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CTV News
a day ago
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- CTV News
Bike Week Winnipeg kicks off with Reconciliation Ride
The Bike Week Winnipeg launch ride ended at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the U of M on June 8, 2025. (Zachary Kitchen/CTV News Winnipeg) Bike Week has officially launched in Winnipeg, with members of the public and organizers partaking in a special ride Sunday to mark the occasion. Termed Reconciliation Ride, cyclists gathered at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and peddled to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba. Bike Week Winnipeg grew out of Bike to Work Day Winnipeg, first held in 2007, and is described as a 'weeklong celebration of the bicycle and everyone that rides,' according to their website. The week-long celebration from June 8 to June 14 aims to helps change the culture of riding bikes and make it more accepted as a form of transportation. Bike to Work Day will be held on June 10. Adrian Alphonso, ride leader, said the week-long event has been the 'best way' to engage with the Winnipeg cycling community, providing different educational experiences and opportunities to learn more about cycling in the city. Alphonso said the group was able to make the roughly 10-kilometre journey entirely on infrastructure dedicated to cyclists. For more information, including the events and activities offered during Bike Week Winnipeg, visit their website.
CTV News
23-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
Students highlight human rights issues
Winnipeg Watch The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is running its Upstander Showcase, where students highlight human rights issues.
National Post
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- National Post
TMU mural featuring Buffy Sainte-Marie 'to be updated before the end of this year'
A prominent mural featuring Buffy Sainte-Marie at Toronto Metropolitan University is being removed, the university says amid an online discussion against the disgraced singer-songwriter. Article content Article content The mural features a host of celebrated Canadian names, including Buffy Sainte-Marie. 'TMU needs to update their Greatest Canadian tribute on Gould St,' read a post on Reddit Tuesday. Article content Sainte-Marie's successful music career and activism made her an icon for Indigenous Canadians, but CBC reported she is an American without Indigenous lineage. Article content Article content 'The current mural was installed in 2017 and was originally intended to have a five-year lifespan,' a university spokesperson said in an email. 'A refresh had been planned, but pandemic-related delays shifted the timeline. It is currently scheduled to be updated before the end of this year.' Article content Article content Article content Participating in the online discourse, the user who shared the post and the photos of the mural wrote in the comments, 'Buffy was featured prominently in the Human Rights museum in Winnipeg. They eventually yanked her presence because her fraud was too glaring to ignore. Celebrating her this way — so centrally on campus — doesn't send the best message to the young undergrads and highschoolers at TMU.' Article content Article content The action taken by the museum in Winnipeg happened late February this year, with one professor saying he was surprised it took so long to remove her profile from the exhibit. Article content 'She lied on a continuous basis,' Robert-Falcon Ouellette, a Winnipeg-based professor at the University of Ottawa and a former member of Parliament, told CBC in February. 'Not just a little bit, not a misunderstanding, but she purposely created a fog around her identity.' Article content Article content The comedian has a host of new fans following his battle-cry of elbows up, a famous hockey phrase that he revived following Trump's 51st state rhetoric during a skit for Saturday Night Live in March this year. Article content
