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Episode-6: Roostertown

Have you ever heard of Roost­er Town? Most haven’t. It was a Win­nipeg neigh­bour­hood that was home to 250 Métis peo­ple between 1900 & 1960. That is until the city forced every­one out to make room for the build­ing of Grant Park Shop­ping Cen­tre and High School. Was it racism or urban devel­op­ment, and what were the con­se­quences? Prairie Design Lab…

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Episode-4: Mamaqtuq

The world’s biggest col­lec­tion of Inu­it art will soon be dis­played at the brand new Inu­it Art Cen­tre at the Win­nipeg Art Gallery. Twelve years in the mak­ing, we will hear from those who made it hap­pen. This includes WAG CEO Stephen Borys and lead­ing expert on Inu­it art Dr. Heather Iglo­liorte of Nunatsi­avut as well as world-famous archi­tect Michael Maltzan of Los…

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Episode-3: Landfills

The upside of garbage. Ren­o­vat­ing our aban­doned land­fills to cre­ate new parks is mak­ing a big dif­fer­ence in Win­nipeg. What should we do with 2000 acre Brady Road Land­fill — the only active one in the city? A bril­liant young U of M land­scape archi­tect shares her vision for what Brady Road could become. About | Krista Renwick Krista Renwick is a…

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