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54 stories exploring community across the city.
From one-room schoolhouses to modern university partnerships, Westman's educational history reveals resilience, community identity, and a pragmatic pivot toward reconciliation, skills training, and digital learning that reshapes Brandon and surrounding towns today.
A century of incremental choices—new services, digital shifts, and community-first lending—helped Brandon and surrounding Westman towns weather economic change. This retrospective traces the human stories behind innovation and what lies ahead.
At Brandon’s River Resilience Week, farmers, students and neighbours translate prairie knowledge into hands-on restoration, flood-smart design, and community-led climate adaptation across the Assiniboine riverbank.
Across Brandon and surrounding towns, residents and small businesses are adopting broadband, telemedicine, and precision agriculture. What looks like high‑tech is also a practical effort to keep services local and young people engaged in rural life.
A historical look at how Brandon and Westman’s artists, institutions, and volunteers forged cultural life from prairie soil — and how that legacy is shaping the region’s future.
Maya Sigurdson transformed waste into opportunity in Brandon, creating jobs, restoring habitat, and teaching climate resilience. Her RiverRoot Collective connects urban composting, regenerative farms, and Indigenous youth programs for measurable community impact.
From co-operative grain elevators to high-speed fiber, Brandon and the Westman region have reinvented commerce through local ingenuity, research partnerships, and community finance—reshaping livelihoods and preparing towns for a changing economy.
At the Riverbank Discovery Centre, Brandon residents converged for a multi-day sustainability gathering, transforming conversation into measurable action across farms, schools, and neighbourhoods.
Claire Nguyen’s Prairie Learning Lab transforms lifelong learning in Brandon — from after-school tutoring to a mobile 'Hatch' classroom — creating pathways to employment, cultural learning, and community resilience across Westman region.
In Brandon and nearby towns, a grassroots coalition of clinicians, volunteers, and students is remaking access to primary care—mobile clinics, telehealth hubs, and community paramedicine are reducing barriers and reshaping how care is delivered locally.
At a Westman gathering in Brandon, community members explored regenerative farming, river restoration and urban greening. The event highlighted practical projects, intergenerational knowledge sharing, and pathways for resilient local economies and ecosystems.
In Westman, farmers are combining sensors, cover crops and community data to boost yields, repair soil and keep young people rooted. This story traces the practices, personalities, and pragmatic optimism reshaping agriculture near Brandon.
A historical look at Westman's evolution from a railway-linked 'Wheat City' to a diverse regional hub—exploring agriculture, education, healthcare, and Indigenous partnerships shaping local resilience.
A community-led agtech initiative near Brandon is marrying tradition and technology—sensors, cover-crop trials, and youth apprenticeships—to improve soil health, lower costs, and keep young people working on the land.
In Westman, technology's arrival isn't a spectacle but a patient reweaving of everyday life — from telemedicine in Brandon to farmers using sensors and libraries offering digital literacy across towns.
Along the Assiniboine, Brandon residents are stitching together a new environmental ethic: river restorations, regenerative farming and grassroots composting that guard livelihoods while imagining a resilient, shared future for Westman communities.
In Brandon and the wider Westman region, volunteers—from retirees to university students—form informal systems of care: running food programs, supporting elders, and responding to crises, reshaping how the community meets need and protects dignity.
At the Brandon Innovation Field Day, sensors, drones and community grit converged. Farmers and students showed how precision tools reshape work, yield, and relationships—offering practical responses to climate, markets and rural decline.
A historical look at how schools in Brandon and Westman transformed lives, economies, and community identity—examining one-room schoolhouses, college evolution, Indigenous learning, and how modern challenges like broadband and reconciliation shape future education.
Rowan Sinclair transformed kitchen scraps into a community economy of soil—diverting tonnes from landfill, rebuilding urban gardens, and teaching a generation to value local ecosystems and labor.
Volunteers power Westman’s hospitals, fire halls, food banks and newcomer programs, but aging ranks and pandemic hangover strain the system—local innovators are redesigning volunteer roles for flexibility, skills, and intergenerational collaboration.
Nora Patel transformed an aging storefront into Liminal Studios, a collaborative arts hub in Brandon. Her work — murals, youth mentorship, and pop-up programming — has reshaped local cultural life and seeded a new creative economy.
A historical look at entrepreneurship across Westman — Brandon, Virden and smaller towns — revealing how family businesses, co‑operatives and adaptive startups anchored social life and shape contemporary rural renewal.
Across Brandon and Westman towns, new development is reshaping neighborhoods, jobs, and identities. This investigation traces the human cost and the civic creativity firms and residents deploy to steward growth responsibly.
Across Brandon and Westman, volunteers are adapting to changing needs — from seniors offering decades of service to youth-led initiatives — reshaping community resilience and civic life in tangible ways.
In Westman, grassroots experiments—from regenerative fields to community energy projects—reveal practical strategies and stubborn barriers. This investigation traces people transforming policy, soil, and riverbanks, and what their efforts mean for the region's future resilience.
At a packed evening in Brandon, entrepreneurs from across Westman traded prototypes, recipes and business cards. Their stories reveal how small-scale innovation—rooted in place, culture and cooperation—is creating jobs, expanding services and renewing rural pride.
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.