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17 stories exploring community across the city.
Across Brandon and the Westman region, schools and colleges are forging new paths — blending trades, Indigenous knowledge, and community mentorship — to sustain learning in small towns and better prepare residents for an uncertain future.
In the shadow of Brandon's grain elevators, a farmer-led innovation hub blends low-cost tech, seed-saving and youth apprenticeships to bolster soil health, diversify incomes and stitch rural knowledge into climate resilience across Westman.
Unearthing the alchemical potency of arts and culture in community building, regeneration, and awakening, amidst the rustic beauty of Westman.
Commuters used to dread the crawl into downtown—now they lean out open streetcar windows to clap along to a brass parade that slips between trains without ever delaying service.
A network of rooftop salons is giving apartment dwellers a hush-hush library card that comes with skyline sightlines, locally curated shelves, and the kind of quiet usually reserved for monasteries.
A microphone, two milk crates, and a clipboard of Venmo handles are remaking Sundays on Juniper Avenue—and the city is taking cues from the porch-front diplomacy it sparks.
The city’s newest marketplace begins when most storefronts go dark—an after-hours economy that mixes auntie-run tea stalls, vinyl DJs, and urban farmers inside empty train halls.
Above the noise and chaos of city streets, a quiet revolution is growing—literally. Urban rooftop gardens are transforming how we think about food, community, and sustainable city living.