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Brent Bellamy
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Construction industry facing tariff headwinds
April 1, 2025
The years following COVID-19 were a chaotic time for the construction industry. Supply chains were broken, inflation and interest rates were skyrocketing, and labour shortages hit every part of the industry. Rising costs were so difficult to control that every project was vulnerable to cancellation or delay.
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Bay part of city’s DNA forever
March 19, 2025
The Hudson’s Bay Co. opened Winnipeg’s first retail store within the stone walls of Upper Fort Garry 208 years ago and had maintained a commercial presence downtown until late 2020. By closing what was once the Bay’s flagship Canadian store, a unique relationship between a company and a city is lost, but HBC’s presence in downtown Winnipeg will forever be embedded in the city’s very DNA.
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Finding opportunity out of growing chaos
March 10, 2025
Donald Trump’s tariff roller coaster has been a stark wake-up call for Canadians, exposing an urgent need to diversify trade and reestablish local production and supply chains.
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Housing program leading into major construction season
February 18, 2025
We are living in an unprecedented moment of economic uncertainty and political anxiety. U.S. President Donald Trump’s consistent threats of trade tariffs and random musings about Canada’s sovereignty have unified governments and businesses to search for ways to support and fortify local economies against the looming threat.
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Seeing forest for the trees: The bigger picture in the Lemay Forest debate
January 19, 2025
Until recently, most people in Winnipeg had likely never heard about Lemay Forest in St. Norbert, but a standoff between residents and a developer who wants to cut down the trees has sparked debate about property rights and the role government should play in protecting our urban tree canopy.
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Development at The Forks will express joy and spirit of city jewel
January 3, 2025
As 2024 comes to an end, people in Winnipeg can look forward to a new year in which many impactful developments will begin construction. One of the most exciting of these has been in the works for more than a decade, but this spring, a sleepy corner of the most cherished public place in Winnipeg will burst into life as one of its largest construction sites.
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Higher density key to fixing budget woes
December 9, 2024
Alarm bells have been ringing at Winnipeg City Hall ahead of Wednesday’s 2025 budget update. It might be the annual doom and gloom dance, done to lower expectations before every budget announcement, but with the city’s rainy-day fund being emptied and a significant deficit projected, it does feel like this time the warnings are real.
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The next step for new housing in Winnipeg
November 19, 2024
If you sat down to design a modern city of a million people, you wouldn’t start by putting a giant rail yard in the centre, with its radiating web of train tracks that forever require building, maintaining and replacing bridges and underpasses to cross them.
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Our city shouldn’t shy away from embracing big ideas
October 27, 2024
If you sat down to design a modern city of a million people, you wouldn’t start by putting a giant rail yard in the centre, with its radiating web of train tracks that forever require building, maintaining and replacing bridges and underpasses to cross them.
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Building a city to keep the next generation here
October 1, 2024
Every year Winnipeg loses thousands of people to other cities, many of them young, educated adults looking to establish their roots elsewhere. The inability of Winnipeg to retain its young people has always been a problem, but in the face of changing demographics, it’s an issue that has today become even more pressing.
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