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Survey says city's downtown is struggling, but it's been here before


Winnipeg Free Press
The pandemic has emptied streets and offices, but experts say with help, city s centre can rebound
By: Ben Waldman
| Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Friday, Apr. 9, 2021
The convenience store cashier sees everything on his corner of Graham Avenue. His view is good: behind the register, he sits on a fading vinyl stool that pivots, and if he turns his head over his left shoulder, his eyes look right out toward the bus stop. If he’s lucky, the benches are full of university students or harried office workers, and the No. 18 is running a bit late.
The convenience store cashier sees everything on his corner of Graham Avenue. His view is good: behind the register, he sits on a fading vinyl stool that pivots, and if he turns his head over his left shoulder, his eyes look right out toward the bus stop. If he’s lucky, the benches are full of university students or harried office workers, and the No. 18 ....

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Will 'Brian show' stay long enough that people change channel?


Winnipeg Free Press
By: Dan Lett
| Posted: 7:00 PM CST Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020
For anyone who makes a living in politics, this is what an existential crisis looks like.
For anyone who makes a living in politics, this is what an existential crisis looks like.
For the past month, Premier Brian Pallister and his government have been on the wrong end of a series of unflattering, even alarming public opinion polls. The latest is a
Free Press-Probe Research survey that shows, only a year into its second majority mandate, the Pallister Tories are trailing the NDP on a provincewide basis by a small, but significant, gap greater than the margin or error. ....

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