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Nine ideas for the province and Winnipeg

November 21, 2023

Nine city-building ideas that Manitoba's new provincial government might consider to make Winnipeg a more livable and prosperous city.

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Portage Place and a second chance

November 21, 2023

From Rosser Avenue in Brandon to Yonge Street in Toronto, Canadian cities of every shape and size built a downtown indoor shopping mall in the 1980s. These developments were a last desperate salvo in the battle between traditional main street retail and the new suburban shopping mall...

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Building housing—quickly

November 20, 2023

The federal government is trying to tackle Canada’s housing crisis by working directly with cities through a $4-billion program called the Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF). The initiative is designed to help cities rapidly increase the number of homes being built to level market demand and in turn stabilize housing costs and increase affordability.

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Setting the tone in Morden

August 13, 2023

Imagine strolling through a great neighbourhood where the streets are lined with majestic trees and new houses sit alongside those that have stood for generations. The sound of laughter fills the air as children skip past you on their way to school.

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Time for a plan on rail lands

July 23, 2023

Last February, headlines were made across North America when a derailed train in East Palestine, Ohio released an inferno of toxic chemicals into the air. Shortly after, with those dramatic images still in the news, a derailment on a Winnipeg overpass that closed McPhillips Street for several days shook the city, and the generations-old discussion about rail relocation resurfaced.

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Winnipeg’s three Rs: recreation, roads, rapid transit

July 3, 2023

The Winnipeg Free Press and Probe Research recently conducted a poll asking people to identify their top infrastructure spending priority for the City of Winnipeg. The results reveal Winnipeggers have diverse opinions about how to improve their quality of life.

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Reimagining downtown — for people

June 11, 2023

In a post-pandemic world that has redefined the nature of office work, cities across North America are looking for ways to diversify their city centres, moving away from relying on transient office workers and towards communities of permanent residents. CentrePlan 2050 is no different, with an overarching goal of reestablishing downtown as the collection of diverse, urban residential neighbourhoods that it once was.

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Need more congestion? Route 90 plan is the $500-M ticket

May 23, 2023

The City of Winnipeg is currently asking for public feedback on a new design for widening Kenaston Boulevard between Ness and Taylor avenues, including related sewer upgrades and an expansion of the St. James Bridge. The city is hoping that other levels of government will share the cost, but Ottawa has already rejected applications twice before, in 2015 and 2018, and the province’s Multi-Year Infrastructure Investment Strategy makes no mention of the project. This likely leaves Winnipeg taxpayers to foot the bill on their own.

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Portage and Main has to be people-friendly

May 1, 2023

Portage and Main is not just an intersection. It’s where we come together in celebration, in protest and in mourning. It has always been seen as the heart of the city, even when hidden behind concrete walls. There is significant irony in the fact that we believe Portage and Main is important enough to invest in a big idea that brings it back to life, but we voted so clearly to say we are not willing to spend a few seconds longer in our cars to accomplish this goal organically, and at low cost.