Eva Wasney
@evawasney.bsky.social
Exciting writer (aka food, arts and life reporter) for the Winnipeg Free Press. She/her.
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Eva Wasney
@evawasney.bsky.social
· Mar 19
Made in Manitoba: A guide to locally produced goods
Maple leaf stickers, new “Product of Canada” signage and shoppers squinting at food labels to suss out the country of origin: In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada,…
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I spent weeks combing through Manitoba's homegrown food industry so you don't have to!
This @winnipegfreepress.com grocery guide isn't all-encompassing, but includes a wide range of sources for local produce, protein, dairy, grains, beverages, snacks and condiments.
This @winnipegfreepress.com grocery guide isn't all-encompassing, but includes a wide range of sources for local produce, protein, dairy, grains, beverages, snacks and condiments.
Snack Häus is small on scale and big on flavour.
The new counter-service restaurant inside Low Life Barrel House is the creation of Dustin Pajak, the former head chef of Close Co. who recently returned home from a formative stint in Toronto.
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The new counter-service restaurant inside Low Life Barrel House is the creation of Dustin Pajak, the former head chef of Close Co. who recently returned home from a formative stint in Toronto.
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Acclaimed Winnipeg chef Dustin Pajak returns with Snack Häus to build ‘fun, tongue-in-cheek eatery’
At Snack Häus, chef Dustin Pajak is dreaming big but starting small — small plates, small kitchen, small staff. Pajak opened the casual-dining spot, his first solo venture, inside Low Life Barrel Hous...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Snack Häus is small on scale and big on flavour.
The new counter-service restaurant inside Low Life Barrel House is the creation of Dustin Pajak, the former head chef of Close Co. who recently returned home from a formative stint in Toronto.
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The new counter-service restaurant inside Low Life Barrel House is the creation of Dustin Pajak, the former head chef of Close Co. who recently returned home from a formative stint in Toronto.
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When Dawn Knight began her career as an art educator 25 years ago, she realized that there were really no resources available for teachers related to contemporary artists.
Expanding the canvas
Art-education website a new resource for teachers
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October 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
When Dawn Knight began her career as an art educator 25 years ago, she realized that there were really no resources available for teachers related to contemporary artists.
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One of the best live vocalists in the biz. Loved seeing Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland up there, too. And surprise guest Paula Cole!!! she was playing her own show last night in town, too. A mini Lilith!
After having to postpone last November’s concert twice owing to acute laryngitis and subsequent vocal rest, Canadian treasure Sarah McLachlan finally brought her Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 30th Anniversary Tour to Winnipeg on Wednesday night.
Sarah doesn’t drop the ball
Eventual Fumbling Towards Ecstasy anniversary show wouldn’t be denied
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October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
One of the best live vocalists in the biz. Loved seeing Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland up there, too. And surprise guest Paula Cole!!! she was playing her own show last night in town, too. A mini Lilith!
So very excited to chat with Anna Olson about her beautiful new cookbook!
We're thrilled that Anna Olson will be at our store on Wednesday October 22 at 7pm to share her new book Anna Cooks: 125+ Delicious & Achievable Recipes for Every Meal of the Day. Hosted by the wonderful @evawasney.bsky.social, followed by a book signing. - mailchi.mp/grant/anna-o...
Beloved baker and chef Anna Olson returns to Winnipeg
Beloved baker Anna Olson comes to Winnipeg to share her new book Anna Cooks: 125+ Delicious & Achievable Recipes for Every Meal of the Day (Appetite by Random House) - a book that explores a different...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
So very excited to chat with Anna Olson about her beautiful new cookbook!
Cute news alert!
Annie MacDonald's neighbourhood coffee stand has raised more than $2,000 for CancerCare over the last two months. It's also become the site of meaningful community connections.
In today's @winnipegfreepress.com ☕
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Annie MacDonald's neighbourhood coffee stand has raised more than $2,000 for CancerCare over the last two months. It's also become the site of meaningful community connections.
In today's @winnipegfreepress.com ☕
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Nine-year-old serves up hot drinks to raise money for CancerCare Manitoba
River Heights’ hottest new coffee pop-up has highly exclusive hours. The stand at the corner of Waterloo Street and Kingsway is only open once a week from 8:20 to 8:45 a.m. before the baristas have to...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Cute news alert!
Annie MacDonald's neighbourhood coffee stand has raised more than $2,000 for CancerCare over the last two months. It's also become the site of meaningful community connections.
In today's @winnipegfreepress.com ☕
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Annie MacDonald's neighbourhood coffee stand has raised more than $2,000 for CancerCare over the last two months. It's also become the site of meaningful community connections.
In today's @winnipegfreepress.com ☕
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The @winnipegfreepress.com is hosting a holiday cookie swap!
We're looking for 12 recipes for festive (and inventive) treats for our annual December baking series. Select bakers will be invited to the newsroom for an irl cookie swap.
Deets below 🍪
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We're looking for 12 recipes for festive (and inventive) treats for our annual December baking series. Select bakers will be invited to the newsroom for an irl cookie swap.
Deets below 🍪
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Join us for a holiday cookie swap – Winnipeg Free Press
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October 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The @winnipegfreepress.com is hosting a holiday cookie swap!
We're looking for 12 recipes for festive (and inventive) treats for our annual December baking series. Select bakers will be invited to the newsroom for an irl cookie swap.
Deets below 🍪
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We're looking for 12 recipes for festive (and inventive) treats for our annual December baking series. Select bakers will be invited to the newsroom for an irl cookie swap.
Deets below 🍪
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Some side dish inspo for those splitting the wishbone this weekend 🍗
Find reader recipes for Zippy Carrots, Cranberry Salad and Pork Sausage Stuffing via @winnipegfreepress.com
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Find reader recipes for Zippy Carrots, Cranberry Salad and Pork Sausage Stuffing via @winnipegfreepress.com
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Three Manitobans share their Thanksgiving side-dish recipes
Three side-dish recipes, each with a fun twist. Enjoy Diane Nelson’s recipe for Zippy Carrots, Debbie Hurrell’s Cranberry Salad and Debbie Nolan’s Pork Sausage Stuffing.
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October 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Some side dish inspo for those splitting the wishbone this weekend 🍗
Find reader recipes for Zippy Carrots, Cranberry Salad and Pork Sausage Stuffing via @winnipegfreepress.com
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Find reader recipes for Zippy Carrots, Cranberry Salad and Pork Sausage Stuffing via @winnipegfreepress.com
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🔥 My mouth is still on fire 🔥
@bensigurdson.bsky.social and I recently sacrificed our taste buds for this @winnipegfreepress.com review of made-in-Manitoba hot sauces.
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@bensigurdson.bsky.social and I recently sacrificed our taste buds for this @winnipegfreepress.com review of made-in-Manitoba hot sauces.
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Hot sauce taste test: Winnipeg-made condiments a scorching feast of fiery flavour
Free Press food reporter Eva Wasney and drinks editor Ben Sigurdson sacrificed their palates to taste-test some spicy sauces.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🔥 My mouth is still on fire 🔥
@bensigurdson.bsky.social and I recently sacrificed our taste buds for this @winnipegfreepress.com review of made-in-Manitoba hot sauces.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
@bensigurdson.bsky.social and I recently sacrificed our taste buds for this @winnipegfreepress.com review of made-in-Manitoba hot sauces.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
I got to meet Jane Goodall during her visit to Winnipeg in 2017. She radiated warmth and spoke with such clarity and conviction.
TORONTO – Jane Goodall is being remembered by Canadians as irreplaceable in her environmental work.
'No one of her stature': Conservationist Jane Goodall remembered in Canada
TORONTO – Jane Goodall is being remembered by Canadians as irreplaceable in her environmental work.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I got to meet Jane Goodall during her visit to Winnipeg in 2017. She radiated warmth and spoke with such clarity and conviction.
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Me and @evawasney.bsky.social did a little taste test of some local hot sauces (including video of the top of my bald head, sweating):
You don’t have to go far to find flavourful, face-melting hot sauces.
Coming in hot!
Locally made sauces a scorching feast of fiery flavour
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September 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Me and @evawasney.bsky.social did a little taste test of some local hot sauces (including video of the top of my bald head, sweating):
Tyrone Deise makes analog art for the internet era.
The Winnipeg graphic designer has created a dozen remakes of the "Steamed Hams" bit from The Simpsons, including a 45-minute live-action film and a hand-drawn book.
My story for @winnipegfreepress.com 🍔
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The Winnipeg graphic designer has created a dozen remakes of the "Steamed Hams" bit from The Simpsons, including a 45-minute live-action film and a hand-drawn book.
My story for @winnipegfreepress.com 🍔
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Simpsons scene inspires film treatments on YouTube
One man’s attempt to pass off hamburgers as “steamed hams” has become another man’s magnum opus. Winnipeg graphic designer Tyrone Deise has achieved YouTube fame for his creative renditions of an icon...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Tyrone Deise makes analog art for the internet era.
The Winnipeg graphic designer has created a dozen remakes of the "Steamed Hams" bit from The Simpsons, including a 45-minute live-action film and a hand-drawn book.
My story for @winnipegfreepress.com 🍔
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The Winnipeg graphic designer has created a dozen remakes of the "Steamed Hams" bit from The Simpsons, including a 45-minute live-action film and a hand-drawn book.
My story for @winnipegfreepress.com 🍔
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Korn performs in Winnipeg tomorrow. So obviously I had to pair some of the nu metal band's biggest hits with corn recipes submitted by @winnipegfreepress.com readers.
Read Korn on the Cob below 🤘🌽
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Read Korn on the Cob below 🤘🌽
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September 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Korn performs in Winnipeg tomorrow. So obviously I had to pair some of the nu metal band's biggest hits with corn recipes submitted by @winnipegfreepress.com readers.
Read Korn on the Cob below 🤘🌽
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Read Korn on the Cob below 🤘🌽
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Nicole Kidman's husband put on a very fun, very bright show in Winnipeg last night.
Read my ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of Keith Urban's latest arena tour in today's @winnipegfreepress.com
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Read my ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of Keith Urban's latest arena tour in today's @winnipegfreepress.com
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Gallery: Keith Urban entertains more than 9,000 Winnipeg fans at Canada Life Centre
Unlike many of his younger contemporaries, Keith Urban doesn’t trade in twangy ballads about hard boozing and pickup trucks. At least not exclusively. The New Zealand-born, Nashville-based country art...
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September 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Nicole Kidman's husband put on a very fun, very bright show in Winnipeg last night.
Read my ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of Keith Urban's latest arena tour in today's @winnipegfreepress.com
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Read my ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of Keith Urban's latest arena tour in today's @winnipegfreepress.com
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This is a great read.
By the end of the 2010s, people who wrote about music for a living mainly agreed that albums by, say, Post Malone and Ariana Grande were great, or close to great. Could it really have been the case that no one hated them?
How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge
Music writers were once known for being much crankier than the average listener. What happened?
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September 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is a great read.
Eggs-tra, eggs-tra! 🍳
Learn all about poaching, basting and scrambling in this week's @winnipegfreepress.com Homemade Cooking School class.
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Learn all about poaching, basting and scrambling in this week's @winnipegfreepress.com Homemade Cooking School class.
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Egg-venturous: Get out of your shell by mastering the basics of this versatile food
Karl Oman is something of an egg-vangelist. “I think people underestimate the egg,” says the chef and culinary arts instructor. “Eggs are the best thing ever; they’re like nature’s wonder — eggs are t...
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August 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Eggs-tra, eggs-tra! 🍳
Learn all about poaching, basting and scrambling in this week's @winnipegfreepress.com Homemade Cooking School class.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Learn all about poaching, basting and scrambling in this week's @winnipegfreepress.com Homemade Cooking School class.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
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"Nutrition experts" am I right? Well actually these were RDs and PhDs so yes actual experts. Thank you @evawasney.bsky.social
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Nutrition experts get to the meat of latest grocery store trend of protein products
Protein-fortified milk, pasta with added protein, high-protein tortilla chips. Turn down any grocery aisle these days and you’ll likely find a wide variety of products bulking up on a certain macronut...
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August 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"Nutrition experts" am I right? Well actually these were RDs and PhDs so yes actual experts. Thank you @evawasney.bsky.social
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Broth, roux, emulsification! This month's Homemade Cooking School class, led by chef Mandy Wingert, is all about making flavourful stocks and silky sauces. 🍲
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How to coax the best from stocks and sauces to give your fine cuisine a good foundation: Winnipeg chef Mandy Wingert
Homemade is a series that celebrates home cooking in Manitoba. Find more stories, ideas and share your recipes at wfp.to/homemade In today’s Homemade Cooking School lesson, chef Mandy Wingert walks us...
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July 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Broth, roux, emulsification! This month's Homemade Cooking School class, led by chef Mandy Wingert, is all about making flavourful stocks and silky sauces. 🍲
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Kudos @evawasney.bsky.social @jenzoratti.bsky.social @bensigurdson.bsky.social for your courageous, creative & nostalgic foray into "jello salads" - complete w tasting notes
❤️ local indep media
Everything is terrible, a little jello palate cleanser is so needed
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Everything is terrible, a little jello palate cleanser is so needed
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Winnipeg Free Press staff try reader-submitted Jell-O recipes
Saturday is Eat Your Jell-O Day. In honour of this gelatinous holiday, we’ve done just that.
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July 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Kudos @evawasney.bsky.social @jenzoratti.bsky.social @bensigurdson.bsky.social for your courageous, creative & nostalgic foray into "jello salads" - complete w tasting notes
❤️ local indep media
Everything is terrible, a little jello palate cleanser is so needed
Subscribe to @winnipegfreepress.com
❤️ local indep media
Everything is terrible, a little jello palate cleanser is so needed
Subscribe to @winnipegfreepress.com
I didn’t know Brendan Berg well, but he was always beyond kind whenever we crossed paths.
According to friends, meaningful connection was a common thread for the Royal Canoe bassist and his partner, Olivia Michalczuk.
According to friends, meaningful connection was a common thread for the Royal Canoe bassist and his partner, Olivia Michalczuk.
Family, friends and fans are mourning the unexpected loss of two influential figures in Winnipeg’s music community.
Winnipeg's music community mourns loss of two of its own
Family, friends and fans are mourning the unexpected loss of two influential figures in Winnipeg’s music community.
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July 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I didn’t know Brendan Berg well, but he was always beyond kind whenever we crossed paths.
According to friends, meaningful connection was a common thread for the Royal Canoe bassist and his partner, Olivia Michalczuk.
According to friends, meaningful connection was a common thread for the Royal Canoe bassist and his partner, Olivia Michalczuk.
School is in session!
Very excited to launch this learn-to-cook series, featuring the expertise of @rrcpolytech.bsky.social culinary instructors.
Our first class is all about knives 🔪🥒
Very excited to launch this learn-to-cook series, featuring the expertise of @rrcpolytech.bsky.social culinary instructors.
Our first class is all about knives 🔪🥒
Welcome to the first class of Homemade: Cooking School, a new Free Press series featuring in-depth cooking tutorials from professional local chefs.
Cutting edge tips
Learn kitchen knife skills in our new monthly cooking feature
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June 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
School is in session!
Very excited to launch this learn-to-cook series, featuring the expertise of @rrcpolytech.bsky.social culinary instructors.
Our first class is all about knives 🔪🥒
Very excited to launch this learn-to-cook series, featuring the expertise of @rrcpolytech.bsky.social culinary instructors.
Our first class is all about knives 🔪🥒
Nelson and Arlene Olegario were ready to retire from restaurant life when their lease expired, but customers wouldn't hear it.
The couple behind Couple Chef Restaurant is now serving Filipino fare on Fife Street in a location that's seen its fair share of flavours.
The couple behind Couple Chef Restaurant is now serving Filipino fare on Fife Street in a location that's seen its fair share of flavours.
Customers convince Winnipeg culinary couple to continue cooking
Last summer, Couple Chef Restaurant moved into a location that’s seen its fair share of flavours. The eatery tucked into the trees at 1199 Fife St. was built in the 1970s and made to look like a…
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June 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Nelson and Arlene Olegario were ready to retire from restaurant life when their lease expired, but customers wouldn't hear it.
The couple behind Couple Chef Restaurant is now serving Filipino fare on Fife Street in a location that's seen its fair share of flavours.
The couple behind Couple Chef Restaurant is now serving Filipino fare on Fife Street in a location that's seen its fair share of flavours.
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Gena Boubard is checking off a lot of firsts this year.
Pride and power in place
Organizer of first Sagkeeng Anicinabe Nation event hopes to shake up ‘how we view gender identity and sexuality’
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June 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Gena Boubard is checking off a lot of firsts this year.
Pretty excited about this initiative!
New: The Manitoba government is turning to Western Canada’s oldest newspaper to teach students how to debunk misinformation #mbed #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Winnipeg Free Press to lead media literacy project
The Manitoba government is turning to Western Canada’s oldest newspaper to teach students how to debunk misinformation and master other necessary skills for the digital age. The department of educatio...
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May 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Pretty excited about this initiative!
This is a fascinating show.
A retrospective of Abraham Anghik Ruben’s renowned 50-year career, the WAG-Qaumajuq exhibit features more than 100 works, including massive sculptures about shared Inuit and Viking history.
A retrospective of Abraham Anghik Ruben’s renowned 50-year career, the WAG-Qaumajuq exhibit features more than 100 works, including massive sculptures about shared Inuit and Viking history.
Since his last gallery show in Winnipeg, Abraham Anghik Ruben’s focus has shifted from introspection to cross-cultural exploration.
Consequences of contact
First solo show in WAG-Qaumajuq’s flagship Qilak gallery
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May 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is a fascinating show.
A retrospective of Abraham Anghik Ruben’s renowned 50-year career, the WAG-Qaumajuq exhibit features more than 100 works, including massive sculptures about shared Inuit and Viking history.
A retrospective of Abraham Anghik Ruben’s renowned 50-year career, the WAG-Qaumajuq exhibit features more than 100 works, including massive sculptures about shared Inuit and Viking history.
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Travel south on Keewatin Street any time of day, any day of the week and you’ll likely find a line of vehicles with their four-ways flashing just before the intersection of Notre Dame Avenue.
Taste of home
Round-the-clock Indian restaurants booming along Keewatin strip
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May 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Travel south on Keewatin Street any time of day, any day of the week and you’ll likely find a line of vehicles with their four-ways flashing just before the intersection of Notre Dame Avenue.