It’s National Volunteer Week! Justice, time, energy are just 3 of the reasons I volunteer my time in the community to help address mental health, child welfare and systems change! Check out the full article to see all the reasons why I volunteer.

What have I learned about community organizing from the countless knowledge keepers and grassroots initiatives in Winnipeg’s North End? I’ve learned a lot of new F words, click to learn more!

Does the North End need an Arts & Cultural Centre? What about The Palace Theatre? Please share your thoughts in this survey and help us make these dreams come true! Thank you to North End Community Renewal Corperation for all their work in bringing this work to fruition.

The “Let Our Relatives In” campaign has 4 main ideas to support our relatives who sleep outside in Winnipeg. It involves increasing Indigenous representation in leadership, organization responses to calls to action/calls for justice, partnering with Thunderbird House & taking a healing centred and anti-racist approach to service delivery.

To the people who risk personal discomfort to address inequity when they see it - thank you! Your example is the medicine we all need to see at a system level to stomp out racism.

Today, the Youth Climate Lab released a very important document for young people who want to address climate change at the municipal level. I hope some of the youth in Winnipeg and in other cities take a look at the impact their cities have on climate change and take action.

I really needed to write a bunch of formal things, but I thought it would be awesome to write something just for fun to get my creative juices flowing. Behold, my reflection of literary youthful influences!

Christine M’Lot is a Anishinabe educator who has developed a fantastic series of 3 videos around goal setting and the medicine wheel. After checking them out myself, I can tell you that you would benefit, especially as we look to 2021, from making sure you are setting goals in a good way. This tool allows us to do just that.

So when I am presented with something that was hand made, no matter how in expensive the individual materials may be, the creation they share with me is a product of their love, generosity kindness and spirit. It becomes a magical, powerful and sacred object.

I made a couple long Facebook statuses about healing and grief recently. I hope they provide a little bit of comfort to those of us, and let’s be honest, there are many, who have lost relatives this year and are coping with that grief. Take care of yourselves, and take care of each other!