It’s time for the Canadians Welcome, Eh Giveaway hop hosted by Simply Stacie and Sassy Mama in LA. Since I’m a Manitoba girl, I decided to feature a great giveaway Prize Pack from 2 of my favorite Manitoba companies! Naosap Harvest harvests…

The other day I came across Travel Alberta’s incredible award-winning (Remember to Breathe) tourism video, which somehow or another brought me to browsing the videos of every provincial & territorial tourism board. It’s great to see how much thought and passion goes into each of these videos, and what better way to explore a location [...]

12 Inspiring Tourism Videos on Canada is a post from: I Backpack Canada

Four Conservative MPs go to the Manitoba legislature to take issue with the Manitoba…

A few years ago, I wrote an opinion piece on “pathway colleges”—i.e. private companies that recruit students from other countries and then ‘bridge’ them into Canadian universities by providing pre-university courses, including English as a Second Language. A recent CBC News article  underlines how perilous such recruitment of post-secondary students from abroad can be, and why it is important [...]

An investigation into one factory's radical impact on labour and the environment in a prairie town

The meatpacking industry once provided thousands of …

The home crowd roars, the robot scores at the good old hockey game?!

Hint: It’s not schools, and they pay $80k after three years.

Two fifth grade teachers at West Park School in Altona, Manitoba are being demanded by parents to remove cards from their classrooms indicating that they have completed training on how to support GLBT youth. Stephanie Fortier and Peter Wohlgemut had voluntarily taken training sessions from the Rainbow Resource Center in Winnipeg and received display cards [...]

Tuition is a deal. School spirit is an experience.

6.3 per cent dropped

Today is the final day for writing/releasing end-of-the-year posts. 2011 featured a federal election and provincial/territorial elections in Manitoba, Ontario, PEI, Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Yukon and the NWT. At the end of 2011, Canada now has 4 fem…

Conservation officials removed the last of the Occupy camp in Memorial Park on December 21, citing safety concerns.

Ontario is unimpressed.
Moments after Mr. Flaherty announced the new five-year funding commitment, Ontario…

Beginning next year Manitoba will restrict the use and ownership of armoured vehicles as part of the province’s broader Body Armour and Fortified Vehicle Control Act. The act is designed to curb the use of body armour and armoured vehicles by crimi…

Manitoba Conservative MP Robert Sopuck shows off his fur in the House of Commons…

Total “SHE” are the initials of owner Kristen Goodman’s three daughters’ names: Sara, Hanna & Emma. Kristen is the owner of Total She, a Canadian Direct Selling / Party Plan company based out of Winnipeg, MB. Total She specializes in home p…

Occupy? Demand money back? Transfer to Winnipeg?

Minister takes “extraordinary” step

Small farmers raise concern as Conservatives prepare to cut board's monopoly

WINNIPEG—Stephen Harper’s Conservative government is preparing to …

NDP governments and Pierre Trudeau have unlikely fans in the Conservative cabinet