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27/02/2024

When I grew up in St. Boniface in the 60s and 70s francophones would quickly switch to English in my company, not out of respect, but fear that French was not welcome. These were the years of rights advocate George Forest and the firebombing of the Société de la francophonie manitobaine offices. Today I’m grateful that people like dedicated SFM Executive Director Daniel Boucher have made it possible for even members of my family to spend years in French education and now be considered a francophonie. The diversity that is now St. Boniface is because people like M. Boucher had the wisdom to look far into the future and see what was needed. Merci M. Boucher! Enjoy your retirement.

Une nouvelle douce-amère. Après 30 ans à la barre de la Société de la francophonie manitobaine, Daniel Boucher a annoncé qu'il prendrait sa retraite à titre de directeur général.

Daniel a consacré quatre décennies à la promotion de la langue, des droits et de la culture des francophones. Il est l'un des plus ardents défenseurs de la francophonie au Canada, et il est reconnu pour les progrès importants que la SFM a réalisés pour devenir une organisation pleinement inclusive pour toutes les personnes d'expression francophone au Manitoba.

Daniel, nous tenons à t'exprimer notre profonde gratitude pour toutes ces années de dévouement inlassable. Nous te sommes infiniment reconnaissants pour ton leadership exemplaire, ta vision audacieuse et ton engagement infatigable envers notre communauté.

Merci Daniel. Tu vas nous manquer. Profite de ta retraite bien méritée.

Nous vous invitons à lire notre communiqué de presse pour plus de détails sur la carrière remarquable de Daniel : https://www.sfm.mb.ca/un-dirigeant-de-la-sfm-prend-sa-retraite-apres-quatre-decennies-consacrees-a-la-defense-des-droits-des-francophones/

Crédit photo : Dan Harper

14/02/2024

We’re not in a “moment” … “Manitoba is the moment.” The best quote you’ll hear on The Current today from . Other amazing guests Boldness leader The Premier award winning singer songwriter …. Stop what you’re doing and take it in today. It’s full of hope, faith, courage, pride. It’s worth 60 moments.

24/12/2023

It takes a village to raise a festival and hundreds of volunteers over seven years make possible ... ... we're all so deeply honoured to make the Top 100 Most Fascinating Manitobans 2023. Thanks

Take a moment and treat yourself to 2 minutes of pure joy and watch the wrap video holidayalley.ca

Nod to festival event planners and our founding director who got us here. And dozens of amazing sponsors who believe in community like lead sponsor .

Photos: / Melanie Daniels

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23/12/2023

We know it takes a whole village to raise a festival. So this one belongs to the hundreds of volunteers over the seven years who have built Holiday Alley in Selkirk's historic downtown. BRAVO to all the volunteers. (holidayalley.ca)

"Top 100 Most Fascinating Manitobans in 2023 by Ace Burpee"

• Shirley Muir, Andraea Sartison & Jennie O’Keefe: Holiday Alley is a four-day celebration of art, music, light and creativity in Selkirk. It’s incredible. The event has been named Travel Manitoba’s Event of the Year, Interlake Tourism Association’s Event of the Year and has become a must-attend for thousands. Muir and Fête Jockey Events’ Sartison and O’Keefe make the magic happen.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/2023/12/23/ace-burpees-top-100-most-fascinating-manitobans-for-2023

I hope all is well with you. Writing this fascinating list each year thing is always an incredible process. I never struggle to find amazing people and amazing stories. The hardest part is keeping it...

08/03/2023

Kisses & hugs… for the years of courage telling us how it is and how it ought to be. Who do you want to thank today on International Women’s Day? Shout out!

Del Simon (CBC); Sophia Rabliauskas (Pimachiown Aki Poplar River First Nation), Elder Ruth Christie (Peguis First Nation), Elder Barb Nepinak (Pine Creek First Nation), Michelle Jean-Paul (Louis Riel School Division), Angela Casssie (National Gallery of Canada), Joy Loewen (National Screen Institute) and to so many future bright minds and hearts - Kit and Malaika National Screen Institute - Canada (NSI)

15/02/2023

Tip 10: Step up to be a cheerleader
Every award-winning project needs a cheerleader. Maybe it’s our long dark cold winters, but Manitoba has a lot of champions. It’s how we got The LEAF . Thanks Margaret Redmond! It’s how we got the first national museum outside of Ottawa. Thanks Gail Asper . It’s how we got Qaumajuq. Thanks . It’s how the World Trade Centre came to Winnipeg, thanks to Mariette Mulaire. And of course Mark Chipman and the . All Manitobans. All raised in winters! Coincidence?

To learn the rest of the 10 Tips on How to Build an Award-winning Winter Festival (like Holiday Alley) join us at the Winter Cities Conference Feb 15-17, Winnipeg. Link in bio.

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13/02/2023

Tip 1: What’s the goal?
When building a community festival know your goals. And if the plan doesn’t work, change the plan but never the goals.
For example when a pandemic interrupted the 4th live festival, Holiday Alley still supported musicians, artists and artisans and went from a 2-day live festival to 12-days of virtual activities. It launched with 2-hours of Holiday Alley TV with performers coming from their homes and a few messages from the Santa kids did not get to see over the pandemic. Holiday Alley even engaged other cities named Selkirk around the world to create a joint sing-a-long with submissions from Selkirk, Scotland; Selkirk, New York State and Selkirk, Ontario. The song? The 12 Days of Holiday Alley, of course.

Learn 10 Tips on How to Build a Great Winter Festival at the Winter Cities Conference Feb 15-17, Winnipeg.

13/02/2023

Imagine a prairie city of 10,000 with a magic recipe that draws 5,000 people to its decaying downtown to celebrate art, culture and creativity…. in winter. If you can see that then you’re seeing Holiday Alley .
If you want to know HOW to create that same excitement join us at the Winter Cities Conference Feb 15-17 in Winnipeg. The PRHouse and Holiday Alley share 10 Tips on How to Build a Great Winter Festival.

20/01/2023

The talent in Winnipeg never ceases to amaze me. The PRHouse team toured The LEAF this week, a project almost everyone of us touched in some way over the years - from branding to campaign strategies to logo development to event planning to video production. It was a joy to work on and even more fun to breath in. How lucky are we. #

26/10/2022

LONEY…. ONLY LONEY.

18/09/2022

Recently I met a drug dealer …….turned construction manager. Meet Joey and see how gang members can go from being a tax on society to tax-paying citizens.

Shaun Loney shared a post on Instagram: "Joey joined me at our Public Safety and Homelessness Forum. This is what actual public safety looks like. The virtual forum will take place Sept 21st. ". Follow their account to see 72 posts.

10/09/2022

What are you reading today? Me?
Shaun Loney’s “Dear Winnipeg” letter in the Winnipeg Free Press. He’s invited us to dig deep and talk about safety and homelessness Wed. Sept. 14 - 7 PM . I’m going. See you there?

25/05/2022

May 27 is National Road Trip Day! Who knew! Well actually some amazing women-owned businesses did and they have the perfect day mapped out for you in their historic downtown. Stop 1 - get caffeinated and get the map. Then shop and . Lunch and over a smoothie go on-line to check out . Continue your shop and . Just 40 minutes north of Winnipeg makes it a perfect Road Trip Day with a chance to win $500 of goodies. What’s your most memorable Road Trip?

13/05/2022

Environmental leader Sophia Rabliauskas of Poplar River FN and Murray Sinclair, judge, senator, mentor (born & raised in Selkirk, Manitoba) at the Selkirk Heritage Endowment Fund (SHEF) event. A community together on a continued path of reconciliation is a hopeful thing.

05/05/2022

Full house at cityhall today as Shaun Loney took the first step to becoming Winnipeg's next mayor.

06/03/2022

We’ve just joined thousands of Canadians who are booking Airbnb’s in Ukraine. Here’s the reply.... “Hello, thank you very much, your help is very important to us. I have 5 hostels in Kyiv and now 70 people live in them for free, 50 more places are free, we accept all people who have lost their homes as a result of explosions, Kyiv is bombed from the air and shelled with hailstones. With your help, we buy food for them, help our soldiers who are now defending Kyiv and somehow hold on. Thank you again for your help, we are holding on as best we can ✊Your help is very important to us, God bless you! We pray 🙏 for everyone who helps and for everyone who fights against terrorists!!!!
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27/02/2022

https://www.canadahelps.org/en/donate-to-ukraine/

Russia has launched a devastating attack on Ukraine and its people. Help provide food, water, shelter, urgent medical care, and more to those in need. Give now to help the Ukrainian people live with the safety and dignity they deserve.

01/12/2021

Just when we need to sing and dance again Holiday Alley, the good folks in Selkirk (Mb & Scotland) and the PRHouse team deliver three minutes of pure joy.


https://youtu.be/h6bynSrRkX8

We called out across the world for your dance videos – and YOU delivered! Holiday Alley – with the help of Selkirk Dental Crossing Centre – is excited to pre...

06/10/2021

https://twitter.com/cbcindigenous/status/1445418506585997313?s=21

“A space for gathering, reflection and healing for the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls was officially opened in Selkirk, Man., Monday. https://t.co/M9To5phA6v https://t.co/0s3wtUz326”

14/09/2021

When the Oak Bluff Hutterite Colony saw agriculture was changing it changed too and went from selling soya beans to China to making a product from soya that people all over the world want - EcoPoxy.

Thanks Jack Maendel, EcoPoxy CEO and WTC Winnipeg President Mariette Mulaire for inviting us to help tell your story of how you got this product to the world stage - together.

Jack says the WTC's Trade Accelerator Program (TAP) made it possible. Wanna sell like Jack? Join TAP. Sign up at

https://www.wtcwinnipeg.com/trade-accelerator-program/

29/08/2021

29/08/2021

You can still catch the last day (Sunday Aug 29) of performers, artists, chefs, Elders and great conversations about how all our cultures connect through plants... at the new outdoor Gardens at The Leaf

28/08/2021

Check out the program for Saturday and Sunday’s events at the gardens at The Leaf at Assiniboine Park. It’s an incredible diverse lineup of talent and activities - all free. We’re thrilled to have helped orchestrate the launch of Winnipeg’s latest and newest cultural attraction. Winnipeg is amazing!

https://www.assiniboinepark.ca/events/gardens-celebration

The opening of the Gardens at The Leaf earlier this summer marked the return of approximately 30 acres of revitalized gardens and greenspace to our community.

12/08/2021

Our national film industry lost an incredible leader when Winnipeg's Dave Barber passed away. Please join us in honouring him and donate to help put his "name in lights." Manitoba's Cinematheque would not exist without Dave. It was his theatre and always will be. Join us in supporting the Winnipeg Film Group as it works to rename the theatre - The Dave Barber Cinematheque.

https://www.winnipegfilmgroup.com/product/donation/?mc_cid=ff40ba322a&mc_eid=8b4c215f5f

The Winnipeg Film Group is a charitable, non-profit organization, and as such relies on the generous support of our public and private sector funders, corporate sponsorships and private donations.Donations above $10 will receive charitable tax receipts.No matter your donation we sincerely appreciate...

09/07/2021

Winnipeg has a new place to stretch, breath and connect – the outdoor Gardens at The Leaf at Assiniboine Park.

Take a stroll through these 30 acres and be reminded that nature and plants is what binds us across generations and cultures – and beyond COVID.

Meet the people who envisioned The Leaf: Canada’s Diversity Gardens 12 years ago and what they have planned next.

We have spent a lot of time down there as The PRHouse team created this virtual tour and it’s our new “go to” place. Another ambitious world-class Winnipeg attraction! The people in this city are amazing!

Shout out to HTFC Planning & Design who were on the "ground" floor on this project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCxCqKOfiiA

28/06/2021

This Canada Day, we honour the Elders of Poplar River First Nation, Manitoba for their early and unwavering commitment to helping us learn and heal from Indian Residential Schools.

For the first time this year, Poplar River has released the documentary A Gift from Our Elders for the public to see, produced 10 years ago, as a community record.

The PRHouse was honoured back then and are still humbled today to have been asked to sit with, listen to, record and deliver the Elders’ accounts for this 30-minute documentary.

We learned a lot those days in November 2012 in Poplar River and were surprised by the conversations that stretched from hurt to hope, struggle to forgiveness, anger to peace.

There are troubling accounts in this documentary, regardless enter with an open mind and strong heart – this Canada Day.

Funded by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuhwEokL-f8&t=610s

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Stories from experiences of residential school.

28/04/2021

A PR person walks into a florist. (No this is not the beginning of joke.)
While ordering flowers for a client she asks, “How’s businesses?”
Pretty soon the florist and the PR person turn the answer into a wide-spread media story about a worldwide shortage of flowers and international supply chain problems in a pandemic that threaten Mother's Day.

A good PR person can walk into any business and quickly find a fascinating story that mainstream media would love to know and would help raise the client's profile.

Five tips for finding a good news story in your business.
1. Listen carefully to what your staff are most proud of and chat about.
2. Ask staff who are working at the grass roots “how’s business, what are our clients telling you?”
3. Expand the story by partnering with another group or agency, as the Norwood Florist Design Studio partnered with the WTC Winnipeg for this story.
4. Look for a timely hook, like Mother’s Day.
5. Contact the media and if you’ve done #1 to #4 then there’s a good chance it will get picked up as it did for the WTC Winnipeg and the Norwood Florist Design Studio.

22/04/2021

The best news is “news you can use.” The World Trade Centre Winnipeg showed us how when it took a lot of complicated advice on climate change and issued Eight Tips for Earth Day for Canadian businesses.
When you’re looking to share “news your clients can use” try to….
1. Take complicated ideas and break it into a few tips. Keep it practical.
2. Use plain language and short words.
3. Make some of the tips quick to implement or what we call “easy wins.”
4. Hook your tips to an event – like Earth Day.
5. Send it to the media and if you’ve done #1 to #4 then there’s a good chance it will get picked up as it did for the WTC Winnipeg.

29/03/2021

It takes a lot of smart decisions over years to create the spectacular WAG-QAUMAJUQ in Winnipeg, Canada. Among them were:

1. Courage and commitment from the WAG to share power as part of its Truth and Reconciliation promise - hiring, appointing and taking direction from Canada’s Indigenous community. If any institution in Canada is struggling with how, and how fast to embrace the TRC recommendations, it need only look to WAG-QAUMAJUQ.

2. Women make up the majority of the WAG-QAUMAJUQ bench strength – from Elders to curators to fundraisers to artists to volunteers.

3. Recognizing that while the building is spectacular, the future is knowing that art is a voice and that each piece of art is a rich story waiting to teach us.

Or as one of the citizens in this video says, about seeing Inuit art for the first time, “I want to see more of this. It’s going to make my life more happy.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXwLj9fXxbc&t=21s

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The WAG Inuit Art Centre will open its doors in 2020, Manitoba’s 150th anniversary. To celebrate Inuit art, the people who make it, and the lands from which ...

03/03/2021