Archive : July 2009

Water woes

What can be learned from Winnipeg’s early history is that municipal ownership did not at first deliver clean potable water to its residents as promised, nor did the private sector which originally developed the city’s water supp...

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Perfect garage marriage of function, aesthetics

by Toby Welch In the 1990s, homeowners wanted a large, cozy kitchen and a gigantic master bedroom. When the millennium rolled through, houses came equipped with wine cellars, super-sized bathrooms, and laundry rooms rivaling the luxu...

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Learn from Duff

For decades, the residents of Fargo have known that “Duff’s Ditch” has spared Winnipeg from numerous floods, saving  billions of dollars in damages and the evacuation of tens of thousands of citizens. And for decades,...

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Explosion of life

Knowing that we owe our very existence as a species to an event that happened 540 million years ago is quite fascinating and also rather humbling. Without the Cambrian Explosion, life on planet Earth may have been stuck in the simple organi...

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