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🚨 The new Windsor Park Fire & Paramedic Station is open and built to serve, with community-first design, onsite hazmat training, and eco-friendly features reducing emissions by 98.6%! 👩‍🚒🏫 Its open layout invites the public in, inspiring the next generation and setting the standard for future stations.

🎨💬 The Minds in Bloom fundraiser by MDAM sparked vital conversations on mental health, highlighting how art can bring calm, connection, and healing. From youth programs to wraparound supports, the event showed how creativity empowers communities. 🌱🧠

🏠🌈 Kelly’s Corner by Sunshine House offers life-saving, culturally safe housing for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks who are too often failed by traditional shelters. With wraparound care, peer-led support, and cultural healing it provides people with hope.

🐾 As wildfires displace thousands in Manitoba, the Winnipeg Humane Society, with Red Cross and Humane Canada, is providing emergency care for pets to keep families together.

❤️ Thanks to community support and creative fundraising like Pets on Pints, WHS continues saving lives and spreading love.

✨Manitoba is making big strides in child care with $10-a-day programs, new spaces, and a long-overdue wage boost for ECEs, but demand still far outpaces supply. 🏫 Community groups like the South Osborne Child Care Coalition are stepping up with creative solutions, proving that child care is everyone’s responsibility.

🌫️ Wildfire smoke is choking even distant cities like Winnipeg, putting everyone, especially vulnerable groups, at risk with worsening air quality. 😷 Stay safe with air purifiers, check the AQHI daily, and mask up when needed.

🎉 On a sunny May 30, students at the University of Manitoba celebrated the province’s first official Asian Heritage Month with Asia Connect, a vibrant student-led event inspired by MLA Jennifer Chen’s Bill 212. 🇨🇦🌏 With traditional dances, local vendors, and powerful storytelling, the event amplified Asian voices, honoured cultural roots, and sparked pride in a new generation despite a few logistical hiccups.

Due to repeated vandalism, theft, and arson, the North End Women's Centre had to install a security fence—something they never imagined needing five years ago. Now, this barrier aims to protect residents and reclaim outdoor spaces for healing, even as it highlights deeper issues like poverty, homelessness, and systemic neglect. 🌿

📱 Winnipeg is ditching its parking paystations by August 31, shifting all payments to the PayByPhone app due to outdated tech, rising costs, and vandalism. While the move saves the city millions, residents have concerns about accessibility for seniors.

🔥 With dry conditions and record-breaking heat, Manitoba faces heightened wildfire risks, even small fires strain emergency services and threaten to grow fast. 🚒 Fire officials urge everyone to stay fire-smart and vigilant this summer. 🌾

🏳️‍🌈 Pride Winnipeg kicks off with the theme Rise in Pride, Stand in Strength, calling for unity amid rising global hate. Despite funding challenges, the community stays resilient, expanding support across Manitoba and celebrating queer joy. ✨

Over 700 students from the Louis Riel School Division (LRSD) stepped out of the classroom Thursday with the goal of developing a greater connection with the land.✨

🌱Learning With the Land engaged students with stations covering a diversity of topics and studies. Some explored Indigenous teachings, and others focused on academic sciences🧪.

Although cutting down and development of the Lemay Forest🌳 has ended, activists say there is still plenty of work to be done.

The Coalition to Save Lemay Forest is now collaborating with the Director of Provincial Parks to envision the forest's future. Their vision is for a biodiverse urban sanctuary inspired by groups like Toronto Nature Stewards.✨

🌼May is an uncertain time in Manitoba. You're never quite sure how long spouts of nice weather will last. With relative certainty that snow ❄️ won't grace Winnipeg again, community clean-ups across the city have begun. 

For groups like Families Forward and Awasisak Mēskanôw Greenway, this isn't their first rodeo as they head out into the parks and boulevards, garbage bags in hand. However, it was a first for the Wolseley Residents Association, with eager individuals and youth looking to clean up their community.✨

Manitoba's Health Sciences Centre has launched its first surgical robot, delivering precise, minimally invasive surgeries that speed up recovery and free up hospital beds.

This cutting-edge tech is already transforming care, attracting top surgeons, and giving patients new hope.

Dreamcatcher Promotions is powering the Winnipeg Whiteout 🏒🧵, producing 25,000 towels and repping Indigenous entrepreneurship. 🔥 What started with a used embroidery machine is now a game-changing partnership with the Jets.

🎬✨ Winnipeg made history at #HotDocs2025 with powerful Manitoba-connected features—a record-breaking moment for the prairie province! 🌾🏳️‍🌈 From forgotten histories in The Nest to queer resistance in Parade, these docs spotlight voices long unheard.

Photo c/o Ludwing Duarte/NFB.

🌱Buffalo Crossing, the new Paul Albrechtsen Visitor Centre at FortWhyte Alive is now open. It's Manitoba’s first zero-carbon certified commercial building, designed by local teams to thrive in extreme prairie climates. ♻️ With new transit access and a deep commitment to sustainability and Indigenous inclusion, this centre sets a bold example for climate-resilient design.

In Winnipeg South Centre, Cam Scott is running under the banner of the Communist Party of Canada. Scott envisions working collaboratively with other left-leaning MPs in Parliament, with his primary goal of shaking up the status quo on housing.

U Multicultural contacted all parties running in Winnipeg in the 45th General Election on Monday, April 28, 2025. As of this article, the only other candidate to respond was Gary Gervais, running for the Green Party in Winnipeg Centre.

📚 From revamped libraries to student-centred spaces, Winnipeg educators are working hard to boost literacy and help students fall in love with reading and writing again. ✨

In this two-part series, we explore how schools are meeting kids where they are, and inspiring them to grow. 💬📖

🎭🧠 Rachele E Smith and Tamara Kroeker launched their first collaborative leadership workshop, blending movement and self-awareness to build authentic communication skills. Despite the first workshop not going as anticipated, the duo is energized to keep growing their impact and helping leaders evolve. 🌱💬

Winnipeg’s cheeky April Fools' post calling itself Canada’s “overlooked middle child” turned into a full-blown summer tourism campaign, and locals are loving it! 😎🇨🇦 With a smiling mascot and #MiddleChildEnergy, Winnipeg is ready to shine.

The City of Winnipeg is co-developing a Greenspace and Biodiversity Policy with Indigenous governments, aiming to protect 1,000 acres of green space while advancing reconciliation through Two-Eyed Seeing. 🤝 This initiative blends Indigenous knowledge with environmental planning to preserve natural corridors for future generations.

The Manitoba government is launching a pilot to translate Hansard into 7 Indigenous languages, starting with Anishinaabemowin, aiming to preserve and revitalize culture through language. 🌱 However, some like Robert Maytwayashing remain skeptical, warning that without true commitment, this effort may be more about optics than impact.

Inspired by Mike Myers' "Elbows Up" moment on SNL 🇨🇦, Winnipeg artist Carolyne Scramstad created a hockey-playing beaver 🦫🏒 design that has taken off, resonating with Canadians embracing national pride and unity. Through her brand, Real Salty Design, Scramstad sees this movement as both a creative success and a reflection of growing solidarity in uncertain times.

Tom Simms, a representative of Just Elections, presented a 12-point plan to the Winnipeg School Division (WSD) Board, advocating for school board elections to remain free from financial influence. On March 17, the WSD Board of Trustees unanimously voted to support these recommendations. Ward 3 Trustee and Board Chair Kathy Heppner emphasized that the decision was made to uphold accountability to constituents.

🎭From winning Manitoba Regionals to overcoming stage fright, these students prove that spontaneity and friendship create magic on and off the stage. ✨

AI weapon scanners at Health Sciences Centre's emergency departments are making staff and patients feel safer. 🏥 Following a successful pilot, HSC has fully implemented the technology, sparking interest from hospitals across Canada. 🇨🇦

The recovery of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran from the Prairie Green Landfill marks a bittersweet victory for their families, who fought tirelessly for the search despite initial government opposition. Advocates continue their efforts, saying that this moment must reignite action and justice for MMIWG2S+.

After the passing of MLA Nello Altomare, east Winnipeg's Transcona riding heads back to the polls for a byelection on March 18.

Four candidates will be on the ballot: Shannon Corbett for NDP, Shawn Nason for PC, Brad Boudreau for Liberal, and Susan Auch as independent. U Multicultural contacted all candidates, but Shannon Corbett and Susan Auch have not responded.

Join me, Ryan Funk, as we speak with candidate Brad Boudreau.

After the passing of MLA Nello Altomare, east Winnipeg's Transcona riding heads back to the polls for a byelection on March 18.

Four candidates will be on the ballot: Shannon Corbett for NDP, Shawn Nason for PC, Brad Boudreau for Liberal, and Susan Auch as independent. U Multicultural contacted all candidates, but Shannon Corbett and Susan Auch have not responded.

Join me, Ryan Funk, as we speak with candidate Shawn Nason.