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Brent Bellamy
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Shinny innovators: Winnipeg long at the forefront of modernizing hockey, both on and off the ice
November 22, 2025
The air is getting colder. The daylight fades a little earlier each night. The first snow has dusted the streets. Across our city, tens of thousands of young hockey players are finding their way back to the glow of the arena, to the excitement of a new season. Behind them come the parents, grandparents, coaches and volunteers, ready to spend another shivering winter cheering from the sidelines.
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An opportunity — if Canada Post chooses to take it
October 20, 2025
After 158 years, it appears that Canada Post will finally be ending door-to-door mail delivery. With financial pressures intensifying, the federal government recently announced that it will allow a full-scale shift to community mailboxes.
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2025: a summer of interesting urban changes
September 29, 2025
The summer of 2025 was quietly a pretty good season for urbanism in Winnipeg. Over the last few months, the city has been busy implementing several new progressive city-building initiatives to enhance livability in our communities. A few of these programs made headlines, and others flew under the radar. Some had immediate impact, some set building blocks for future impacts, and others remain a work in progress.
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Building with beauty in the modern age
September 10, 2025
Remember that time the entire city of Winnipeg voted on whether people should be allowed to cross the street? That was wild. The whole country looked on in curious amusement as a modern city tied itself into knots over what appeared to be an incredibly mundane issue.
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Try out being a tourist at home — in Winnipeg
July 28, 2025
Many Canadians and Manitobans are rethinking their travel plans to the United States this summer. Rather than exploring the architecture and history of other places, we might take this opportunity to become tourists in our own city, rediscovering Winnipeg — a city that is often underappreciated, but one that is truly unique in Canada.
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A new chapter for Portage and Main
July 2, 2025
Remember that time the entire city of Winnipeg voted on whether people should be allowed to cross the street? That was wild. The whole country looked on in curious amusement as a modern city tied itself into knots over what appeared to be an incredibly mundane issue.
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Finding what’s missing in the Winnipeg housing market
June 19, 2025
Last week, Winnipeg city council spent several long days and late nights debating a sweeping set of zoning bylaw amendments that could fundamentally change how our city is built in the future.
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Architects Applaud WSO and PAC Vision for Pantages Playhouse Renewal
June 11, 2025
Different concepts and ideas have come and gone, but the vision always remained the same: to give one of Winnipeg’s most important cultural organizations a new home, a prominent public face in the city, and a new connection to its cherished community.
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It’s time for Winnipeg to seize a bold new opportunity
May 20, 2025
Just as it was 140 years ago when the transcontinental railway became Canada’s first nation-building project, Winnipeg’s strategic gateway location along such a corridor, uniquely positions the city to boldly push its way to the front of the line and seize a generational opportunity to play a central role in a national movement to “build, baby, build.”
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Major parties show they recognize the need for housing plans
April 22, 2025
Donald Trump-induced anxiety has overwhelmed Canada’s federal election, but housing affordability has managed to remain a central issue in the campaign. Platforms released by the two frontrunning parties approach Canada’s housing crisis in very different ways.
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