This goal will be shown around the world.

This CPL final is the most Canadian soccer game of all time.

Elm Street in Winnipeg is crawling with little people. A few projection screens set up along the block showing the ball game.

This World Series commercial shows something crazy. That giant blob of light south of Manitoba is bigger than Chicago but there’s no big city there. It’s actually light from burning off natural gas during the fracking extraction process in the Bakken Oil Fields of North Dakota.

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Colonel Sanders behind home plate at the World Series game in Toronto. It’s a fun fact that he lived in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga from 1965 until his death in 1980.

Covid was a death blow for Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue, but it looks a neighbourhood focussed rebirth is happening. A small grocery store is opening in the old Don’s Photo’s spot, a new convenience store is joining another that opened last year. All within a block of each other.

Tom is mad! Don’t give me some artsy fartsy city, Bellamy. I want the minimum and nothing more!

Amazing new billboard going up on Main Street (the side of Palomino Club). A celebration of three time Stanley Cup Champion Winnipeg Victorias. The first team outside of Montreal to win the cup.

Donald Trump has one thing in common with Canada. Both destroyed the White House. One in 2025, one in 1812.

We had a great day at Number TEN Architectural Group's annual 10.10 retreat (October 10th of course). This year's theme was storytelling in architecture, and its ability to create layers of meaning and inspiration that can establish deeper and more personal connections to our buildings and spaces.

We had a great day at Number TEN Architectural Group's annual 10.10 retreat (October 10th of course). This year's theme was storytelling in architecture, and its ability to create layers of meaning and inspiration that can establish deeper and more personal connections to our buildings and spaces.

Had a fun chat on CBC radio today with Chloe Friesen. Discussing my recent column that challenges Canada Post to think creatively about making new urban community mailboxes beautiful pieces of public art, placemaking and social connection. Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Had a fun chat on CBC radio today with Chloe Friesen. Discussing my recent column that challenges Canada Post to think creatively about making new urban community mailboxes beautiful pieces of public art, placemaking and social connection. Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

My column: Community mailboxes are coming to dense, urban neighbourhoods. Imagine if Canada Post approached it as the world’s largest installation of functional public art. Beautiful, locally designed objects, unique to their communities. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/2025...

My column: Community mailboxes are coming to dense, urban neighbourhoods. Imagine if Canada Post approached it as the world’s largest installation of functional public art. Beautiful, locally designed objects, unique to their communities. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/2025...

My column tomorrow: Imagine if Canada Post's transition to community mailboxes in dense, mature neighbourhoods was approached as the world’s largest installation of functional public art - beautiful, locally representative objects set within the urban landscape of every Canadian city.

On the way to hockey practice this morning and stumbled across this beautiful church in the small farming town of Starbuck, Manitoba. Designed by Étienne Gaboury in 1967.

Word on the street is that there are a bunch of new folks joining Bluesky right now, so it seems like a good time to re-share my first & biggest STARTER PACK of urbanists & city-making organizations from across the world. Hope you’ll consider following the excellent accounts here. And please share!

First new Winnipeg Jets banner raised to the rafters since the last Avco Cup victory in 1979.

Skies over Winnipeg make it feel like the whole city is in a dance club. (Sound on)

60 years of American design.

My column today: From residential zoning policy to trees, transit, Portage and Main and others, the summer 2025 was a season of urbanist change in Winnipeg. Some with immediate impact, some with impact in the future, and some are still a work in progress. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

My column today: From residential zoning policy to trees, transit, Portage and Main and others, the summer 2025 was a season of urbanist change in Winnipeg. Some with immediate impact, some with impact in the future, and some are still a work in progress. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Protest t-shirt at the game today. CFL rules produce more scoring, more passing, more touchdowns, and more comeback wins than the NFL. Turning our backs on a century of history just to look more American on tv is selling out our uniquely Canadian game.

Walked through a few days ago. The opening is going to be amazing. Proud to be part of this project.

I am part of discussion panel at The Forks tomorrow (Tuesday) for the Winnipeg Design Festival. We will be chatting about the Railside development. I will be focusing on the design thinking behind the project I am working on. Link to register. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Announced changes to the CFL game are embarrassing and disappointing. The answer to making it more popular is not to make the game less exciting just so it can look like it’s American.

$350k condo in a vibrant and walkable urban neighbourhood in a city of a million people. Germany intentionally created specialized industry sector hubs in secondary cities, instead of concentrating the economy in a few mega-cities. Could this be a solution to Canada’s affordability issues?

Exciting to listen to Dr. Lloyd Axworthy discuss Rail Relocation in the city of Winnipeg. The first public engagement session in an ongoing provincial study. It will be great to finally have an informed conversation about the costs and opportunities.

Exciting to listen to Dr. Lloyd Axworthy discuss Rail Relocation in the city of Winnipeg. The first public engagement session in an ongoing provincial study. It will be great to finally have an informed conversation about the costs and opportunities.

How can anyone think speed cameras are unfair? They are well marked and in the same place every day. The alternative is a police officer hiding behind a tree with a radar gun. If you don’t like it, just don’t break the law. Cars shouldn’t even be allowed to speed anymore. We have the technology.

My column today is a topic that I have been exploring in my own work as an architect. Why do people often like old buildings and dislike modern ones? Can architects bridge this public disconnect with modern design? www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

My column today is a topic that I have been exploring in my own work as an architect. Why do people often like old buildings and dislike modern ones? Can architects bridge this public disconnect with modern design? www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

My column today: Trump signed an Executive Order last week to Make Architecture Beautiful Again. He wants new public buildings to look like old buildings. Is it crazy, or is it a commentary on a more pervasive public disconnect with modern architecture? www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Was travelling a bit this summer. Felt like there was a difference between Irish Pubs in Ireland and Irish pubs in Canada, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

About to have the last of my stash of Nutty Club candies. A fixture in Winnipeg’s Exchange District for 120 years. It’s a shame they didn’t at least sell the trademark to another maker. It feels like there would be value in the brand.

The beautiful white sand beaches on Lake Winnipeg feel like a missed opportunity. Like ocean beaches, with nothing similar for thousands of kilometers, they might be a destination from across the centre of the continent if developed with quality resorts and tourist amenities.

Disheartening to see a second major arson in Winnipeg’s Exchange District. Fully expect one day the abandoned St. Charles Hotel will suffer the same fate, and the beautiful Peck building which is now surrounded by a fence, presumably to protect people from decades of neglect.

Nice to see a refreshed corner store in Winnipeg’s Elmwood neighbourhood. The world needs more corner stores. Cities need more neighbourhoods built to accept and support them.

Walking down the street in Victoria and an old guy sitting at a bus shelter points at me and yells “CURT HARNETT!!!” I asked. The Olympic cycling guy from the 90’s? He replies. No the guy from the Pert Shampoo commercials.

The anticipation of a prairie rainstorm this afternoon. Much needed.

I had no idea that Winnipeg’s St. Charles was designed by 2 of the 3 greatest golf course architects in history. They did 9 holes each. Alister MacKenzie also designed Augusta (Masters) and 3 of the top 10 courses in the world. It was his only Canadian design. I’m open to an invitation to play!

I will never get tired of walking across Portage and Main.

I will never get tired of walking across Portage and Main.

Canada needs to just lay low now. Stop reminding Trump that 95% of our trade is protected. Focus on supporting steel, aluminum, lumber, and vehicles until they realize they need those things from us. We have a year to diversify until CUSMA negotiations.

Canada is protected by the CUSMA free trade agreement for 95% of its US trade. This 35% tariff is just theatrics. Why not just say thank you and move on? Focus instead on diversifying and supporting the key industries that are impacted - steel, aluminum, lumber, autos.