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A new place in town is always good, but a new restaurant is even better! Especially if we are talking about the famous P.F. CHANGS, one of the most popular Chinese restaurants in North America. Based on documents filed with the City of Winnipeg, a brand new 6,248 sqft restaurant in the Polo Park area will be the first location in Winnipeg of P.F. Chang’s Chinese Bistro. It’s being built on the parking lot of the former Polo Park Target location and will be...

Now, the office of AWS Thinkbox is at The Forks in Winnipeg. AWS Thinkbox is providing services for entertainment, architecture and engineering industries. The new home of Amazon-owned business is the 13,000-square-foot space in the Johnston Terminal building. ThinkBox technology is known to be used for creating a lot of famous movies, including Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The appearance of the company in Winnipeg opens up enormous opportunities f...

Golden West Centennial Lodge decided not to inform the families of the patients about the salmonella outbreak. As the daughter of one of the patients of care home explained, she learned about the epidemic from the news. Holly Doan's mother has been at Golden West in Winnipeg for a long time. She is 93, she has dementia and other health problems. In the past, the care home always reported any issues, but not this time. Now the information is kept secret, an...

Prairie Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre worries about the safety of little rabbits. That’s why the centre calls city residents not to take little rabbits from their nests if they notice them in their yards. Every spring, employees of the centre face this problem. Residents of the city find nests near their houses, and most of them believe that these nests are abandoned, so they urgently need to save the little rabbits. The situation is quite the opposite. M...

On April 1st Olympic hopefuls gather at the RBC Training Ground in Winnipeg. Athletes ranging in age from 14 to 25 converged at the Canada Games Sport for Life Centre, with their sights set on future Olympic Games. Similar events are held across Canada by the RBC Training Ground to identify and test future Olympians. Also, just two weeks ago, Winnipeg’s boxing community gathered in an effort to send Manitoba’s best boxers to 2019`s national championships....

Winnipeg authorities are predicting major flooding this spring along the Red River. The communities along the river banks know very well how dangerous floods could be. From the destruction power of moving water, that destroys houses and vehicles, to a deadly danger for people, who get caught by the stream. Back alleys across Winnipeg are seeing an influx of water as snow packs around the city melt. Back lane floods almost annually, and usually, city crews...

The cost of filling up has already risen by as much as 20 cents per liter in Winnipeg. The new carbon tax on gasoline, diesel and heating fuels is now implemented in Manitoba since Monday, April 1st. The federal tax is $20 a tonne for this year and is set to increase by $10 annually until it reaches $50 a tonne in April 2022. The fuel prices vary in different cities, gas prices can differ for about 10-20 cents and even more. The prices can vary about 10-30...

Every now and then Winnipeg Police are organizing a sort of garage sale for the things that were seized by police but never claimed by their lawful owners. Most of them were never reported missing or stolen, so there is no chance for the police to find the owners and return their goods. Every year hundreds of stolen and lost bicycles, that the Winnipeg Police recovers, are auctioned off at the annual Winnipeg Bicycle Auction. All Bikes purchased through th...

Spring is officially here. If you want to spend the first weekend of April funny and interesting, check the following events. Believe, Winnipeg has prepared a lot of interesting things to do for the weekend of April 5-7. Here are the best ideas: 1. Winnipeg Model Railroad Club's Train Show You should definitely visit the biggest model railway event of the season, which takes place on the open day of the Winnipeg Model Railway Club. You will be able to see...

Drugs to treat alcohol abuse are now easier to get. Dr. Ginette Poulin, Addictions Foundation of Manitoba medical director, noted that the city and the province made a huge step forward in the treatment of alcohol abuse. Now, people who get pharmacare or Manitoba Families drug plans can get access to Naltrexone and Acamprosate easier. Patients do not have to wait to fill their prescriptions and have the costs covered. The decision to make changes to the me...

Hudson`s Bay has announced that Home Outfitters across Canada will close. At one time there used to be near 70 stores across Canada but that number has dropped to 37 and 700 employees. In Winnipeg in 2016, HBC converted three Home Outfitters to Hudson’s Bay Home and the concept was supposed to spread across Canada. Those locations were Kenaston, Regent, and St. James. Since that, for a few years, the store was always full of customers, but in the last year...

City of Winnipeg committee is looking for alternatives to new security measures at Millennium Library. Due to the fact that city inhabitants are extremely dissatisfied with the innovations at the library, the city committee decided to find out whether there are alternatives to bag checking. On Thursday, the committee unanimously voted to ask library management to elaborate on the number of security incidents which occurred at the library in recent years an...

How often do you see an ad or article online about a person missing? How about flyers at busy intersections and downtown building walls? Nowadays people go missing in Canada almost every day. Most of them are found fast and returned home safely, but for in some cases, the search continues for months. A missing person is always a tragedy for the family and friends. People have no rest, can’t sleep peacefully, when a family member is not at home and safe. Po...

Volunteers are really making a difference in helping those who are in need. We are talking homeless people, poor, sick, disabled, children without parents…, the list is endless, so each volunteer, each day and each hour they give and provide the service, really helps those people and the cities to stay cleaner and a better place to live in. The West Central Women's Resource Centre is putting a call out for donations of hygiene items. A West End resource ce...

Winnipeg skate protective invention will help hockey players feel safe. Dan Palsson, a Winnipeg entrepreneur, came up with his brilliant idea after he took a shot to his goalie mask. He called his invention Helskore Skate Armour. Pucks can reach speeds of up to 160 kilometres per hour and cause great injuries. The armour is made of thermoplastic and helps to distribute the shock of taking a puck to the foot. This does not negate all pain. Hockey players ar...

Fire can be a scary and destructive force. Many residential fires occur because of the tenant's fault or negligence of fire safety and common sense. A fire in the industrial building or a business office brings a great danger and life-threatening panic to people inside and near the building. Even scarier is a school on fire. On Wednesday a large fire broke out in the afternoon at a school under construction. Fire Chief Richard Paetzold said the call came i...

Armstrong's Point was created in the 1880s. It is hugged by a large bend in the Assiniboine River on three sides and has lots of century-old buildings and three iron-and-stone entrance gates. City council is still discussing whether this district should get a heritage status or not. Its decision will control the look of development in the area in the future. St. Vital Coun. Brian Mayes supported the idea, however, he added that the Glenwood neighbourhood s...

Indigenous Music Awards is held in Winnipeg every year. In 2019 the awards will take place on May, the 17th. However, everything can go not very smoothly, because the event has already faced a certain type of controversy. As it became known, a group of Inuit artists decided not to take part in the Indigenous Music Awards. They think that the singer Connie LeGrande, who performs as Cikwes, appropriated Inuit style throat singing in her music. LeGrande was n...