Category: Winnipeg

  • VA Café

    VA Café

    VA Café, is located in 171 McDermot Avenue, and it’s actually open every single day of the week (8:00am–5:30pm), which is sadly uncommon in Winnipeg. The “VA” in “VA Café” is a reference to Vertical Adventures, one of only two dedicated climbing gyms in the city. In April 2023, The Winnipeg Free Press reported that…


  • Why would you want to drive behind a slow cyclist?

    Why would you want to drive behind a slow cyclist?

    Whenever I’m engaged in a conversation and the other party is saying something that doesn’t resonate with me, something I don’t get or something that just seems strange, I make an honest effort to put myself in the other person’s shoes. I do research, thought experiments, bounce scenarios off friends, hypothesize with LLMs, etc. I…


  • Route 90 Safety

    Route 90 Safety

    Mayor Gillingham wants to spend $1,000,000,000 “improving” Winnipeg’s Route 90 (aka Kenaston Blvd) between Taylor and Ness avenues. The proposal can be read here (PDF, it’s large). “Improvement” seems to be defined as: a reduction of projected 2041 travel times (by car) by 90 seconds (page 7). It should also be noted that the goal…