When it comes to creating and celebrating the holiday Sukkot, which Justin Jaron Lewis and his wife Jane Enkin celebrate as “a harvest festival,” a favourite aspect of one of the traditions that ta…

“We saw the huge need to support families that are impacted by the missing and murdered, whether it’s our girls, two spirit or men or boys,” said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Kyra …

If there is one thing everyone can agree on; after the beautiful green space and soccer field brought to life on the west side of Gordon Bell School, the school energy retrofit, overhaul of the hea…

Winnipeg citizen action group Trees Please has their new T-shirts printed for supporters and is embarking on a campaign to get city council to consider the importance of its mature tree canopy.Some…

“As climate change ramps up and it’s hotter and hotter in June sometimes we need that (tree) shade,” says Wolseley activist Erna Buffie. The author of the just launched Out On A Limb, says th…

“It’s been a long time coming,” says Stefan Hodges, West Broadway Community Organization Housing Coordinator.At the launch of Winnipeg’s first active Community Land Trust in over 20 years, Ho…

Canada’s biggest rural film festival is bringing five days of films, workshops, music, and more to Gimli this summer.

In late April the federal government released their Spring Economic Update, a mini- budget of sorts.The update added some $37.5 billion in net new spending, most prominently the creation of the new…

Directors Cory Wojcik (left) and Charlene Van Buekenhout (right) confer with actor Melanie Badger who plays “Bobbie” in Rattle: A Sixties Scoop Play running June 3 – 7. Photo Root…

“If Mark Carney and his Liberals were truly interested in building Canada with Canadian resources, they would not abandon a national postal service. Period.” said Matthew Aitken, a postal worker an…

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WINNIPEG, MB, Canada – The Winnipeg Folk Festival is proud to announce applications are now open for the 25th edition of the Young Performers Program (YPP), which runs from July 8-10, 202…

In the last three months, Winnipeg has seen five times more fatalities in house fires than the Canadian average. And it’s not a new issue.

Per capita car travel plateaued in the early 2000s. Is it time to switch gears?

Every day, Canada loses seven of its small farms. As the price of farmland rises and farmers grow fewer and older, speaker Katie McInnes said it’s important to “bring farmers’ voices in front of an…

Agape Table, a Winnipeg food charity established over 45 years ago, serves around 1,000 people most days — a staggering increase in demand since the 300 they averaged before the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Cover photo by 925 Studio on Unsplash Canada’s 48-hour film festival, based in Winnipeg, is gearing up for its 6th year. Though the competition itself will be in June, the festival kicks off with r…

Catherine Hernandez, photo Bria Royes “Sadly my entire residency will be online,” writes Catherine Hernandez, the University of Winnipeg’s Jake MacDonald Writer-In-Residence. “My good friend and re…

Whitney Morgan (from left), Heather Roscoe (MEIA), Andrea Aiello (Manitoba Innovates), and (far right) Patrick Campbell (MEIA) presented the award to Amalia and Francesco Zurzolo of. Naturel Elm Bu…

Community tree planting October 3rd was attended by all ages. Photo Provided In the face of rapid tree loss in Winnipeg — and especially Wolseley — volunteers of the Wolseley Residents’ Association…

Members of Roots in Harmony Photo Provided “I just wanted a space where people, like me, and who look like me, could just get together and sing songs outside of your kind of typical choral configur…

You can’t fake a good story, in person, that is. Photos Winnipeg Story Slam (provided) Winnipeg Story Slam founder Nicole Dube (above) wanted an event to share stories, whether off the cuff or some…

Duncan Cox (left) was inspired to sing when he and Sharon Bajer (right) wrote their original Winnipeg theatre production Afterlight, now back on stage by popular demand. Like many plays, it starts …

In the eight months since the beginning of the Trump 2.0 era, much has been written about his attempts to alter global trade patterns through tariff policies. Disruption has been the order of the d…

Clayton Thomas-Muller speaks to the crown with stories from Manitoba’s north. Photo Cohen Berg As the effects of climate change accelerate wildfires both locally and worldwide, Seniors for Cl…

Resilia executive director Abdi Ahmed, and staff member Wanda Yamamoto. Photo Terese Taylor When newly named Resilia Centre decided to take the leap to a new name, it was hoping to bring together t…

Photo Richard T Freeman Arlington Street residents have told The Leaf that some of them will have to move if no changes are made to the City’s new transit overhaul that has made their residential s…

Wasagamack resident Saul Harper, has mostly elected to stay in his community through the summer months, when cooking is often done outdoors, and people can enjoy the hot weather, but this summer, w…

Lydia Venema remembers always being creative, and using almost anything she could get her hands on to set up a story. “I would make videos of my American girl dolls,” she says, “I and was kind of m…

Originally published in print May 2025. When Travis and Stephanie Unger bought a rooming house in the West End in the summer of 1999, their intention was simply to live with others. Well aware of t…

Green Drop workers Sean Perkins and Simon Peacock at site of tree inoculation on Wolseley Avenue. Photo Mike Maunder The Wolseley Residents Association (WRA) raised $25,000 this summer to innoculat…

Mwansa Mwansa leads the chorus of Roots in Harmony with (from left to right) Hafiz Jatto, Emannuel Allieu, Moses Mseluka, Nadine Powell and Nampande Londe. Photos Terese Taylor WINNIPEG, MB — A newly ...

A photo display this weekend at Little Brown Jug will be on display at the festival this summer. Some of its volunteers are in their 80s and are still committed to the creative people power that has s...

In a debate focusing on accessibility and the programs to support people with disabilities in Canada, debate moderator Marcy Markusa, host of CBC’s Information Radio show couldn’t get much disagreemen...

Plenty of reasons to run, says Wolseley store owner When Caroline Fisher was considering what to name her business, she wanted to focus on one of the best features of living in the prairies. Big Sky R...

At the onset of the Great Depression, civic dreamers paid $125,000 to build Sherbrook Pool. Winnipeg's first Olympic-sized pool was consturcted in 1931 as a municipal relief project. The pool was buil...

Chuck Copenace was in high school the first time he was compared to Miles Davis.  The Ojibway trumpet student loved how he felt when he was working with sound, and admits to listening to his parents’ ...

The tree committee of Wolseley Residents’ Association held an Earth Day meeting explaining to about 120 residents how elm trees can be inoculated against Dutch Elm Disease.   The committee is launchin...

“I am the third generation to be hospitalized in my family,” says Ralph Bryant. “It set me on a path to inquire into mental health outcomes. How we can shine a light so that more people can heal,” he ...

 The tree committee of Wolseley Residents’ Association held an Earth Day meeting explaining to about 120 residents how elm trees can be inoculated against Dutch Elm Disease.   The committ…

After a short election campaign, and a tough year as a female Member of Parliament, Leah Gazan handily won her Winnipeg Centre riding, one of only seven NDP members left in the federal government.  Al...

What better way to celebrate Earth Day than attending a meeting that might save dozens of majestic trees in our neighbourhoods from certain death?

How tariffs work, how they'll impact you, what you can do, and what's coming next.

How tariffs work, how they'll impact you, what you can do, and what's coming next.

Gary Gervais says “We can't have a healthy economy on a sick planet.”

On one of the coldest days of the year, and as the news of the massive fires in California were wreaking havoc, Ian Desjarlais of Spence Neighbourhood’s Bear Den quickly opened the door to community m...