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A study by a Professor at UBC suggests that the “walkability” of a neighbourhood makes a big difference in the weight and health of the people who live there. A couple of years ago, the largest ever study into cardiac health, led by McMaster University, cited “urban design” as a factor in people’s health.

By Robert Galston
IN the absence of the quality passenger rail service that once linked Canadian towns and cities, inter-urban bus lines serve travellers without the means or desire to go by airline or automobile.
As a teenager growing up in Portage la Prairie in the late ’90s, attracted to nearby Winnipeg’s cultural amenities and dusty urban [...]

By Robert Galston
THE problem with being a developer in Winnipeg’s Exchange District is that so many buildings get in your way.
This is the dilemma facing the new owners of the now vacant St. Charles Hotel at the corner of Notre Dame and Albert Street, who want to convert it to a boutique hotel. In [...]

By Robert Galston
This past weekend was spent in the local history room of the Millennium Library looking through the old Henderson Directories. It was in order to gain a better understanding of Main Street’s urban past. In searching, I decided that 1945 was the year I was going to concentrate on. It is recent in [...]

By Robert Galston
Outsiders don’t get away with bashing cities. This is especially true when they do a sloppy job of it. Whether it is London, Paris, Rome, New York, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, Vancouver, Portage La Prairie or Winnipeg, citizens stand up to deflect outside criticism.
Julian Strauss, the writer of a feature in last weeks [...]

From the Winnipeg Free Press - March 19 1984
Christopher Dafoe
Columnist
A million dollars for Main Street. At first glance it sounds as if Main Street might be the happy winner of a big Lotto. A million dollars! Pennies from heaven!
When you think about it, however, it soon becomes clear that Main Street has been fobbed [...]

Signs are apparent that core being abandoned

From the Winnipeg Free Press - August 8, 1995
Christoper Leo
THE SHOOTING of two boys on the streets of Winnipeg’s inner city has evoked shocked reaction, and once again the problem of crime in the inner city is high on the agenda.
Most of the suggested responses to the problem have [...]

FOR MORE than a generation, urban sprawl has been taking a terrible toll on North American cities, but a realization is beginning to dawn that this is not inevitable.