TRUWinnipeg.org

The City hosted an Open House event at the Masonic Temple at Confusion Corner, providing detailed drawings of the Southwest Rapid Transit line, due to be finished in 2011.
The attendance was described as “sparse” by TRUWinnipeg, as there were perhaps a maximum of 70 attendees that passed through the front entrance of the building between [...]

In the major cities of North America, the ‘net-savvy (which includes most people under 50) consult Yelp.com, perhaps the internet’s leading user-review website, before getting a haircut, installing a set of tires, finding a cup of coffee, and certainly before dining out.

In 2008 Yelp! arrived in Canada, and while it’s caught on somewhat in Toronto [...]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2000/11/15/mb_transit111500.html
In November 2000, I was interviewed by several media … CJOB, The Winnipeg Sun, CBC Radio, etc… on the 2001 transit fare increase. The fare at the time was $1.65:

EPC approves nickel hike in bus fare
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 | 6:36 PM ET
CBC News
Vancouver $1.75 to $3.00+ (depending on city [...]

Ten years ago I had participated, as a member of Winnipeg’s previous transit-advocacy group, Citizens for Better Public Transit in Winnipeg. In hindsight, it appears that Manitoba EcoNetwork didn’t notify me of the correspondence in a timely manner, but also the City really should have given at least a month’s lead time before the comment [...]

Just like this decade’s “review” of rail modes for rapid transit here, the 1990’s version of the same darned thing was trotted out for “due process” purposes.
TransPlan 2010 hired rail engineering firm DS-Lea Consultants Ltd. to compare rail vs bus technologies for the Southwest Corridor in Winnipeg. Their report was dated August 1996. However, no [...]

Ten years ago, Manitoba’s political parties were gearing up for an upcoming Provincial election. At the time, Gary Filmon was Manitoba’s Premier for 11 years.
And during the late 1990s, as I got more involved in the rapid transit cause, I was looking for other groups that would be agreeable to my goal of rail-based rapid [...]

http://averagecity.blogspot.com/2009/05/southwest-rapid-tranist-main-tender.html

Uniter.ca
April 2, 2009
The Downtown Development Plan of 1969
by Robert Galston
By the 1960s the teeming optimism that permeated Winnipeg’s civic condition at the turn of the century had long since vanished. Never mind Chicago of the North, the city was poised to play second fiddle to Calgary and Edmonton. In the midst of the jet age, [...]