So on Thursday the Mayor says the City isn’t seeking a new slogan. Then on Friday he announces a public vote on…a new slogan. My estimate as to the amount of time the Mayor’s Office put into thinking up this idea: about 11 minutes. I’ll bet Destination Winnipeg is loving the way this is playing out.
Chief Terry Nelson calls on Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl for help in maintaining control of Roseau River First Nation, after weeks of blaming the feds for why his reserve can’t seem to pay its bills. That’s rich.
The City and U of W agree to permanently close off Spence Street to all traffic. Because the experiment with limiting it to transit traffic has been such an overwhelming success? Hey, weren’t there some nifty artist renderings of a ped mall floating around at some point in the past?
Dan Lett points out that the Winnipeg Convention Centre provides possibly the most convoluted and crappy WiFi “service” ever created. I’ve seen lots of people complain online about shoddy internet connections at conferences all over North America. Providing fast, free WiFi would be a competitive advantage for the WCC, and wouldn’t cost them dearly. But they’d rather spend that money on marketing studies to justify why government should give them $157 million to fund an unnecessary expansion instead. How’s the WiFi going to be in your new subsidized hotel Klaus?
Spoke to a friend this week who has a co-worker with a sister living in New York City. The sister happened to walk by a Manhattan movie theatre that was showing Guy Maddin’s “My Winnipeg.” Of course, she had to send a picture of this discovery back home. Everyone at my friend’s workplace thought this was the neatest thing in the world. Sometimes I think we might be living in Mayberry.
Actually, scratch that. The panicked reaction to rumours that Winnipeg might be dethroned as “Slurpee Capital of the World” is confirmation that we do in fact live in Mayberry.
Hey, remember way back when we were going to build a fancy new stadium in Point Douglas? Good times.
[I think the weather might be getting to me today...]
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Why yes there sure are fancy drawings of a Spence pedestrian mall. I witnessed them from one of the very architects involved about 14ish months ago.
Actually, I kinda like the Destination Winnipeg slogan: “(all inclusive)” It says we’ve got a bit of everything — which is true. It’s not like we stand out for anything in particular (other than Slurpees). It sorta plays on the multi-cultural thing as well.
It’s strange though, I noticed it a day or two ago on their website banner but now I can’t find it there anymore. Am I just daft or did they take it off? The “(all inclusive)” slogan is still part of their promo video though.
The whole WCC expansion and hotel thing really blows my mind. Maybe a case can be made for more convention space, but a hotel?
The WCC already has a hotel connected with it. Is the Delta at 100% occupancy all the time becasue when my family stayed there last month it was pretty empty. Not only that but across the street is another hotel and the Charterhouse is a 2 minute walk away. How can Klaus justify the need for more rooms, hell with the Hydro building they can expand the sky-walk system to the WCC and that would add the Lombard to the WCC for convention goers who fear the outside and don’t mind a 20 minute walk.