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Stuart Murray sits down with Winnipeg writer, filmmaker, and environmental advocate Erna Buffie. After more than two decades producing science documentaries for CBC's The Nature of Things, Erna has turned her attention closer to home — documenting why Winnipeg's urban forest is in crisis, and what it will take to save it. Her book Out on a Limb makes the case that trees aren't a civic amenity. They're essential infrastructure. We're talking: Why Winnipeg — despite its iconic

On this episode of Humans, On Rights, we sit down with Suzanne Winterflood, Program Manager of WISE Kid-Netic Energy — Manitoba's largest STEM outreach program. What started over 35 years ago as a small group of professors working to bring more girls into science and engineering has grown into a province-wide initiative reaching over 43,000 young people a year. And yet, Suzanne is the first to admit: the needle hasn't moved nearly as far as it should have. This conversation

On this episode of Humans, On Rights, we sit down with Bruno de Oliveira Jayme, a Brazilian-born artist, educator, and community arts practitioner who has spent 25 years making Canada his home. Now a full professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba, Bruno brings together curriculum theory, arts-based research, and a deep commitment to social justice. His work explores what happens when art stops being decoration and starts becoming dissent. Bruno intro

At 21 years old, Divya Sharma has already led a $16 million student organization, represented Manitoba at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, and is writing her honours thesis on the human rights implications of artificial intelligence. Her story is a reminder that age isn't a barrier to meaningful change — and that the most powerful advocacy often starts right in your own community. We're talking: Her COVID-19 project that started with a few micro-grants and grew

Ask five Black Winnipeggers what their experience of this city looks like, and you'll get five different answers. Preserving 45 years of community history. Posting handwritten love notes around the city. Nearly dying because of medical racism. Transforming how the whole province handles its garbage. These are just a few of the Black Winnipeggers we spoke to over the last year, and their stories paint a varied picture of what it means to be Black in Winnipeg today...and what w