Prairie Outpost

Prairie Outpost Episode 5: Manitoba’s May reopening & more

On the latest episode of Prairie Outpost, Dylon and Willis have a lot to talk about. BEARDS! Willis’s relatively impressive beard and Dylon’s very meh-worthy facial hair. Neither stack up to Gabriel Dumont. Active cases of COVID-19 falling in Manitoba on April 24 (Story). Manitoba’s ban on non-essential travel to northern communities (story): First Nations in…
Prairie Outpost is on a tonne of platforms, now

As you may know, me and Willis have launched a podcast: Prairie Outpost. It’s a podcast aimed at discussing news and politics as well as anything else we find interesting, with a bit of a local focus. We started podcasting in the fall of 2019. Initially, the plan was to have bimonthly uploads but we’ve…
More Housing in the Village, Please

UPDATE: This letter was published, under the title “One great Village”, in the Winnipeg Free Press’s July 29th, 2019 Letters to the Editor section. The following was written as a letter to the editor for a Winnipeg Free Press story. As of the time of this post publication (July 25, 2019), it has not…
Institute of Urban Studies report on food security

In my latest article for The Herald I discuss a report by the University of Winnipeg’s Institute of Urban Studies on food security. For inquiring minds, the report is “Confronting the Illusion: Developing a Method to Identify Food Mirages and Food Deserts in Winnipeg“. The report was authored by Kyle Wiebe and Jino Distasio, with mapping…
Non-drivers in Elmwood

For my latest article in The Herald – “Potent lessons on food access” – I give some figures on the share of Elmwood residents who do not drive. Specifically, I state the following: Using the City’s Neighbourhood Profiles (which are based off of the 2011 National Household Survey), one finds 29.8 per cent of Elmwood residents bus,…
March publications

I’ve written a few things published in the month of March. Public spaces can build community, advocates say looks at the role of public spaces like the Elmwood Kildonans pool and the Sherbrook Pool in creating community. It features content from interviews from Friends of Sherbrook Pool organizer Marianne Cerilli and Dr. Jino Distasio from the University of…
City Climate change goals & background

I have an opinion article out in The Uniter on the City of Winnipeg’s climate change goals. It argues that the City hasn’t made greenhouse gas emission reductions a priority and that they should be a priority for various reasons. I also sketch some ways I think the City could move in a lower carbon direction.…
2017 Glenelm Neighbourhood Asssociation (GENA) Annual General Meeting

The recently reestablished Glenelm Neighbourhood Association (GENA) had it’s Annual General Meeting on Jan. 20, 2017. I recount the events in my latest Herald article here. A lot of interesting Elmwood area news was acquired by speaking to people at the meeting. I spoke to an urban planner and Glenelm resident working on a local background study…
Background on the Eastern Rapid Transit corridor

The City of Winnipeg’s proposed Eastern Rapid Transit Corridor has a long history. Two main routes options have thus far been proposed for the busway that will connect downtown to Transcona, one going through North St. Boniface the other going through Point Douglas and Elmwood. In my article for The Herald I discuss and summarize some of that…