Winnipeg, Canada Travel News

The City of Winnipeg's executive policy committee on Wednesday voted unanimously to award a a 10-year lease to Wow! Hospitality to operate a "fine dining restaurant, cafe and banquet" there.

Continental Travel and the Winnipeg Jewish Foundation is offering a 10-day group mission tour to Israel, Oct 20-31. Our information meeting on May 13 at 7 p.m., chaired by Fay and Joel Lazer, will cover sights not available on other tours.

The masterpiece designation has been under fire for decades, and not just because its practitioners tend to be Dead White European Males.

By night, downtown Winnipeg is alive with concert-goers and diners; by day, it's bustling with 9-to-5ers and business travellers.

Three City of Winnipeg golf courses -- Crescent Drive, Harbour View and Kildonan Park are scheduled to tee off the 2013 season Saturday morning.

The debate over downtown Winnipeg would have to include 'the elephant in the room,' Portage Place Shopping Centre, writes Marcy Markusa.

Winnipeg really wants a Loblaws - or a Sobey's, or even a No Frills. In March, half of downtown Winnipeg's grocery stores closed for good after a four-storey Zellers was shut down by its new owner, Target, leaving only one full-service grocery store to serve tens of thousands of residents.

Some staff at the new Canad Inns Destination Centre Health Sciences Centre received empathy training to help them deal with patients and their families and friends.

JOE BRYKSA / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Moussavi is doing research on Alzheimeri 1 2s disease, which destroyed her motheri 1 2s cognitive skills.

Leith Robertson has had to learn how to dress in Winnipeg's brisk climate, since he's used to tropical temperatures back home on Australia's Gold Coast.

Universite de Saint-Boniface's Carmelle Mulaire on the student-recruitment trail in Mexico.

Earls on Main, one of the Vancouver-based chain's busiest locations and a favourite of visiting sports teams, will be demolished this fall.

A presentation on our tour, Israel and Jordan, A Journey of Three Faiths, with Reverend Father Gerry Sembrano will be held Monday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Flair Travel, Room 320 at Grant Park Shopping Centre, 1120 Grant Avenue.

More than 40 students from Assiniboine Community College competed in the 16th annual Skills Manitoba competition in Winnipeg earlier this month, bringing home 12 medals - half of them gold.

Detail of "South Side Spirits", watercolour, 2013 by Simon Hughes and "On Tragedy ", 2012 video, color, stereo, by Divya Mehra Two Winnipeg artists are in the running for the Sobey Art Award.