West coast Canadian, here. Winnipeg has the reputation for being colder that Satan’s mother-in-law and windy enough to fly your cat like a kite. Portage and Main, 50 below, as the song goes. It’s the kind of place where pregnant women have been taken to the hospital by snowmobile, what with the apocalyptic snowfall, and all. This, in a city of 700,000. You gotta have a soft spot for a place like that.
It rhymes with “vagina” which is cool. 
“The City that Rhymes with Fun” is one of our unofficial mottoes.
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I’ve been to Winnipeg once. I went there (from Minneapolis) in February 1979 to watch an eclipse of the Sun./QUOTE]Well, you’re where you should be all the time.
FYI, the eclipse referenced in that song (in Nova Scotia) occurred 7 March 1970. It was a big deal at the time. I wanted to go see it, but I was stuck in the Midwest. :mad:
Huh? How is that different from any other city? (Yes, most of have “5th street” or whatever, but they also have named ones as well) I don’t see how that would complicate things.
A lot of Downtown Pittsburgh’s major streets are named.
I’m just surprised that there are actually Americans who watch “Murdoch Mysteries.”
It is shown on some of the cable networks such as COZI and Ovation. plus the ABC station in New York city broadcasts it Saturday morning at 3AM. I have no idea how many people actually watch it; I never have.
It’s different than the numbered-grid system that helps people get around when they are not familiar (not me though, I am used to the named streets).
Also, the downtown area is a series of one way streets that seem to mess people up pretty well. Also, Confusion Corner. Winnipeg’s drivers are a scary lot, they are nearly as bad as Edmonton’s…
I’ve been there in both Winter and Mosquito, and am surprised that they have a food culture now, as a pizza I ate there was the second-worst meal I’ve ever had, after a Vegan Thanksgiving.
Unless you are in New York, I don’t think that it is fair to judge a City’s food culture by its pizza. Winnipeg is the most ethnically diverse City in Canada with large populations of Ukrainians, Filipinos, Germans, and Polish. So you can probably get a good pierogi or chicken kiev.
Along with their large immigrant population Winnipeg also has a very large native population. Unfortunately, Canada’s treatment of its natives has not been very good and their communities tend to be poorer, younger, and have higher instances of substance abuse than the rest of the country. I don’t know if it has changed much since the late 90s, when I lived there there were areas that you just didn’t go after dark. One of my friends quit his job in the downtown area after getting mugged three times in a very short period.
That’s completely untrue; Toronto holds that record with Montreal and Ottawa/Gatineau close behind.
It’s easily googleable.
you are correct. Not sure where I heard that. Winnipeg is currently 7th.
The diagram for that…intersection?..looks like a name that may have been in consideration when Prince was looking for a symbol.
Prince once stayed at a holiday Inn in Winnipeg. True Story. OK, it’s not. He was craving a Kelecki’s Hot Dog and a Goog Special from the Bridge Drive In but it WAS the 80s.
That’s Kelekesis (best fries ever).
One of the major issues with the downtown core is gangs and violence, and a lot of that (most recently) stems from a mass evacuation in 2011 of several Aboriginal communities. The families were “temporarily” re-settled in hotels and resorts. A lot of money was pumped to pay for this and re-building efforts - money that mostly went to MANFF (Manitoba Association of Native Firefighters). When I moved, in 2014, many of those families were still living in hotels, so you have teenagers and pre-teens going a bit stir-crazy in a hotel in downtown Winnipeg. Not a great recipe for success. In addition, a large number of teens that were/are in the foster care system were (are?) also put up in hotels, with a care worker that is, often, just a glorified sign-in/sign-out desk.
There are a lot of issues facing downtown Winnipeg, which is very sad, and a lot of those issues are because of generations of abuse to Indigenous people, and continued strangling bureaucracy and non-constructive solutions, which is so much worse.
So many issues, in Winnipeg it’s more front and centre since it’s right downtown.
Oops, it’s Kelekis. My mistake, and you’re right about the fries.
Dammit!
It’s gone now. 
Poysyn, I’m hurt! I thought we were friends!
You, on the other hand, just off your berry farm…