If you’ve been seeing some of the main stream conversation around Indian Residential School, it has been downright hurtful! I needed to get some of my thoughts out about some of the things that we cannot deny. For example, it is undeniable that survivors and their truths are what have brought us this far!

If I could tell the city how to spend $790,000 on Indigenous Relations here is where I would want it spent…. Thank you to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba and the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg for your leadership in bringing this year’s alternative municipal budget together!

So you got a problem? Well, don’t spend all your time obsessing about the things you don’t like! Check out these 4 easy to follow steps that can take you from complaining about what other people are doing, to inviting people to collaborate and building a solution together.

You’re invited to a special conversation with prolific author David A Robertson about his book “The Barren Grounds”. This conversation is happening as part of the North Shore Writer’s Festival and there are numerous opportunities to hear from storytellers from across the land.

Happy birthday to me, help me by having fun, helping others or simply taking good care of yourself. Many people wonder how old I am, well today, you know, 35 years young!

This started as an Instagram caption from the end of the year in 2020. Since a big storm is expected to hit Winnipeg in 2 days, on my brithday, I have been thinking a lot about storms and what they bring to us.

There are so many people who are championing Indigenous education in our classrooms and communities, take a moment before April 8th, 2022 to nominate them! Or if you are that person, you can nominate yourself too!

“Write it down” - this practice has also allowed me to be a better public communicator including speaking, media interviews and blog writing. I am able to take time to formulate my thoughts and decide which words are just for myself, what are the private conversations I need to have with others and what can be shared in the public realm.

The smartest people have responded in pandemic specific ways and I am honoured to know so many and to do what I can to help. I have learned how to be a pandemic public speaker and other organizers and organizations have enhanced programs and systems to be pandemic proof.

So I was thinking some deep thoughts when I was shoveling yesterday. When I was shoulder deep in snow, I realized that shoveling in snow storms was a great metaphor for life and the choices we can make.