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Nutrition experts get to the meat of latest grocery store trend

Protein-fortified milk, pasta with added protein, high-protein tortilla chips. Turn down any grocery aisle these days and you’ll likely find a wide variety of products bulking up on a certain macronutrient.

Interest in protein isn’t new (see the popularity of the Atkins and keto diets), but social media has raised the essential nutrient to cure-all superfood status.

“We’re bombarded by this idea that we need to eat more protein to have more muscle and look better, and that is changing consumer behaviour,” says Dr. Dylan MacKay, an assistant professor in the department of food and human nutritional sciences and department of internal medicine at the University of Manitoba.

A 2024 survey of American adults found 71 per cent of respondents were trying to consume more protein, up from 59 per cent in 2022. The same survey determined exposure to food and nutrition content has increased significantly across social media platforms in recent years.

Change is keyword in move to define infill boundaries

After 40 years of sprawl, Winnipeg is trying to grow up — but first, it will have to update its rules on infill development in mature neighbourhoods.

Winnipeg’s footprint grew three times faster than its population from 1971 to 2011, city documents show. For the last five years, 15 per cent of growth has been infill development in older neighbourhoods — a whiplash change that’s sparked concerns about different rules for different neighbourhoods and too much change, too fast.

While many infill developments are approved by city hall despite community opposition, Charleswood residents were able to block a 100-foot lot from being split early this summer.

“The lack of consistency and the imprecise guidelines is the most important thing,” River Heights resident Ann Hodges said. “There are criteria that are meant to be used.

MamiMarkets connecting ethnic food vendors, customers

A West African soup recipe and a fruitless search for ingredients led to a business opportunity for two Manitoba entrepreneurs.

La Salle-based husband and wife Tayo Olayinka and Adeola Adegoke are two of the co-founders behind MamiMarkets.com, an online marketplace that connects ethnic stores to their customers. Launched in Winnipeg around 2 1/2 years ago, the service is now available in seven Canadian cities.

Ethnic grocery vendors add their products and storefront to MamiMarkets, with no point-of-sale integration required.

Customers then search for the specific brands and ingredients they need, and identify which nearby vendor has them. They can then place an order and have the products delivered to their home that day.

Winnipeggers deserve an explanation for waste of taxpayer dollars: expert

The anti-corruption expert grew increasingly concerned with each passing example of costly and confusing construction projects ordered by Winnipeg’s public works department — year after year, intersection after intersection.

Kevin Gillese stopped the presentation halfway through — he’d seen enough.

“The materials you’ve shown me are extremely disturbing. They suggest a pattern of incompetence or corruption, or perhaps both… The patterns shown are over a long period of time and there’s no obvious rhyme or reason to what’s being done,” Gillese said.

“The extent and the magnitude is so great that it staggers the imagination. It suggests something very, very wrong in the way intersection engineering is being done in the City of Winnipeg.”

Multi-year budget to force councillors, bureaucrats to focus on the big picture

City hall is putting the final touches on the 2019 preliminary budget -- but the real tough job will start after that.

The city is committed to developing a four-year budget beginning with 2020, and having it in place by the end of this year.

It's a process that is filled with uncertainties, trying to balance four successive annual budgets at the same time, using assumptions on revenues and expenses that can change without notice: a provincial government that has frozen funding to city hall at 2016 levels and is reluctant to disclose annual funding commitments or share in unexpected revenues; erratic fuel prices; a possible change in government in Ottawa, which could bring new spending priorities. And in the middle of that four-year span, another civic election where new members of council may have other priorities than those laid out by the current crop of office holders.

Municipal governments across Manitoba are required to approve their annual operating and capital budgets by the end of March each year. But the criticism of decision-making at city hall has been that all the decisions are made on a year-to-year basis, keeping voters happy with an eye on the next election.

Olympics overnight: Synchro divers spring to silver, while Penny Oleksiak powers relay team to Canada’s first medal in Tokyo

Here’s what you missed overnight and need to know about the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this morning.