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Category Archives: Winnipeg
Tesla Uber
I never pondered who was driving for Uber until I saw a Tesla with an Uber sign on it waiting outside the university. I realized that I needed to re-examine my presuppositions. I had presumed that most people who drove … Continue reading
Canada’s Difficulty with Reconciliation
The rediscovery of unmarked gravesites at the Kamloops residential school in the summer of 2021 brought a grisly history into the public eye. Although people had found bones on the site before, the use of ground penetrating radar went a … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Culture, History, Winnipeg
Tagged Indigenous people, Justin Trudeau, manitoba conservative party, racism, Steven Harper, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Winnipeg Bus Conversations
Conversations on public transit are less frequent with each passing year. Although print media in the form of books and newspapers have always protected the less socialized from interaction, that has been exacerbated by the use of smart phones. Normally … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Media, Social Media, Solitude, Winnipeg
Tagged conversation, online dating, Socializing, winnipeg bus system
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Racist Rob and Corrupt Politicians
I’d only been teaching a few years when I had a student who was so racist that I was forced to confront several of his statements in class. As anyone knows who has dealt with such behaviour, this demands a … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Ancient Peoples, Culture, Education, History, News of the World, Politics, Teaching, Winnipeg
Tagged Air-bus scandal, Brian Mulroney, Canadian Government, Colonialism, financial accountability, Indian Act, pedagogy, racism, Treaties
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A Response to the Signs
When a sign about the exploitation of children went up in my neighbourhood, I thought little about it, partly because it didn’t look professional enough to have come from the desk of an official service. Instead, it had more in … Continue reading
The High Today is Minus 8
The weather in Winnipeg is normally quite stable. We typically have four days of sun followed by four days of cloud. Of course, locally, Winnipeggers respond to their climatic conditions like any others. They complain that the day is hot, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Media, Winnipeg
Tagged weather, Winnipeg
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Beware of the Fog in Winnipeg
I have heard the warnings associated with fog in Winnipeg nearly every year that I have lived in the city. Over that more than twenty year period, the normal weather is usually reported fairly accurately. The weather here in the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education, News, Winnipeg
Tagged climate change denial, forecasting, weather, Winnipeg
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Self-reliance and the Helping Hand
Someone asked me recently if my books were linked by a common trait and for a moment I found the question daunting. Then I leapt at the one attribute that they all possess, from my long poem to academic work … Continue reading
Posted in Code World, Literature, Post-Apocalyptic, Self-reliance, Solitude, Travel, Winnipeg, Writing
Tagged My books
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Hostile Architecture 2
I have commented before on hostile architecture in Winnipeg, but now that I have collected a few more examples, I thought I would share what we walk by every day and ignore. Perhaps our own privilege blinds us. For if … Continue reading
Living in Cities and Hiding in a Box
Increasingly we gather in cities. All around the globe the movement is toward the urban areas, and here in the west, just outside the principal urban areas, into the suburbs. The glitz and excitement of the city is not experienced … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Development, Internet, Social Media, Winnipeg
Tagged cities, urban landscape, Winnipeg
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