This is Manitoba

Winnipeg city councillor Sherri Rollins wants you to slow down on Wellington Crescent.

She has crafted a motion to drop the speed to 30 kilometres an hour on Wellington from River Avenue to Kenaston. That stretch of Wellington has seen a number of crashes involving cyclists.

Winnipeg's former poet laureate, Chimwemwe Undi is a newly minted Governor General literary award winner for poetry. Her book is called Scientific Marvel. 

If you're one of the many Winnipeg artists concerned about AI taking away your job, you might want to take part in an upcoming workshop on Artificial Intelligence.

The first time Quinton Poitras played music for one of his patients he didn't realize it was the late honourable Justice Murray Sinclair. The young Metis musician shares some stories with Marcy Markusa about what he learned from Sinclair in the months they spent getting to know each other.

We also meet an artist with a chronic illness who has created a new video game to help others better upstand there world.

Anecdotes and memories of Justice Murray Sinclair from various leaders and community members at his memorial. Then CBC's Josh Crabb travelled to 'Poplar River First Nation' a fly-in community on the east side of Lake Winnipeg to talk to people about their hope for an all-season road.

Get into some local listening - we celebrate Manitobans and lean into challenging conversations. Join homegrown host Marcy Markusa for a new episode every Friday that centres around one story from our province. Whether you hail from the oil patch in Virden or the wheat fields of the Red River Valley, if you fly home to Island Lake or you make music in Winnipeg - This is Manitoba is a podcast for you.