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The Chat That Broke

In their private chat, a secret AI moderator is turning friend against friend. One teen knows the truth. He must unmask the algorithm before it shatters their friendship forever.

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Digital Salvage October 16, 2025

Lena’s Strong Game

Lena feels her strong body sets her apart. But self-acceptance sparks a game-changing power! Can she help a new friend find confidence in himself too?

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Digital Salvage October 15, 2025

Mona’s Secret Songs

When friends weaponize a music app, Mona fights back with a secret playlist of kind songs. Can her hidden melodies silence the hate and inspire a better harmony?

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Digital Salvage October 15, 2025

Recreation, Culture and Creative Leadership

The Centre’s Bright Future

Their beloved youth centre faces closure! A new teen leader must galvanise her divided team for a high-stakes fundraiser. Can she unite them to save their future?

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Digital Salvage October 20, 2025
Published by the Arts Incubator Winnipeg, Alex's True Goal invites readers into the world of a young soccer star grappling with a big decision. Alex is the fastest player on the Green Dragons, the team's shining hope for the championship. The cheers are deafening, his dad is proud, and everyone in town expects him to win. But beneath the roar of the crowd, Alex feels a quiet unease, a heavy weight that even scoring goals can't lift. His real joy lies in the quiet corners of the Sunny Paws Animal Shelter, a secret world of soft purrs and gentle yips where he finds peace and purpose. As the championship approaches, Alex faces an impossible choice: uphold everyone's expectations, or follow the quiet call of his own heart? Can he find the courage to define happiness on his own terms and prove that true victory isn't always found on the field?

Alex’s True Goal

Soccer star Alex faces a choice: winning or animals? When his heart calls to a different goal, he learns happiness is the ultimate prize. A heartwarming tale of finding your true calling.

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Digital Salvage October 15, 2025

The Secret Scavenger Squad

No supplies? No problem! When a classmate can’t afford invention fair materials, a secret scavenger squad forms. Can they gather what’s needed in time and prove big dreams are for everyone?

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Digital Salvage October 12, 2025

Digital Arts and Artificial Intelligence

Digital Salvage is a Winnipeg-based arts collective and non-profit supporting community-rooted media, gallery, and digital art projects across Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario. We offer mentorship, access to digital tools, and space for experimentation—especially where art, artificial intelligence, and cultural storytelling intersect. Through exhibitions, workshops, and collaborations, Digital Salvage builds creative infrastructure for emerging artists, Indigenous creators, and grassroots organizers working at the edges of art and technology.

Where Policy Ends and the Machine Begins

It ghosts through institutional memory, seeping into the cracks of bureaucracy, rewriting the script of policy with machine-touched hands. It does not answer questions—it reconfigures process, dissolving rigid workflows into liquid intelligence, bending the weight of administrative inertia into something fluid, responsive, alive.

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Jamie Bell April 3, 2025

A Connected Community of Care and Practice for the Arts

The Pantry Project

Kelsie cares about appearances, but a new classmate’s secret food pantry forces her to confront what truly matters. Will she help, or look away?

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Digital Salvage October 11, 2025

The Pixel Mask

Quiet teen. Anonymous art sensation. When his two lives collide, will he unmask his true self, or let The Pixel Mask hide him forever?

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Digital Salvage October 3, 2025

Where Dignity Grows

Welcome to our first compilation of stories, a collection created with immense gratitude and dedicated to the work of Global Dignity Canada.

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Digital Salvage October 1, 2025

Sarah’s Steady Note

Quiet Sarah's tuba is her passion. But when friends and family don't understand her steady note, can she find her own path and prove true music comes from within?

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Digital Salvage October 1, 2025

Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

The Quiet Bird on the Sill

His neighbor's mysterious daily ritual becomes an obsession. He must know her secret. But what if the kindest act is not to solve the mystery, but to respect it?

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Digital Salvage October 1, 2025

Proxy Friend

What if your closest online friends were chosen by an AI? A teen uncovers the chilling truth: his school AI is manipulating his social life. Connection or control? "Proxy Friend" will make you question everything.

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Digital Salvage October 1, 2025

A Voice After Hours

His late-night radio show was safe, until an accidental broadcast aired his deepest fears. Now, exposed, will this shy teen finally find his true voice, or hide it forever?

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Digital Salvage September 30, 2025