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Originally Posted by esquire
Personally I'd love to see the PSB block get a new RRC building (which would really boost the critical mass of the downtown campus). I would have also said that a new City of Winnipeg office building would make good sense too, but I guess with the ex-Canada Post white elephant on their hands they should pull departments out of leased spaces and put them into that tower instead.
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In terms of the Canada Post office tower, filling it with City offices would provide an enhanced level of security over leasing the space out. With City offices and city staff a certain level of screening can be done to better protect the space. Leaving it open to lease for anyone it would, in theory, be possible for someone working against the police to setup shop there. For example, imagine the Hell's Angels setting up a retail shop on the second floor skywalk...
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In terms of RRC expanded their degree programs, the mandate given to them, and all publicly funded post secondary schools (aka not Booth, not CMU) is new programs cannot be a duplication of an existing program. This would make it challenging for RRC to offer a degree in Nursing. Now say the medical imaging specialists (x-ray tech, etc) where the working education level is a degree, thos could be areas for RRC to expand. Their Creative Arts program though is a very muddy water though as they already offer a degree, sort of, through a joint program with U of W. Perhaps they have a MOU to unwind that and house it at RRC but I would guess that would mean giving U of W a permission for a new program of their own.
Now, the bigger question is with the U of M push for their own medical campus, might it make sense to transfer the health programs from RRC to U of M? A compromise there might be to allow RRC to expand their engineer diploma into a full technical degree, similar to what other technical schools offer.