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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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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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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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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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