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Our city shouldn’t shy away from embracing big ideas

October 27, 2024

If you sat down to design a modern city of a million people, you wouldn’t start by putting a giant rail yard in the centre, with its radiating web of train tracks that forever require building, maintaining and replacing bridges and underpasses to cross them.

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Building a city to keep the next generation here

October 1, 2024

Every year Winnipeg loses thousands of people to other cities, many of them young, educated adults looking to establish their roots elsewhere. The inability of Winnipeg to retain its young people has always been a problem, but in the face of changing demographics, it’s an issue that has today become even more pressing.

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Number TEN’s Continuing Truth & Reconciliation Learning Journey

September 27, 2024

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released a report that detailed the experiences and impacts of the residential school system and created a historical record of its legacy and consequences. This report included 94 Calls to Action that urged all levels of government and sectors to work together to change policies and […]

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Osborne Village neighbourhood booming

September 9, 2024

To many Winnipeggers, the words “Osborne Village” conjure images of bustling sidewalks lined with trendy, bohemian storefronts, record shops, dive bars and video rental stores.

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Educational Shift

August 27, 2024

If more and more people look to growing their own food, it seems appropriate that Community Centres might venture to add gardens and greenhouses to their programming.

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More bike lanes make for a better city

August 6, 2024

A few weeks ago in Winnipeg, Rob Jenner was killed by a driver while riding his bike to work. On July 29, a few blocks away, a young girl out for a bike ride with her dad was hospitalized after a driver crashed into her. Every year, an average of 70 people riding a bike are hit by drivers so severely that an injury report is filed with the police. In a six-month cycling season, that’s every third day.

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Building Queer Space

July 31, 2024

Place of Pride, Canada’s first 2SLGBTQ+ campus, combines deeply affordable housing with community and programming spaces.

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A Jane Jacobs moment for the post-pandemic world

July 15, 2024

Jane Jacobs is the most famous name in the history of urban planning, but she wasn’t an urban planner, and was often critical of the profession. She didn’t draw maps or write zoning policy. Her unique skill was observation.

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Historic church vital part of city’s past, should remain in its future

June 23, 2024

On what was described as a “calm and beautiful afternoon” in mid-August of 1883, the people of Winnipeg stopped to celebrate the laying of a cornerstone for a building that was to be unlike anything ever seen in the Canadian west. The event was so important that a full transcript of the ceremony was published in the next day’s newspaper.