Winnipeg - Of Interest

[Riverman]

Originally Posted by headhorse

anyone thinking of checking any of them out? suggestions?

I went last year and learned a lot about my neighbourhood. It was very enjoyable. The Riverview one sounds good, it is one of my favourite neighbourhoods.

I'd go this time but autocross is starting this weekend.

http://www.wscc.mb.ca/autocross.php

[esquire]

The 2nd Architecture & Design Film Festival is continuing through Saturday. There are some really interesting films being screened that would be of interest to many here - I've taken in a couple so far and have really enjoyed them.

Check it out: www.adff.ca

[wags_in_the_peg]

what a great place to spend some time in the spring & summer in winnipeg!


photo from Free Press website

[Riverman]

I can't get enough of the ball park. I'd argue it is indeed the prime spot in Winnipeg in the summer.

[Boreal]

It's just too bad they play baseball there.

/hater.


Shaw Park is a lovely venue. The concessions are reasonably priced, and the Fish make for a nice, relatively inexpensive evening out in the summer.

[headhorse]

this is pretty interesting: http://www.coolgardens.ca/

[Cyro]

Nice to here the Paddlewheel Queen is returning to the Red. A few great memories and some good times during long hot summer evenings in the city..

I only wish more could be done to utilize our waterways the few months of the year they're navigable.

[Riverman]

The ships have been here for a few days now. Every morning the crews have to fight to get them off the bank as the river is falling very quickly.

[Cyro]

Originally Posted by Riverman

The ships have been here for a few days now. Every morning the crews have to fight to get them off the bank as the river is falling very quickly.

What do we do? Living at the bottom of lake aggasiz on the ever flooding plain.
How do we maintain several large(and smaller) public use vessels, on a regular basis? How can we construct the docking sytem to flucuate with the small time frame we have to use this natural waterway?

It's a huge opportunity but also a huge conundrum?

[Riverman]

Originally Posted by Cyrodill

How do we maintain several large(and smaller) public use vessels, on a regular basis? How can we construct the docking system to fluctuate with the small time frame we have to use this natural waterway?

Who is we?

Those ships are designed to be used without docks, they have bow gangways.

[Cyro]

Originally Posted by Cyrodill View Post
How do we maintain several large(and smaller) public use vessels, on a regular basis? How can we construct the docking system to fluctuate with the small time frame we have to use this natural waterway?

Originally Posted by Riverman

Who is we?

Those ships are designed to be used without docks, they have bow gangways.

This is why I love SSP one word is taken out of context to set up a reply to a post.
we [wiː]
pron (subjective)
2. refers to all people or people in general the planet on which we live

Anyway,I was asking someone who has knowledge on the topic to suggest ways to improve the use of vessels, gangways and all, on a regular basis as our River System is so prone to fluctuations?

No ideas? thanks

[Shinook]

After more than a decade of being abandonned by TD, the tower at 201 Portage Avenue is returing to the banking big league.

Banking on Winnipeg's top view
RBC pays to put logo on Portage and Main skyscraper


By: Geoff Kirbyson


THE biggest financial institution in Canada has taken out Winnipeg's billboard in the clouds.

RBC Royal Bank will raise its "Leo" logo atop 201 Portage Ave. early next month.

Alan Dunnett, regional director for RBC Wealth Management Dominion Securities, the bank's brokerage division, said his team negotiated the signage when it finalized its lease to move into the top three floors of the building last year.

Because the cost is embedded in the lease, it's difficult to determine the price of the city's highest billboard, he said.

"If you talk to anybody in commercial real estate, signage on buildings has significant intrinsic value.

Read More: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bus...215350891.html

[Riverman]

Originally Posted by Cyrodill

Anyway, I was asking someone who has knowledge on the topic to suggest ways to improve the use of vessels, gangways and all, on a regular basis as our River System is so prone to fluctuations?

I guess "we" could leave it up to the operators of those vessels to find the best way to operate them.

[Jeff]

I wonder if rbc will be keeping the naming rights to the building across the street?

[Cyro]

Thx for the info Biff. I realize the cost would be enormous, but this is what I was curious about. Improving the system and improving our use of the river ways, even though the city/province would shy away from such a huge expense. Alternative solutions are something that should be looked at.

It is not working as things stand now.

[Cyro]

Riverwalk emerges after 80 soggy days
By: Staff Writer

River levels in Winnipeg have finally receded sufficiently to expose the Assiniboine Riverwalk.

On Monday, the Red River at the James Avenue monitoring station dropped to 8.2 feet above normal winter ice levels, exposing the Assiniboine Riverwalk, which stands at 8.5 feet.

It is expected to take days for crews to clear the riverwalk of mud and other debris. The riverwalk had been under water since April 27, near the start of the late spring flood of 2013. That's a total of 80 days.




http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/loc...215627821.html

Ahh mid July...finally

[Shinook]

BMO move bodes well for city

Economy prompts bank to bring back senior VP role


WHEN it comes to a symbolic indication of this region’s status as a growing economy, the fact the Bank of Montreal has reestablished a senior vice-president’s office in Winnipeg after close to 15 years without one is a good sign.

John MacAulay, who formerly served as district vice-president for Manitoba and northwestern Ontario for five years, has returned to Winnipeg after three years in Toronto running part of the GTA region for the bank. This time he’s back as senior vice-president of an even larger region that includes Saskatchewan and northwestern Ontario. Just as the closure of the banks’ senior v-p offices in Winnipeg at the end of the no-growth ’90s was emblematic of all that was wrong with the local economy, BMO’s return happens when much is looking up here.

Read more:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bus...215809661.html

With the recent RBC tower and convention centre announcements couple with the BMO announcement, looks like the big banks are crawling back to Winnipeg.

[headhorse]

Job boom predicted for Winnipeg

Manitoba is headed for a period of steady economic growth, according to a report issued Wednesday by Bank of Montreal.

In Winnipeg alone, the bank expects to see 12,000 new jobs created over the next three years. That would pull the jobless rate in the province's largest city down to five per cent, among the lowest in Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manito...-manitoba.html

[Biff]

Twister out by Investors Group Field 10 minutes ago.

[headhorse]

anyone go to the Visionary Regeneration last night? or check out any of the WDF events?