✨Manitoba is making big strides in child care with $10-a-day programs, new spaces, and a long-overdue wage boost for ECEs, but demand still far outpaces supply. 🏫 Community groups like the South Osborne Child Care Coalition are stepping up with creative solutions, proving that child care is everyone’s responsibility.

https://u-channel.ca/the-path-to-quality-and-affordable-child-care/

🌫️ Wildfire smoke is choking even distant cities like Winnipeg, putting everyone, especially vulnerable groups, at risk with worsening air quality. 😷 Stay safe with air purifiers, check the AQHI daily, and mask up when needed.

https://u-channel.ca/wildfire-smoke-putting-winnipeggers-at-risk/

🎉 On a sunny May 30, students at the University of Manitoba celebrated the province’s first official Asian Heritage Month with Asia Connect, a vibrant student-led event inspired by MLA Jennifer Chen’s Bill 212. 🇨🇦🌏 With traditional dances, local vendors, and powerful storytelling, the event amplified Asian voices, honoured cultural roots, and sparked pride in a new generation despite a few logistical hiccups.

https://u-channel.ca/student-led-celebration-finds-its-feet-for-asian-heritage-month/

Due to repeated vandalism, theft, and arson, the North End Women's Centre had to install a security fence—something they never imagined needing five years ago. Now, this barrier aims to protect residents and reclaim outdoor spaces for healing, even as it highlights deeper issues like poverty, homelessness, and systemic neglect. 🌿

https://u-channel.ca/vandalism-spurs-urgent-talk-about-poverty-and-safety/

📱 Winnipeg is ditching its parking paystations by August 31, shifting all payments to the PayByPhone app due to outdated tech, rising costs, and vandalism. While the move saves the city millions, residents have concerns about accessibility for seniors.

https://u-channel.ca/winnipeg-to-shift-to-app-only-parking/

🔥 With dry conditions and record-breaking heat, Manitoba faces heightened wildfire risks, even small fires strain emergency services and threaten to grow fast. 🚒 Fire officials urge everyone to stay fire-smart and vigilant this summer. 🌾

https://u-channel.ca/the-push-for-fire-prevention-amid-dry-forecasts/

🏳️‍🌈 Pride Winnipeg kicks off with the theme Rise in Pride, Stand in Strength, calling for unity amid rising global hate. Despite funding challenges, the community stays resilient, expanding support across Manitoba and celebrating queer joy. ✨

https://u-channel.ca/how-community-accountability-is-helping-shape-the-future-of-pride/

Over 700 students from the Louis Riel School Division (LRSD) stepped out of the classroom Thursday with the goal of developing a greater connection with the land.✨

🌱Learning With the Land engaged students with stations covering a diversity of topics and studies. Some explored Indigenous teachings, and others focused on academic sciences🧪.

https://u-channel.ca/a-new-approach-to-land-based-learning/

Although cutting down and development of the Lemay Forest🌳 has ended, activists say there is still plenty of work to be done.

The Coalition to Save Lemay Forest is now collaborating with the Director of Provincial Parks to envision the forest's future. Their vision is for a biodiverse urban sanctuary inspired by groups like Toronto Nature Stewards.✨

🌼May is an uncertain time in Manitoba. You're never quite sure how long spouts of nice weather will last. With relative certainty that snow ❄️ won't grace Winnipeg again, community clean-ups across the city have begun. 

For groups like Families Forward and Awasisak Mēskanôw Greenway, this isn't their first rodeo as they head out into the parks and boulevards, garbage bags in hand. However, it was a first for the Wolseley Residents Association, with eager individuals and youth looking to clean up their community.✨

https://u-channel.ca/established-or-new-community-clean-ups-spark-civic-pride/