Category: Winnipeg
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Cause and Effect and IKEA
With the fervor surrounding the grand opening of IKEA’s Winnipeg store (their first new market in Canada since 1982, btw), the media, Twitter, bloggers, internet-trolls, your mom are all giving IKEA way to much credit. They are confusing cause and effect. IKEA this year and The Jets return last year are not revitalizing our fair city. They are…
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Winnipeg is a Freelance Town
After being laid-off from my job as an interaction designer at Think Shift earlier this year, I exchanged some emo IMs with a good friend and former-Winnipegger. I told him that I was looking at getting into freelance full-time, to which he replied “Winnipeg is a freelance town.” He was right. I’ve spent the majority…
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Winnipeg’s underground tech scene
It’s becoming apparent to me that Winnipeg has a very high-profile “tech” scene, it’s just kind of underground. I haven’t really drawn any conclusions about this yet, but I thought it was something interesting to note.