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Mitzi's has been a restaurant for the last 45 years but the pandemic and remote work has been difficult for this downtown institution. J...

Canada is 156 years old as of this July 1st.  Canada Day has been an evolving thing. Formerly, Dominion Day, it didn't even have federal...

Inspector Morse was the creation of Colin Dexter, a British writer who began his mysteries in 1975 while employed at Oxford University. Much...

  We saw plans in 2018 for a Costco by Assiniboia Downs and were told by their chief executive in a visit that a fourth store was coming but...

1030 St. James Avenue Avenue has always found success by proximity to Polo Park. But it doesn't mean things stay unchanging. The luxury ...

Bell Media laid off 1,300 staff on June 14, 2023. In Winnipeg, it means CFRW Funny 1290 AM has been closed down. The 60 year old station had...

The above is the cover of USA Today first publish on September 15, 1982. For those Winnipeggers looking to get a copy at the international n...

Twice now Swiss Chalet, one of Canada's major chains, has come to Winnipeg to great fanfare and twice it has died. The closure on Kenast...

The Victoria Day weekend in Canada and the Memorial Day weekend in the United have followed one another almost the entire history of our two...

The ideas presented by True North and Architecture49 for Portage Place in this series of pictures is a far better proposal than we have seen...

Photo above supplied by Alston Properties. Warehouses are not the only buildings being converted to residential units in Winnipeg and around...

No matter what anyone thought who voted in the plebiscite, Portage and Main was always going to come back to city hall. The Concourse is lea...

This past week Charles Adler returned to Winnipeg media as a columnist twice weekly. At nearly 70, he could rightly have retired after havin...