Observations, Reservations, Conversations

There have been gaps in the commercial and residential retail and businesses on West Portage Avenue the last 10 years. Sometimes it is a nat...

CBC and Sportsnet ending Hockey Night in Canada on Saturdays opened the network up to 6 hours a weekend and sometimes up to 9 hours of time ...

Costco waited years to invest in Winnipeg and surrounding area. Even as it prospered for the stores, it just seemed the announcement of a ne...

At once point in Canadian history, all three networks in Canada had news anchors who started in Winnipeg. And so it was with the longest ser...

Trump doesn't work weekends. He is generally golfing. Biden didn't work weekends either. World crisis have to wait till Monday. Whil...

Lloyd Axworthy knows something about rail re-location. He was there back in the 1980s when CN Rail was convinced to give up their downtown r...

 

Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros Studio has hit roadblocks as it increasingly looks like the type of media concentration that the wor...

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...

When EQ3 and 24/7 In Touch moved to the former Sears building after a few years of it sitting empty, there were a few spaces left within not...

Perhaps it was inevitable after the death of Leo Ledohowski in 2025. Not every one of his family member lives in Winnipeg. The disposition o...

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...

There was a deep concern that this might happen. Giant Tiger at the corner of Donald and Ellice has seemed defiant to keep operating althoug...

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 constant bullying and gaslighting of Canada by the U.S. on trade is relentless. Their trade negotiators tell Canada that they have to se...

 

There are many good things happening in Osborne. New buildings, new restaurants and new housing. However, the drug toxicity has been profoun...

The Klein ownership of Winnipeg Sun begins its second year. Along with the Sun, the group took over Portage la Prairie and Kenora's pape...

  The community newspapers are older than most people think. In Winnipeg, the first of them came in 1917 and would eventually become 6 commu...