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Jeri Stern
parodies of popular music, inspired by current events & life in Manitoba. Jeri's voice art & other work can be found on YouTube, & on ReverbNation, where it's reached #1 nationally & the top 40 globally on their Spoken Word charts.
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Article History:
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10-25 cm of Snow Coming to Manitoba
WINNIPEG - Environment Canada is warning of a strong weather system on its way that will bring between 10 and 25 cm of snow to parts of Manitoba. While southern Manitoba gets light snow and rain, with temperatures hovering near freezing today, the federal forecaster says the slippery, slushy road conditions will be worse in…
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Winnipeg Named Most Intelligent City in the World
WINNIPEG - Winnipeg has been declared the most intelligent community in the world by an independent forum after being named among just a few Canadian cities that made the top seven. The Intelligent Community Forum recognizes one community every year for demonstrating remarkable economic, social, and cultural development in the context of a digital age.…
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Manitoba Town Picked for Spaceflight
WINNIPEG - An aerospace company says it’s getting ready to launch a hypersonic space plane in Manitoba, with plans to send tourists toward the stars and crews to the moon within five years. Space Engine Systems President and Chief Technology Officer Pradeep Dass says they found an airport in the northwestern region of the province…
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Deadly Winnipeg Perimeter Crash
WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man is dead following the collision of a pickup truck into the back of a semi-truck this weekend. Manitoba RCMP Traffic Services says a pickup truck travelling eastbound along the Perimeter Hwy. near its intersection with St. Anne's Rd. crashed into the back of the semi-trailer, which had stopped for a…
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Manitoba Man Bikes Cross-Canada to Stop Suicide
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba man is only days into a pedalling journey from Vancouver to Halifax to raise money and awareness to help prevent youth suicide, and he’s already surpassed his original fundraising goal by thousands of dollars. 25-year-old Rylee Nepinak is biking 6,000 km in response to a suicide crisis at Tataskweyak Cree Nation,…
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Winnipeg Explosion Sends 4 To Hospital
WINNIPEG - The WFPS says one of the four injured in an explosion is in critical condition after an incident at a home in Winnipeg late Wednesday night. The Fire Paramedic Service says the blast and fire took place in a one-and-a-half-storey house on Redwood Ave. between McGregor and Parr shortly before 11:30. Crews arrived…
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TIME Magazine: Winnipeg Is Great
WINNIPEG - The City of Winnipeg is getting high profile international attention for the second time in under a month, this time for its adaptability, creativity, and ingenuity, as well as innovation. TIME Magazine has picked Winnipeg as one of the World’s Greatest Places for 2021. Economic Development Winnipeg says it’s a fitting title for…
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751 Unmarked Graves So Far
WINNIPEG - Just a week after researchers in Manitoba announced an investigation into the graves of more than 100 students at a former residential school in Brandon, a Saskatchewan First Nation says it has made what it calls a “horrific and shocking discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves” near a former residential school there. Cowessess…
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Song Celebrates Insulin
WINNIPEG - An 80-year-old Winnipeg teacher has taken to YouTube with a song to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of a life-saving Canadian innovation. On November 15, 1921, University of Toronto researchers Dr. Frederick Banting, Professor John Macleod, and then-graduate student Charles Best discovered insulin. As a result of the experiments, millions of lives have been…
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Dad's Red Carpet Treatment
WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s film industry has a lot to celebrate despite ongoing public health orders, and a proud Winnipeg father is celebrating that success Hollywood-style. Shot in Winnipeg in September of 2019, director Ilya Naishuller’s “Nobody” tells the story of Hutch Mansell, played by Breaking Bad actor Bob Odenkirk, a man trying to protect his…