It’s business more than usual in Winnipeg’s industrial space

Business is booming in Winnipeg’s industrial market, and it’s not expected to fizzle any time soon.

After adding more than 750,000 square feet of inventory in 2022, the Manitoba capital is forecasted for a strong 2023 that will bring on another million square feet in inventory while demand remains sky high, according to a recent national report from CBRE, a global real estate agency.

“Optimistic certainly,” said Paul Kornelsen, VP and managing director of CBRE Winnipeg.

Surprisingly unstoried streets of Winnipeg

Ever been driving or walking down a street in Winnipeg, or just looking at a local map, and wondering, “How did this street get such a weird name?”

As it turns out, that question can sometimes be answered, and other times not. With Winnipeg lacking any form of numbered-street system, there’s more room for commemorations and oddities, but also a greater chance that a reason for a street name is lost to history, was never recorded to begin with, or doesn’t have one at all.

Southbound Main Street at Dufferin reopens as crews battle blaze

A fire at a residential building in the Point Douglas neighbourhood closed a section of Main Street for hours Saturday as fire crews battled the blaze.

Latest WSO concert premieres American composer Amy Beach’s ‘Gaelic Symphony’

Ahead of the International Women’s Day which is marked around the globe on March 8, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra championed a lesser-known female composer living in the shadows of her more frequently performed, male counterparts for well over a century.

Climate change threatens Canadian prosperity: CSIS

OTTAWA - Canada's spy service warns that climate change poses a profound, ongoing threat to national security and prosperity, including the possible loss of parts of British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces to rising sea levels.

A newly released analysis by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service also foresees an increase in ideologically motivated violent extremism from people who want to speed up climate change solutions and those more interested in preserving their current way of life.

The brief was prepared in April 2021 but only recently disclosed to The Canadian Press in response to an Access to Information request filed in October of that year.

CSIS spells out several concerns presented by global warming, ranging from looming dangers to Arctic, coastal and border security to serious pressures on food and water supplies.

Russian shelling hits Ukrainian town; Bakhmut battle rages

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling destroyed homes and killed one person in northern Ukraine's Kharkiv province, the region's governor said Sunday, while fighting raged in the fiercely contested eastern city of Bakhmut.

The town of Kupiansk is about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the Russian border; the region has come under frequent attacks even though Russian ground forces withdrew from the area nearly six months ago. Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said at least five homes were razed in the latest attack that left a 65-year-old man dead.

Two civilians were killed over the past day in Bakhmut, Donetsk province Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said. Russian forces have spent months trying to capture the city as part of their offensive in eastern Ukraine, and the area has seen some of the bloodiest ground fighting of the war.

In recent days, Ukrainian units destroyed two key bridges just outside Bakhmut, including one linking it to the nearby town of Chasiv Yar along the last remaining Ukrainian resupply route, according to U.K. military intelligence officials and other Western analysts.

Tourism Winnipeg in on Jordan fun

Michael B. Jordan’s quip about Winnipeg on late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! is T-shirt material for the city’s tourism industry.