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Brent Bellamy
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Seeing forest for the trees: The bigger picture in the Lemay Forest debate
January 19, 2025
Until recently, most people in Winnipeg had likely never heard about Lemay Forest in St. Norbert, but a standoff between residents and a developer who wants to cut down the trees has sparked debate about property rights and the role government should play in protecting our urban tree canopy.
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Development at The Forks will express joy and spirit of city jewel
January 3, 2025
As 2024 comes to an end, people in Winnipeg can look forward to a new year in which many impactful developments will begin construction. One of the most exciting of these has been in the works for more than a decade, but this spring, a sleepy corner of the most cherished public place in Winnipeg will burst into life as one of its largest construction sites.
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Higher density key to fixing budget woes
December 9, 2024
Alarm bells have been ringing at Winnipeg City Hall ahead of Wednesday’s 2025 budget update. It might be the annual doom and gloom dance, done to lower expectations before every budget announcement, but with the city’s rainy-day fund being emptied and a significant deficit projected, it does feel like this time the warnings are real.
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The next step for new housing in Winnipeg
November 19, 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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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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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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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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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.