Manitoba This Week
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Manitoba This Week features the best stories from the past seven days from The Pas to Winnipeg to Grand Rapids. Expect to hear all kinds of great features from shows like Information Radio, Shaken Not Stirred and many others.
Manitoba This Week - all the tricks and treats your pillow case can hold!
Host Jaeny Baik gets into the Halloween spirit! She's handing out tricks and treats, which may or may not include: dirty socks, sock coffee, world famous coffee, Winnipeg famous coffee, election results, speeches, cliches, blankets, security, dangerous costumes, sex, opinions, warnings, candy apples, miniature chocolate bars, tootsie rolls... way too many things to list. Just listen, you won't regret it!
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Manitoba This Week - Urban Myths: Spence, plus award-winning pumpkin marmalade!
Manitoba This Week wraps up our special Urban Myths series. We go to the Spence neighbourhood. It's one of Winnipeg's oldest communities and, as it gets older, new people are moving in. First-time home buyers come looking for a bargain. Find out why not everyone is happy about that trend. Spence also has the highest concentration of rooming houses in the city - we'll take you inside. Plus, we learn how to make an award-winning marmalade!
Download Manitoba This Week - Urban Myths: Spence, plus award-winning pumpkin marmalade!
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Manitoba This Week: Urban Myths - Selkirk, Manitoba... plus Winnipeg's modernist architecture!
Manitoba This Week travels north to the city of Selkirk -- catfish capital of North America! Find out how the city has changed since Wal-Mart came to town... you just might be surprised! Plus, we look at the city of Selkirk's relationship with the mental health centre and look at a big project that could play a role in revitalizing the downtown. Host Jaeny Baik also gets the goods on Winnipeg's modernist architecture, and meets a farmer who has his cattle on a strict root vegetable diet!
Download Manitoba This Week: Urban Myths - Selkirk, Manitoba... plus Winnipeg's modernist architecture!
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Manitoba This Week - Urban Myths: Elmwood, plus battling racoons!
Host Jaeny Baik ventures into Winnipeg's Elmwood neighbourhood on Manitoba This Week and busts up some Urban Myths. It's a neighbourhood where people hold a few jobs at a time and work six or seven days a week. Still it's hard to get by. It's a story about the working poor. We also visit the children and seniors living in the neighbourhood. Plus... Masked bandits attack! The story of a man and his battle to save his lawn. And to top it all off, a very special discovery!
Download Manitoba This Week - Urban Myths: Elmwood, plus battling racoons!
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