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- 'Vertical village' to be a big one
It's big, it's bold, and if its out-of-province developers have their way, it will be a project that transforms Winnipeg's skyline and takes downtown revitalization to a whole new level.
Two Toronto-area developers -- Fortress Real Developments Inc. and the Mady Development Corporation -- will...
- Winnipeg Terry Fox Run in peril, needs organizer
The 33rd annual Terry Fox Run in Winnipeg may not happen if a volunteer organizer doesn't step forward soon.
"We're looking for somebody who can pull it together in Winnipeg," said Tammy Ferrante, provincial director of the Terry Fox Foundation.
The annual run to raise money for the foundation
- Links plan loses on scorecard
Deputy mayor Russ Wyatt's drive to sell one Winnipeg golf course and lease four others has already landed out of bounds, as opponents appear to have enough votes to kill the proposal at city council next week.
On May 29, council will consider a plan to sell the city-owned John Blumberg golf
- Peeper portrayed as sexual deviant
A Winnipeg man who repeatedly beat and sexually assaulted three girlfriends over several years was portrayed in court Tuesday as a brutal, sexual deviant.
Bruce Cassels pleaded guilty to four counts of voyeurism, two counts of sexual assault and forcible confinement.
Cassels, 32, was initially
- Francophone paper turns 100, digitizes all editions
The weekly newspaper La Libert© is celebrating its 100th anniversary by going digital.
The French-language publication, which was founded in 1913, is announcing today it has digitized the more than 5,000 newspapers it has published during its first century and is opening them up to the
- Famous city grocer loved job, customers
Winnipeg grocery-store legend Joe Cantor of Cantor's Meats and Grocery died Saturday at age 88 from a massive heart attack on his way home.
Ed Cantor, who now manages the grocery, said his father died shortly after leaving the store at the end of the business day.
"It is a shock to all of us,"
- Practice run for stadium
A coalition of churches plans to test out Investors Group Field this weekend by taking the new home of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on what quite literally will be a dry run.
On Sunday afternoon, the city's new football stadium will play host to 91 church groups, approximately 14,000 worshippers
- Core grocer a challenge: expert
IF you're considering moving downtown as soon as a major grocery store opens in that area, you might want to buy some really, really, really green bananas.
Peter Kaufmann, a real estate broker at CBRE and the author of a soon-to-be-released report on the feasibility of a downtown grocer, said
- Harper needs to quit hiding behind his staff
Will Prime Minister Stephen Harper ever face a direct question about how his chief of staff became inexplicably involved in the raging Senate expense scandal?
Right now, loyal cabinet ministers are taking bullets for Harper in question period and senior staff are handling media interviews. And
- Manitoba appointees violate feds' rules
OTTAWA -- Two Manitoba men are among dozens of people appointed to plum patronage jobs who have been donating to the Conservative party, despite government rules that forbid it.
A Canadian Press investigation found as many as one of every five chairmen and chairwomen on the Employment Insurance
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