Winnipeg writer Janine LeGal shares her experiences with good customer service, bad service, and frustrating, disappointing experiences with the city's 311 service.

Facebook doesn't have to be contributing to our young people looking down at their phones and ignoring each other, writes Janine LeGal, but it can encourage those same faces to look up and chat face-to-face about things they've learned on this amazingly powerful social network and beyond.

The death of her next-door neighbour has Winnipeg writer Janine LeGal wondering if we need to be better neighbours, especially to those who live alone.

Yes, I'm vegan. I love animals and am happier not eating them. I care about our health, our environment, our world. And the three meat-eaters in my home.

Most of the time I try not to think too much about where my mother is, or the kind of care she gets. The way we as a society treat our elders is something I think we could all benefit from reviewing.

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly some people get righteous and judgmental about cultural norms and what it means to be Canadian. As homestay hosts for international students, in our home we are constantly in the throes of building community and cultural understanding.

Everybody, it seems, loves to criticize CFS and blame the system for pretty much everything that goes wrong when it comes to kids in foster care. I used to be one of those people.