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Old Posted May 22, 2009, 2:50 AM
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you guys get doors open too? that's cool. it just started here last year and it's been in calgary for years.
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you guys get doors open too? that's cool. it just started here last year and it's been in calgary for years.
yep we have had it going on for a while now think it started in 06 maybe earlyer

from last years
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Old Posted May 22, 2009, 3:07 AM
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Doors Open has been running here since September 2003. I thought it had been in every large city across the country for years. Toronto has had it since 1999.

Thunder Bay's is held in September, like London's. Not sure why. I think the local driving force behind it got the idea from European events instead of Canadian ones and planned it for the same time without knowing the rest of the country does it in May.
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Old Posted May 22, 2009, 3:21 AM
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Edmonton last yr was in Aug, this year it's this weekend.
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Old Posted May 22, 2009, 3:53 PM
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Destination Winnipeg's budget expected to double, thanks to accommodation taxes

By: Martin Cash

Destination Winnipeg's budget may increase by more than 50 per cent this year because of contributions made by the city from its new accommodation tax.

Destination Winnipeg officials say the additional funding -- including up to $1 million for a sports and special events fund -- makes sense because the city has a lot more to sell.
Nick Logan says events Destination Winnipeg attracts have a significant economic impact on the city.

Nick Logan says events Destination Winnipeg attracts have a significant economic impact on the city. (MIKE.DEAL@FREEPRESS.MB.CA)

At the economic development agency's annual general meeting Thursday, its CEO, Stuart Duncan, said the city is punching above its weight in terms of its marketing successes.

"Sitting back in 2003, you would not have thought we would be where we are now," he said. "There has been some interesting momentum. The city is on a roll and it is getting recognized for it. The more that's happening, the more we have to market."

The organization's total budget for 2008 was $3.3 million, including $1.3 million from the city. This year, the city's contribution will come in the form of 30 per cent of the controversial accommodation tax, which is expected to be about $2.1 million.

In addition, that new tax revenue is going to be partially used to create a discrete fund -- up to $1 million per year -- that Destination Winnipeg will be able to apply towards bidding for and acquiring national and major sporting and special events.

Duncan said the existence of the fund will allow for quicker and more aggressive bidding on projects. He said it has already been used towards securing the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships that took place last month in Winnipeg and the national junior soccer championships that will be held here in October.

"You can already see that this is not a fund that is just going to sit there," he said.

Nick Logan, CEO of National Leasing and chairman of the board of Destination Winnipeg, said the work the organization does behind the scenes in bringing in events like that create significant economic impact.

"The 12 national sports and special events in Winnipeg in 2008, like the Tim Hortons Brier and Canadian Country Music Awards, generated about $30 million worth of economic impact for the city," Logan said.

Destination Winnipeg believes its aggressive marketing of the city has a definite payback. In 2008, the organization funded some new research on future potential economic development in the city. Duncan said the purpose was to update the cluster study done in 2002.

Without revealing any specifics, he said the results of the study indicate the city has some sustainable strengths worthy of the additional marketing clout Destination Winnipeg is now going to have at its disposal.

"If this type of study was done five or six years ago, you wouldn't see the types of growth projections that are in there," said Duncan. "These projections are based on solid research and we have great data that we look at every day."

Douglas Porter, the deputy chief economist of BMO Capital Markets, who was in Winnipeg Thursday, said the current strength of the Prairie economy is not a surprise.

He said the drivers of the regional economic growth have not gone away. Although total employment is down a little in Manitoba, it is far more stable than it is in virtually every other province in the country.

He said a quiet recovery of some commodity prices like oil and copper may suggest a turnaround in the global economy may happen sooner than has been anticipated.

Along with the sustained strength of agricultural commodity prices, he said a recovery in other commodities is bound to be beneficial to western Canadian economies.

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Old Posted May 23, 2009, 12:07 AM
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New partners strengthen local bid for HIV vaccine centre

By: Geoff Kirbyson

WINNIPEG — The International Centre for Infectious Diseases has unveiled details, including a high-powered group of partners, of its bid to bring an $88-million HIV vaccine manufacturing facility to Winnipeg.

The Winnipeg-based not-for-profit applied in March to the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative, a joint project of the federal government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to build a one-of-a-kind facility dedicated to accelerating the production of promising vaccine candidates for the world's most deadly disease.

The proposed facility would be built on currently vacant land at Alexander Avenue and Arlington Street in Winnipeg's "BioMed" zone, adjacent to the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health and just blocks away from the University of Manitoba's medical school and the Health Sciences Centre.

The consortium partners include:

* The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, the world's largest dedicated HIV vaccine research and development not-for-profit organization. TIME magazine recently named Dr. Seth Berkley, its president and CEO, as one of this year's "100 most influential people in the world."
* VIDO/InterVac, a world leader in research and development of vaccine and immunity-enhancing technology for humans and animals based out of Saskatoon.
* Canadian Trials Network, Canada's only HIV clinical trails network, which is based at the University of British Columbia.
* The University of Manitoba and the L'Université de Montréal, both leaders in HIV/AIDS vaccine research.

Terry Duguid, president and CEO of ICID, said the securing of such well-respected partners is a "huge win" for its bid, which is competing against proposals from London, Ont. and Laval, Que. The evaluations will take place in Ottawa shortly and a final decision is expected this fall. It will be another two to three years until the vaccine centre is built and running.

Previously announced partners include the Serum Institute of India, Ltd., the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, and Winnipeg-based Cangene Ltd., Canada's largest biotechnology firm.

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Couldn't find info on proposals from Laval or Peterborough (see London article).
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Old Posted May 23, 2009, 2:17 AM
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This would be a terrific fit and another step to realizing 'Bio-Med' city concept. On merit alone it looks like we have great chance of landing this.

These competitions for facilities and hi-quality jobs always worry me. Not because Winnipeg can't compete, but for the fear of it becoming a purely political decision. Especially when Ontario/Quebec are players...
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Old Posted May 23, 2009, 5:27 AM
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Does anyone know what the holdup is with awarding some of the street renewal contracts for the city? It seems to be taking a while for some (over a month).
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Old Posted May 23, 2009, 5:12 PM
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Have you looked here? The May 1 tender close on Rue Aubert, Cottonwood has been awarded (Darco), although several older projects that closed in April have not yet been listed as awarded. Most before that have all been awarded.
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Old Posted May 23, 2009, 5:23 PM
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Yes, that's where I found that some of the street projects haven't been awarded. I was just wondering why.
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Old Posted May 27, 2009, 3:31 AM
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just slow down campain youth video contest
http://justslowdown.ca/?page_id=203

the video at the botem of the entries seems to be the best of them
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City Invites Public to Comment On Water and Sewer Proposal
Two Round Table Sessions Planned for June
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Old Posted Jun 3, 2009, 2:52 AM
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wow downtown is going to be a buz with partying people the moose won game 2!
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wow downtown is going to be a buz with partying people the moose won game 2!
the environment would be like that 42 nights a year + playoffs if we had an NHL team.
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I'd love to see Vandal run again and lose, thus creating an opening for St.B. I think this guy is a tool, a total tool.

Vandal considers taking another shot at mayor's job
By: Bartley Kives

St. Boniface Coun. Dan Vandal might take another run at the mayor's office, setting the stage for a potential rematch of the 2004 civic byelection that saw him finish second to Sam Katz.

Against the backdrop of Katz's accusations the province is meddling in civic affairs, Vandal said in an interview he will decide this fall whether to run for mayor in the October 2010 civic election.

In 2004, Vandal lost to Katz by 43,371 votes in a crowded mayoral race that featured five high-profile candidates.

A rematch is possible next year, as Katz is expected to run for office for the third and final time. Katz supports the concept of term limits and has said he will not serve more than two full terms, in addition to his abbreviated first term.

Vandal, who served as St. Boniface's councillor from 1995 to 2004 before returning to office in 2006, will have to consider the pros and cons of a race against a well-known incumbent.

"I'm considering it, but I'm not in a position to make a decision right now. I have to talk this over with my family," said Vandal. He made his comments after the Doer government unveiled new campaign-finance reform rules similar to what the St. Boniface councillor tried and failed to get Winnipeg's city council to adopt on its own in March.

The proposed electoral changes, which include a ban on union and corporate donations, would neither aid nor hinder Vandal in a head-to-head race against Katz, at least on paper. In the 2006 mayoral race, the vast majority of Katz's campaign contributors were individuals, not corporations, though businesses such as Western Glove Works, Nygard International and the Gauthier Automotive Group were among the list of donors who forked over the maximum $1,500 donation.

Still, Katz and other city hall observers suggest the Doer government may be attempting to aid Vandal because the NDP's large pool of campaign volunteers could be more effective in a mayoral race with a reduced pool of campaign donations.

For example, in the close 2009 River Heights-Fort Garry byelection race between NDP-backed John Orlikow and Conservative-affiliated Geoff Currier, the NDP's machine appeared to have played a large role in Orlikow's victory.

"They have all these bodies they can move around. Employees take leaves of absence of all the time to work on elections. So how do you create an advantage for NDP-minded candidates? This is one way," said St. Norbert Coun. Justin Swandel, who supported Vandal's motion to ban union and corporate donations when council voted down the idea 11-5 in March.

"This is the part of politics I find distasteful and disgusting. There's some motivation for doing this. God knows what's going on," added Katz on Wednesday, suggesting elements within the Doer government -- although not the premier himself -- may be working to unseat him.

"I understand (Finance Minister) Greg Selinger and Dan Vandal are very close," said Katz, who nonetheless scoffed at the notion Vandal is ready for a rematch in 2010.

"I don't think Dan Vandal will run. I think Dan Vandal will only run if he's guaranteed he's going to win and that won't be the case. I don't think Dan Vandal wants to sit on the sidelines another four years, and I'm not convinced the government will give him another parachute like they did last time," Katz said, referring to Vandal's job with the Winnipeg Partnership Agreement following his election loss in 2004. "He was unemployed until the NDP gave him a job, paying more than a councillor, I might add."
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the environment would be like that 42 nights a year + playoffs if we had an NHL team.
you are assuming our nhl team would win every home game? way to think positively
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Winnipeg to pave section of Portage Avenue with recycled tires

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An experimental mix of asphalt and recycled rubber tires will be laid down along a stretch of Winnipeg's Portage Avenue this week as a test to determine how well it resists wear and tear.
'When ice starts forming, the traffic will actually flex the pavement and cause the ice to crack and mitigate the ice build up.'— Lester Deane, City of Winnipeg engineer
A similar mix is already being used in Alberta, where it has been found to last two to four years longer than regular asphalt, according to Lester Deane, an engineer with the City of Winnipeg's public works department.
"It's more resistant to cracking and rutting," he said. "It's also supposed to reduce ice build-up in that it's a little bit flexible, so when ice starts forming, the traffic will actually flex the pavement and cause the ice to crack and mitigate the ice build up."
The mix costs about 30 per cent more than regular asphalt, but could divert tonnes of old tires from being dumped in landfills, said Deane.
He said the mix was put down on a pedestrian cycle path along Bishop Grandin last summer with good results.
Now it's time to try it out where there is heavier traffic, Deane said.
"We've decided to go right to a full-blown test of the material. So we're going to use it on Portage Avenue, arguably one of our higher-profile and high-traffic roadways in both truck traffic, bus traffic and car traffic," he said.
Weather permitting, 800 metric tonnes of the mix will be put down on three eastbound lanes on Portage Avenue between Unicity Mall and Cavalier Drive. The covering will be monitored for seven years to see if it performs better than regular asphalt.
If so, more roads and possibly provincial highways will be resurfaced with the same material, Deane said.
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Public works committee votes against tipping fee increases at Brady Road Landfill
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WINNIPEG--City council's public works committee has voted against tipping fee increases at Brady Road Landfill.
The committee voted 2-1 against a plan to generate $3.8 million in revenue for a new provincial program designed to divert more waste away from landfills and fund recycling programs.
The city actually stands to receive more money from the program than it contributes, as taxpayer contributions would be $2.6 million a year while the province would hand back $4.4 million under a complex formula determined by relative rates of recycling in Manitoba municipalities.
But Couns. Harry Lazarenko (Mynarski) and Harvey Smith (Daniel McIntyre) voted against the plan, which would see tipping fees rise $10 a tonne for large loads and increase $5 for small loads.
Lazarenko believes the program is unnecessary and Smith worries it will encourage more illegal dumping.
Executive policy committee will likely reverse this decision on Wednesday.
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Where I live everyone "tips" into the autobins... actually I don't know how I'd survive without an autobin in the back lane now, it's very convenient.
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