“Winnpeg? Why WINNIpeg?” is what everyone said when I announced I was moving to this fair city. No matter how I tried to explain it (friends and relatives nearby, summer lake life, affordable housing, arts, culture, music, NDP government, etc.) no one seemed to believe that I knew what I was doing, and that Winnipeg [...]

In Atlantic Canada, folks who aren’t from the area are labelled “come from away”. Since moving here, I’ve often thought of myself as being the Winnipeg equivalent. I get a surprising amount of web traffic from visitors who are searching for blogs about moving to Winnipeg… people want to know what it’s really like to [...]

I was nine days overdue with my first baby when I went to an information session on Winnipeg’s future birth centre last June. After several years in the works, this amazing community facility is set to open sometime in the next couple of weeks. When I turned on the radio one morning last week, I [...]

Today is Manitoba Day, and over at The View from Seven, the question is this: If you came to Manitoba from elsewhere, how did you end up living here and how do you feel about life in Manitoba — good, bad or both — after living here for a while as a “Manitoban by choice”? [...]

I am excited to share another “new to Winnipeg” blog with you! When Jessica Owen was planning her move to Winnipeg, she decided to keep a blog, entitled “Going to Winnipeg“, to document her experiences. Her posts are entertaining, truthful and very well-written… I love ‘em! I interviewed Jessica over email a few weeks ago [...]

Note from Emma: I’m excited to introduce you all to Winnipeg O’ My Heart’s very first guest blogger… welcome, Ian! Hello, loyal readers of WoMH. As you may know, this little prairie blog started off with three fine contributors, of which only Emma has remained to hold down the fort.  Well fear not for the [...]

I’ve just read an interesting piece that explores the myth of Winnipeg, particularly as it relates to Winnipeg’s arts scene. While I found the author’s observations on how much Winnipeggers like to talk about Winnipeg and how in Toronto you can go to a carefully curated “Winnipeg Social” to be entertaining, the article also explores more [...]

It’s been a pretty amazing year for me here in the ‘Peg. This blog has turned out to be one of the neatest things I’ve done in a long time. And while I’ve lost my two fellow bloggers (Laurel moved to be closer to her family in August, and Aaron recently took a job out [...]

…the post where I talk about what I don’t like about Winnipeg. Bet you thought this day would never come! What’s been bugging me about Winnipeg lately is, well, downtown Winnipeg. Every weekday, I walk a couple blocks from my office to Portage & Donald to catch the bus home. Sometimes I have an appointment [...]

In the past seven years, I’ve lived in nine different apartments in five different towns. Needless to say, I’ve moved a lot; over that time I’ve had nine different roommates, and lived on my own for two and a half years. I have packing down to an art, and hoard spare cardboard boxes and newspaper [...]