{"id":75,"date":"2017-10-31T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T14:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/manitoba-migration\/?p=75"},"modified":"2017-10-31T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T13:50:01","slug":"hey-how-do-i-know-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/manitoba-migration\/2017\/10\/31\/hey-how-do-i-know-you\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHey \u2013 how do I know you?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Allison Light<\/em><\/p>\n

Sitting at the Winnipeg Free Press daily meeting, their editorial team goes through the day\u2019s stories. At some moments, it feels like we could be listening to news from any of our hometowns \u2013 the big sports team\u2019s latest score, a murderer who pocket dialed the victim\u2019s daughter after stabbing him, parents fretting over drugs in their kids\u2019 Halloween candy. Then, they begin to delve more into immigration-related issues \u2013 raising the maximum age of children who can be brought with a refugee family from 19 to 22, and new census data showing that Manitoba could be Canada\u2019s first majority non-white province.<\/p>\n

From those brief headlines to our conversations with the Red River College students, today was definitely the day I met Winnipeg. In my opinion, we got the clearest reflections on the city from Bob Cox, Free Press publisher. \u201cWinnipeggers play this game, when they meet,\u201d he said. \u201cSort of, hey \u2013 how do I know you?\u201d I\u2019ve been amused by this presentation of Winnipeg as a small city, given that I\u2019m from what I consider to be a small city and that only has around 200,000 people, but I suppose that\u2019s a perception difference. His depiction of Winnipeggers as rules-followers overall was interesting, as he related it to locals\u2019 opinions on asylum seekers versus refugee resettlement applicants. But in the evening, as we chatted over poutine with some local journalism students, they described a different Winnipeg \u2013 one that earns the title<\/a> of the most violent major city in Canada, and where getting a \u201cWinnipeg handshake\u201d is slang for getting stabbed. Granted, that\u2019s a comparison within the generally-safer country as a whole, but it feeds this general sense I\u2019ve gotten from the Winnipeggers we\u2019ve spoken to that the city is a bit of an enigma. From a question as general as \u201cAre people getting more right-wing?\u201d to the harmless \u201cWhat are the essential Winnipegger dishes or restaurants?\u201d residents don\u2019t seem to have a common perception of their city.<\/p>\n

Later in the afternoon, we visited the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Before touring the studio, we talked with Sky Bridges, the Chief Operating Officer of the station. Of all of the information he gave us, we latched onto a phrase he mentioned only in passing: \u201ctwo-spirited\u201d as a term for someone gay or lesbian. Sky Bridges explained that there was a lot of discussion about a proper term that could reclaim the traditional indigenous acceptance of homosexuality and express it in English. This question of updating aboriginal terms came up again when our tour guide was explaining how APTN was asked to helped with Vancouver Olympics broadcasting in 2010. Even though they found elders who could help sportscast in indigenous languages, those languages lacked words for certain newer sports, so APTN got to shape how Canada could reverse-incorporate things like Curling and Slalom while staying true to indigenous tradition. This concept of reshaping language, both by coining English words with indigenous sentiments (as with \u201ctwo-spirited\u201d) and indigenous words to adjust for new English concepts (as with the Olympic coverage) was a unique way to see how they balance their heritage while keeping up with the modern times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Allison Light Sitting at the Winnipeg Free Press daily meeting, their editorial team goes through the day\u2019s stories. At some moments, it feels like we could be listening to news from any of our hometowns \u2013 the big sports team\u2019s latest score, a murderer who pocket dialed the victim\u2019s daughter after stabbing him, parents<\/p>\n

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