If there’s one thing Winnipeggers love, it’s a bargain. This I can say for certain after living here for 2 1/2 years. From driving across town to save a few cents on gas — or across the border to pick up 25lbs of cream cheese (I’m looking at you, Auntie!) — to our obsession with [...]

This post is more for posterity than anything… this isn’t a riveting topic, but it reminds me of a time when we were new to Manitoba and noticing all the little things that made the province unique. It’s been a year and a half since former WoMH’er Laurel wondered, “Hey Manitoba, what’s up with the [...]

Normally I don’t take much of a political stand here on WoMH, but a few flyers that have recently landed in my mailbox prompted me to write a few thoughts on this year’s civic election. I think elections generally bring out the extremes in a city: candidates range from the incredibly popular to the incredibly strange, [...]

…but hearing that Manitoba may soon go to 10-digit dialing makes me a bit sad. Apparently, Manitoba will get a new area code (probably 431) and you’ll have to dial an area code before any local numbers sometime in 2012. I’d gotten used to 10-digit dialing in Vancouver – I didn’t really question it, as [...]

Inspired by Greg G’s recent blog post, I thought I’d share my own list of dream Winnipeg-related Jeopardy categories. (This meme comes from Douglas Coupland’s excellent novel, Microserfs, which is probably one of my all-time faves.) I’m still a relative newcomer to the city, but here are a few categories I’m pretty sure I could [...]

So, we all know that Winnipeg Wraps are a real phenomenon in this city, and perhaps around the province. As the weather turns I suppose I will be revisiting my theories about the WW. As for now, I may have stumbled across another very quirky Winnipeg-ism that defies all rational thought. Coincidentally (or as I [...]

Aaron: On Tuesday night Laurel, Emma, and I had the pleasure of being interviewed for filmmaker Paula Kelly’s upcoming documentary on the blogging community in Winnipeg. Most of the information for Paula’s project can be found at her website entitled BlogWinnipeg. As Paula describes it, “the intent for BlogWinnipeg is to fuse together the languages [...]

Couldn’t resist giving a quick shout out to our fellow Wo’MH contributor Laurel, who was quoted in the Free Press yesterday! Be sure to check out the Bartley Kives article, City in a growth spurt, which discusses some of the reasons Winnipeg’s been growing faster than statisticians predicted.

A couple of weeks ago my mom flew out to Winnipeg to spend some time with me. It had been about 9 years since her last visit to this city, and I was excited to show her what I know about Winnipeg as compared to what she may have experienced in the past. Thankfully the [...]

It’s official. High demand has made it necessary for us to create a Winnipeg O’ My Heart glossary of terms unique to Winnipeg and Manitoba. During a recent conversation with CBC Information Radio host Terry MacLeod, he asked us about the unique phrases we coin through the blog. A bit stumped, we fumbled through an [...]