http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/b_kives Most recent (7 days) columns en-gb Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:33:59 CDT Some time before the Taylor Swift concert on Saturday, the Winnipeg Football Club, the City of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba must put together a new plan to get fans in and out of Investors Group Field. The failure of the new stadium's event-day transportation plan last Wednesday has... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:59:05 CDT On a sunny afternoon in September 2008, the University of Manitoba signed a letter of intent to house a new Winnipeg football stadium within the sports precinct of its Fort Garry campus. Four years and nine months later, Investors Group Field opened at the northwest corner of University of Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:02:46 CDT Given the year-long delay in the opening night of Investors Group Field, Winnipeg football fans were justifiably surprised to find themselves in the middle of an apparent construction site when the Blue Bombers played their first pre-season game. On Wednesday night, fans struggled to avoid Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:57:55 CDT On opening night for Winnipeg's new football stadium, at the height of the evening rush, it took one hour and four minutes for a 161 Super Express bus to make the 12-kilometre trip from the University of Winnipeg to the University of Manitoba. The first 11 kilometres took 35 minutes. So-called Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:58:01 CDT If you listen to the Selinger government's latest plan to aid Lake Winnipeg, money has the power to scrub phosphorus from the water of Manitoba's largest lake. On Thursday, the province announced a new "Lake Friendly Accord" intended to leverage $1 billion worth of investment into ways to Sun, 9 Jun 2013 17:08:52 CDT Faced with the prospect of entertaining guests in the middle of January, Winnipeggers have come to rely upon a single phrase to save face. "You should really come visit in July," we've grown accustomed to telling visiting friends, relatives, co-workers or new spouses from warmer climes, spinning Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:37:50 CDT A year ago this weekend, I spent a few days paddling in the Experimental Lakes Area with a trio of friends, two of whom were completely new to backcountry camping. Before we headed out, the newbies asked logical questions about what sort of gear they would need, what kind of food they would eat Sat, 8 Jun 2013 12:39:45 CDT THE big box of concrete and Tyndall stone known as city hall can be a mysterious place, where questions hang in the air like the smoke from an acrid grease fire in a kitchen with shoddy ventilation. But even through the haze and the rancid smell, it’s easy to see the outline of the biggest Sun, 2 Jun 2013 11:13:18 CDT TORONTO -- When the Toronto Maple Leafs blew a third-period lead and stumbled out of the NHL playoffs, much of the rest of Canada revelled in sweet, sweet schadenfreude. Watching the nation's largest city fail is an admittedly immature pleasure, but easy to justify on an ethical basis when you Sun, 26 May 2013 11:29:08 CDT In a perfect world, where land use was dictated solely on the basis of environmental principles, every city-owned golf course along a river would be shut down. All golf-course land immediately alongside waterways would be re-naturalized, allowing riparian zones to return to their natural state Sun, 19 May 2013 10:34:52 CDT