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Photo by Bruno Frontino, courtesy of Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau (GMCVB).

Contents

34 Miami A jogger along a Miami Beach boardwalk.

40 Rio

Photos courtesy of the Rio Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Departures 34 Mmmm...Miami: Strolling and eating your way across the city 40 Bucket List Trip: Around Rio 44 Rome: A warm embrace

A view of a Rio beach.

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Arrivals 14 Sports: Celebrating 25 years of Winnipeg Goldeyes baseball 18 Daytripping: Following a trail of beauty

24 Local Business: Green is the new gold 26 Local Hero: How Manitoba’s Dr. Allan Ronald changed the world

Photo by Dan LeMoal.

20 Around Town: Government House gets a new lease on life

14 Winnipeg Goldeyes baseball celebrates 25 years.

Connections 28 Wayfarer: Cruising to the Canary Islands 48 Checking In: A look back at the Airport Travel Expo and Open House

Departments 10 Must-See Manitoba Events

Photo by Jim Leatt.

56 Checking Out: Ground Service Equipment Building

28 The other worldliness of the Canary Islands.

12 Hot Eats in the Peg 50 Travel Tips: Holiday travel tips 51 Border Basics: Pack your bag with these useful tips 54 Fab Finds 57 What's up YWG? What's new in town 58 Airport Information

62 Postcards

Photo courtesy of WAA.

60 Bird’s Eye View: Airport map

56 Breaking ground at the airport.

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A tiki hut on the Historic Virginia Key Beach. Photo by Chris Garcia, courtesy of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau.

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Editor’s Message

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ave you ever dreamed of going to Rio de Janeiro? How about cruising the Canary Islands or eating your way through Miami? Maybe spending some time in Rome, imagining the excitement of seeing the gladiators? Page through this issue of The Hub to do all those things and more.

We’ll introduce you to businessman John Arbuthnot, the 27-year-old wonder behind Delta 9 Cannabis, and to Allan Ronald, the 80-year-old doctor researching and fighting diseases, who is still going to Africa in the battle against AIDS. Plus, we’ll go inside Government House to see how The Honourable Janice Filmon, Lieutenant Governor, has filled the space with personality, and we’ll check out the 25th Anniversary celebrations for the Winnipeg Goldeyes.

Finally, it is truly a pleasure to work on this fine magazine for the first time. I love Winnipeg fiercely and look forward to bringing you interesting items from our city and the world.

Shauna Dobbie Editor

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he change of fall always captures the idea of new possibility. We hope you’ve enjoyed the wondrous summer as much as we have, wherein we saw more of our travellers over three months than ever before! From the Mascot Invasion and a new building groundbreaking, to brand new routes and expansions of our extremely popular ones, this is shaping up to be another stellar year for our community airport and that is captured in this issue. You’ll love the highlights of new additions to our campus like the GSE Building, revamped menus at Prairie Bistro and new activewear store Lolë in our terminal. We also go across the pond to the Canary Islands, Rome and Rio de Janeiro this issue. Summer being over won’t stop us from finding great beaches, hot temperatures and the best views the world has to offer for you.

Being able to embrace the new is part of what makes travel and yes, life, so great. See you next issue!

Tyler MacAfee and Michael Badejo, Editorial Advisory Board

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Must-See Manitoba Events HOCKEY: THE STORIES BEHIND OUR PASSION

Until January 13, 2019 Manitoba Museum This unique travelling exhibition offers visitors an exciting interactive experience showcasing hockey from both yesterday and today. Hockey: The Stories Behind Our Passion looks back over the past 100 years and earlier, and brings the history of the game to life through profiles of those who live and love it, both the professionals and amateurs. manitobamuseum.ca

November 13 Bell MTS Place Global comedy superstar Russell Peters is thrilled to announce his return to his home and native land as part of his brand new Deported World Tour this fall. The Emmy, Gemini and Peabody award winning comic will perform a limited eleven market arena tour bringing his unique and sometimes controversial brand of humor home once again. Peters’ new show features all new material including plenty of Russell’s signature audience interactions. www.bellmtsplace.ca

Winnipeg Santa Claus Parade

November 17 Portage Avenue and Young Street The parade has been a Winnipeg tradition for more than a century,

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and now it’s the largest nighttime parade, and second largest overall, in the country. Presented by Manitoba Hydro, the parade will start at 5 p.m. at Portage Avenue and Young Street.

It heads east down Portage Avenue all the way to Main Street ending at Westbrook Street. Remember, dress for the weather, give yourselves lots of time to get downtown, and don’t be naughty, because Santa is watching!

Great Russian Nutcracker

November 23 Burton Cummings Theatre The biggest Christmas experience of the year! The original, direct from Russia, Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker. Enchant the whole family with larger than life magical props, a 60-foot growing Christmas tree and spectacular Russian-made costumes and sets. A must-see event.

SPORTS Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Watch our blue and gold for action-packed professional Canadian football at its finest. Games are at Investors Group Field from June to November. bluebombers.com

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Winnipeg Jets

You definitely do not want to miss out on an exciting season of Winnipeg Jets action at the MTS Centre.

Let’s all show our support for our team and cheer them into the playoffs again. jets.nhl.com

Manitoba Moose

Cheer on our Manitoba Moose this year. They are our professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL) and official affiliate of the Winnipeg Jets. Visit their website for more information. moosehockey.com

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Must-See Manitoba Events Don Giovanni

November 24, 27 and 30 Centennial Concert Hall Mistaken identities, parties, and ghostly powers combine with breathtaking music in one of the greatest works of opera. In this interpretation of the timeless classic, the legendary Don Juan is a celebrated matador with a rock star persona. With an air of invincibility, the dashing, devilish seducer is constantly in search of a new conquest. But his incessant pursuit of women at any cost eventually earns him a dramatic punishment.

Three of his female targets join forces to wreak vengeance on him. However, in the end its the supernatural that demands the Don’s repentance.

A HILARIOUS EVENING WITH ALEC BALDWIN November 29 Centennial Concert Hall Master of characters Alec Baldwin is coming to Winnipeg at Centennial Concert Hall for a special evening

filled with laughter, impersonations, questions from the crowd, video clips and political insights. centennialconcerthall.com

CANAD INNS WINTER WONDERLAND

November 30 2018 to January 5, 2019 Red River Exhibition Park Canad Inns Winter Wonderland is a Winnipeg holiday tradition. This is Manitoba’s largest drive-thru light show and provides a brilliant presentation of over one million lights.

Travel the 2.5-kilometre route in the comfort of your own vehicle, tune your radio to the Park’s Christmas station and enjoy the views. www.redriverex.com

MONSTER JAM

December 1 to 2 Bell MTS Place The new season for Monster Jam will bring motorsport fans to the edge of their seats this December in Winnipeg with adrenaline-charged, high-

flying, four-wheel excitement that is fun for the entire family. www.bellmtsplace.ca

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Hot Eats in The ‘Peg

Kevin's Bistro 141 Bannatyne Ave.

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Mac and cheese.

evin’s Bistro takes one signature dish, that being mac and cheese, and successfully elevates it to a whole new level.

Three girlfriends and I started by sharing vegan Brussels sprouts that had been tossed in apple cider vinaigrette. They had been cooked to just barely al dente and were firm and crunchy. We also loved the panzanella, a Tuscan bread salad. The ribbons of basil which topped it were particularly tasty.

For mains, you choose from a list of re-imagined mac and cheese dishes. The hit of the evening was the caprese dish. The fresh tastes of bocconcini, basil and tomatoes lightened the combination of macaroni and cheese. I was elated with my choice of the el mejor where jack cheese, roasted poblano chilies, smoked chorizo and macaroni (of course) were adorned with chicharron (pork rinds), fresh cilantro and a squeeze of lime. It had some subtle smoky heat from the roasted poblano chillies. I adore anything seasoned with Mexican spices especially if it is topped off with a squeeze of lime and cilantro.

No one else had ever tried a beignet and so it was selected for dessert with four forks. I had enjoyed them when I had the opportunity to visit New Orleans. Beignets is French for fritters or doughnuts. I contend that if you put pecans and a caramel sauce on just about anything, it will taste amazing and the beignets did.

The vintage building which acts as home to Kevin’s Bistro was a surprise and delight. With its exposed brick walls and long narrow space, it had a real New York feel.

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Brussel sprouts tossed in apple cider vinaigrette.

Reviews and photos by Kathryne Grisim Kathryne Grisim was bitten by the travel bug when she was 16 and made her first solo trip to Halifax. She loves living in Winnipeg because she can leave on an early flight and be in Mexico by lunchtime. Her food and travel blog can be found at foodmusings.ca.

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Hot Eats in The ‘Peg ERA Bistro Canadian Museum of Human Rights When in Winnipeg you must visit the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and when you are at the museum, you should certainly make time for a lunch visit at the Era Bistro. Not surprisingly, the bistro menu emphasizes locally sourced, certified Fairtrade and sustainable products and is revised seasonally. I visited in the summer and their patio was full of blooming flowers and was beautifully appointed.

I was tempted to order the special that day, a mashed potato bowl full of gravy, bacon and sausages, until my lunch date indicated that she was going to have a salad, at which time, I came to my senses and selected the California club. A roasted chicken breast had been stuffed into a toasted ciabbata along with prosciutto, lettuce, tomato, avocado, mayo, sprouts and cheddar. The Italian ham and cheese provided some saltiness and the mayo and the avocado a silky texture. I also chose the decadent treat of beer-battered carrot sticks with a fresh herb and jalapeño buttermilk dip.

I shared half the sandwich and fries in exchange for half my lunch mate’s quinoa salad, in which romaine and quinoa were tossed with grilled cauliflower, roasted red pepper and feta and finished with an unusual and tasty mint lime vinaigrette.

Dessert was also a tough decision as I was drawn in by the thoughts of a dark chocolate layer cake but opted instead for the roasted peach and rhubarb parfait with

Vanilla bean cheesecake with blueberry, lavender and lemon compote.

house-made gluten free graham crumbs and Chantilly cream. I was so stuffed that I could only manage a few spoonfuls. My friend was only able to manage a couple of tastes of her vanilla bean cheesecake with blueberry, lavender and lemon compote. Luckily my husband enjoyed the leftovers the next day.

Keep in mind that Era Bistro is available for private events including weddings, holiday parties and corporate gatherings.

Passero-Corto Forks Market When you are at the Museum you will also want to visit the Forks where you will find oodles of eating choices.

Passero is the first choice of many, myself included. On this day I was with my oldest friend from out of town.

We automatically ordered to share, which is how we have always eaten together.

The sleek restaurant operates as Passero in the evening and Corto, a kind of mini Passero experience, at lunch.

You can nosh at their dining room tables or move to the larger space known as the Commons.

Their chicken parm was a luscious sandwich that must be eaten with plenty of serviettes so that the natural juices from the chicken and roasted tomato sauce don’t run down your arms to your elbows. The chicken was crunchy, the buffalo cheese silky and both were perfectly offset by the pungency of the tomato sauce.

We enjoyed more tomatoes and buffalo cheese in the tomato salad, which literally sparkled with flavour. But the piece de résistance were the crunchy potatoes. The name doesn’t begin to describe the decadence of this dish. Baby potatoes were cooked, smashed and cooked again (perhaps in a deep fryer), covered in herbs and then drizzled with a black garlic aioli. Now I love any aioli, but this particular one I could eat with a spoon. The deep and rich tastes remind me of something that you might colthehubwinnipeg.com

Chicken parm sandwich.

lect from the floor of a forest (in a good way). Words fail me…it was just so good!

Every food that I have seen eaten or whisked by me by a patron looked and smelled absolutely heavenly. I would love to eat my way through Corto’s lunch menu.

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Sports

Celebrating 25 years of Winnipeg Goldeyes baseball

By Bill Burfoot

The Winnipeg Goldeyes celebrate their second straight championship in 2017.

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t’s been a quarter-century since the first pitch was thrown by a Winnipeg Goldeye on June 7, 1994, and what a 25 years it’s been.

It doesn’t seem that long ago that 24-year-old Tim Cain threw the first pitch at the Goldeyes home-opener in the old Winnipeg Stadium in front of close to 15,000 fans, guiding the club to their first of 43 wins that season, a 9-1 triumph over the Duluth Superior Dukes. Winnipeg went on to capture the Northern League title that season, thus setting the foundation for professional baseball in Winnipeg for years to come.

This wasn’t Winnipeg’s first foray into the world of professional baseball. In 1954, the Winnipeg Goldeyes joined the original Northern League, playing from 1954 until 1964. It was a successful 10 years for the club, capturing the league title three times (1957, 1959, and 1960) as the minor league affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. The Goldeyes returned to the Northern League for one season in 1969, as an affiliate of the expansion Kansas City Roy-

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als but did not return in 1970, and the entire league shut down after the 1971 season.

How it began Fast-forward to 1993, Miles Wolff, a long-time owner of minor league teams and one of independent baseball’s pioneers, re-established the Northern League. The new league consisted of teams operating from outside the sphere of organized baseball and were located in the upper Midwest region of the United States and into Canada, including the Duluth-Superior Dukes (Duluth, Minnesota), Rochester Aces (Rochester, Minnesota), St. Paul Saints (St. Paul, Minnesota), Sioux City Explorers (Sioux City, Iowa), Sioux Falls, Canaries (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) and Thunder Bay Whiskey Jacks (Thunder Bay, Ontario).

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A full house cheers on the Goldeyes.

Team in 1987. After a few years of failed attempts to relocate teams from Triple-A baseball to Winnipeg, Katz and Wolff began discussions about Winnipeg joining the newly formed independent league. In 1994, the dream became reality as the Rochester Aces relocated to Winnipeg, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Upon their rebirth in 1994, the modern-day Winnipeg Goldeyes made an immediate impact on the city by capturing the Northern League championship in their first year. Winnipeg defeated the Sioux City Explorers three games to one in the Northern League Championship Series, and maybe more impressively, drew more than 212,000 fans (5,314 fans per game). The championship marked the first of 10 consecutive playoff appearances (including seven berths in the Northern League Championship Series) for the Goldeyes, a feat still unmatched by any Northern League or American Association team today.

After their inaugural championship season, it would be 18 years before another title would be won. Despite not winning championships, the Goldeyes were continuously near the top of the league standings, and continued to be successful both on and off the field.

After spending five years playing out of the Winnipeg Stadium, known for its bad sightlines, hard turf, and short outfield, Katz and company built what is now known as Shaw Park (formally CanWest Global Park). The beautiful 6,140 seat stadium opened its doors in downtown Winnipeg May 24, 1999 and was a big upgrade from the early days of the franchise. Nearly 300,000 fans packed the new stadium during the club’s first season in the new park, averaging 6,048 fans per game as the Goldeyes reached thehubwinnipeg.com

Mascots Goldie and Goldette liven up home games.

their fourth Northern League Championship Series. In 2003, Shaw Park went through some upgrades, adding additional 1,200 seats. With the success of the club on the field, and the beautiful baseball park in downtown Winnipeg, it’s no surprise the Goldeyes have continuously been one of the top drawing teams in independent baseball, setting numerous league and attendance records.

2011 marked a major change as the Goldeyes joined the independent American Association along with Fargo-Moorhead, Gary SouthShore, and Kansas City. The league, which formed in 2006, was now a 14-team circuit with only four teams qualifying for the postseason.

Despite a new league and many more opponents fighting for position, the Goldeyes won a franchise-best 60 games, and used a dominant finish (17-8) to put away the American Association North Division. In one of the most exciting playoff series in team history, the Goldeyes fell in heartbreaking fashion to the St. Paul Saints in the ninth inning of the decisive fifth game at Midway Stadium.

Winnipeg fans would once again fill Shaw Park, averaging 5,740 fans per game, which was not only best in the American Association, but in all of independent baseball, helping Winnipeg bring home its first American Association Organization of the Year award.

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Photo by Dan LeMoal.

Reggie Abercrombie continuously gives his time to the community and has become one of the most recognizable and popular sports figures in Winnipeg.

Championships in dramatic fashion If you’re going to wait 18 years before your next championship, you may as well do it in dramatic fashion right?

Well that’s exactly what the Goldeyes did in 2012. The 2012 team may not have been the most talented group in Goldeyes history, but the grit they showed to hoist the trophy at the end of the year was remarkable. Qualifying for a wild-card berth with just three games left in the regular season, the Fish went on a tear in the playoffs, posting a 6-0 record against Fargo-Moorhead and Wichita to bring the title home. They were the first, and to this day, still the only American Association team to accomplish this feat.

The Goldeyes would miss the post-season in two of the next three seasons, but in 2016 they found their way back to the top, winning the American Association Championship for the second time in five years, and again it was in dramatic fashion. The Goldeyes qualified for the playoffs on the final day of the regular season when left-handed pitcher Kevin McGovern tossed a complete game twohitter over the RedHawks that clinched the American Association wild card. In the Division Series, the Goldeyes came back from a 2-1 series deficit against the St. Paul Saints, winning Games Four and Five on the road, sending the Goldeyes into their ninth league final in team 16 • Autumn 2018

history against the Wichita Wingnuts. Winnipeg would once again have to battle back after falling behind 2-1 in the series, but after a big win in Game Four, the American Associations all-time leader in home runs, and perennial fan-favorite Reggie Abercrombie hit two home runs in Game Five, setting a franchise playoff single-game record with seven RBI in the deciding game, propelling the Goldeyes to the 2016 title.

The organization enjoyed that championship so much, they decided to win the championship again in 2017. In what has become the norm for the Goldeyes, it would be again be in dramatic fashion. After a season which saw them win a league-best 62 games and clinch the North Division title, Winnipeg would get by a stubborn Lincoln Saltdogs club before going head-to-head with the Wichita Wingnuts in the championship final for the secondstraight year and third time in the last six. Just as they did in the 2016 series, Wichita grabbed a 2-1 lead, and once again, the Goldeyes would have to win the final two games to win. Game Four will go down as one of the most memorable and talked-about games in American Association history. Wichita had a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the ninth and looked to win the championship after Casey Turgeon hit a groundball that was thrown to first The Hub

Spending a warm summer evening at the Goldeyes ball park has become a tradition for many Winnipeggers.

for the final out. Wichita players stormed the field, their gloves being tossed in the air, but a balk had been charged to Wingnuts pitcher Ryan Kussmaul prior to the pitch.

Turgeon was given a second chance and made the most of the opportunity, driving a double to left-centre that scored Wes Darvill to tie the game at three. It stayed that way until the bottom of the 17th inning when a David Rohm double scored Turgeon, giving Winnipeg a 4-3 win. The game took five hours and 59 minutes to play, setting a record for the longest game in league history, and set up a deciding fifth and final game in Wichita. Game Five

was never in doubt, as the Goldeyes rattled off 18 runs en route to their third championship in six seasons, by a final score of 18-2.

The 2018 season may not have produced a third consecutive championship, but it’s been quite a run for the organization since that first game in June, 1994. They’re the only professional sports team in Winnipeg to have won a championship in the past 25 years, and have been one of the most consistent and successfully run franchises in independent baseball history. Here’s to the next 25 years!

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Day-tripping

Following a trail of beauty Barn quilts decorate Manitoba's Interlake

By Gail McDonald

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lazy day is perfect for a drive to the country.

On your computer you can download welllaid out info on the Interlake Barn Quilt Trail, including a map of the numerous locations. There are over 40 locations in the Interlake, all on interlakebarnquilts.com, that host a barn quilt, each with a story behind it. A barn quilt is a piece of plywood painted to look like a square in a quilt. Some are as small as 60 centimetres square and may be on a shed rather than a barn, but they are meaningful to the owners. The largest right now is 2.45 metres square.

Two ladies from the Lakeside Quilters Show and Sale, Donna Kerns and Janice Skene, were on a quilting trip in the United States in 2014 and did some bus touring to see gorgeous displays of art and quilting hanging on old barns. When they came back, their infectious natures got Bonnie Dykes and Isabel Napp excited and the four of them started applying for grants, painting and teaching others about barn quilts.

They started what is now a self-drive tour of the Interlake, with a fair number of barn quilts being painted and erected in the Gimli, Winnipeg Beach and Village of Dunnottar areas first. Now there is scarcely a community that doesn’t have one up or started, but there is still lots of room to grow.

With the assistance of Lenore Olafson and the Arborg AG Fair and Rodeo, seven quilts made their debut at the 2015 AG Fair followed by the official opening of the largest barn quilt (the 2.45 m2 one) now hanging at the Arborg and District Multicultural Heritage Village. Drive west from Highway 8 on Highway 68 and you are met by a vibrant Harvest Moon quilt as you near the village, the farthest quilt to the northeast right now.

Northwest, at Steep Rock Beach Café you will find Sail Away, with three in Ashern, then check out the Butter Churn at the Eriksdale Creamery, a perfect place for it. To the north and east area, you’ll find a few quilts in Fisher Branch and in Arborg, then move southeast, where many are found off Hwy. 9 alongside 18 • Autumn 2018

Barn Quilt on the Chapil Barn at the Arborg And District Multicultural

Lake Winnipeg communities. Going southerly to Oak Hammock Marsh on Hwy. 67 between Hwy. 7 and 8, you’ll discover a special goose.

One quilt, Bear Claw, is located on the east side of the Red River at Gonor and has joined the trail with several more being worked on by business owners and residents that wish to showcase their location in the eastern part of the Interlake. We could have quilts hanging all the way up to Grand Beach soon.

The one area that was lacking was the southwest corner of the Interlake; however, the fix is in, as the West Interlake Trading Company took on the enormous task of designing, drawing and painting two quilts that will The Hub

Heritage Village.

be the largest barn quilts in Manitoba, and it is believed, in Canada. These 3.65 m2 quilts will hang on opposite sides on one of the last remaining wooden grain elevators – a 1948 Prairie Sentinel located on Railway Ave in Warren.

No matter the size or where they are located these barn quilts are spreading art and beauty throughout the Interlake and we welcome you to start your trip at whatever jump-off point makes sense to you. See the map and locations at interlakebarnquilts.com and take time to enjoy nature’s beauty surrounding you at the same time.

Gail McDonald is Interlake Tourism Manager. thehubwinnipeg.com

At work on a barn quilt at the West Interlake Trading Company.

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Government House gets a new lease on life

By Dorothy Dobbie

Government House serves as the ceremonial home for Manitobans.

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er Honour, The Honourable Janice C. Filmon, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, is bringing light and laughter to the 135-yearold Government House at No. 10 Kennedy Street. She has pulled the dusty and heavy blue curtains away from the Victorian style windows and allowed the sunlight to penetrate. She has tucked away an overburden of memorabilia, table tops have been redone, the floors have been refinished, walls have been painted and the house gleams with polish and life.

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“It is such a privilege and a blessing to celebrate Manitobans in this house,” say Her Honour. “I’m learning so much.” She enjoys collaborating on the planning of events, and puts great thought into the food and the flowers to ensure her guests have the best possible experience.

“Government House is the ceremonial home of all Manitobans,” she says. “It is a place to gather, learn about each other, and celebrate who we are as a community.”

She cherishes her connections with the public and people she might never meet in the normal course of life.

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The Queen Elizabeth II garden is found north of the house.

These encounters open her mind to bigger issues such as the essence of what Truth and Reconciliation is all about.

The personal stories and memories of everyone she meets fill her with “inspiration and hope”, she says.

That Government House is celebrating a venerable anniversary resonates with the Lt. Gov.’s personal energy and joie de vivre. To make the House feel more welcoming, she has introduced music to fill the empty spaces and chase away gloomy ghosts of another era. A partnership with the Winnipeg Art Gallery allows visitors to enjoy the works of a number of celebrated Canadian artists and become absorbed in the house and its new presence.

Part of that presence is evident in the compelling existence of a mannequin at the end of the formal dining room. Named Celeste, she is a cherished long-time member of the Filmon family. Celeste is often outfitted in clothing that has personal meaning or costumes and uniforms representing organizations being hosted at Government House events.

Celeste is evocative of the new energy seeping into the walls of Government House. The house was built in 1883 at the stunning cost of $23,995, its grand style epitomizing the ornate taste of the Victorian era. The lightening of the mood by Her Honour notwithstanding, vestiges of the past occur everywhere, reminding us of earlier beginnings.

In the salon, which was once the library, guests are now welcomed by Their Honours. Here, a beautiful painting of a herd of resting buffalo dominates the wall over a 17th-century sofa. Hidden for years, it was found rolled up in a corner of the tower by the son of former Lieutenant Governor Errick Willis in the 1960s. Frederick Vernthehubwinnipeg.com

The King’s other speech

In the Manitoba Room resides the desk at which King George VI made his first broadcast speech to the British Empire, right here from Manitoba on Empire Day, May 24, 1939 (now known as Victoria Day).

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A corner table commemorates the royal visits.

Celeste welcomes visitors to the dining room.

er, photographer turned painter, depicted many similar scenes of the prairies, but this one has a softly luminous quality that evokes a sense of the plains before Europeans, even though it was probably painted in the 1870s.

In the Manitoba Room, now set aside as a gathering area and cloakroom for visitors, resides the desk at which King George VI made his first broadcast speech to the Empire, right here from Manitoba on May 24, 1939. The desk was in what was then the library on the second floor of the house.

He referenced his location in the speech: “Winnipeg, the city from which I am speaking, was no more than a fort and hamlet upon the open prairie when Queen Victoria began to rule. Today it is a monument to the faith and energy which have created and upheld the worldwide Empire of our time" A photograph of the King making his speech is now placed next to the guest book on the famous desk. When the Filmons had their official audience with the Queen at Buckingham Palace, one of the gifts they presented to Her Majesty on behalf of the people of Manitoba was

a framed replica of this photo. The second gift was a presentation bottle of the famous Crown Royal whisky, along with a crystal decanter, presented in a beautiful custom-made wooden inlaid box. The whiskey was specially blended and named for the 1939 visit. At the conclusion of his visit, King George took with him 10 cases of the royal blend. In 2016, Crown Royal was named the number one whiskey in the world. A replica of the gift is on display at Government House.

The house has changed much over the past 135 years.

Walls have been removed to create more space and to add new bathrooms. The second floor, once part of the state rooms, in now set aside for the private use of the Lt. Gov., although a private suite on this floor awaits the next visit from royalty. Many have stayed there in the past, including the current Queen when she was still Princess Elizabeth and later with Prince Phillip after her coronation. Phillip called it home when he came to Winnipeg in 1967 for the Pan Am Games and again in 1978, when he was given an award by the St. Boniface Hospital Foundation. There have been many other luminous guests includ-

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A conservatory lies to the south of the main house.

A tribute to Her Majesty hangs on a kitchen door.

ing Winston Churchill and the Duke of Windsor.

One of the renovations was to turn the space originally occupied by a conservatory into a sunroom at the end of the present dining room and where Celeste now holds court. From here you can access the garage and, from there, the potting shed and conservatory.

The third floor houses the three-and-a-half-room private apartment of the housekeeper, the only full time employee at Government House. This floor also holds four bedrooms and two bathrooms, generally used in the past to house visiting serving staff. In all, the home has 23 rooms, encompassing 20,000 square feet (including the garage, conservatory and ballroom).

Having originally been housed on the second floor, a new ballroom was built on the main floor in 1960. The large public room retains is 1960s flavour, with wood panelling. The ballroom continues to be the hub of activity in the home, where Their Honours host numerous events connecting and celebrating Manitobans.

In the main house, there are three salons. Salon I was once a library where the buffalo picture holds sway, Sa-

lon II once served as the breakfast room, and Salon III, also known as the Ambassador Salon, where Her Honour meets with visiting dignitaries by a lovely fireplace.

Turning left leads to a smaller dining room and then the large state dining room, whose table can seat up to 42. Finally, there is the sunroom. A compact kitchen and serving room are off to the right, replacing the kitchens that were once in the basement.

In spite of the vast number of rooms, the house feels quite cozy and not at all imposing. Her Honour has made the spaces feel even more so, much more of a home than an empty government building.

Now she wants to open up the home to as many Manitobans as possible and, to celebrate its 135th birthday, Her Honour has recently launched a series of free monthly public events called Conversations and Celebrations, bringing together fascinating and entertaining people from across this great province.

As space is limited to 90 guests, those wishing to attend must call the office at 204.945.2753 to register. Registration opens two weeks prior to each event.

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Local Business

Green is the new gold

By Gordon Gage

Bill (left) and John Arbuthnot (right).

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Newly planted grow pod.

While the choice to grow indoors is nothing new, John and Bill went a step further. All of Delta 9’s cannabis is grown inside 30-square-metre steel cargo containers, referred to as pods, each one a fully self-contained, computeroperated grow room complete with climate control, lighting, nutrient supply and security. These grow pods, built by Delta 9, are designed based on the results of years of crop production and fine tuning their business model. This is where Delta 9’s production method differs from others in the industry and inadvertently provides them substantial comfort in reducing risk. Cannabis is very susceptible to powdery mildew and once that shows up in a grow room the entire crop must be destroyed. While all producers take great care to prevent a powdery mildew outbreak, in Delta 9’s case, losing a 30 metre2 grow is a lot different from a whole greenhouse- or warehouse-sized crop.

The cargo containers utilized today are a far cry from the early days for Delta 9, whose first grow rooms were similar sized spaces constructed with polystyrene and two-by-four wood with sheet metal cladding on the outside for security purposes. Twenty-litre soil-filled buckets, each containing The Hub

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anitoba maintains an excellent global reputation as a province with a robust agricultural industry, covering farming, food processing and farm equipment manufacturing. There is a new crop to add to the extensive list of what we grow here in Canada’s heartland, though. While still somewhat controversial, medical marijuana and recently, recreational cannabis, are now a part of our agricultural mix. In Manitoba, Delta 9 Cannabis is the leader in this new industry.

Manitoba has produced its fair share of entrepreneurialminded individuals and John Arbuthnot, CEO of Delta 9 Cannabis, is a prime example of that cutting-edge spirit.

When asked where his idea came from to get into the cannabis business, John replied: “When I did a feasibility study on a medical cannabis company in first year university in 2008, I brought it to my father and the idea that would eventually become Delta 9 came from there.” That was 10 years ago and John has just turned 27. His feasibility study precipitated what today is a multimillion-dollar cannabis production company crafted by the foresight of a 17-yearold, first-year university student.

In 2013, Delta 9 Cannabis was issued the much soughtafter Health Canada authorization to become the fourth licensed producer of medicinal cannabis in Canada at that time. To date, more than 1700 applications have been made with only 120 being granted so far. With the legalization of recreational cannabis this year Delta 9 is well positioned to take advantage of an entirely new opportunity apart from its medical-license retail channel.

Bill Arbuthnot, John’s father, co-founder, Chairman and President of Delta 9, continues to work closely with his son in what is really a unique business in this new industry.

There are two main differences that set Delta 9 apart from its competitors, the first being the production method they utilize. Manitoba’s climate may have had an unseen hand in this as winter in the prairies is not exactly economically conducive to greenhouse crop production.

Stacks of pods in which the plants are grown hydroponically.

one plant, filled those rooms. Today’s cargo containers will each produce between 30 to 35 kilograms of cannabis per year. Well on their way to housing 600 of these high-tech containers in their warehouse, Delta 9 will see a targeted annual production of approximately 17,500 kilograms of cannabis.

The second thing that sets Delta 9 apart from others in the industry is that Delta 9 is one of only four companies selected to sell retail cannabis in Manitoba. This allows them total vertical integration, from crop production to retail sales, whereas the majority of other growers are in the wholesale space. Annually, Delta 9’s 600 grow pods should yield roughly $170-million of cannabis at the retail level.

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Delta 9 cannabis store in Winnipeg.

lion dollars in annual sales, there is still plenty of room for further expansion. With that opportunity looming on the horizon, John and Bill purchased the 20 hectares of land surrounding their current warehouse to further build out the business that was once just an idea of a 17-year-old first-year university student.

Delta 9 is well-positioned to take advantage of expanding markets in the prairie provinces with the recent purchase of Westleaf Cannabis in Alberta; they also have their sights set on opportunities in Europe. As one of Canada’s longest running licensed producers, maintaining very lean operation and production models and continuing to focus on lowering costs and maximizing return on investment, Delta 9’s future looks to stay in the green, possibly with a slight glint of gold.

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Local Hero

How Manitoba’s Dr. Allan Ronald changed the world

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By Dorothy Dobbie

Dr. Allan Ronald at the market shop of Bert, one of their Ugandan grandkids.

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here must be something in the air of Manitoba that makes the province produce such outstanding people as Dr. Allan Ronald, a leading researcher in the field of infectious and sexually transmitted diseases. How else do you explain how a guy from Portage La Prairie could gain such world-wide esteem in a discipline that is usually confined to big cities where these sorts of issues are presumed to be?

The answer would be found in the brain of Dr. Ronald, who is deeply intelligent and who retains an almost impish sense of humour and curiosity in spite of reaching 80.

Dr. Ronald is keenly alive, and he is still going to Africa to continue his work after almost 40 years.

But what is it that incites a young man to take on such a long assignment? A few years ago in an interview, Dr. Ronald had this to say: “I became excited about science as a medical student.

There was so much we didn’t and still don’t know about human health and illness. The ‘need to know’ drove me to further study after receiving my medical degree at Canada’s University of Manitoba. I trained for six years in Baltimore (University of Maryland) and Seattle (University 26 • Autumn 2018

of Washington). I returned to Winnipeg to pursue a career combining a search for new knowledge with practice as a microbiologist and an infectious disease physician.”

The incident that took him on his long journey into sexual diseases was an outbreak of chancroid in Winnipeg back in 1975. Dr. Ronald, who had recently come home from his extensive studies abroad, had been assigned to a clinic dealing with sexually transmitted diseases. Suddenly, people started showing up with swelling in their groins. This didn’t look like anything that had been seen locally before. Could it be chancroid, normally a tropical disease, this far north?

Dr. Ronald was an inveterate networker and had made many friends on his journey of medical discovery including with some people at the Centre for Infectious Diseases in Atlanta. He called on their expertise, setting up a pattern of co-operation with this prestigious organization that lasted for almost a decade, and sure enough, chancroid was diagnosed. It’s a bacterial infection that is treatable and after some trial and error in choosing the most effective antibiotic, the outbreak was brought under control within a few months. Dr. Ronald and his team The Hub

Awards and honours Dr. Ronald has received at least 42 awards and honours.

The following is just a sample: • Graduated in medicine from the University of Manitoba (1961).

• Trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Maryland (1962-64).

• A Fellow in Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington (1965-68).

• Joined the Faculty of Medicine in the Department of Microbiology and Internal Medicine at the University of Manitoba in 1968, rising to the rank of Professor (1977) and Distinguished Professor (1986).

• Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology (1976-1985).

• H.E. Sellers Professor and Head of Internal Medicine (1983-1990).

• President of the International Society for Infectious Diseases from 1996-1998.

• Fellow of Royal Society of Canada 2000.

• Order of Manitoba.

• Order of Canada.

• 2003 F.N.G. Starr Award (Canadian Medical Association).

• Gairdner Foundation Wightman Award 2006.

• 2009 One of Manitoba’s 30 Outstanding Canadians.

• Winnipeg Real Estate Boards Walk of Fame.

Dr. Allan Ronald.

learned a lot from this experience and wrote about it.

This article came to the attention of the University of Nairobi, which, in 1978, invited Dr. Ronald to come to Kenya and advise them on the disease there. That was the first of more than 85 visits to Africa that have occurred since then. An important outcome of this trip was the establishment by Dr. Ronald of the University of Manitoba/University of Nairobi World Health Organization Research and Training Program in Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Over the years, more than 80 African physicians have been trained in microbiology and infectious diseases in North America, contributing greatly to the body of knowledge and control of these diseases, globally.

Dr. Ronald was in Kenya when HIV/AIDS began to emerge as a serious threat. His work with his colleague, Dr. Frank Plummer, led the way in establishing prevention programs. For example, it was in Winnipeg that they noticed the correlation between circumcision and the spread of the disease, that the incidence of HIV in circumcised men was only 6 out of 214, but 18 out of 79 (23 percent) in those who had not been circumcised.

The collaborative team between University of Manitoba/ University of Nairobi was the first to recognize that the infection could spread through breast milk. They also made important discoveries furthering the understanding the role the immune system played in protecting some from infection. thehubwinnipeg.com

As time went on, Dr. Ronald’s reputation and, by extension, that of the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine, grew so that when the Mulroney government decided to establish a new Canadian Centre for Disease Control, Winnipeg was at the head of the list to be the location. Aside from consternation in Ottawa about having a national laboratory located in Winnipeg, the only other controversy was where in Winnipeg to put it.

Many favoured a location near the Royal Canadian Mint on the outskirts of town. The final decision located it near the University of Manitoba College of Medicine at the Health Sciences Centre.

A decade later, in 2001, this internationally recognized centre would open a level-4 containment lab to work on the most dangerous pathogens in the world and this led to the development of a vaccine to control Ebola.

So it is that a young man, with an infectious smile, came to change the world, his actions leading us forward one step at a time.

But even as he performed trailblazing work, he prioritized his wife Myrna, a nurse, who is still by his side.

They and their three daughters and 12 grandchildren call Manitoba home, even though the Ronalds continue to travel to Africa each year.

Kudos to Dr. Allan Ronald for seizing the day and making all Manitobans proud, while going out and humbly doing his best to make the world a better and safer place.

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Wayfarer

Cruising to the Canary Islands Story and photos by Jim Leatt

The first stop was La Coruna, Spain, which is known for its Tower of Hercules, an ancient Roman lighthouse which has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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his year’s holiday was a cruise, another cruise, over 3,000 passengers with a staff compliment of just over of course it was a cruise, for many years half that amount. The ship is vast and there are now it’s been a cruise, and it’s probendless things to do, definitely something for ably going to stay that way. My everybody. There are plenty of bars and eatwife and I were joined by our 18-year-old eries; whatever your taste or diet, I guarandaughter and my septuagenarian mother tee you will not go hungry on a cruise ship. on a 12-night Canary Islands adventure In the past my family and I have particiHow to get there on P&O Ventura. Departing from Southpated in just about every activity going: Winnipeg to Toronto to ampton (England) we call in at La quizzes, gameshows, sporting challenges Dublin or Brussels to Coruna (Spain) and Madeira (Portugal) – everything except karaoke, though they Canary Islands on the way down to three of the Canary Ishave plenty of that. This time, pressures of lands: Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote. work have forced me to seek relaxation and I On the return journey we stop at Lisbon. Sandam happy to chill out on a sun-lounger on the wiched in between are a couple of sea days. upper decks or read a book on my balcony, taking time Ventura is one of P&O’s larger vessels, accommodating to glance at the ever-changing sea.

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The next stop was magical Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago known for it’s namesake wine and a sub-tropical climate.

Two days in and we arrive at La Coruna, Spain. Originally, I was going to head to the magnificent cathedral that marks the end of the Camino de Santiago or pilgrimage routes from across Europe, but on researching the cathedral I learned that it was undergoing renovation and was consequently under scaffolding. So, I joined my family for the Leisurely La Coruna, a tour that operates by coach and requires minimal walking. We were taken to see the Europe’s oldest working lighthouse, but otherwise this tour smacked of padding.

Two days later and we arrived at Funchal, Madeira, a fantastic island that boasts dramatic scenery, including the second highest sea cliffs in the world, mountain ranges, terraced fields and a thousand kilometres of levada trails (footpaths that run alongside a unique irrigation system). thehubwinnipeg.com

The sea that surrounds the island is no less impressive, the deep ocean being a hotspot for whales, killer whales and dolphins.

Today, my daughter and I opt for a little fun. The tour starts with a 15-minute cable car ride up to the Funchal suburb of Monte. The cable cars are modern, immaculate and smooth, but the ride is high, very, very high, and I chatter nervously to other passengers. From what I can see when I open my eyes, the views are phenomenal. We then head back down from whence we came in Madeira’s famous toboggans (wicker sleds) pushed and steered by drivers who run alongside. It’s exhilarating, but rather tame. Nevertheless, it was an experience, and that’s what makes for a good holiday.

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Looking towards the volcano Mount Teidi, which dominates the island of Tenerife.

Gran Canaria.

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and the Canary Islands are loaded with them, yet this is my first visit. Tenerife is dominated by Mount Teidi, a massive volcano which at 3,718 metres is the highest point in Spain. We hope to get to the crater today, but to get there we must first take a bus from the sea shore to the cable car station and from there take a short, steep ride to the summit. From the second we leave the port, we start climbing. Such is the girth of the volcano that we’re able to climb on fantastic, wide and well-maintained roads, no tight hairpins to navigate, just a few cyclists (Mount Teidi is used as a training camp by the pro cycling teams).

We initially pass through beautiful Esperanza pine forest but as we near the cable car station the scenery changes dramatically. It’s like nothing on earth, which explains why NASA use it to test their spacecraft – and I love it.

Sadly, we are not allowed to journey by cable car to the summit; it’s too windy and deemed too dangerous.

Gran Canaria is our next port of call, the third largest Canary Island. It boasts some volcanoes; the Caldera de Bandama is a geological wonder and looks more like a meteor crater than the volcanic one it is. The roads to The Hub

The colourful but rugged landscape of Lanzarote island, which is better known as "the island of volcanoes".

it are quite vertiginous, too. Today though, my daughter and I jump on a good hop-on hop-off bus tour. The highlight of the day, for my daughter anyway, was a stop-off at a great mall right by the port. I came out with my arms and legs intact, but it still cost me some.

Next port of call was Lanzarote. Known as the “Island of Volcanoes” mainly due to the fact its entire surface is made up of volcanic land. The Timanfaya National Park includes more than 25 volcanoes and it is possible to take a spectacular coach ride around it, which my wife and mother decide to do. But Beth and I are taking a four-hour trek around the national park. I’m not sure if it’s a true reflection of the calibre of our fellow passengers, but there are only twenty of us taking this excursion, making it rather intimate. We all get along like a house on fire, which is appropriate in this land of fire.

It’s a fascinating trip and the devastating scenery is a mix of ash, lava fields, fissures, a few plants and minor volcanoes.

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The final stop was Lisbon, Portugal where one got a close up of the largest suspension bridge in Europe.

not actually on land, but at sea. You see, in order to arrive at the port, you have to pass under the magnificent 25 de Abrile bridge, the longest suspension bridge in Europe, and similar in style to San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate bridge. Climb to the highest point on the ship and be spooked by the eerie haunting sound of the cars on the bridge (a trillion triathlete bees on speed springs to mind), and then marvel at the slightest of gaps between ship and bridge.

The last night aboard the ship is a formal night. I look a million dollars, as does everyone else, and to P&O’s credit, it seems that everyone observes the dress code.

After dinner we take in the show. Tonight, we are being treated to a Frankie Valli tribute act, an act whose popularity seems assured following the smash 2005 hit musical The Jersey Boys.

As my family and I depart the theatre I spy another family from my homeland of Jersey. How utterly bizarre, and yet fitting, that on a night when we watched the Jersey Boys we bump into a family from…Jersey. It truly is a small world.

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Mmmm…Miami!

Strolling and eating your way across the Magic City

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Miami

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on’t eat on the plane to Miami. Arrive hun- corn dough sandwich), stone crabs and key lime pie.

There are also several food halls in the city— gry and ready to chow down on all think of Polo Park food court but raised sorts of food, freshly fried, slowly up a notch with non-chain sit-down resroasted or lightly steamed and taurants, grab-and-go stands, shops for every morsel delicious. Like several citHow to get there fresh or prepared foods and lots and ies in the American South, Miami is Direct flights twice lots to drink. Some are centered around developing its foodie scene, heavily weekly on Flair Air an ethnic influence, like the Italian influenced by Cuban and other Latin (seasonal schedule).

La Centrale in Bricknell, or the Asian American cuisines with flavours of Or Winnipeg to Miami 1-800-Lucky in Wynwood; others are Asian and African tossed in for good via Toronto, Chicago devoted to all good food, like Time Out measure. or Minneapolis. on Miami Beach and Jackson Hall in the There are articles aplenty online describJackson Health District. Be cautious when paying the 10, 30 or 90 best places to go for chiching the bill in Miami: many places routinely add on arrÓns (deep-fried pork skins), arepas (an unleavened

Come hungry - Miami has a lot to offer foodies!

an 18 per cent gratuity. It will say so on your bill, but you may need to look for it before adding your own tip.

After eating you can choose a beach to laze about on or people watch. Lumus Park Beach, where scenes from Miami Vice and other shows and movies were shot, has palm trees for shade, dozens of life guard stations and washrooms and showers. South Beach is a favourite of the rich and famous, but you don’t need to be either to lay out your towel or soak up the Art Deco atmosphere: all beaches are open to the public. If you’d like to sunbathe au naturel, there is one legal spot for that at Haulover Beach. Be careful, though, because it’s only an 700-metre stretch that allows nudity, and while some nudity may be tolerated at other beaches, it isn’t technically legal.

A stroll through Little Havana is a Latin infusion to the system. Just west of downtown, the area was the landing spot for political exiles from Cuba in the 1960s.

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Ocho (Eighth Street), the main strip, and take in the statues of painted roosters, the Walk of Fame for Cuban and Latino celebrities, and hand-rolled cigars. Stop in at mom and pop shops for a bite to eat or visit the famed Versailles restaurant, self-styled as “the world’s most famous Cuban restaurant”. For a sweet treat, grab a cone at Azucar Ice Cream Company, which features flavours like café con leche and plantano maduro (sweet plantain).

You don’t need to be an art lover to enjoy some time in Wynwood. This district, just north of downtown, used to be the site of abandoned warehouses. It was abuzz with artists and graffiti when, in 2009, developer Tony Goldman commissioned a number of artists to add to the graffiti and create the Wynwood Walls. Around Wynwood Walls is an ever changing streetscape of artists’ impressions on doors and buildings, housing cafés, boutiques and galleries. For guidance, book a tour with Miami’s Best Graffiti Guide. For varying fees, you can choose from a one-on-one tour on a tandem bicycle all the way up to 20-person walking tour with a local artist.

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Photo by Bruno Frontino.

Little Havana Stars on Calle Ocho sidewalk.

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Photo by Bill Sumner.

Photo by Bill Sumner.

A Lifeguard stand on the Sunny Isles beachfront.

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens mansion.

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Customers can feed the animals, for a small fee, at Zoo Miami.

Wynwood Walls art by Nunca, a Brazilian artist.

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Gili’s Beach Club – one of many restaurants on the beach.

Airboat tours are a fun way to see the Everglades.

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A trip to Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is high on the tourist list and for good reason. This former estate of James Deering (of tractor fame) was built in the early 20th century and he lived there until his death in 1925.

You can explore inside the house, which was designed to look like an old European chateau, and examine exquisite furnishings. Outside, the gardens are inspired by Italian Renaissance gardens but firmly rooted in tropical Florida.

Zoo Miami will take up to a day to tour. There are 350 acres of developed land featuring over 500 species, 40 of them endangered. Along the five-kilometre trail there are special exhibits and talks given by zookeepers, as well as opportunities to feed some animals such as giraffes and camels. You can also get around on a monorail or see animals from a slow boat or a tram tour. Zoo Miami is a great place to see animals from the jungles and savannahs in a climate they are accustomed to.

If you’re in Miami long enough, consider a daytrip to the Everglades. You can opt for a 45-minute bus ride or drive and make your own plans, or several companies offer hotel pick-up and drop-off with an airboat tour of the sawgrass wetlands in between. You can count on seeing alligators and wading birds, and you may get to see a manatee.

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Bucket List Trip

Around Rio

By Shauna Dobbie

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he thing Rio is most famous for is Carnival.

Beaches Held during the week before Lent, it is the Ipanema. You can almost feel the searing heat on your biggest Carnival in the world with two body, smell the suntan lotion, hear the thump of a million people per day in attendance volley ball as it meets the fists of a tanned playat parades, balls and street parties. There is er. This is the storied beach at Rio de Janeiro. the Sambadrome, built in 1984, an exhibiGo in the morning to stake out your tion place designed for vast numbers to territory.

Don’t bring anything but sunHow to get there be able to watch the parades of samba Winnipeg to Toronto - Sao glasses and maybe a book. Everything is available for purchase. Someone will dancers; before that, the parades were Paulo - Rio; Winnipeg to held on a wide downtown street. There Minneapolis - Atlanta - Rio; rent you a chair and umbrella. Coconut Winnipeg to Chicago are also balls for every budget, ranging water and corn on the cob are available or Denver - Houston from the Singles Ball at around $25 to from nearby vendors, as well as beer. The - Rio the Magic Ball costing many thousands of beaches of Rio have numbered lifeguard dollars. And for those who aren’t attending an posts, or Postos, with washrooms and change event at any time there are street parties running rooms for a small fee. round the clock.

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Christ the Redeemer overlooks the coastline of Rio de Janeiro.

Photo by Marcelo Fonseca.

Costumes for the Carnival are extravagant affair.

paddlers because the ferocious sea is quieter here. Posto 9 on Ipanema is where the young and beautiful hang out, Posto 8 is for the young, beautiful and gay. Posto 11 and 12 are for millionaires and billionaires and have a more exclusive feel, but the beach is free and open to everyone so go ahead. Head to Posto 7 at the end of the day to watch the sun set behind the Two Brothers peaks.

You can go to the beach at any time in Rio, but for fantastic celebrations go to Copacabana on New Year’s Eve, which has become the second biggest festival of the year.

“Second biggest” means only 2.5 million people show up to hear bands play at different stages all along the beach.

All the cariocas (people from Rio de Janiero) are dressed in white, some with a shot of colour. The white is for good luck in the coming year and the colour is emblematic of the type of luck the wearer is wishing for: red for thehubwinnipeg.com

A giant float at Carnival.

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The legendary Copacabana beach.

People descend en masse on Copacabana beach as barges of fireworks in the water light up the sky on Ano Nove (New Year’s Eve).

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Ipanema beach, made famous by the 60s song The Girl From Ipanema.

romance, green for health, yellow for success, for instance.

At midnight, a massive display of fireworks is set off from barges in the water.

Christ the Redeemer High up on top of Corcovado Mountain, Christ the Redeemer spreads his benevolent art deco arms. The statue has been there since 1931, standing 30 metres tall, head slightly bowed toward the people, outstretched arms positioned like a cross but also like a welcome. It cost $250,000 at the time, equivalent to about $4 million today, and was paid for by Catholic donations. Images like Christ holding the world in one hand and a cross in the other were defeated in favour of this uniquely simple figure, which has had an enormous effect on statues since.

Christ the Redeemer is made of reinforced concrete and faced with soap stone from quarries near the Brazilian town of Ouro Preto. The facing is made up of threeby-three-by-four-centimetre triangular tiles. Women from the church glued the tiles to pieces of linen to cover the statue, and some of those tiles have messages or names written by those volunteers on the back. The original quarries are all mined out now and the colour cannot quite be matched by any other stone in the world, so the statue is gradually changing colour.

It is possible to go inside the statue, but unless you work on upkeep it is unlikely you’ll ever see it. Mostly it’s just the staircase of a concrete structure—you cannot tell the shape from inside—but up in the chest there is a large rock that is Christ the Redeemer’s heart, covered in the same soap stone as the exterior. thehubwinnipeg.com

Tijuca Forest Corcovado Mountain is in the Tijuca Forest, a national park comprising one of the biggest urban rainforests in the world at 32 square kilometres. The greenery is so lush that it is estimated to lower the temperature of the surrounding environs by nine degrees Celsius. It isn’t oldgrowth rainforest but was planted in the latter half of the 19th century by Major Gomes Archer in response to concerns about water supply for the city.

In the last 150 years it has become richly biodiverse in terms of plants. Animals include capybaras and coatis and, more recently, owing to reintroductions from Grupo Boticario, howler monkeys. Fluttering, flying and soaring there are beautiful blue morpho butterflies and about 500 species of birds. There are also 30 waterfalls in the park. Many are just for looking at, but Cachoeira das Almas, just three kilometers from an entrance, will allow you to bathe like characters from a movie.

The park does have human-made areas including restaurants and playgrounds. One of the more charming is Vista Chinesa, a hundred-year-old pagoda built to honour people from Macau who tried to start a tea plantation in Rio. The area does not have the height above sea level to reproduce the flavour of tea from Asia and the plantation started around the time that slave labour was abolished so the venture was a failure, but the view from the pagoda is absolutely stunning. You can see the Corcovado and Sugar Loaf Mountains, Ipanema and Copacabana beaches, and a swath of the high rises that make up Rio. Autumn 2018 • 43

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Rome: a warm embrace

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ome is a visit to the past, a testimony to what tilingual signs and, if you don’t obey, someone will chase came before, era by era. Still, the energy of you away. the people seems endless. They are feisty, Cafeteria service here means paying in advance, yet friendly, even though their city then proceeding to the counter to get your order, is overrun by tourists in August. Hordes of receipt in hand. In a small cafe, outside the foreigners flow through ancient ruins in Coliseum, we watch a harried cashier have GDP-inflating masses. Restaurants and a melt-down over people frustrated by the cafes serve quantities of pasta, heavily wait to pay walking away with accessible How to get there Winnipeg to Toronto accented with tomato paste and olive oil cooler drinks. The system is flawed, but if Rome; Winnipeg to for flavour. Good local wines compete she had not been on her cell phone, she Toronto - Amsterdam with the famous clear, fresh waters that could have kept up with demand. Still her or Frankfurt - Rome are piped down, still cold, from the nearby resulting tirade illustrates the garrulous namountains. ture of the local merchants who say it like it Giolitti serves the best ice cream in Rome, is – and with real animation!

Tours are expensive – the price for a guided tour of so some say. It’s definitely crowded, with line-ups for the wild cherry gelato and the mounds of iced treats the Coliseum starts at about $75 Canadian, which afterward, stacked several scoops high in chocolate dipped cones. No lets you into the grounds of the Palatino to meander on your sitting at the sidewalk tables to eat them, proclaim mul- own. We wandered up the mountain into the Farnese Gar-

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View of part of the ruins from above.

The Pantheon.

The Farnese Gardens were cool and inviting and beautiful, one of the first botanical gardens in Europe.

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The pines of Rome.

Motorcycles and vintage stores on narrow street – it’s Roma.

dens, for me the best part of the tour. It has recently opened after a hiatus of 30 years. This was the first private botanical garden in Europe and it is worth noting that, indeed, the first botanical gardens of any kind in Europe were started

by Roman universities in mid-16th century.

The pines steal the show, their lofty heads reminding us of ancient Roman pretensions. Sculpture lovers will find much to enjoy in the garden. The Kneeling Barbarian, dating to about 20 AD, says a great deal about Roman society which saw “others” as barbarians. This one is depicted with a face of black marble.

It’s cool up here, with mountain breezes playing in the shade. You can linger and enjoy the plants and greenery. At the summit of the garden, high up on a hill, there is a wonderful overlook of the entire ruins. This provides you with a much stronger sense of the site than walking through it ever could.

Vatican City is on the list for the next day, but only the early birds toured inside, the lineups for it and even St. Peter’s were far too long in the blazing sun, so we slip into the Leonardo da Vinci Museum filled with life-size replicas of his machines, including prototype helicopters. We sit in front of a giant reproduction of the Last Supper and marvel at the mysterious extra hand that hovers over a plate.

Later, back at the Airbnb we have rented a half block from the Supreme Court, my granddaughter and I duck into a restaurant on the corner, ignoring the sidewalk tables in favour of air conditioning. It is swelteringly hot and humid

and no sooner have we settled in than a fierce wind thrusts a wall of rain at outdoor diners, a chair goes scooting across the street and sheets of water hit the windows. “This is Rome, not London,” shouts our waiter at a hapless couple as they struggle against the wind to get inside. A deluge of hail follows the rain. It pounds tables and bounces off the streets.

Passersby pop in for shelter. The waiter brings out mop and pail to sop up the water. It seems these little squalls are all in a day’s business.

A day’s business in August is not for everyone. This is holiday month and many stores and restaurants are simply closed. Period. This seems odd when August is also the highest tourist month.

Staying at an Airbnb is an interesting experience in itself.

This one is a three-bedroom, three-bath apartment on the fourth floor (third by Roman count, which designates the bottom floor as zero). An ancient elevator holds only four, so half the time, I walk up. The ceilings are cathedral-high with large windows. A giant wooden table dominates the dining room. The living room has a couch (pull-out-able), a coffee table and a floor-to-ceiling bookcase. The window wall features a glass side-table with a computer on it.

Televisions are wall mounted in the bedrooms that are equally sparsely furnished. Only the bedrooms are air-conditioned. It makes North America seem so convenienceand luxury-oriented by comparison.

It’s all about space, which is at a premium here. We have cars; parking nearby costs €20 a day (about $30). Most

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homes are small so entertaining takes place in restaurants and most assess a small cover charge to sit at a table, but there is no hurry to leave – many diners stay till midnight. You have to ask for the cheque: il conto, per favore.

To me, the food is somewhat bland and fairly repetitious: pizza, pasta with lots of processed meats and some fish. Salads often feature “rocket” or arugula, which comes undressed – you add your own olive oil and balsamic if you like. Bread is served dry, no butter or oil. Mushrooms, capers, and salted fish are condiments for pizza, which can come without cheese, so watch what you are ordering if you are a cheese fan.

Along the Tiber, there are walkways lined with flea market stalls, where trinkets and cheap souvenirs can be had for as little as €1. It’s a pleasant stroll in the evening when the sun retires and the air cools. We come across a merry-go-round and take a turn.

The streets are narrow and cobbled, teeming with people, who are very kind and helpful. Vintage clothing is all the rage among many young people and we haunt the shops that are open, looking for treasures for my youngest granddaughter, Claire. Famous designer names are expensive even for used clothing, but the outfits bring rushes of nostalgia to mind. In this district, every fashion imaginable from the 20th century haunt the streets on old and young alike.

The streets are narrow and cobbled, some marble-edged. The buildings are old in the city center, filled with character and tales of lives lived. My daughter would like live here, but I see it only as interesting with no sense of home. My heart belongs to Canada.

Driving is an adventure as the narrow streets are often filled

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The black barbarian.

with pedestrians. Motorcycles whiz here and there, a menace to drivers on the highways where the speed limit is often ignored. The average speed is 130 kilometres per hour and it is dangerous to travel slower. Tailgating is an impatient signal to move over and get out of the way. Lines between traffic lanes seem invisible to some drivers, but then, so do stop signs.

The city of Rome is a wonderful, vibrant place, very preoccupied with itself, drawing visitors inward with a warm embrace that is all – well, very Latin!

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Checking In

A look back at the Airport Travel Expo and Open House

All photos courtesy of the WAA.

By Michael Badejo

Our team of tour guides and assisting staff helped keep attendees all smiles.

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innipeg Richardson International Airport recently hosted its third YWG: Your Winter Getaway Starts Here event – an Airport Open House and Travel Expo.

Staff from the airport as well as travel agents and tour operators welcomed the community to see a different side of the airport.

The event ran on the morning of October 20, and provided a one-stop-shop for all Winnipeggers’ travel needs.

Representatives from the travel industry chatted about your next vacation, and radio station QX104 was on hand to keep the good times rolling. Attendees also had the chance to take part in our exclusive behind-the-scenes 48 • Autumn 2018

tours inside the airport and across our airfield. This year, we offered tours of our Baggage System, an Airplane Boarding Bridge, an Airside Shuttle Tour – each complete with great landmarks around our iconic airport. The lucky aviation enthusiasts on the tours were in a select group of only 120 people that made it on to the fullybooked guided expeditions. There was also an Arrivals/ Departures Tour led by our Goldwing Ambassadors.

Walking the Talk It’s one thing to talk about trips, and another to go on them. That’s why Event Sponsor Sunwing Airlines and Trip Giveaway Sponsor Canada One Travel joined WAA to do something special – we made sure a lucky few atThe Hub

Our Open House was a full house as people got ready for behind-the-scenes tours.

Plenty of planning helped make the 3rd Travel Expo at YWG a successful event.

tendees left the Expo with a dream trip coming their way.

One lucky Sunwing winner and a guest snagged a trip to Puerto Vallarta’s Crown Paradise resort in Mexico. As well, Canada One Travel’s lucky winner and a guest will get to make their way to Palm Springs, California as they escape the winter weather. Not only have both been covered in The Hub in the past, but they’re also available as direct flights from YWG meaning a vacation is only a flight away. These weren’t the only fun giveaways that day – many of 18 local businesses on display also offered their own packages to sweeten the deal.

Serving our community and growing with them is vital to everything we do at Winnipeg Airports Authority.

While it means a great experience when flying through our airport, it also means getting to know what happens on our campus and how we improve both the economy and everyday life for Manitoban business and citizens on the days you’re not travelling. We’ll be sharing more great news with our community in the future and continue to welcome the world at our region’s front door. thehubwinnipeg.com

More than a dozen local exhibitors brought advice and wares to share at the Open House.

Exhibitioners included: • Bonaventure Travel • CAA Travel • Canada One Travel (Trip Giveaway Sponsor) • Canada Border Services Agency • Expedia CruiseShipCenters • Funseekers Travel • Ixtapa Travel • Lakeview Hotels & Resorts • Plaza Premium Lounge • Selloffvacations.com • Sunwing Vacations (Event Contest Sponsor) • Surf and Safari • Winnipeg Airports Authority • QX104 • And more!

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Travel Tips

It’s almost time: holiday travel tips

By Michael Badejo

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t’s the middle of winter, and the snow has got you a little bit down. Instead of getting into the doldrums, you light up because day after day, you get closer to Your Winter Getaway and a warm escape.

If this isn’t something in your plans, consider adding it – there’s nothing like an extra escape this year when it comes to bringing smiles. If you haven’t before or need some tips on getting the most out of it, check out these tips.

Best ways to get deals Checking early and often will allow you time to plan your vacation. Making sure to determine your destination will let you scope out everything from finding the excursions and adventures you want to see, to ensuring you have enough time to watch for the best deal on converting your funds as necessary.

Think about where you want to go Are you thinking of a more relaxing destination, or feeling more adventurous? The Hub highlights so many places with direct flights from Winnipeg that you’ll be able to find the fit for your trip, whether heading to the Bahamas, moseying down to Mexico or bouncing beyond the oceans. It’s a wide world – finding the right spot for your next vacation is really up to you. Covering many of these bucket-list type trips is our specialty: search this and previous issues of The Hub for even more ideas. Sunwing, Air Transat, Air Canada and WestJet also offer several opportunities to find your excellent escape of choice.

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Parking Having a good trip starts right from when you leave for the airport. Make that the easiest part of your trip by using one of our great parking options at the airport. You can even drive right up to the airport and hand your keys off to one of our Valet and Away service experts.

One last thing: taking gifts If your vacation is for a special occasion and you plan to take gifts across the border, it’s important that you take the right steps along the way to make your journey as seamless as possible.

It starts with ensuring not to wrap presents before taking them across the border. You can always ask the screening officer to see if they can check it out of sight if the present is for someone you are travelling with, but ensuring the present is unwrapped allows the officers to do their job while ensuring you don’t have to re-wrap and potentially mar your gift. Safety and security come first at airports across the continent and around the world, so keep that in mind – prohibited items don’t get a pass even as gifts!

Don’t forget to have the receipts for gifts with you as well – a photo of a receipt or a photocopy are better than nothing.

If you are concerned about the gift and must wrap it, some airports will have a gift wrap station post-security to help put it in the right package for you. Nonetheless, it’s best to make sure you wait to wrap any gifts you are looking to take across.

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Pack your bags with these useful tips

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ou’ve planned your dream vacation, booked off work, made arrangements for your loved ones and you’re ready to go! Well, not quite – you still have to pack. Whether you’re a seasoned traveller or it’s your first trip, trying to remember the essentials can be difficult. The more prepared you are, the more relaxed you will be on your vacation.

Travel essentials change from person to person, and it all depends where you are heading. We’ve listed our top five travel essentials to help make packing for your next adventure a whole lot easier no matter where your destination may be.

1. Passport. Of course you will remember your passport, right? More people forget this than you think. You won’t get very far without this one. Put this in your carry-on bag as soon as you think of it, you won’t regret it. Side note: be sure to check up on the customs process of your destination. The more prepared you are, the better.

2. Currency. Exchange your money at your local bank or at the International Currency Exchange kiosks conveniently located throughout our airport before heading on your trip.

Changing your currency at home saves you time and stress.

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3. International Charging Adapter. Having a dead phone, laptop, or camera can lead to unwanted stress. Yes, we all want to unplug from our devices while on vacation, but having a charged phone is a safety precaution – or if nothing else, a camera to take your newest profile pic. You can purchase one of these online for under $30.

4. Travel Apps. If you remembered your charger, having apps to help make your trip run smoother is a must. Research apps online and read reviews before downloading them. A popular and useful travel app is PackPoint, available on the App Store and Google Play. You enter in when and where you’re heading, what activities you plan to partake in, and the length of time you plan to spend there. The app then checks the weather and builds your custom packing list accordingly so you have everything you need for your travels. You can also share this list with a friend directly through the app.

5. Frequent Flyer Cards / Loyalty Cards. Booking your trip accommodations can get expensive, but booking with loyalty or frequent flyer cards significantly decreases the amount spent. Be sure to take these cards with you or download your loyalty card app of choice, just in case you need the cards while on vacation.

Next time you book an international flight, or any flight for that matter, remember to pack these essentials tips in your mind. Your future self thanks you.

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In April 2018 a group of St. John’s-Ravenscourt School students travelled to Iceland to explore a unique ecosystem in terms of biology and geology.

Being a relatively recent volcanic island, Iceland provides a wide range of interesting geology to study, from hot springs to glaciers.

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Fab Finds

Flight Club

Plaza Premium Lounge

Inspired by herbs and seeds, Flight Club serves a wide range of nutritious options including smoothies, juices, salads, pastas and other healthy dishes to help you embrace a healthy lifestyle while travelling. Flight Club is conveniently located right in the Arrivals Hall.

SHOP. SHOP.

Plaza Premium Lounge can be found near Gate 5/6. This comfortable and relaxing space offers delicious food and beverage options, complimentary Wi-Fi, newspapers and magazines, and TV channels for everyone’s entertainment.

DINE. DINE.

EXPLORE. EXPLORE.

SHOPS AT YWG SHOPS AT YWG With over 20 different locations for you to shop and dine With over 20 different locations for you to shop and dine you will never have a shortage of places to visit. Everything you will never have a shortage of places to visit. Everything you need is just around the corner. you need is just around the corner.

For more information, please visit waa.ca/services.

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SHOP. DINE. EXPLORE. SHOP. DINE. EXPLORE.

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Valet & Away

As the weather cools down this Fall, be sure to stay warm throughout your airport journey. Valet parking will get you from curb to cabin in record time, plus your vehicle will be warmed up and waiting for you upon your arrival back home.

Starbucks

Fall means Pumpkin Spice season at Starbucks! Be sure to visit the airport location

by Gate 6 for a delicious treat or morning coffee prior to your flight. Plus, with creatively designed drinkware and seasonal gifts, there’s plenty to be thankful for here.

Best Buy Best Buy Express Express

CNBC News CNBC News

Freshii Freshii

Fuel Bar Fuel Bar

Green Carrot Green Carrot Juice Company Juice Company

Harvey’s Harvey’s

International International Currency Currency Exchange Exchange

Flight Club Flight Club

Metalsmiths Metalsmiths Sterling Sterling

PGA TOUR PGA TOUR Shop Shop

Plaza Premium Plaza Premium Lounge Lounge

Prairie Bistro Prairie Bistro

Red River News Red River News

Rocky Mountain Rocky Mountain Chocolate Chocolate Factory Factory

Skylights Skylights Lounge Lounge

Starbucks Starbucks

Stella’s Café Stella’s Café & Bakery & Bakery

The Exchange The Exchange News and News and Gifts Gifts

The Loop The Loop Duty Free Duty Free

Tim Hortons Tim Hortons

Urban Crave Urban Crave

True Burger True Burger

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Checking Out

Ground Service Equipment Building – boosting our efficiency

By Michael Badejo

From left to right: Don Snodgrass (President, Con-Pro Industries), Pascal Bélanger (Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer at WAA), Brian Bowman (Mayor, City of Winnipeg), Barry Rempel (President & Chief Executive Officer at WAA) and Hon. Ralph Eichler (Minister of Agriculture – Province of Manitoba).

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arlier this summer, Winnipeg Airports Authority (WAA) broke ground on a brand new piece of important infrastructure: the Ground Services Equipment (GSE) Building.

This 960,000-square-metre investment gives Winnipeg Richardson International Airport and its airfield partners increased flexibility, allowing both them and us to be as efficient as possible. There are a few other benefits as well, with the GSE as the first logical step in building out the airport campus and our region’s business for the future.

How the GSE helps us rise Scheduled to open in Fall 2019, the $27-million multiuse building will give ground handling, commissary and cargo companies a working area closer to the terminal than where they are today. They’ll be located on the secure side of our airport, cutting down on the time needed to get back and forth through secure checkpoints. This means your plane is able to get off the ground with all the services and supply it needs that much more quickly.

Some of the equipment housed in the new space will include ‘TUGs’ (vehicles used for towing and repositioning airplanes), belt loaders and more.

Getting to our next destination We know that the GSE helps WAA operations today

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but it also has another unique role in freeing up some of the prime real estate on our cargo area for redevelopment in the south east corner. Space here will help create a unique cargo city of sorts at our airport, and gives us the ability to move additional, larger planes while creating opportunities for bigger business and more jobs right here in our community.

This strategy is part of a larger plan, with the GSE having been in the work for more than three years before the groundbreaking on June 25 of this year. It allows us to build with our community for a brighter, more flexible future. Seeing the fruits of the labour pay off now and into the future will be a boon for all Winnipeggers.

The world is more and more connected every day, and for Winnipeg to contend on the global stage we must have the infrastructure in place to compete, and the GSE alongside further development will help this city and province continue to go above and beyond.

Overall, the GSE is the first step in a larger strategy to continue growing our airport as an economic engine for our region. Keep your eyes on our campus as we evolve for the future of the aviation industry and of course, for serving you.

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What’s new in Town Get moving with Lolë

By Michael Badejo

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Lolë is now open for business.

f you’re going for domestic or international travel, you’ll continue to see that side of our airport revamp its slew of great food, beverage and retail offerings.

After working with the feedback you’ve given us and searching for great fits to expand our airport’s options for the travelling public, we’re continuing to refresh the lineup at YWG. The latest addition to this group would be Lolë.

Founded in Montreal, Lolë is a uniquely Canadian company. The products they have are unmatched in terms of value for quality, bringing awesome activewear at affordable prices. Over at its entrance by Gate 6, you’ll find all types of sports apparel and equipment that focuses on yoga and more. It’s a part of the newly revamped PGA Tour Shop, and another in the line of changes we’ve made to better suit your needs. This is all part of a focus on local and uniquely Canadian offerings Also in good taste – a revamp at Prairie Bistro In addition to the new stores we’ve seen arrive, we are re-routing a couple of the menus at YWG. Prairie Bistro will soon undergo a menu revamp, to bring more Canadian wines and updated food that

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touches on the broader, higher-end tastes that you’ve asked for. Alongside this refresh of the food offerings, the new menu will have suggested drink pairings that enhance your dining experience. In short, it’ll be a first class meal right before your flight.

There are additional enhancements being developed that will bring you more of that will make your food, beverage and retail experience at YWG even better.

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Airport Information

What you need to know Winnipeg Airports Authority Inc. 249-2000 Wellington Avenue Winnipeg, Man. R3H 1C2 Phone: 204.987.9400 Email: reception@waa.ca Website: waa.ca Twitter: @YWGairport

Information Booth/Lost and Found at Winnipeg Richardson International Airport Phone: 204.987.9402 TTY: 204.987.2732 Email: info@waa.ca

Airport Services hours of operation : Retail Pre-security: 3:45 a.m. to 8:15 p.m.

Domestic/Int’l: 4 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Transborder: 5 a.m. to 6 p.m.* Food Pre-security: 24 hrs Domestic/Int’l: 4 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Transborder: 5 a.m. to 6 p.m.* *Retail and food concessions close at 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays.

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Currency Exchange Services Pre-security: 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Domestic/Int’l: 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Mon to Fri) 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. (Sat to Sun) Transborder: 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Mon, Thu, Fri) 5 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Tues, Wed, Sat, Sun) Plaza Premium Lounge Open 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

Domestic Maple Leaf Lounge Open 60 minutes prior to the first Air Canada flight departure.

Closed 30 minutes prior to the last Air Canada flight departure.

Parking Economy Each 1/2 hour: $2.50 Daily maximum: $20 Weekly maximum: $90

Parkade Each 1/2 hour: $2.50 Daily maximum: $26 Weekly maximum: $115

Valet & Away A $25 drop-off fee applies for the valet service, plus $25 a day, or up to a weekly maximum of $110. Your Valet & Away drop-off fee includes priority line access at pre-board screening for you and a guest.

Phone: 204.774.5897 Toll-free: 1.888.286.1083 The Hub readers receive 15 per cent off all lots by entering the promo code, THEHUB, when booking parking online at parking.waa.ca.

Taxi/Sedan service Taxis are available near Exit 3 at the Terminal Building.

Estimated taxi fare to downtown: $18 (GST included) Flat-rate sedan to downtown: $32 (GST included) Unicity Taxi: 204.925.3131

Winnipeg Transit Stop 20070 is across the roadway from Door 3. Stop 20071 is on southbound Wellington across from the Greyhound Terminal. Regular fare is $2.65. To plan your trip, visit winnipegtransit.com

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Holiday Inn Polo Park 204.775.5055 Holiday Inn South 204.452.4747 MainStay Suites 204.594.0500 Radisson Hotel 204.956.0410 Sandman Hotel 204.775.7263 Victoria Inn 204.786.4801 Viscount Gort Hotel 204.775.0451

Wheelchair Assistance

Your airline can provide a manual wheelchair, assistance to and from the gate area, or supply a temporary escort pass to permit someone else to help you to the gate if necessary.

Please identify your needs to your airline at least 48 hours prior to travel to allow time for your requests to be fulfilled.

Pets at the airport

For the health and safety of passengers and staff, we ask travellers and visitors to ensure all pets are contained in a kennel or pet carrier before entering the terminal building.

Animals may enter the terminal when: • It is a service animal/guide dog for a passenger or visitor of the airport.

• It is a house pet properly contained in a kennel or pet carrier.

• It is a dog used by enforcement agencies, such as customs or police officers.

If you’ll be flying with your pet, please contact your airline directly for their guidelines and regulations for flying with pets.

Coat and Boot Storage Services

Available at the Valet & Away desk on the Arrivals Level near Door 3.

Rates are just $2.00 per item per day, or $13.25 for the week. For more information, please call 204.774.5897.

Photo by Laird Key.

Best Western Charterhouse Hotel 204.942.0101 Best Western Pembina Inn & Suites 204.269.8888 Canad Inns Fort Garry 204.267.7450 Canad Inns HSC 204.594.9472 Canad Inns Polo Park 204.775.8791 Clarion Hotel 204.774.5110 Courtyard Marriott Winnipeg Airport 204.505.8600 Fairfield Inn & Suites 204.783.7900 Four Points by Sheraton 204.775.5222 Hampton Inn by Hilton Winnipeg Airport 204.772.3000 Hilton Suites Winnipeg Airport 204.783.1700 Holiday Inn Airport West 204.885.4478

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Level 2 - Departures 2e étage – Départs

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