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Brent Bellamy
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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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Construction industry facing tariff headwinds
April 1, 2025
The years following COVID-19 were a chaotic time for the construction industry. Supply chains were broken, inflation and interest rates were skyrocketing, and labour shortages hit every part of the industry. Rising costs were so difficult to control that every project was vulnerable to cancellation or delay.
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Bay part of city’s DNA forever
March 19, 2025
The Hudson’s Bay Co. opened Winnipeg’s first retail store within the stone walls of Upper Fort Garry 208 years ago and had maintained a commercial presence downtown until late 2020. By closing what was once the Bay’s flagship Canadian store, a unique relationship between a company and a city is lost, but HBC’s presence in downtown Winnipeg will forever be embedded in the city’s very DNA.
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Finding opportunity out of growing chaos
March 10, 2025
Donald Trump’s tariff roller coaster has been a stark wake-up call for Canadians, exposing an urgent need to diversify trade and reestablish local production and supply chains.
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Housing program leading into major construction season
February 18, 2025
We are living in an unprecedented moment of economic uncertainty and political anxiety. U.S. President Donald Trump’s consistent threats of trade tariffs and random musings about Canada’s sovereignty have unified governments and businesses to search for ways to support and fortify local economies against the looming threat.
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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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