Chris Wiebe
@chriswiebe.bsky.social
Husband, father, volunteer, Anglican. Prof & former Canada Research Chair at the UofW. Deputy Warden St John’s Cathedral
Thinking of Grandma this week after the Sunday service. She placed some important cornerstones of my faith, from her songs she sung to me at bedtime, to her links to the Anglican Church in Transcona, to gifts such as this (my first Bible at confirmation). May perpetual light shine eternal upon her
I think that America is officially tired of him and he should pack his bags.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: "If people ever got tired of me in the US, I'll move to Israel and become prime minister"
This seems like a bad idea. It’s like the Chernobyl disaster but without the radiation (which was around 40 Hiroshimas a day when the reactor core was open). Proposed data centre would release ‘23 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs worth of energy’ a day, physicist says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Proposed data centre would release ‘23 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs worth of energy’ a day, physicist says | CBC News
An analysis of the mammoth Wonder Valley data centre suggests it would release the equivalent of 23 atom bombs of heat waste into the boreal forest of northwestern Alberta every day. A Utah State Univ...
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Thank you St George’s Anglican Parish Transcona for honouring my grandmother Nellie Werth today at your service.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew’s call to abolish the Indian Act echoes a troubling history of governments using similar rhetoric to sideline First Nations rights and advance resource extraction. NEW from @pampalmater.com:
Wab Kinew’s dangerous distraction
History shows why First Nations have every reason to be wary of governments calling to tear up the Indian Act. As Pam Palmater writes, calls for abolition have too often coincided with efforts to acce...
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This is again where I work and steps away from the UWFA daycare. Police respond to person “under the influence” at U of W www.winnipegfreepress.com/this-just-in...
Police respond to person 'under the influence' at U of W
<span style="font-weight: 400;">An individual who was under the influence at the University of Winnipeg triggered a brief police response on campus Friday. </span> <span style="font-weight:...
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"The ultimate choice for the modern world is between Plato or Nietzsche." - Oliver O’Donovan
George Grant warned us about Canada becoming a “branch plant” of the US over 50 years ago. An American company buying Stelco to sabotage it is a perfect example of what he meant.
Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social · last wk.Cleveland-Cliffs CEO: I bought Stelco because I could not afford anymore having Stelco flooding the market here in the United States to the detriment of my own company. David Cochrane: Am I understanding you correctly there? It was a defensive acquisition?
This is very close to the UWFA daycare. We just took our youngest out of daycare there. The violence, the many episodes of theft, and persistent drug use/discarding of needles was enough. The Furby community is in crisis. Compassion ebbs, frustration flows www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Furby Street couple lament neighbourhood’s decline as community garden becomes junk pile for needles, naloxone kits
At times, all Cheryl Martens can do is rest her head in her hands, struggling to reconcile her compassion for vulnerable people with the growing frustration of watching her neighbourhood deteriorate.
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Steve Bannon: destruction of America's colleges and universities is essential for the survival of the Republican Party. People with university education present an existential threat to the GOP. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/27/n...
Steve Bannon urges Trump to turn the heat up on universities - The Boston Globe
Even after funding cuts, visa restrictions, and other challenges to higher ed, the MAGA influencer thinks the right has "missed a golden opportunity."
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"Today, AI is a project of the powerful, implemented in the name of an efficiency that has nothing to do with the good. The lines could not be clearer. A struggle for the future looms, in the university as elsewhere: for genuine knowledge, for humanity, for life." theconversation.com/friday-essay...
Friday essay: AI is devastating higher education, but the system was already broken
AI is a project of the powerful, implemented in the name of an efficiency that has nothing to do with the good, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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🚨 THE SAGA IS OVER. HELLEBUYCK IS GOING TO NEW JERSEY 🚨 Connor Hellebuyck has offically been traded to the New Jersey Devils. Details to follow, per Darren Dreger.
“Provincial referendum results so far show 76 per cent of voters were in favour of staying part of the country, while 24 per cent wanted a binding vote on whether to leave.” 🇨🇦 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta votes to stay in Canada, CBC News projects. Results on other 9 questions still being tallied | CBC
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The stained glass window that greeted me this morning at St John's Anglican Cathedral, Winnipeg.
"[Jennifer Rattray, of End Homelessness Winnipeg] points to a proposal in the @ccpamb.bsky.social alternative municipal budget calling for an initial investment equivalent to 1% of the city’s budget in new funding for urban Indigenous organizations." www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Those on the front lines of coping with the city’s deepening homelessness and drug crises express concern at civic election candidates’ lack of attention to the issues
Just steps from city hall, two significant challenges facing Winnipeg play out every day.
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