Canada's Best Places to Live 2012
MoneySense: Mar 20, 2012

When we speak of Canada’s diversity we refer to the geography of the land and the ethnic background of our people. Yet when you crunch the economic data, as we have for Canada’s Best Places to Live 2012, it becomes clear that how we live defines us as much as where we live. Not only is our urban experience varied depending on whether we live in downtown Montreal or in small-town Saskatchewan, but our ability to access health care or find a job or afford a home is as diverse as our land and our climate.
 

Cabela's to relocate city store
Winnipeg Free Press: Feb 17, 2012

CABELA'S has officially announced its plans to relocate its Winnipeg store to a new 70,000-square-foot location.

As reported last week in the Free Press, the new store will be at Sterling Lyon Parkway and Kenaston Boulevard as part of a new retail development that will include IKEA and other retailers.

Cool new core
Winnipeg Free Press: Nov 4, 2011

It's the Jetsons meets Times Square as development officials flesh out their vision of what Winnipeg's new downtown will look like.

The centrepiece of CentreVenture Development's vision for the new downtown is a so-called sports, hospitality and entertainment district (SHED), which would be awash in brightly lit buildings and sidewalks, electronic billboards, overhead banners, street planters and benches.

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Winnipeg golf course to get $6M spa facelift
CBC Manitoba: October 25, 2011

A Scandinavian-style outdoor spa will be built at a Winnipeg golf course, as part of a new deal between the city and business partners.

The clubhouse at the Crescent Drive Golf Course will be torn down this week to make way for a Nordik Spa-Nature franchise that will open next fall, city officials announced Tuesday.

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Yoga Strengthens Downtown
Winnipeg Free Press: October 20, 2011

The owners of the Fort Garry Hotel are hoping to add more fuel to the downtown revival effort with the pending opening of Canada's largest yoga centre in a vacant building on Fort Street. Ida Albo and Rick Bel are converting the main floor and lower levels of the former Carleton Club at 280 Fort St. into Yoga Public, a 20,000-square-foot yoga centre. Albo said when it opens in December, the centre will be the largest in Canada and one of the best in North America.

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The Best Countries For Business
Forbes: October 3, 2011

During the run-up to every U.S. presidential election, countless Americans threaten to move to Canada if their preferred candidate does not emerge victorious. Of course, few follow through with a move north. Maybe it is time to reconsider. Canada ranks No. 1 in our annual look at the Best Countries for Business.

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On an even keel, Manitoba's miracle takes shape
Globe and Mail: October 4, 2011

The last time the world was racked by financial upheaval, Manitoba was a relative haven of stability.

Through the worst of the 2008-09 meltdown, the provincial economy was as flat as its prairie landscape – which is a very good showing in calamitous times. Its once meteoric neighbours, resource-dominated Alberta and Saskatchewan, fell off a cliff.

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‘Winnipeg Destiny’ comes full circle with Jets’ return
Globe and Mail: September 13, 2011

Sorry, Timothy Eaton – but no need to rub your toe. This city had all the luck it needed earlier this year when the NHL decided True North Sports & Entertainment could go ahead and purchase the Atlanta Thrashers and relocate the foundering team to Winnipeg as the reborn Jets.

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Convention centre tip of ice berg
Winnipeg Free Press: September 9, 2011

ONE of Winnipeg's leading developers is preparing to spend tens of millions of dollars on a massive commercial development at the western edge of the city. Already dubbed Westport Festival, the project is scheduled to include retailers of all sizes, one or two hotels, a movie multiplex and restaurants on a 18-hectare plot of land just west of the Perimeter Highway.

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Big Plans for Red River College
Winnipeg Free Press: August 22, 2011

Classrooms, labs and workshops packed with future carpenters, welders, dental assistants, people who can make and fix really big machines -- and maybe Red River College will have an indoor soccer complex too.

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Winnipeg Finds its Economic Groove
AOL Online: August 2011

Toronto may be the economic engine of Canada and Vancouver showered with accolades about its lifestyle offerings, but Winnipeg is the Canadian city that will be the talk around the watercooler.
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Downtown Winnipeg aims for the big leagues
Globe and Mail: June 13, 2011

The Winnipeg Jets will bring a lot more than NHL hockey to the city’s downtown when they start playing this fall – they carry the promise of a development boom to complement what is already a revitalization success story.