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Prairie 360 was the last tenant of the three story revolving restaurant at the top of the Fort Garry Place apartments behind the Fort Garry ...

It was mentioned in and speculated on in social media about Yuk Yuk's. The question was: Are they taking a summer break or actually clos...

If anyone had been interested, GRETA had announced they were coming to Winnipeg at the end of June. They didn't say where though. The re...

We've been here before. In 1986, a very hostile NDP government had cabinet ministers outside the U.S. consulate and burned an American f...

It was a pretty awful weekend by any metric. A man in a wheelchair stabbed randomly in the afternoon in a courtyard on Powers Street Friday....

The sudden closure of Tavern United ahead of the weekend caught a few people by surprise. To others, it might be that the lease has expired ...

Hard to believe it has been one year that Portage and Main has been open but here we are. I think we can agree that it hasn't backed up ...

More and more businesses are saying problems along Portage and into Wolseley are exploding. Rampant drug use, aggressive behaviour and fires...

The Richardson Family repurchase the Fairmont Hotel in 2024 after selling it in 2010. Since then they have been upgrading mechanical, plumbi...

I recently wrote that restaurants inside the recently converted Marcello's at Manitoba Hydro should feel more secure than some of their ...

Along any of the three rivers through Winnipeg, the trees are thick and the temperature cooler than the open areas beyond. It is probably no...

  Mondetta has been a fashion brand based out of Winnipeg Winnipeg since the 1980s. Their flag-based shirts and jackets have been a staple f...

In 1972, Atari and Magnavox came out with video games to use at home. For Atari, they came up with versions for bars and arcades. The first ...

Winnipeg is not doing anything by half measures in 2025. Today Portage and Main opens up to pedestrian traffic and on Sunday the entire Winn...

In 1979 the most famous corner in Canada was blocked off and went underground. At the time there was about 3000 to 4000 people who worked wi...

For most of my life, it was called the Playhouse Theatre but it was one of the early Pantages theatres built in 1913/1914 as part of a vaude...

The present Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg is not very old. However, it was originally built for an AHL hockey team and not a NHL one. It is...