Social Studies Grade 10: Geographic Issues of the 21st Century

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The fully electric Tundra Buggy is 16 feet tall, 12 feet wide, and 45 feet long.
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Iconic Churchill Tundra Buggy goes electric

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Iconic Churchill Tundra Buggy goes electric

Martin Cash 5 minute read Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021

The Churchill travel company, Frontiers North Adventure, has been operating its fleet of iconic Tundra Buggies for decades but for various reasons John Gunter, CEO of the company, knew the fleet needed to be upgraded.

A chance encounter between Gunter and Red River College’s former head of research and partnerships three years ago put Gunter on the path towards electrifying the Tundra Buggies.

On Tuesday, the fruits of that labour were revealed at Red River College’s Vehicle Technology and Energy Centre (VTEC) — the first EV (electric vehicle) Tundra Buggy.

It was a collaborative effort between Frontiers North, RRC’s VTEC, New Flyer and the non-profit Vehicle Technology Centre that pooled a growing expertise in heavy vehicle electrification that has been developing over the past decade in Winnipeg.

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Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021
ALEX LUPUL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Janelle Wride, Delivery Coordinator for Fireweed Food Co-op, and Paul Dyck, a volunteer, pose for a photo with their vegetable stand as part of Fireweed's Veggie Van program on August 19, 2021. The program offers affordable local produce to those in lower income neighbourhoods.
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Veggie Van to bring fresh produce to inner city residents

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Veggie Van to bring fresh produce to inner city residents

Eva Wasney 4 minute read Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021

A farmer’s market on wheels is hoping to put a dent into the problem of food deserts in Winnipeg’s inner city

Fireweed Food Co-op has launched its new Veggie Van pilot program, which brings subsidized local produce into Winnipeg’s inner city neighbourhoods through a mobile market on Thursday afternoons. The West Central Women’s Resource Centre was the first stop on the Veggie Van’s inaugural tour last week.

“We have zucchini, beets, yellow onion, carrots, sweet corn,” says Fireweed’s food hub delivery co-ordinator Janelle Wride, while standing behind a table piled high with colourful vegetables. “Those are most of the basic items that we have available from the producers right now and each week it’ll change a little bit.”

The goal of the program, she says, is to combat food insecurity by offering cheap, nutritious produce for sale in underserved communities.

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Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS About 50 people gathered outside a TD Bank at Notre Dame Avenue and Sherbrook Street Sunday.
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Protesters gather at corner to oppose funding of pipeline

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Protesters gather at corner to oppose funding of pipeline

Cody Sellar 4 minute read Monday, Aug. 23, 2021

About 50 people from Winnipeg’s Mennonite community gathered Sunday at a TD Bank at the corner of Notre Dame Avenue and Sherbrook Street to protest the bank’s funding of the Line 3 pipeline replacement.

As rain pelted down on a canopy of umbrellas, one man cut his TD Bank card into pieces while the crowd cheered. After some minutes of song and prayer, the group took non-permanent markers and wrote messages over the windows of the bank.

“Stop fossil fuel funding,” one man wrote on the door. The red ink ran in long streaks from the rain down over the bank’s hours.

Organizer Steve Heinrichs said he drew inspiration from Indigenous communities leading protests in Minnesota.

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Monday, Aug. 23, 2021
Deidré Coleman (left) and Patrice Gilman are taking part in this month's Black History Manitoba block party, dishing up Caribbean food from their West End restaurant. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
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Black History Manitoba's block party opportunity for chefs to share their passion

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Black History Manitoba's block party opportunity for chefs to share their passion

Melissa Martin 6 minute read Monday, Aug. 23, 2021

As a little girl growing up in Jamaica, Patrice Gilman dreamed that one day, she would cook just like Gladys, her grandmother. Everyone around downtown Kingston knew Gladys, and the little restaurant she owned in the area called Southside. Her dish of tripe and beans was famous, and fed famous athletes and hungry kids alike.

Gilman was fascinated by watching her grandmother manage the little kitchen, cooking all on her own, darting between pots of goat or chicken or fish bubbling on any of a dozen wood-fired stoves. Every morning, Gladys rose before the sun to start making lunch, and every day she was sold out of food not long after noon.

Still, she always had a little something for the kids who hung around, the ones who didn’t have enough.

“She was a one-woman show,” Gilman says. “She would feed the whole community. She had nine children, and raised many more children that weren’t her own. She passed away about 13 years ago, but her spirit lives on so strongly in our family’s heart.”

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Monday, Aug. 23, 2021
New titles for the Bishop Grandin Boulevard and the greenway are expected in the coming weeks. (Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files)
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Boulevard, greenway could be renamed by end of year

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Boulevard, greenway could be renamed by end of year

Maggie Macintosh 3 minute read Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021

Bishop Grandin Boulevard and the greenway that runs parallel to it — both of which are named after an architect of the residential school system — could have new titles before the end of the year.

The volunteer board that oversees the greenway’s operations issued a notice this week to inform community members of its ongoing support for the City of Winnipeg’s efforts to explore cutting ties with Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin (1829-1902) as a namesake for local landmarks.

The board indicated renaming consultations are underway and it anticipates a report with a recommendation on the subject will be brought forward to city council this fall.

“I don’t want people to think we’re sitting on our hands and letting this fall by the wayside,” said Derick Young, president of Bishop Grandin Greenway Inc.

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Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021
CAROL SANDERS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Morgan Fontaine (nee Sizeland), left, grew up blocks from the rez school in River Heights and first met Ted Fontaine, right, when he was one of the
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City considering new name for park near former residential school to honour Indigenous leader

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City considering new name for park near former residential school to honour Indigenous leader

Joyanne Pursaga 5 minute read Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021

AS a residential high school student, the site now known as Wellington Park offered him rare moments of joy.

As an adult survivor of that system, it helped trigger both positive memories and quiet, disturbing flashbacks.

Theodore Fontaine, who died in May, found more than a chance to play hockey and baseball at the Assiniboia Indian Residential School, according to his wife Morgan Fontaine.

“These fields, this was just for him a time of that little taste of freedom that he longed for.… It was just before his seventh birthday (that) he lost his freedom,” she said.

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Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021
Tim Smith / Brandon Sun files If proposed changes to a city bylaw pass, Winnipeggers will legally be able to own a pit bull.
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Pit bulls legal, ball pythons banned?

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Pit bulls legal, ball pythons banned?

Gabrielle Piché 6 minute read Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021

Laura Baker has wanted a pit bull for 20 years, but hasn’t bought one because of the city’s ban.

“I just feel like the whole breed has been so misrepresented, misunderstood and given a raw deal in terms of being able to find loving homes,” the St. James resident said.

If proposed changes to a city bylaw pass, Baker will legally be able to own a pit bull, while it could become illegal to feed wildlife and to leave pets in vehicles at certain temperatures.

The city is looking for feedback on suggestions to its Responsible Pet Ownership bylaw. Winnipeg Public Service reviewed the rules this summer and came back with a number of ideas, including a removal of breed-specific bans.

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Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021
MIKE SUDOMA / Winnipeg Free Press Chef Tara Hall has included traditional foods from her youth, such as bannock and pickerel, into her food truck's menu.
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Chef wants to keep on trucking while she puts down permanent restaurant roots

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Chef wants to keep on trucking while she puts down permanent restaurant roots

Eva Wasney 4 minute read Monday, Aug. 9, 2021

Tara Hall is just getting started.

The 40-year-old chef is the owner of Winnipeg’s Aboriginal Fusion food truck and she has her sights set on opening a restaurant — sans wheels — focused on the foods she grew up eating.

The elevator pitch is “traditional Aboriginal foods with a fine-dining twist,” Hall says. “We don’t have enough of that here.”

She was born in Vancouver and grew up with her great-grandparents and grandpa on Pinaymootang First Nation in the Interlake. Hall watched her elders and aunties closely in the kitchen and learned to make staples, such as bannock, fried pickerel and saskatoon berry jam, at a young age.

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Monday, Aug. 9, 2021
Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press. Felled trees line the median on Roblin Blvd from Scotswood Drive almost all the way to perimeter highway. The destruction is the aftermath of a house that was being moved from the Roblin Grove development in Charleswood on Saturday morning. August 7, 2021.
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Charleswood residents fume over destroyed trees

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Charleswood residents fume over destroyed trees

Joyanne Pursaga 5 minute read Monday, Aug. 9, 2021

Frustrated residents are calling on the city and province to get to the root of the problem that led to the destruction of nearly two dozen mature trees in Charleswood on the weekend.

Early Saturday morning, a building moving company began to move a display home near the corner of Roblin Boulevard and Scotswood Drive. The home was too wide to clear mature trees along Roblin’s median.

When Winnipeg Police Service officers arrived to provide a previously scheduled escort for the movers at about 7 a.m. they discovered 17 trees had been cut down, allegedly by the driver of the vehicle hauling the house, police spokesman Const. Rob Carver said.

“Immediately, upon determining that the trees had been cut and linking it to this move, the move was halted and, ultimately, the driver (was) arrested,” said Carver.

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Monday, Aug. 9, 2021
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Bell MTS enhancing broadband for rural areas

Temur Durrani 3 minute read Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2021

Bell MTS is launching its Wireless Home Internet service for 12 communities across Manitoba, with enhanced broadband access for nearly 40,000 rural and remote locations to come by the end of 2021.

“It’s an exciting chapter for us and for all of Manitoba,” said Ryan Klassen, vice-chair of Bell MTS and Western Canada, in an interview Tuesday.

The new 5G-capable network will offer download speeds of up to 50 megabits per second and upload speeds of 10 Mbps, with no data overage fees on the 3500 MHz spectrum. It’s part of a recent $1.7-billion investment from telecommunications giant Bell Canada, as it expands across the country from province to province over the next two years.

“COVID-19 certainly accelerated the need for something like this, because we’ve all been relying more than we ever have on strong and trustworthy internet service,” Klassen told the Free Press. “But in many ways, it also predates that, because these are communities that haven’t had this kind of access before.”

Canadian demographics impact cultural shifts
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Canadian demographics impact cultural shifts

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Canadian demographics impact cultural shifts

Reviewed by Scott MacKay 3 minute read Saturday, May. 2, 2020

‘Here we go again” was the first thought while unsealing Darrell Bricker’s newest study from the envelope the Winnipeg Free Press had sent to my isolated home. Surely this new work — Next: Where to Live, What to Buy and Who Will Lead Canada’s Future — would suffer the same cruel invalidation that every other pre-pandemic prognostication must experience in these strange times.

But in a sense, Bricker has dodged a COVID-19 bullet, as his focus throughout this volume is on Canadian demographics, complete with its recurrent reminder of how these mighty, slow-moving and mostly irreversible forces affect society today and tomorrow. Take that, pandemic.

Bricker is CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, a global marketing research company. This is Bricker’s third book on population trends and follows Empty Planet and The Big Shift, both of which he co-authored with the Globe and Mail’s former chief political writer John Ibbitson. (Disclosure: This reviewer crossed paths with Bricker in the early ’90s while working at what was then the Angus Reid Group.)

Much of the focus of Bricker’s new solo work is on generational groups, particularly on what he maintains are the miscalculated “Perennials” (basically anyone over 55). It is these comfortable silver-haired boomers who continue to dominate and shape our social values and consumer trends, mostly by the sheer potency of their numbers and their relative prosperity.

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Saturday, May. 2, 2020
Daniel Bahuaud photo Jean-Pierre Brunet, �� gauche, et Denis Gautron.
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Un quart de siècle d’efforts en continu

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Un quart de siècle d’efforts en continu

By Daniel Bahuad 5 minute read Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015

Le président de Sauvons Notre Seine, Denis Gautron, et un ancien président de l'organisme, Jean-Pierre Brunet, se souviennent des luttes menées depuis 25 ans pour améliorer la qualité de l'eau et des berges de la rivière Seine. Une série d'initiatives qui a rehaussé la qualité de vie des riverains et de tous les Winnipégois.

Le 13 octobre 1990, un groupe de résidents du chemin Egerton Saint-Boniface, en avait ras le bol du piètre état de la rivière Seine qui longe leurs arrière-cours. Il s'est donc mobilisé pour nettoyer les berges. Réunis sous le nom du Save Our Seine River Residents Committee, ces propriétaires avaient décidé de passer l'action collective.

Un quart de siècle plus tard, l'organisme qu'ils ont fondé -- Save Our Seine / Sauvons Notre Seine -- reste aux aguets pour améliorer la qualité de l'eau et des espaces verts qui longent cette rivière historique.

Quatrième président de l'organisme, Brunet était la barre de l'organisme lorsqu'il a été incorporé en 1994.

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Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015
Daniel Bahuaud photo Francis Labossi��re
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Mise en place de St. Boniface Street Links

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Mise en place de St. Boniface Street Links

By Daniel Bahuaud 4 minute read Saturday, Sep. 26, 2015

Ils passent peu près inaperçus Saint-Boniface. Pourtant, les sans-abris sont l. Francis Labossière en sait quelque chose. Le Bonifacien est membre du conseil d'administration de St. Boniface Street Links, un tout nouvel organisme incorporé début aoªt. Et il espère que Street Links pourra améliorer le sort des itinérants du quartier.

"Ä Saint-Boniface, quand on pense aux sans-abris, on est porté croire que c'est un phénomène de 'l'autre bord de la rivière Rouge'. On pense la rue Main et puis on s'en lave les mains. Mais c'est une fausse perception. La réalité est qu'il y a au moins 65 personnes sans-abris qui fréquentent notre quartier."

"Street Links a pris connaissance des endroits qu'ils fréquentent. On les aperçoit près du centre commercial Dominion Centre, et tout près des ponts Norwood et Provencher. Ils se tiennent souvent le long de la rivière Rouge, aux abords du parc Whittier. Et Street Links les croise la banque alimentaire de la paroisse Holy Cross.

"Les sans-abris sont donc l. Nous voulons les identifier, les rencontrer et les aider, tout en nous assurant qu'ils aient un visage dans le quartier. Il faut que les gens et les organismes bonifaciens se rendent bel et bien compte qu'ils existent. Pour ensuite agir. Ce sont l les deux grands objectifs de Street Links."

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Saturday, Sep. 26, 2015
Camille Harper-Séguy de La Liberté Marion Willis est la première directrice générale d’A Port in the Storm, une maison pour les adultes qui viennent de loin pour soigner leur cancer à Winnipeg.
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Refuge pour adultes

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Refuge pour adultes

Camille Harper-Séguy 5 minute read Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012

LE quatrième étage de la Villa Aulneau, à Saint-Boniface, abritera désormais dix suites gérées par l’organisme A Port in the Storm et réservées à des malades du cancer qui suivent des traitements loin de chez eux, ainsi qu’à leurs familles. A Port in the Storm a accueilli son premier résident le 13 octobre.

“A Port in the Storm, c’est la version pour adultes des Maisons Ronald McDonald,” explique la directrice générale d’A Port in the Storm, “Marion Willis. Ce sont des appartements mis à disposition d’adultes qui vivent loin de Winnipeg mais qui doivent y venir pour recevoir des traitements liés au cancer. “De telles maisons existent déjà dans la plupart des provinces canadiennes, mais c’est la première au Manitoba,” précise-telle. “C’est vraiment ciblé pour ceux qui ont le cancer.”

Les bénéficiaires d’A Port in the Storm ont accès à des suites entièrement meublées et équipées.

“Tout est neuf pour que nos résidants malades aient l’expérience la plus agréable possible,” assure Marion Willis.

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Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012
VINCENT RÉGIS DE LA LIBERTÉ Le professeur de l’École de service social de l’Université de Saint-Boniface, David Alper.
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Un rapport alarmant

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Un rapport alarmant

Vincent RéGIS de La Liberté pour le Winnipeg Free Press 4 minute read Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012

LA situation de l’accessibilité au logement à Winnipeg est alarmante, surtout pour les nouveaux arrivants, révèle le premier rapport réalisé à ce sujet par l’École de service social de l’Université de Saint-Boniface (USB).

“Il y a une crise du logement évidente qui sévit partout au Canada, et Winnipeg est l’une des grandes villes avec le plus bas taux d’inoccupation de logements au pays,” explique le professeur à l’USB David Alper, un des co-auteurs du rapport.

“Plusieurs études ont été effectuées dans les dernières années pour démontrer comment cela touchait différentes tranches de la société, alors on a voulu étudier la problématique dans la communauté francophone, surtout chez les nouveaux arrivants.”

Pour ce faire, les auteurs ont interrogé une douzaine de familles francophones venues d’Afrique.

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Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012
William Sineux de La Liberté Le coordinateur du recrutement et de l'apprentissage chez Warm Up Winnipeg (B.U.I.L.D), Jean-Luc Beaudry.
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Remettre le pied à l’étrier

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Remettre le pied à l’étrier

William Sineux / Le fil des francophiles Winnipeg Free Press 4 minute read Saturday, Jun. 9, 2012

L’INTÉGRATION sociale par le travail n’est pas encore devenue un rêve utopique.

L’entreprise à laquelle appartient le francophone Jean Luc Beaudry, Warm Up Winnipeg (B.U.I.L.D) est là pour le démontrer. En effet, cette entreprise d’une cinquantaine d’employés rénove les maisons de la région pour réduire leurs dépenses énergétiques. Mais l’originalité de cette entreprise demeure aussi dans son recrutement.

Un programme d’intégration sociale “Nous recrutons en priorité les personnes qui ont besoin d’un travail pour se réintégrer socialement,” déclare le co-ordonnateur du recrutement et de l’apprentissage, Jean-Luc Beaudry. “Des autochtones en majorité, des réfugiés, des immigrés ou encore des personnes qui sortent de prison ou qui ont eu des problèmes avec la justice les empêchant de retrouver un travail. Il existe encore beaucoup de discrimination dans le milieu du travail et toutes ces personnes ont un mal fou à se réintégrer. Nous voulons donc les aider à mettre le pied à l’étrier. Car sans emploi, il est pratiquement impossible de se réintégrer et pour gagner sa vie beaucoup sont alors obligés d’entrer dans l’illégalité des marchés noirs.”

L’entreprise recrute ainsi les personnes qui ont un passif pouvant faire obstacle à leur recherche d’emploi. C’est pourquoi les employés doivent suivre dans un premier temps un programme de formation et d’apprentissage en charpenterie et en plomberie. Puis, la durée normale de travail doit être de six mois pour assurer un certain renouvellement des effectifs et donner sa chance au plus grand nombre.

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Saturday, Jun. 9, 2012

Move over canola, here come soybeans

4 minute read Sunday, May. 25, 2003

CARMAN -- Which of these sights doesn't belong along Manitoba highways?

a) golden wheat

b) shimmering blue flax

c) canary yellow canola