Observations, Reservations, Conversations

As I predicted, the Tories won the election. Equally predictable was that Dion announced a week after the election that he would be stepping...

Pictures of the present and future location of the Red River Co-Op Gas on the site of the Charleswood Hotel I have been writing about Roblin...

Picture 1 Formally, the Bank of Montreal Tower (333 Main Street) opposite Winnipeg Square (also owned by Crown Realty), it is now one of tw...

As the election heads into its last days, it appears that the Winnipeg Free Press is headed to a strike. The union has set up a website . I ...

The Taman Inquiry listed its final recommendations. The government went one further and asked the RCMP to take over the troubled East St. P...

Thereasa Oswald at the announcement of the new hospital. In the election in 2007, the NDP promised to build a new Women's Hospital for a...

From The Second City Book Lorimer p 107 and posted on Flikr and credit to Mr. Christian who has some great pictures. Winnipeg Square was bu...

Free Press picture of Katz at bus announcement. Sam Katz seems to finally come aboard on bus rapid transit . Like most people, I used to ta...

The election has been called by Stephen Harper for October 14, 2008. The prime minister sure went through contortions to justify calling an...

JoyTV starts operations this week. In its former incarnation as Omni 11 , it made a commitment to just 2.5 hours per week of first run loc...

The picture is the Agricultural College in 1903. Now the Asper Jewish Community Campus of Winnipeg. The Tuxedo Park Shopping Centre was bu...

One of the last open spots in Charleswood Shopping Plaza Centre is being filled now. It will be a 24 hour Snap Fitness . The company is a fr...

From a Winnipeg perspective, one TV station has been a virtual non-entity in terms of local content. That station is OMNI 11 which as of Sep...

Photo by the University of Manitoba taken in 1983. The former Manitoba Medical College. It is now the St. Regis Apartment. The Winnipeg G...

Grand Forks has been the main choice for Winnipeg travel for many years. It solidified its position over Fargo with the construction of Co...

Between Cathcart and Lynbrook Drive are a number of businesses in the old Charleswood area. On the north side of Roblin heading west are hom...

There was some hope that the old terminal would find a tenant after the move to the newly built terminal. Rumour was that the Western Canada...

Focus groups across Canada have said that Winnipeg is too cold to host the Human Rights Museum. From the Winnipeg Press: These parti...

Manitoba has had fairly steady growth over the last number of years. The Conference Board of Canada in its 2008 economic report says that ...

Wellington Crescent began as an Indian trail along the Assiniboine River. It was names Wellington Street in 1893 after Arthur Wellington Ros...