A rendering of a birds-eye view of the courtyard, with snow falling on trees and people gathered around tipis and bonfires. You can see people gathered on several balconies.
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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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Image of a field of wheat and suburban houses lined up one after the other.
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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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Exterior rendering of a courtyard area with plenty of green space and people walking everywhere. There are apartment complexes surrounding the courtyard area and greenery is growing from the balconies.
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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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Birds eye view of a city on the water, with plenty of visible green space and foliage.
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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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Image of a bright and colourful mural on a Winnipeg street.
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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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Image of Osborne Terraces in construction.
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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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Image of a cluster of people using the bine lakes on bike to work day in Winnipeg.
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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.

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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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