Just saw Ace Burpee’s tweet: Which prompted me to get on it, already. My aunt is alive today because of someone else’s heart. It takes all of two minutes to sign up – and you’...
It’s been almost two years since I wrote a post called “What to Expect When You’re Expecting in Winnipeg” – which is the #3 most popular post I’ve ever written (tw...
I admit it. There are things about Vancouver I miss. Living within walking distance from the beach. A green-grocer just up the street. Stellar public transportation. And the food… oh, the food....
One of the things that drew me to Winnipeg was its reputation as a musical mecca. I don’t know where I first heard this, but my interest was probably piqued in high school, when a friend of min...
At our big family supper last night, someone looked at the loaf of rye bread on the table and wondered what made it “Winnipeg-style”? Nobody at the table knew – and excluding me, ev...
I’m late to this one, but better late than never. Oh Ace Burpee Show, why you gotta be so funny? (via James Hope Howard & Alex Reid) I have to admit, it was a great feeling when I got to th...
That’s the name of a local public awareness campaign, which aims to “help drivers understand the relationship of excessive speed to traffic collisions, injuries and fatalities.” I&...
“Winnpeg? Why WINNIpeg?” is what everyone said when I announced I was moving to this fair city. No matter how I tried to explain it (friends and relatives nearby, summer lake life, afford...
Although we’re all adults now, one of my family’s favourite Christmas albums is Fred Penner’s “The Season”, a wonderful collection of multilingual traditional and world ...
I’ve been meaning to share some of my favourite local businesses for a while now. Over the last couple of years I’ve had the pleasure of discovering a handful of really wonderful places t...
In Atlantic Canada, folks who aren’t from the area are labelled “come from away”. Since moving here, I’ve often thought of myself as being the Winnipeg equivalent. I get a sur...
It’s the time of year when signs for a certain delicious event can be found plastered all around town… it’s Fall Supper season! When I was growing up, my family’s church had p...
I was nine days overdue with my first baby when I went to an information session on Winnipeg’s future birth centre last June. After several years in the works, this amazing community facility i...
I do not have a green thumb. For as much as I wish I were an avid gardener – or even just a dabbler – it has never happened. I just would rather be baking or reading or doing something th...
We just got back from a three week road trip to Alberta. We had a wonderful time visiting with friends and family, but man, when we pulled up in front of our house, what a sigh of relief. It’s ...
On Twitter last night, I saw @policyfrog refer with disdain to the Winnipeg Free Press’s “It’s a Winnipeg Thing” ad campaign. I wasn’t familiar with it so I tracked down...
[Updated editors note: I dont think I explained myself well enough the first time around, but my beef with presentation is not the concept of giving money as a wedding gift, which in my books is just...
The weather has been pretty hit or miss the last few days, but summer is apparently on its way to Manitoba! Over the last few weeks I’ve been enviously reading various Peggers’ tweets ab...
Referring to the recent spate of complimentary articles about Winnipeg’s downtown revitalization, One Man Committee (another new-to-me blog!) ponders: “Considering that downtown Winnipeg ...
There are a couple of new-to-me Winnipeg blogs — Nothing in Winnipeg and Love me, love my Winnipeg — that I’ve been meaning to mention. I had to laugh when I discovered that they ...
Well, it’s just about wedding season, and that means only one thing in Winnipeg… weird wedding traditions! I sort of avoided writing this post for a while, since it’s bound to ruffl...
I’m sneaking this quick post into my workday (sorry, Steve!) to make note of the awesome use of the #portageandmain hashtag on Twitter over the last couple of days, but escalating this morning ...
Today is Manitoba Day, and over at The View from Seven, the question is this: If you came to Manitoba from elsewhere, how did you end up living here and how do you feel about life in Manitoba — good,...
I am excited to share another “new to Winnipeg” blog with you! When Jessica Owen was planning her move to Winnipeg, she decided to keep a blog, entitled “Going to Winnipeg“, t...
There have been lots of major changes in my life over the last three years. I was none of these things, but now I’m a homeowner. I’m a wife. I’m a mother. These changes all came abo...
If there’s one thing Winnipeggers love, it’s a bargain. This I can say for certain after living here for 2 1/2 years. From driving across town to save a few cents on gas — or across...
Much to my chagrin, I haven’t been able to make it to Festival du Voyageur this year. In explanation, a simple equation: baby + extra-cold temperatures / all of our babysitters are busy going t...
At least on Design*Sponge, anyway. Local blogger (Lather. Write. Repeat.) and furniture restorer extraordinaire Lenore Hume authored the Winnipeg City Guide for the wildly popular website, and it...
I’ve been meaning to write for ages about Glenelm, the neighbourhood we moved to two summers ago. It’s a little known section of Elmwood that feels like another world entirely! Nestled on...
Greg G posted this beautiful picture of the Granite Curling Club to Twitter last night. It looks like a cozy, welcoming winter chalet! Over the past couple of years I’ve been to watch my husba...
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