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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.
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Architecture’s role in empowering LGBTTQ+ community
May 27, 2024
By Brent Bellamy, Associate + Creative Director Earlier this month, an emotional groundbreaking ceremony was held in Ottawa for Thunderhead, a LGBTTQ+ national monument set to rise in the shadow of Canada’s Parliament buildings. The prominent new monument will recognize the courage and strength of those who were harmed by the LGBT Purge, a 40-year […]
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City should scramble to transform important Village intersection
April 29, 2024
The corner of River and Osborne is the gateway to Osborne Village, Winnipeg’s highest-density neighbourhood and a rare walkable, complete community in the city. In our collective imagination, the Village strip is a street with bustling sidewalks and vibrant public spaces, set around a series of eclectic shops and restaurants.
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