Today, March 6, is Black Balloon Day, a day to honour our relatives lost to overdoses and support those struggling with harmful substance use. Remember relatives, it's never too late to start healing or to reach out and ask for help

“Auntie Style” means systems and workers are rooted in the concept of kinship and are able to provide culturally safe care. Check out a report that Indigenous youth from Winnipeg contributed to sharing their hopes for primary care for themselves and their loved ones.

To the people who risk personal discomfort to address inequity when they see it - thank you! Your example is the medicine we all need to see at a system level to stomp out racism.

It is on the rest of us to take these documents and notice one very simple thing: they don’t have recommendations. They have calls to ACTION and calls for JUSTICE. I know that this detail is at the heart of what Indigenous families are asking for.

We need everyone / this is re-sharing of a post published back in May 2016

It's a scary world. If you're scared for your kids it means that you are paying attention. There are many questions we can ask to address this fear, but the most important one I can think of is this: What does it mean to truly keep kids safe in such a precarious & ever changing world?

I asked my social circle to help me identiy things we could do immediately to support families and prevent crime in Winnipeg. Here are their over 100 different answers organized into 15 categories!