When Canadians think of Winnipeg’s famous downtown corner of Portage and Main it is usually to remark on the infamous winter weather.

Kids of all ages are looking forward to the grand reopening of the Manitoba Children’s Museum at The Forks National Historic Site on June 4, 2011.

Come winter at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers—known as The Forks—the sound of laughter, stones on stones and blades on ice carries up in the cold air as teams in thick, colourful sweaters square off in a curling bonspiel and others begin their gliding journey down the

It’s a cultural coup: the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB)—Canada’s premier ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America—based in Winnipeg, MB is about to tur

Okay, be honest with yourself: you go to Manhattan, and what do you find? The Gap. Benetton. Apple. You’re in the East Village and the transit system is good, but the shops, they could be anywhere. And the artists, where are they? Not in the Village, that’s for sure, because they can’t afford it.

Winnipeg, MB's Royal Canadian Mint makes a heckuva lot of money: every Canadian circulation coin, in fact, plus those of more than 60 other countries—billions of coins each year.

Too many spas these days are run-of-the-mill joints where the sounds of nature, today’s Muzak, are piped in from speakers as some disinterested aesthetician divides your body into quarters and gives you a rub-down, thinking dimmed lights and an aromatic candle will distract you from just how bad the massage actually is.

Canada is the current Winter Olympic Curling Champion, having won the 2006 gold medal with a rink skipped by Newfoundlander Brad Gushue—a rink that wears head-to-toe Asham Curling Supplies gear, from the patented Rotator Grand Slam S