If you, like me, have wanted to learn how to speak Ininew (swampy cree, n-dialect) for a long time but haven't had the community of speakers to do it, this opportunity is for you! You're invited to join me for ININÍMOTÁN LANGUAGE NEST at St John's Library on Mondays starting May 6 @ 6pm!

Do you love the North End? Do you want to see Selkirk Avenue revive and thrive and be a gathering place for renewal and revitalization? Please join me for a walk down Selkirk Avenue as part of the 2024 Jane’s Walk Winnipeg series.

CityNews reporter Temi Olatunde walks and talks with Winnipeg Indigenous activist Michael Champagne, discussing some of the challenges facing the north end, and hopes for 2024.

Join me at the St John’s Library where I am creating a language nest for an hour once a week on Mondays from 6-7pm in July and August 2023!

The 2nd Annual North End Grad Walk goes down on Monday June 26 from 6-7pm, starting at St John's High School, a photo stop at Children of the Earth and food/barbecue at RB Russell High School. If you live along Salter, or have friends or family graduating please line up along Selkirk so we can cheer on our grads and encourage the ones that are coming up next!

Everyone is invited to the Grand Opening of Wayne's World Youth Lounge at Turtle Island Neighbourhood Centre at 510 King Street, Friday September 23 from 5-8pm. The evening will consist of visiting, sharing stories and as Wayne would have wanted, eating well!

I was so happy to work with 3 North End High Schools and Urban Circle to honour graduates from the past 3 years. This is only the first of what will become an even awesomer and more celebratory annual community event! Thanks to everyone who worked hard to bring it all together in such a short time!

The smartest people have responded in pandemic specific ways and I am honoured to know so many and to do what I can to help. I have learned how to be a pandemic public speaker and other organizers and organizations have enhanced programs and systems to be pandemic proof.

Resiliency is a term used to describe individuals who are tough or have the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. But the way it is often used in academics and media is so problematic that I share my belief that when we only focus on how strong people are, we ignore the many challenges they should never have had to overcome in the first place!

It’s National Volunteer Week! Justice, time, energy are just 3 of the reasons I volunteer my time in the community to help address mental health, child welfare and systems change! Check out the full article to see all the reasons why I volunteer.