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Here’s a YouTube video done by a blue collar man named Gary, who laments the poor quality of public transit in Winnipeg.

He takes a bit to get started on his rant, but it’s excellent once he does. Gary shows TRUWinnipegger Jeff Lowe’s recent OP-ED piece entitled Time To Grow Up, which refers to the power [...]

Why “BRT” would do more harm than good
Lately and bizarrely there has been a renewed interest in the Axworthy-Murray-Borland-Wyatt dead horse that was the “Bus Rapid Transit” plan that Mayor Sam Katz blew off in 2005. Would-be Liberal MLA Paul Hesse is leading a ragtag team of pseudo-environmentalists and “urban” types who are calling for [...]

Daniel Hildebrand, The Manitoban, October 31, 2007
Since 2004, a group of local urban enthusiasts known as the Transit Riders’ Union of Winnipeg (TRU Winnipeg) have been pondering a tantalizing hypothetical question: what would Winnipeg look like today had it followed through with its 1959 subway plan? Perhaps, some believe, a little like Montreal, Chicago, or [...]

One of these houses was built in the mid 1880s. The other, the mid 2000s. Can you tell which is which?

The idea that a new building should resemble the older ones surrounding it isn’t new, but it has enjoyed a revival in popularity during recent years. Winnipeg, unfortunately, hasn’t yet caught on to this trend. [...]

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
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 [...]

Winnipeg Free Press
September 3, 2006
Page A9
By Steve Cohlmeyer
A recent article in this newspaper bemoaned Winnipeggers’ lack of pride, and our embarrassment about our city as a place to visit. There is a lot about the city which makes it well worth the visit, and we have, for years, enjoyed showing surprised visitors how large, varied [...]

Winnipeg Free Press
Sat Apr 22 2006
Dallas Hansen
Columnist
AUTHOR James Howard Kunstler was in town Wednesday to give a talk promoting his new book, The Long Emergency. For those of you who have never read him, Kunstler believes we are now at the peak of the oil supply curve and that the subsequent and imminent [...]

Hello,
My name is Julie Penner and I am a former Winnipegger, now living in Toronto (there are so many of us!). I was just directed to your site tonight and am finding it, and its links, quite fascinating.
Many people in Winnipeg have such a skewed sense of the “big city” of Toronto. They’re shocked when [...]