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rypinion · #**1981** Posted **May 5, 2011, 2:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by rgalston

a board that was a big piece of what helped deflate Winnipeg's importance in the 1920s

Can you explain?

vid · #**1982** Posted **May 6, 2011, 11:29 PM**

The Lakehead wouldn't have as many grain elevators if it wasn't for the Wheat Board, but at the same time, we would have more grain elevators operating if it wasn't for the Wheat Board.

1ajs · #**1983** Posted **May 7, 2011, 1:55 AM**

lol weird eh?

Biff · #**1984** Posted **May 9, 2011, 6:37 PM**

Winnipeg architects chosen for Venice Biennale

Posted: 05/9/2011 1:14 PM

A Winnipeg firm and an instructor from the University of Manitoba faculty of architecture have been chosen to jointly represent Canada at the 2012 Venice Biennale in Architecture.

5468796 Architecture Inc. and the U of M’s Jae-Sung Chon will create a project called Migrating Landscapes that will be shown at the prestigious event in Italy, the Canada Council for the Arts and Architecture Canada/RAIC announced Monday.

Read More.........

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bre...121512514.html

Bdog · #**1985** Posted **May 12, 2011, 5:18 PM**

Winnipeg Free Press - ONLINE EDITION

CentreVenture wins urban renewal award
By: Murray McNeill

Posted: 05/12/2011 11:22 AM | Comments: 0
Print E–mail 5 0Share5Report Error WINNIPEG — The city’s arm’s length downtown development agency — CentreVenture Development Corp. — has won a national award for its downtown revitalization efforts.

The Canadian Urban Institute, a Toronto-based not-for-profit organization devoted to creating thriving, sustainable, harmonious and engaged urban regions, has chosen CentreVenture for this year’s Urban Leadership Award in the Renewal category.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bre...121712294.html

rrskylar · #**1986** Posted **May 29, 2011, 8:19 PM**

For 1ajs

Delicious Point Douglas
I'm married to it — it's my family now

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bre...122792694.html

1ajs · #**1987** Posted **May 29, 2011, 11:59 PM**

read it this morning lol

vid · #**1988** Posted **May 30, 2011, 4:58 AM**

She makes it sound sane compared to what 1ajs has told me about the place.

rrskylar · #**1989** Posted **Jun 6, 2011, 7:34 PM**

Matron of Winnipeg broadcasting set to retire.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bre...123254943.html

drew · #**1990** Posted **Jun 6, 2011, 7:41 PM**

^ it's about time. I have to change the channel whenever she comes on.

Kinguni · #**1991** Posted **Jun 7, 2011, 1:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by rrskylar

Matron of Winnipeg broadcasting set to retire.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bre...123254943.html

Hooray! She could look out the window at a thunderstorm and then tell you how nice and sunny it is based on hours old satellite imagery.

Joshy · #**1992** Posted **Jun 7, 2011, 1:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by rrskylar

Matron of Winnipeg broadcasting set to retire.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bre...123254943.html

Time to get a real meteorologist.

flatlander · #**1993** Posted **Jun 7, 2011, 2:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by Joshy

Time to get a real meteorologist.

Like a real meteorologist is more accurate. Her odds are as good as any.

vid · #**1994** Posted **Jun 7, 2011, 3:29 AM**

Ours just repeats Accuweather forecasts, with some bad puns thrown in.

Andy6 · #**1995** Posted **Jun 7, 2011, 3:50 AM**

I will miss Sylvia. She's so Winnipeg. Just a nice person doing a homey weather forecast without taking it all too seriously. She speaks English with that very slight but distinctive inflection that older Ukrainian/Polish Winnipeggers used to speak with (the Transcona accent, although I don't know if she's from there). I suppose a meteorologist would be nice but it's not as though they would be setting up their own weather station and doing scientific experiments or anything. They would be reading off the same teleprompter.

jmt18325 · #**1996** Posted **Jun 7, 2011, 4:04 AM**

I thought she was a meteorologist?

1ajs · #**1997** Posted **Jun 7, 2011, 5:06 AM**

rrskylar · #**1998** Posted **Jun 7, 2011, 5:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by Andy6

I will miss Sylvia. She's so Winnipeg. Just a nice person doing a homey weather forecast without taking it all too seriously. She speaks English with that very slight but distinctive inflection that older Ukrainian/Polish Winnipeggers used to speak with (the Transcona accent, although I don't know if she's from there). I suppose a meteorologist would be nice but it's not as though they would be setting up their own weather station and doing scientific experiments or anything. They would be reading off the same teleprompter.

Funny because she was born in Germany as were her parents, she probably spoke German before she spoke English. Kuzyk is her married name (don't know if she still is)

Urban legend is that Sylvia and Bobby Hull once were an item.

Andy6 · #**1999** Posted **Jun 7, 2011, 11:20 AM**

Interesting, might have to revise my theory. She certainly made a splash when she arrived on the local TV scene in the 70s. Quite the knockout, as they would then have said.

Authentic_City · #**2000** Posted **Jun 7, 2011, 4:28 PM**

Some good photos of Sylvia at various stages of her career here:

http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/gallery/html/...k/photo_0.html