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History, quirky features of city's first five parkades subject of upcoming walking tours

Known to generations of Winnipeg drivers as convenient, if slightly pricey, places to park their vehicles, parkades have the particular distinction of originating in Winnipeg.

To be clear, it’s not the ginormous concrete-and-steel parking structures that stack cars on multiple levels that are Winnipeg- famous. Instead, it’s the moniker “parkade” that was invented here.

“It’s a combination of (the terms) retail arcade and parking lot,” explains history researcher and writer Christian Cassidy of the name coined for the city’s first downtown parking garage at 285 Memorial Blvd., connected to the Hudson’s Bay Company store.

Cassidy plans to include that fact about Winnipeg’s unique name for parking garages, as well as dozens of tidbits and back stories about the city’s first five parkades, in a two-hour walking tour 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 9, and Saturday, April 23. Part of Design Month sponsored by Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, the tour from Memorial Boulevard to Smith Street will explore some of the quirky features of early multi-level parking in this city.

Construction disruption frustrates

It’s an all too familiar story.

Small businesses that are already facing all the trials and travails they must regularly face — the hard slog of attracting customers in an internet-shopping world; the high costs for bricks-and-mortar locations, such as rent and insurance; a weak economy; and the difficulties of attracting and keeping staff — suddenly have to deal with a new problem.

The City of Winnipeg and its deathly slow road-construction schedule.

For most of us, it’s a time-wasting irritant. But for businesses facing lengthy street-construction projects, it’s a business strangler.

Election results: School trustees 2026

Below you’ll find live 2026 election results for school trustees in Winnipeg divisions.

We can display results only for wards in which Winnipeg voters cast a ballot; we do not have access to live results reporting for school boards outside of Winnipeg.

Today’s horoscope

MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The moon is in Gemini.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Your daily routine might change. In fact, pay extra attention to everything you say and do to avoid accidents. Nevertheless, you’re mentally alert and charged with energy that might display itself in a practical, useful way for you. Sports will be active!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Lula’s historic Brazilian election victory

This was supposed to go down as one of the closest presidential elections in Brazilian history — until it wasn’t. In the end, 80-year-old leftist President Luiz Inácio (Lula) da Silva of the Workers Party bested (by some four million votes) Flávio Bolsonaro, the hard-right Liberal Party leader and senator, by a lopsided 3.5 per cent of the popular vote.

Speaking of Brazilian history, it rarely happens that the second-place finisher in the first round ends up winning the second, run-off contest in such a decisive manner. More significant, Lula has now won an unprecedented (non-consecutive) fourth term as an elected Brazilian president.

While Bolsonaro has waffled on making a concession speech (like his father in 2022), the writing on the wall shows clearly that he lost badly. He has evidently taken issue with a ruling by a justice of the Supreme Court that extended polling hours country-wide by an additional two hours in light of high voter turnout and other interruptions.

Flávio’s supporters, many galvanized around the “never Lula” camp, were desperate for change — even if it meant the kind of change that could turn Brazil on its head. So Lula resorted to one of the oldest political tricks in the campaign handbook — namely, using fear of an anti-democratic Bolsonaro to swing voters to his side (along with a host of last-minute announcements involving financial incentives to Brazilians). With a right-leaning Congress, voters were understandably worried that Flávio would go about systematically dismantling Brazil’s democratic ethos and institutions.