review each article prior to use: grade-level applicability and curricular alignment might not be obvious from the headline alone.
Resilience and asking too much
4 minute read Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026Employee burnout, workload pressures, and workplace well-being have become regular topics of conversation across Canada. Organizations are investing heavily in resilience training and wellness initiatives, helping people cope with growing demands.
While those efforts have value, they sometimes overlook a more uncomfortable question: is the problem a lack of resilience, or are we asking people to carry too much in the first place?
The air raid siren cut through the evening heat like a knife.
In 2011, while deployed to Kandahar Airfield, I was speaking to my wife on the phone when the alarm signaling a rocket attack sounded.
New Edmonton velodrome puts Olympic cycling champion Kelsey Mitchell back on track
4 minute read Preview Friday, Aug. 21, 2026Mole Mobile on move for your dermatological needs
4 minute read Preview Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026Rural councils work hard, plan big to build local arts scenes
9 minute read Preview Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026RRC shelter support worker program grads seek to make difference in lives of province’s most vulnerable
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026New Bannatyne eatery brings feast of Asian flavours
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026Fundraising rappel from top of downtown tower with persuasive granddaughter leaves 72-year-old exhilarated
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026Canada’s social media ban for under-16s likely to face Charter challenge, experts say
5 minute read Preview Updated: 2:58 PM CDTFree fix is in: repair café aims to keep items out of landfills
3 minute read Preview Monday, Aug. 17, 2026‘You vote with your bike’: cyclists celebrate freedoms, call for increased safety
5 minute read Preview Monday, Aug. 17, 2026Célébrer des employés qui mettent la main à la pâte
6 minute read Preview Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026Trailblazing Western Scrap Metals heavy-equipment operator relishes role at massive crane’s control
7 minute read Preview Friday, Aug. 14, 2026Fusion pop-up coming to street food festival
3 minute read Preview Friday, Aug. 14, 2026‘Much more to do’ to meet demand for licensed child care: education minister
4 minute read Preview Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026Rainbow Stage star relates to Elle Woods’ perseverance
4 minute read Preview Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026Meeting shines spotlight on internet safety
5 minute read Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026Concerns about status-quo literacy curriculum and website terms-of-service were repeatedly raised at a public consultation on how the provincial government can better protect internet users.
Roughly 50 people gathered in Winnipeg to weigh-in on how local governments should regulate personal data collection and artificial intelligence on Wednesday.
“The average person that selects ‘cookies’ has no idea what that means,” said Alan Campbell, a father of two and longtime school trustee who attended the evening event at St. Vital’s Norberry-Glenlee Community Centre.
Manitoba’s innovation and new technology department has hired KPMG to collect feedback and compile a report on recommendations for future AI use and cybersecurity incident reporting in the public sector.
Let’s move forward on disability rights
5 minute read Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026Tyson Sylvester wants to study computer science.
He has the intelligence, the determination, and the ambition to succeed in post-secondary education. Like thousands of young Manitobans graduating from high school, he wants to pursue higher education and build a career.
Instead, he is spending his young adult life fighting the provincial government to simply receive the supports he needs to get there.
Tyson lives with cerebral palsy, is blind and uses a wheelchair. The irony here is that Tyson can’t get government support because he scored too high on an IQ test.