Category: Winnipeg
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Winnipeg’s Embarrassing Lack of Trains
Over the past couple of years, I’ve visited more North American cities than I’ve been to in the previous 20: Vancouver, Ottawa, Montréal, Portland, Minneapolis/St Paul, Washington DC. You know what all of them have that Winnipeg doesn’t? One thing that completely changes how it feels to explore a city without a car? Trains. Winnipeg…
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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…
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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…