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The Manitoba Herald was a short-lived newspaper created by Alexander Begg in 1877. I didn't think he'd mind if I used his moniker for my news roll of stories often involving Manitoba or Manitobans ! (For 2009 Archives)

Sept 18, 2015
- Wpg Architecture Foundation tours
- Vancouver's top planner steps down
- Inside inclusionary zoning
- Visual traces of Residential Schools
- How cities derive their identities
- A history of cities in 50 buildings
- The end of online comments
- The jays effect on downtown TO
- A guide to Winnipeg Blogs


June 26, 2015
- Doors Open Winnipeg May 30-31
- Montreal's Habitat 67 apartments
- We all pay the cost of new roads
- Iceland's "Lamb TV"
-The case for a Canadian Netflix tax
- Building tall with wood
- Vancouver's heritage anti-demolition bylaw is failingMay 17, 2015
- NYC's pedestrian history
- Does digital mean the end of history?
- Mapping Toronto through poetry
-Strange journey of Einstein's brain
- Parking lot as historic site?
- Chicago's Architecture Biennial


April 17, 2015
- UK's crumbling parliament buildings
- Architecture+Design Film Fest
- Sask's local television boom
- Architecture+Design Film Fest
- Grown ups who colour
- Inside story of the Toronto Tunnel
- F1 season lineup
- The origin of the anus
- McDonalds in McTrouble
March 14, 2015
- West End Commons officially opens
- Scotland's Forth Bridge turns 125
- UK's parliament falling apart, too
- Kinsmen iffy about Sherbrook Pool
February 20, 2015
- The burden of hosting a Superbowl
- The state of local TV & Film production
- Dumplings makes Uniter's top 3 favourite blogs lists !
- Why Tanya Tagaq sings
- The twins of Auschwitz
- The Sherlock Holmes look
- The Cubitat 10x10 house
January 31, 2015
- 22 weird maps of Canada
- New year's resolutions for architects
- Dumplings makes Uniter's top 3 favourite blogs lists !
- How to nap like a pro
- The Uniter 30
- Remembering NYC's unclaimed dead
- Wpg's planned Inuit art gallery
January 11 2015
- Why use our second rate calendar?
- TCM remembers 2014
- NY Times looks at our warming huts
- A new era of NYC skyscrapers
- How did Chopin really die?
- Uber's left turn
- Where Xmas decorations come from
- 3D model of Erabus' bell unveiled
- John A's bicentennial in Jan 2015
December 21 2014
- A brief history of failure
- Mynarski statue coming soon
- The Great Victorian beard craze
- What kind of King will Charles be?
- CMHR: Faulty Towers?
- Europe's abandoned border crossings
- Kelvin High's new gym
November 18, 2014
- City Hall's Old Boys Club
- Parking spots into parklets
- CBC's newest Dragon
- Smart branding mass transit
- Ebola vs. other infectious diseases
- Closing Kingston Penitentiary
- Wpg Election Indie site

October 14, 2014
- London studies 20 mph speed limit
- The relentless Terry Fox
- Winnipeg's ghost signs
- My ghost signs photo album
- A history of Transit Tom
- Closing Kingston Penitentiary
- NYC subway design manual is back
- A guide to Winnipeg Blogs
September 14, 2014
- London studies 20 mph speed limit
- Adam Beach revives Ellice Cafe
- Was Winnipeg right about Phantom of the Paradise all along?
- Aug 30: General Strike on bike
- Valour Road VCs at MB Museum
- Family friendly Vancouver
- Documenting the Canadian West
- Ottawa's fresh food bus
- Do mayors matter ?
- Canadian WWI propaganda
- Scotland: 16 yr olds can vote in independence referendum

July 31, 2014
- Things Rob Ford has quit
- How to take pictures in public without being a jerk
- Canadian WWI propaganda
- Tallest Poppy is back !
- John Black Church turns 100
- A guide to Winnipeg Blogs


July 22, 2014
- The Uniter's Summer Fest Guide
- Laneway houses: the future?
- Lance Armstrong's exile
- The joy of bidets
- Detroit's urban farming success
- World Cup semis primer
- Why Cdn golf is dying 

July 7, 2014
- Will SK out-populate MB?
- Gander Nfld's vintage airport
- SF's shower bus for homeless
- Last Navajo code-talker dies
- U.S. doctors coming north
- Minneapolis' Nicollet Mall reno
- NYC lowering speed limits
June 21, 2014
- June 18: Researching building histories with ME
- NYTimes Magazine: World Cup Edition
- Funeral for a Philly rowhouse
- World's Fair sites today
- Mama Cutsworth’s female DJ Academy
- Why Brazil is soccer mad
- Benedict Cumberbatch reads original D-Day news scriptJune 8, 2014
- May 31 - Jun 1: Doors Open
- Youth homelessness on rise
- Saving Hollywood's Bison
- Why libraries matter
- An economic case for old buildings
- Canada at Cannes
- Researching Wpg building histories

May 15, 2014
- Driverless taxis coming?
 - Vancouver Whitecaps at 40
- Regina's downtown living tax break
- Ending homelessness in Winnipeg
- Farley Mowat celebrated
- Researching Wpg building histories
May 8, 2014
- Cross Lake girl gets bravery award
- Simplify your life
- Revitalizing alleyways
- Soccer's American surge
- What does a $14 shirt really cost?
- The return of the stay-at-home Mom
- London's Gherkin in receivership
- Robert Moses Vs. Jane Jacobs: The Opera

April 24, 2014
- The Facebook for neighbourhoods
- How parking lots kill downtowns
- Local architecture can remake Wpg
- Glasgow's coming demolitions
- Gasp: Potholes not just a Wpg prob
- How parents are killing hockey
- The new sex ed for boys
- Game of Thrones boosts Northern Ireland tourism
- DIY speed zones
- Chicago's pothole app
April 4, 2014
- Winnipeg's driving problem
- Artists commemorate WWI centenary
- Gasp: Potholes not just a Wpg prob
- Downtown development more affordable than the suburbs?
- Really good elevator music
- WWI soldiers' remains ID'd
- DIY speed zones
- Asphalt to blame for potholes?
- Blogging Winnipeg - a guide


March 22, 2014
- Canada Paralympics updates
- Cool ap for London neighbourhoods
- Suzuki: Invest in infrastructure
- NYC's public toilet struggles
- Winnipeg housing trends
- The "Kinsmen Sherbrook Pool"
- Blogging Winnipeg - a guide
March 11, 2014
- Canada Paralympics updates
- L.A.'s e-cigarette ban
- New owner for Regina icon
- Van Downtown East Side $1b reno
- Flint's war on blight
- BBC 3 to close
- What Winnipeg millennials can learn from seniors
- Blogging Winnipeg - a guide

March 3, 2014
- Nova Scotia's "History Day"
- Russia's WWII body hunters
- A history of the area code
- Black History in Canada
- The lessons of Mondragon
- No Walmart in Kensington Market
- Weird Canada

February 17, 2014
- Remembering Riel
- Jazzing up street furniture
- Recycling Atlanta's Past
- Town builds life around sleep
- The lessons of Mondragon
- U.K.'s fake food scandal
- The worry epidemic

February 7 , 2014
- Canadian 1890s lolcats
- Mondra-gone
- How Canada rediscovered Sir Sam Steele
- BBC Archives: The Holocaust
- Plowing NYC's streets
- The dangers of sitting
- Fight Flu.ca
- Seeking this vintage fire truck

January 30, 2014
- Manitoba's housing crunch
- The dangers of sitting
- Nunavut calls inquest into suicides
- The death of batteries
- Gillam's architecture prize
- Urban Idea Exchange Jan 23rd
- Fight Flu.ca
- Bramwell Tovey critical of opera
- Inside UW's meal plan
- Smart phone / stun gun ?

January 9, 2014
- Blame ourselves for our useless politicans
- NYC its safest since 60s
- Rankin's Insp. Rebus returns
- Changing the wind chill scale
- A better public bench
- DIY traffic calming
- Top 10 top 10 lists of 2013
- Queen's Christmas message
- Canada going in wrong direction
- Free buses New Year's Eve
 
December 31
- Macleans 2013 top long reads
- Farmery beer boys on Dragons
- Making a happier city
- Rankin's Insp. Rebus returns
- NYC mayor Bloomberg's legac
- Archiving Stonewall's Argus
- Toronto the dense
- Story behind Fairytale in N.Y.
- Queen's Christmas message
- Hunting Baltimore slumlords 
December 21
- Feds end social housing money
- Hipster Santa
- Privatize CMHC?
- N.D. oil production at record high
- Tribune WWII holiday tips
- On admitting the homeless make you uncomfortable
- Ethical Christmas gifts


December 13
- Urban pet care deserts
- Redesigning the Union Jack
- Canada's fight against apartheid
- This app predicts your death
- Video: World Cup team profiles
- Seeking this vintage fire truck
 

December 7
- U of W's apartment plans
- Montreal's infrastructure woes
- Creating safer streets
- Canada's 50 most important people
- The state of Canada's unions
- Chernobyl's new canopy
November 30
- My This Was Manitoba blog: 6:20 am daily on CBC Information Radio!
- Wpg loos: architectural marvels
- Iceland: World Cup appearance?
- Why kids don't play anymore
- U.S. cities: the vacancy vortex
- Gingers, by the numbers
- Chicago: the failure of TIFs
- WSD's shift to 9 ward system
- Canada's 50 most important people
- The state of Canada's unions
- Chernobyl's new canopy


November 16, 2013
- Tracking Private Cooper
- 4 truths about mass transit
- Toronto's mundane skyline
- The Onion cuts print edition
- Polio's comeback
- T.O.'s problems bigger than Ford


November 8, 2013
- Remembrance Week Tours of Brookside Cemetery
- U.K.: Shipping container homes for the homeless
- Have architects lost touch?
- New UofW Muslim prayer centre
- Is your commute killing you?
- Town Hall meetings - on a bus
- Haunted Winnipeg
- The origins of syphilis
- 2010 Olympics were worth the $7b
- Bicycles of the future
- Klondike: a world heritage site?
- App: Add urban bling to your street
- What Do Pedestrian Traffic Icons Say About Your Culture?
- Trending: anger politics
October 24, 2013
September 8, 2013
- Housing a fed election priority ?
- Some TX roads to return to gravel
- Pushback to Berkeley micro-apts
- Plaza for Wpg Hong Kong Vets
- Why cities need quiet spaces
- LAST WK: Building Toys @ RAW
- Heritage Wpg 2014 award noms
- Name change for Perimeter Hwy?
August 29, 2013
- Shakespeare in Central Park!
- Name change for Perimeter Hwy?
- Putting people before cars
- N.K. food vendor to close
- Norway's Picasso mural debate
- Megaprojects that failed Detroit
- Can Hesjedal make it to the top?
- Breaking Bad's tourism effect
- Building Toys at Raw Gallery
- Vancouver East Side housing plan endangers heritage buildings
- Series: MB's worst train disasters
- Streetcar 356 still homeless
- Aug 27: Residential School film

August 9, 2013
- What diaper wipes do to sewers
- New uses for failed malls
- North End grocer ready to open
- Building Toys at Raw Gallery
- Latest DJ craze: Muzak

August 2, 2013
- Gimli Glider crew reunites
- NYC mayoral candidate guide
- Sweden's garbage shortage
- 'Peg rooming house loss a crisis
- USA's most innovative mayors
- Palomino Club at 25
July 26, 2013
- Improving transit w/out cutting fares
- North End grocer set to reopen
- Streetcars return to Minneapolis?
- "Peg rooming house loss a crisis
- Post-war neighbourhoods key to urban revitalization
- Diffusing NIMBYism
- Park / parkade combo in NYC
July 2, 2013
 - "Foodprinting" Oxford
- Sherbrook Pool & Inner-City health
- Berlin's "ghost airport"
- Maclean's 108 yr online archives
- Sad list: MB's favourite beers
- Saving Detroit
- City of Thompson's rebranding
- Are cities killing their creative places for the sake of revenue?
- City trash can chic
- Canada's affordable housing crisis
- Ontario's microbrewery boom
- Brandon's microbrewery bust

June 24, 2013
- History of Manitoba brewing
- Detroit on brink of bankruptcy
- Where have all the Orbits gone?
- World's tallest abandoned buildings
- 4H Museum comes to Roland
- Venus as a size zero
- Jun 6-26: Shakespeare in the Ruins
June  14, 2013
May 2, 2013
 - Greenspace good for urbanites
- AAA: cost of car ownership rising
- The Bowery now U.S. Historic Site
- Celebrating The Bay Downtown
- Financing BIXI Bikes
- Investors Field nears completion
April 21, 2013
- Downtown Tulsa: Parking crater
- Local music history project
- Winnipeg Architecture site live
- The state of Cdn modernist architecture
- The failure of downtown malls
- All classical station for Wpg
- Galaxy Roller Rink to return?
April 8, 2013
- Turn data into maps
- Chow for Toronto mayor ?
- 15 ways to improve Winnipeg
- Newspaper pay walls work
- Bacon flavoured Scope ?!
- New hotel for Selkirk MB
- Tommy Prince memorial update
March 28, 2013
NYC mayor's geek squad
CJNU gets permanent license
CKUW at 50
The downside of downtown SHEDs
Portage Daily Graphic goes weekly
Lululemon see-through pants fail
The Jets shape downtown Winnipeg
Arlington Bridge - what's next ?
Ottawa: a Lord Stanley monument
New U of M Arctic research centre
Teens estranged from downtown?
March 18, 2013
The future of curling in rural MB
Helath hazards for "freegans"
Fixing Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
New Riel photos uncovered
Downtown food fight
New blog: Winnipeg Spends
T.O.'s new chief planner
March 9, 2013
Marchand MB: best H20 in world
Bringing Inuit culture to Winnipeg
Shrinking Detroit
Waterfront Drive's spaceship condos
Can the Chicago River be saved?
Elmwood's "Charming Chalmers"
Selkirk MB's downtown plan

February 26, 2013
Farewell to GIOs
Will streetcars invade California?
Riel's legacy redefined
100 years of Charleswood
Neighbourhood farming
Greatest Canadian song ever?
Tamiflu takedown
Toronto is a taxi town
Black history month events 
February 14, 2013
A beefed up manitobia.com
Wpg Film Group leaving Artspace
The Lost Downtown Demographic
America's beer duopoly
U.K.'s horsemeat scandal summit
Black history month events
Mynarski statue project
Montreal's new parking lot tax
February 10, 2013
Downtown Casinos a win for Ohio?
A penniless Canada
Why so many murders in Chicago?
2013 Yukon Quest underway
Feb 14: Sherbrook Pool community meeting
Mynarski statue project
Man vs. CAPTCHA
Nomination call: LG's Historical Preservation, promo Award
Montreal's new parking lot tax
10 urban qualities every city needs
SOMA Cafe relocation postponed
The revamped Maryland Hotel
Jan 30 2013
The CFL's Ottawa RedBlacks?
Igloos atop the WAG !
New plans for HI Hostel
Mental illness behind bars
Can farmers afford to own their land?
Jan 25: WAG's big Inuit Art Exhibit
U.K.'s big freeze, snow dump
The Economist looks at #idlenomore
Brandon musuem looks at time
The revived Maple Leaf Gardens
B.C. Place's inflated renos
NYC: Secrets of Grand Central
Jan 20 2013
'Pegs flying saucer condo a go
Why people ditch public transit
Regina proposes 4.45% tax hike
U of M public art map
Guy Madden: Save Sherbrook Pool
Trend: Living Alone
Downtown Residents' Ass'n AGM
Relation b/t school design, grades
Wpg-based "Portrait a day" blog
Women's hockey inching to parity
Bloody nights on Chicago streets
Recreating historic downtowns
Half of the world's food wasted
Human books at Millennium Library
 Jan 12, 2013
How to be a food critic
Notes on the North End
Canada yanks Haiti Aid
Architecture in 2013
Fixing Detroit's sewers
Canadian slang
Ban e-cigarettes from workplace?
Avis buys car-sharing co. Zipcar
Trend: cardboard bicycles
Five questions for 2013
K’naan tries for mass-market appeal
Jan 2, 2013
Queen's Christmas message
Canada's richest cities
The rise of Cohen's Hallelujah
Newsweek's final print issue
Can universities survive digital age?
Icon or eyesore: saving mid-20th century buildings
The Uniter's 2012 30 under 30
Toronto's best architecture of '12
Airport security holiday tips for 2012 holiday season
December 24, 2012
2012 History buff's Xmas gift guide
Toronto: World's highrise capital?
Airport security holiday tips for 2012 holiday season
Thurs: Friends of Sherbrook Pool press conference
Where is Rob Ford?
History Mystery in St. FX
Have a Heritage Holiday
Sherbrook Pool shut indefinitely 
December 19, 2012
What should TO do w/ Gardner Expressway?
WFPD hoilday home safety tips
Jacques Villeneuve leaves Quebec
Sherbrook Pool shut indefinitely
2012 Downtown BIZ awards
Do you Walmart ?
T.O.'s new subway trains a bust
Petersfield curling vid going viral?
New doc looks at "The Trib"
Soup Bee !
The half-life of facts
Social media can make cities better
December 5, 2012
What kind of mayor does TO need?
Knitting, not just for Grandma anymore
U.S. era of excellence in public architecture
Grey Cup 100 ratings
Calgary's $3B budget
Vancouver launching food strategy
Regina gearing up for Grey Cup 2013
The Queen's Grey Cup Message
UND benefits from NHL lockout
West Central Streets archives now digitized
60's plane crash discovery
Putting up with bad infrastructure
Archives looks at Home Children
New Sports Hall of Fame
November 21 2012
Michigan's big museum gamble
Kelvin redevelopment project to start
Last Remembrance Day for Mynarski
Gimli Legion still going strong
Thompson: snowmobiling mecca
Stockholm: Vancouver done right?
Trove of Cdn war photos unearthed
Few MPs have ever been to war
November 10, 2012
The language behind sign language
Chop Suey on the Prairies
Lögberg-Heimskringla turns 126
Currie on Chief Clunis' prayer talk
Jewish theatre owners profiled in Silver Screens
Fox and Fiddle opens on Main
The State of Cdn Public Health 2012
Disraeli Bridge officially reopened
WWII images photoshopped to 2012
SK election's "Hanging Chads"
The rise of Tim Horton's
Charleswood is turning 100!
Ryerson's new student rez
 October 27, 2012
Charleswood is turning 100!
Ryerson's new student rez
Downtown Detroit rallies
WECC at 25
Heritage Minutes are back
Churchill polar bear season underway
How historic preservation helped save downtown Denver
Grocery store intros the "man aisle"
Brandon's Crystal Hotel at 130
A history of Kraft Dinner
Choking off free internet 
October 11, 2012
Guy Madden's haunting tapestry
U of W in the North End
Grey Cup train arrives Saturday!
Edmonton celebrates neon past
Troubled times in Northern Ireland
Cleaning up the Seine
Redesigning Toronto's King St.
Le tourisme se porte bien au MB
Ryerson Image Centre opens
Why Rick Mercer rants
Ottawa 'Redskin' furore
September 30, 2012
Riel's hanging rope to Wpg Museum
R.I.P. Sam the Record Man
Book chronicling birth of APTN
West End's non-porift kabob shop
Canadians moving to high-rises
Deconstructing the Battle of Dieppe
Little Britain Church at 160
Paul Henderson knew he'd score winning goal
Lost Foote Photos launch 
September 21, 2012
Regina Lululemon pop-up store
Skinny streets are safe streets
T.O. wants walkable suburbs
2012 Bison Football preview
An Avro Arrow Return ?
UW's Christopher Leo retires
Return to old-school school architecture
6 storey tower for Confusion Corner
boul Provencher: un nouveau café
Lost Foote Photos launch
China's new ghost cities
Arctic urbanization
September 5, 2012
UW fieldhouse construction begins
Aboriginal art on Edmonton Transit
An unnatural history of Kraft Dinner
Ellice Cafe and Theatre closes
Yonge Street's comeback
The urban garden as crimefighter
Paralympics start Aug 29 
August 28, 2012
Ellice Cafe and Theatre closes
Riel House's last supper
What's your favourite Wpg tree?
The 10 Most Compelling Historic Preservation Reads
Selkirk Settler bicentenary events
Standing up for the West End
Canada's 10 most trusted brands
Bowie, Stones turned down closing ceremony gig
The Paralympics comes of age
TTC brings back bendy buses
August 14, 2012
MB's new short line railway
Transcona's new condos
4 big cities launch open data sites
New Sally Ann resource centre
Ricky's diner chain to Lockport
Toronto's new chief city plannner
Distracted walking an 'epidemic'
From the North End to Hollywood
Olympics: Ones to watch
Cdn Olympians: Archives Canada
August 2, 2012
10 digit dialing starts Sunday!
Tracking gangs on social media
Whitehorse rejoices as KFC returns
Brandon's new cop shop
The shopping mall turns 60
Inside Prairie Dog Central
Olympics: Ones to watch
Downtown Minneapolis drowns in parking lots
 July 27, 2012
Virginia sells naming rights for bridges, highways and roads
Loving & hating London's new cabs
Cdn Olympians at Library and Archives Canada
Libraries more popular than ever
Atleo calls for AFN unity after bitter leadership battle
Manitoba at the Olympics
Malls fight back
25 years of the Fringe
BC's assisted suicide appeal
McD's reveal secret sauce recipe
Manitoba dumping chief title
NYC's street food awards
Revamping Cornish Library
West End mural tours
July 19, 2012
On Bill Norrie
Flip flops at the office?
Revamping Cornish Library
L.A.'s Chinatown v Walmart
A history of tarmac
P la P downtown heritage study
Calgary's first skyscraper in jeopardy
Birds Hill Park upgrades
Farming in the big city
New heritage park at Forks
West End mural tours 
July 12, 2012
The Death of Spontaneity
Wolseley gets its own market
Transcona centennial book
Lights out at KICK FM
West End mural tours
Beer with a cause
Farmers market for EK
Better street meat
New inner-city youth soccer league
UK archives release TO photos
Gimli turns 125
Wpg Beach patio flap
Heat waves of the past
July 3, 2012
Tim Hortons's drive- through strategy
More cities ban digital billboards
Broke cities sell naming rights
5468796 "a firm to watch"
Webinars for women in politics
Craig Street Cats' new home
Vancouver's new transport plan
A look back at the Lord Selkirk II
5 endangered Wpg buildings
Fight to save neighbourhood grocers
More Greyhound route cuts coming
The Indepenent (UK) visits 'Peg
Edmonton eyes a civic museum
EURO 2012 ! 
June 21, 2012
Riding with Ryder Hesjedal
Europe's racism problem
Gail Asper chairs CJA campaign
mmm..caribou gut fungus cheese
Toronto TD Centre's "living roof"
Edmonton eyes a civic museum
PlaP: MB's lowest apt vacancy rate
June 17, 2012
Does all wine taste the same?
Ft Garry brew takes silver medal
Adbusters says Occupy 'burned out'
LA: Portraits of the homeless
N Dakota's oil boom: pros & cons
School speed zones coming?
Brandon's Prince Edward Hotel
Wrecking Canada's Archives
Revitalizing downtowns - with pets
A woman Grand Chief for AFN ?
In GTA people want to be downtown
The state of the Exchange District
Canada dawdles on ag superbugs
Links to online 150th birthday wishes to Portage and Main !
Kevin O'Leary: no biz guru
Central Park - 'Peg style !
June 6, 2012
50 facts about Queen's Coronation
S'toon's downtown plan
Edmonton City Hall turns 20
25 years of Pride
Wpg Sun invites readers to boink, marry or kill women in new weekly feature
New Flyer's all-electric bus
Flip-flop vending machines
Coming soon: beer bikes
St. Clement's new "general store" !
Central Park - 'Peg style !
Musical Ride to W
June 1, 2012
Detroit to lose half its street lights ?
Bison: U.S. National Mammal?
Drag races back in Gimli
Rating your city's parks
Does your 'hood have Thomassons?
 May 27, 2012
This weekend: Doors Open
This weekend: General Strike walking tour
Rating your city's parks
W. St. Paul grows and grows
Motorola's police car of the future
Turning your blog into a book
Does your 'hood have Thomassons?
Immigration: The Steinbach solution
N. Dakota airports soar
Farewell, One Man Committee
A Central Park for the Forks ?
"Pop-Up Shops' in historic Oakland
Old-fashioned barbers are back!
Manitoba's new homeless
Gunn's Bakery still going strong
Cdn WWII Ace plane found in Egypt
May 14 2012
Will someone save Hamilton's downtown buildings?
Gunn's Bakery still going strong
Cdn WWII Ace plane found in Egypt
Transcona's Centennial Square
Heritage perservation in L.A.
Cardinal's new U of S Student Centre
Manitoba's new homeless
Saving S'toons 3rd Ave United
'Peg falcon chicks born !
Toronto condo owners glum
Copenhagen Philharmonic flash mob

Remembering Gilles Villeneuve
May 13, 2012
Remembering Gilles Villeneuve
The pitfalls of entertainment districts
Few tears shed for Merchants
Thompson: 4.75% tax hike
The fall of pedestrian malls
Brandon Ex building renovations ahead of schedule
Regina debates stadium location
Red River postage stamps now out !
Merchants Hotel, a new hub
Tactical urbanism 
May 8, 2012

U of M graduation pow-wow
Brandon to host Icelandic conference
Transcona's cool, new splash park
5 reasons to care about heritage preservation
An ode to NYC's Central Park
What makes Dublin great!
Tactical urbanism
Falcon Cam is back !
May 5 - 6: Jane's Walk in Winnipeg
May 26 - 27: Doors Open 2012
May 2, 2012
Tough times on Albert Street
How to predict an election result
Extra Foods pulls out of Thompson
Reviving Fenway Park
Killarney mayor on new U.S. shopping exemptions
In praise of the humble pothole
Best transit cities in U.S.
City needs a slogan ? it's in trouble 

April 28, 2012
Group of 7 painting in garage sale
If your city needs a slogan, it's in trouble
*Sorry about the formatting probs
USB typewriters !
Scientists monitored at conference
More Habitat homes in Elmwood
Dysfunction at City Hall hurts biz
Beat cops for North End
Bee Gees' musical heritage
Your next mayor: A computer
Town Hall Meetings: the game 
April 21, 2012
Apr 21: Huge West End Cleanup!
Apr 18-21: Architecture & Design Film Fest!
Town Hall Meetings: the game
Lowe's is coming to Tuxedo
U of M ARTlab opens
What activists can teach us
Whither the Liberal Party?
Why wont Canada love the Canucks?
Doors Open 2012 is coming ! 
April 17, 2012
Landmark or eyesore? The wars over Brutalism rage on
How much is a tree worth in a city?
‘Social enterprise hub’ develops in North End
UPDATED: MB's Titanic Connections
Creative uses for empty buildings
Gov't of N.S.: New Titanic docs
 April 12, 2012
The arts beyond downtown
Inside Mulcair's beard
Craig Street Cats on the move
MB Hydro Int'l enters Nigeria
IKEA's steel is up
 Best U.S. city websites
Gov't of N.S.: New Titanic docs
Inside the Belgian Club
Kelvin site's new look 
April 2, 2012
NYC's first subway car found
'Peg's secondary suite plan
New Haven's downtown plan
UMSU pub set to open !
Hockey jersey of the day blog

March 30, 2012
Your health and your internal clock
Spending cuts for U of W?
Hotels cater to women travelers
U of M's 400 year-old bible display
Winter Fair: more than just ag
What corner stores say about a city
Toronto phone booth art
North End's new community paper!

March 19, 2012
U of M pub opening off, again
The worst urban rebranding campaigns, Ever.
Victoria's Blue Bridge demolished
U of W's SOMA Cafe to move
Riediger's building sold
Mar 16: State of the Address
Downtown parking online survey

March 10, 2012

Kyoto's coffee culture
The arctic is poisoning itself
Gang prevention funding controvery
Our urban forest in danger
Nunavut dumps NWT's polar bear licence plate
Real-time transit updates up ridership
Downtown parking online survey
Selkirk Monument easy to miss

March 6, 2012
Learning from urban nostalgia
CentrePort's first-ever shipment
Selkirk Monument easy to miss
North End's new community paper!
Libraries of the future?
Edmonton's last milkman
Saskatoon for NHL ?
Kelvin site battle continues
March 3, 2012
Dog adoption sale at pound
Waddell new Neepawa Mayor
Need more downtown patrols
New smoking warnings coming
Thompson an FCM test site for women in politics
Breaking down the Brier
Free screening for West End doc
A guide to internet citizenship

February 27, 2012
West End doc on its way!
Chicago becoming bus friendlier
Neepawa's mayoral by-election
Vancouver imagines transit in 2050
Rapid Transit line on time, budget
"Secondary suites" open houses
 February 12, 2012
Maclean's looks at our waming huts
UW Anx officially opens !
Hockey doc looks at 1896 Winnipeg Stanley Cup Win !
200 students drop out of BU
Feb 9 & 16: Millennium Centre arts-based development consultation
D.C. rewriting zoning laws
Thompson's population dump
TorStar's council voting maps
Wesmen soccer move to CIS-West
Police want North End cam list
Long Plain's Wpg urban reserve
February 9, 2012
Cand Superbowl ratings
"Le Huffington Post" launch
Schwartz's Montreal deli to be sold?
Former Corrie Street stars coming
Gordon Bell greenspace a 'go'
MB: An immigrant destination
Taxis benefit public transit
St. Thomas @ Lockport update
Med privacy breaches rising
Sandbox Magazine lives on
Photographing Life in NYC
The Beautiful Game turns ugly
February 4, 2012
$2m gift for aviation museum
New mental illness housing complex in West End
Winnipeg Bus Live app
A silent film renaissance?
Prince Charles on urbanism
Arlington Bridge turns 100 !
11 new uses for old churches
Canadian Black History Portal
2012 prairie design awards noms
Peat mining battle near Riverton
P la P's 2012 budget released
Where are the female execs ?
Used clothing bin wars
January 28, 2012
Monday: Farooq family memorial
McDonalds for architecture snobs
The Atlantic looks at 5468796 !
Canada's Carnegie libraries
Medal of Valour for 'Peg soldier
T.O. scraps many Pan Am venues
Voices of pioneers in Morden
Long Plain opens apartment block
New Community Ctr reno fund
Cmty supports Sherbrook fire victims
Maple Leaf Gardens' time capsule
The world of earned media
CONCACAF women's soccer: Olympic Qualifiers at B.C. Place.
January 26, 2012
Vegetarian haggis !
U of M pub dealyed - again
9 Aboriginals you should know
Heritage is way of the future
Polar bear centre opens at zoo
Cities and their snow plows
TEDx Manitoba lineup
Chic Parkade Architecture
January 24, 2012
Chic Parkade Architecture
Justin Trudeau enters boxing ring
An official Sir John A. Day?
The end of 'The job'
The Fast Life of Oscar Pistorius
Calgary landmark languishes

January 22, 2012

ON group wants rid of wind turbines
Sweet deal for MB's at MN universities
Say something nice !
Premier mariage gai à la synagogue Shaarey Zedek
Via Rail for sale ?
Remember: Tip your gas jockey !
West End crime meeting report

January 19, 2012

WIPS: First anniversary podcast
The state of our inner city
Obama's forgotten urban agenda
This week at city hall
A look back at old Dutch chips !
Brandon hoping for air service
Chicago's next star architect?
What's next for Kelvin site?
January 18, 2012
 Pot-bellied pigs are back
Old school sports logos
Sir John A. on Flickr
Scotland: independence referendum
Inside a 1911 doctor's bag
Garbonzos now open at U of W
The case for saving ugly buildings
January 16, 2012
Rapickers going co-op
The Rockford Style
Amateur Movie Makers club at 75
Sandbox magazine closes
Defending the Brussels sprout
St. Thomas' final church service Sun.
Creating public service apps
PostMedia raises paywall

January 13, 2012
The hunt for vintage wear
Fargo anchorwoman's lawsuit
U of M seeking lost Foote photos
B.C. to get all-news channel
Brandon downtown plan continues
Misericordia Hospital in pics

January 12, 2012
 This week at city hall
Brandon mayor hopeful for 2012
New library for Selkirk MB
N. Dakota's population boom
Jan 11: Bridge on the River Kwai on the big screen !
 January 11, 2012
The 905's urbanist mojo
The future of Canada's internet
Bowie at 65
For Sale: RMS Titanic
UMSU membership should be voluntary
NYPD crackdown on transit
Impact of zoning on NYC
Revisit: London's new bus !
Taking parking lots seriously
January 8, 2012

Ireland's Effin Facebook battle
Manitoba mine strikes gold
Man inside Darth Vader dies
Cree FN exiles gang members
Policing New Orleans at night
January 7, 2012
What killed Kodak ?
25 years after Margaret Laurence
U of M library upgrades begin
Perogy: the documentary
Entraîneurs et questions linguistiques
Write your parent's memoirs
Former refugees' bridal shop
San Fran's preservation battle
The many Stephen Colberts
St. Vital - U of M ped bridge
January 5, 2012
Canada: NHL's cash cow
East London's IKEA suburb
St. Pierre's record growth
Dublin's Phoenix Park turns 350
Reusing analogue TV spectrum
Toronto's $8.2 b LRT line
China's historic tomb raiders
January  2, 2012
Most underreproted health stories of 2011
Canada's best blogs - nominees
A history of Auld Lang Syne
Cdn TV ratings for 2011
Tiny houses !
Trappers reap higher fur prices
NYPD cooks crime numbers
John M King's plan for Ellice
Edmonton police: new tactics

December 26, 2011
Homeless for the holidays
London cabbies do nude calendar
Downtown offices hot property
January 1: New Year's Levée !
Canada's heritage buildings need federal protection
Queen's 2011 Christmas message
MB senate seat to be filled in Jan.
CBC Archives Christmas reports
11 U.S. buildings to see in 2012
December 25, 2011
Argos training facility razed
More on northern airships
Reminiscing: Winnipeg's 'newsboys'
No 2012 cash for Ex Building
-- Brandon's Exhibition Building
MB slaughter capacity expands
A look at Canada's GG
Rob Ford's document shredding
Hong Kong Vet accepts apology
A history buff's GIFT GUIDE !
December 22, 2011 
T.O.'s first gluten-free brewery
Kim Jong Il's civic vision
Axworthy: Canada and Kyoto
Morden's vision quest
RCA to decorate Queen
Des nouveaux Voyageurs officiels
New North End youth blog
KICK sez sorry to Muslims
City services holiday hours
Hanukkah's miracle
Ireland's massive housing burst
Manitoba's new 'blimp'
Shmeat - meat of the future
UW: Babs Asper Lilac garden

December 20, 2011
BBC looks at Canadian identity
In praise of the humble pothole
Thompson's new city manager
New media to save voter turnout ?
RBC: 'Peg economy hot until 2013
Canada's next F1 driver?
Editor Waddell for Neepawa mayor
Canada's most dangerous citiesDecember 18, 2011
Making transit better in Calgary
Regina's stadium deal set?
America's war on blogs !
Canada's most dangerous cities
How to destress from the holidays
Mid-century heritage districts in TO?
Grade 2er grills Pagtakhan
New MB-Fed infrastructure plan?
MB thinks seat distribution unfair
MB 'Ice Man' in Kingston for Curling
Christmas and the Department Store
Regina looks at 3.9% tax increase
Northern Stores' new menu
Top urban design trends of 2011
Wednesday's city council agenda
World's best architecture of 2011
U.S.: suburban stores loving transit
December 12, 2011
AMM's 2011 annual report
Brandon tax rise as high as 6.9%
-- Brandon 2012 budget doc
World's best architecture of 2011
U.S.: suburban stores loving transit
Heritage CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE !
Shoppers' expansion divides
S'toon's property taxes rise 4%
Russell's multiplex a bust
'Etiquette project' targets T.O.'s rude
Canada's digital divide persists
Humanizing mid century apt blocks
Chicago's Soldier Field fiasco
December 9, 2011
Japan apologizes to Cdn POWs
---- One of Manitoba's victims
---- 5 powerful, historic apologies
10 'must drive' cars of 2012
Condo owners: the new pioneers
Dec 17: White Christmas at Silver City Polo Park!
MB's 'In Flanders' Fields' connections
Ottawa: new zoning fees for neighbourhood improvements?
In praise (?) of McRib
‘Westwood will have Slurpees again’
December 8, 2011
Republicans: too many debates?
London's Oly Stadium flap
More on Albert Cohen
Canada's new copyright bill
Neat Israeli theatre design !
New depression treatment free in MB
Morden's new crop lab
BU's back to class plan decoded
Airport art finds home
Making Toronto matter
Study: gas prices v transit ridership

December 5, 2011
The trouble with pedestian malls
Brandon's 4 year plan
Saving the House of Commons
Mike Holmes on reserve housing
Socrates is dead
Facelift for Route 90?
Dec 10: Festival of Lights & Trees
Snow parking ban: know your zone 
Dec 4 2011
Toronto restaurant baby tax?!
Snow route parking ban on NOW !
-- Parking ban: know your zone
'Yes Winnipeg' en bonne voie d'atteindre ses objectifs

Dec 2 2011
Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens !
A new era of NHL discipline
3% tax increse for Montreal
Feds visited Attawapiskat 3 times in Oct - thought housing was okay
The face of AIDS in Canada
The Uniter's 30 under 30 !
Edmonton arena debate continues
Champix now on MB's drug formulary

Nov 30, 2011
Commons seating change unfair ?
New website for missing persons
U.K. newspaper archives go online
Poor people = more crime?
When transit passengers attack
Red Top Diner: Food Network nod
No charges for Neepawa hazing
Inside Chicago's "The Loop"
America's 'urban reboot'
FN housing crisis: Attawapiskat 

November 28, 2011
APTN panel talks Attawapiskat
BU classes resume Monday
P la P: Island Park ready for Xmas
MB municipalities seek women
McMaster wins their first Vanier Cup!
Toronto: the compassionate city
Mayoral reform in Britain
A look at downtown S'toon
Can incetives get people on transit?
Fixing the apartment shtortage
Modern design in historic 'hoods 


November 26, 2011
Inside Dublin's housing collapse
Canadian TV ratings Nov 12 - 20
Darcy's A.R.C. turns 10
The leg hair font
WIPS: crime episode podcast !
Nov 25: North End peace rally
Thinking outside the bus

November 15, 2011
Portagers find WWII tombstone in back yard
Hamilton's modernist cred
Emerson's poo lagoon makeover
UofM: University Centre's makeover
Inside the new $100 bill
NYC: Rethinking affordable housing
Cattle prices stay strong
Mackenzie King: the 'weirdo' PM
The eveolution of the web persona

November 14, 2011
U.K.'s top 100 'crap' towns
Elmwood wants a BIZ
Eadie reflects back after one year

November 13, 2011
Sat: Santa Parade / Hydro concert
Sun: City Hall Christmas Tree
Remembering Afghanistan's fallen
West End: building a community
Cities are more important than ever
The haunted internet
Art as urban change agent
November 11, 2011
Why $1b doesn't go far for transit
Winnipeg's polar bear plan
Formula 3 test for MB racer
Pallister to enter PC race ?
The Memory Project
Art as urban change agent
WIPS on scoop.it
November 8, 2011
GWL withdraws application to delist Millner House
Lake St. Martin evacuees unwelcome
Cool Winnipeg design
Florida's pizza wars
Wanted: One Bomber CEO
Your commute is killing you


November 7, 2011
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
Ragpickers closing shop?
Blogging the missing, murdered
Free grain @ Marv Tweed's office
Pan Am games apathy
Billy Bishop hits big screen
Fort Dufferin gets cash
Manitoba in the 50s (CBC Video)
 
November 2, 2011
Tim Horton's going upscale
How much power do local politicans really have?
Debating the beaver
Lake St. Martin channel open
Growing 'Peg's active infrastructure
New bank for north end !
Built Heritage Newsletter
Minnesota's stadium debate
Toronto the ordinary
Those annoying news site ads

October 31, 2011
Brodbeck throws stones...
...but lives in a glass house
Paddelwheel Restaurant's birthday !
Cut Balsillie Some Slack
BU students frustrated with strike
OurWinnipeg's downtown buzz
Toronto tackles 'food deserts'
Nat Post plagarizing itself?
Katz: new EPC lineup
October 29, 2011
Profile: Sr. Aileen Gleason
Steinbach votes yes
Women's history month new work
Winnipeg Internet Pundits podcast
T.O. now shark fin free
Thoughts on the BU strike
Canadian WWI soldier buried
The problem with urban branding
MB Liberals to rebuild
Netflix in crisis
Van's post office moving to airport

October 25, 2011
2011 Sports Hall of Fame inductees
One Man Committee dishes to Uniter
U of W opens a 'bike lab'
MB artists take WCMAs
Canada's 'innovation gap'
Is Google+ doomed ?
All Blacks end 24 year drought
Van's online voting plan nixed
Toronto's YIMBY Festival
Pan Am Games on in Mexico
October 23, 2011
JAR Airport documentary
The demise of the corner store
The architect has no clothes
Rapid transit to nowhere?
No U.S.style housing crash here
Gerrard: on or gone ?
Selkirk's haunted ship
Pan Am Games on in Mexico
Oct 25 APTN Town Hall: Racism
October 19, 2011
GG at UM 2day
'The Onion' pokes 'Peg, Jets
Coronation Street's Betty dies
Plannning 'Peg's neighbourhoods
Harper 'reorganizing' Wheat Board
Social media and city building
Craig Street Cats: expansion?
Jets: no wins, no wonder
October 16, 2011
Global tries a morning news show
Oct 25 APTN Town Hall: Racism
Tips for Canada's 'occupiers'
Brandon: dog sadist on the loose
U of W and an Arctic Gateway
Boston Pizza after smaller markets
10,000 free tickets to Japan?
Ways to improve Portage Ave?
The Future of American towns, cities
How Toronto lost its groove
Canada's most read magazines
October 13, 2011
Rejigging election polling
HNIC's Jets opening montage
Times Change(d) history project
NYC: Underground park ?
IKEA bombers arrested
A U.K. look at hockey fights
October  9, 2011
Dozens of Jets events on tap!
Remembering Izzy Asper
Movie extras wanted for STRIKE!
Montréal's Planetarium closes
The Simpsons ending?
Brandon U: another strike?!
R.M. officials want flood review
Full text: Axworthy's letter to AC
BC Place: new stadium, old debate
West End's Sudi one to watch
Osborne Village's Unburger
Suburban sprawl: a Ponzi scheme
Diplomacy, journalism & new media
Federal riding redistribution

October 4, 2011

Manitoba election indie site
Occupying Bay Street
The Uniter: MB Election Issue
N. A.'s worst sports city ? Toronto
Souris flood bill $3m and rising
Prescription drug "ATMs"
Cattle prices up
Licence plate search tool
Profile: Winnipeg's Aubrey Tadman

October 2, 2011
This Weekend: Culture Days !
Last week's Cdn TV ratings
U of W's Field House plan
Crime and consequence in the city
Bad opinion generator
Manitoba Election.ca
A virtual tour of Wpg's water plant
The Onion comes to Toronto
Why are we losing arctic ice?


September 26, 2011
Greens want piece of West End
NFB looks at God's Lake Narrows
The U.S.A.'s growing suburban poor
U of M Jets display continues
Designing Winnipeg's future
Schweddy Balls, the ice cream

September 25, 2011
City's new waste plan unveiled
Sep 24: Sherbrook Pool Party
Fighting for Toronto's museums
New life for Merchant's Hotel
Jack Layton and the MB election
Ireland: high-end real estate bust
The school tax / property tax debate
4H is reinventing itself
Harold Buchwald is 2011 Wpg Citizens Hall of Fame inductee

Sept 23, 2011
The Freighthouse's big plans
Morden's Arlington Hotel crumbles
Time for an Abo police force ?
T.O. bans pet shop pet sales
Fred Penner's Winnipeg
NHL's new nets

September 22, 2011
Scott Taylor ❤s Sam Katz
Debunking the cul-de-sac
Billy Barker: MB's fogotten war ace
Blogs change the fashion industry
U of M's Glee Club - circa 1924
Linking leadership, mental illness

September 19, 2011
Jets documentary in works
2014 World Cup countdown begins
Rugby: Canada falls to France
Remembering Mr. Dressup
Charleswood's new fire hall
New Order of Canada Recipients
Reimagining Downtown
Stolen: one semi truck
Rénovations à la Cathédrale
Farm/Food discovery centre open
Fargo tests bike sharing
The chaotic new Cairo
September 17, 2011




September 14, 2011

Farmers want a single desk
Bookselling in teh 21st century
Should we save indie bookstores?
The end of Aqua Books
A CRTC cash grab ?
Axworthy: state of the U of W
A downtown housing strategy
 September 13, 2011
Toronto streetcars at 150
NY Times special: The Reckoning
Inner city think tank to open
Vancouver gets 'parklets'
Tim Horton's dirty laundry lawsuit
The death of the video store
Hockey's hellish summer

September 9, 2011
2011 Gemini winners list
Hockey's annus horribilis
Guy Madden's Haunted I
X-Cues takes on student housing
Remembering Lokomotiv
JR Digs and his van
UW homecoming is on !
NOVA: rebuilding ground zero
Africa's drought being 'oversimplified'
Portage Legion sinking
Steinbach to dump RCMP?