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Anybody Want A Peanut?: May 2013
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Thursday, 16 May 2013. A good sign for Winnipeg's condo market. Back in February I gave a preview of floor plans and prices. For the Glass House condos that will rise across the street from the MTS Centre in Winnipeg. With condos the size of a shipping container selling for a minimum of $170k and units less than 800 square feet selling for upwards of $350,000 with a parking stall, you could say I was skeptical. I hope the market is there, but I don't know that it is. Well, now I know . In the old layout ...
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Anybody Want A Peanut?: Should the Perimeter Highway be renamed?
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Wednesday, 21 August 2013. Should the Perimeter Highway be renamed? How do you feel about the name "Perimeter Highway"? Is it too obvious? Is it getting a little stale? Maybe time for a change? One blogger is calling for the highway to be renamed in honour of Terry Fox. More recently, a bust of Terry was installed in the Citizens Hall of Fame. Around the formal gardens in Assiniboine Park. It's easy to miss, but it's something . I guess. You probably could have guessed that) has started a petition. Https...
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Anybody Want A Peanut?: MAKE Coffee + Hipster Names
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Sunday, 18 August 2013. MAKE Coffee Hipster Names. After dinner on Corydon Avenue last weekend I headed in the direction of Starbucks for an early evening coffee. On the way there I stumbled upon MAKE / Coffee Stuff. Could use a plant or something. I had never heard of the place, but MAKE, it turns out, is part of the growing trend of gourmet coffee shops in Winnipeg. To my knowledge this trend began with Parlour Coffee. Following in Parlour Coffee's footsteps are Café Postal. An architect by trade, Jay ...
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Anybody Want A Peanut?: July 2013
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Sunday, 21 July 2013. So I was driving recently on the freeway in Saskatoon and . oh wait . maybe I should explain for those of you who have never driven in a city besides Winnipeg: a "freeway" is a road with no stoplights where you can drive at highway speeds. Saskatoon, a city one third the population of Winnipeg, has one. It's called Circle Drive. Source: http:/ ckom.com/story/circle-drive-millar-back-normal/110318. I quite like it. There are a couple of problems with this, one being that it creates a...
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Anybody Want A Peanut?: April 2013
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013. This is where it all went wrong. So how about that weather? Something went terribly wrong this spring. That is clear. But what? I've looked up the numbers and pin-pointed exactly where it went wrong: Saturday, March 9. The following is a graph that shows the daily high temps this year, the same from last year, and the historical mean high temp for the day:. As you can see, beginning March 9 there is not a single day. That's a pretty spectacular run of below-normal temps! I am no...
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Anybody Want A Peanut?: December 2012
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Saturday, 29 December 2012. Year end fluff with the Premier. The Winnipeg Free Press has published a year-end interview. Of sorts) with the Premier Greg Selinger. With all these serious problems, the year-end conversation ought to be an interesting and provocative one. Unfortunately it was the exact opposite. Free Press reporter Larry Kusch doesn't even lead off with any of these issues, but rather allows the Premier to throw Winnipeg Jets pixie dust in our faces to obscure everything else. I don't even ...
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Anybody Want A Peanut?: June 2013
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Friday, 14 June 2013. We're gonna need a bigger bus. Thank God for preseason games, is all I can say after Wednesday night. There are a lot of bugs to work out in the Bombers' new system. I'm talking about the transportation scheme (although the Bombers' on-field game, um ., has a few holes as well). I'm sure it looked great on paper, but holy smokes . I can't help but think a little math would have gone a long way in ensuring sufficient bus service to the stadium. The stadium holds about 30,000 peop...
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Anybody Want A Peanut?: Waverley West bike paths already cracking.
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Sunday, 8 September 2013. Waverley West bike paths already cracking. Last weekend I did some suburban exploration on my bicycle. Among the things I discovered was an elaborate garden on or near a hydro corridor, complete with garden shed, shag carpeting, mysterious 50 gallon drums and other various containers laying about. The whole operation stretches close to 200 yards from one end to the other. What's in the shed? Sure, it doesn't look like much right now . Bridgwater will incorporate a network of tra...
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Anybody Want A Peanut?: February 2013
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013. Rapid Transit: PHASE II. That sounds so cool and futuristic: Rapid Transit: Phase II. I envision a new glistening bullet train speeding over top of the city as a sultry female voice announces " Next stop, Osborne Station. In reality we're getting ordinary buses that have their own right-of way and a computerized male voice that butchers half the street names. And it's not "Phase II", it's "Stage 2". Exactly. Hurst Way is that little bit of road that you get when you exten...
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Anybody Want A Peanut?: Winding things down at the Peanut
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Wednesday, 18 September 2013. Winding things down at the Peanut. Well my friends. I think this blog has run it's course. It all started 6 years ago - SIX YEARS! With a rant about Bipole III. It wasn't long before I branched out into rants about Upper Fort Garry. And rants about general government incompetence. And 21 Upper Fort Garry. Rants later, it's time to start winding things down. I'm also quite proud that my How to get to Vimy Ridge. What a downer. My favorite blog is about to come to an end.
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