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Neil Young is forever Canadian
Every time Neil Young plays Winnipeg — he’s playing there tonight — it’s a big deal. While the legendary artist was born in Toronto and lived in Omemee, Ont., as kid, it was in the Peg where he spent his teenage years.
The city’s residents loves to claim Young as their own, and you can’t blame them — he played Winnipeg’s clubs, started his first band The Squires here, was friends...
Sports: The return of the Jets?
On April 28, 1996 the Winnipeg Jets, flanked by a sold-out crowd of pompom waving fans, said goodbye to the city the team called home for 24 years, and moved to Phoenix. Nearly a decade and a half later the team’s memory still looms large in Winnipeg. While the old Winnipeg Arena was torn down to make room for an expanded shopping centre, you’ll still see people wearing Jets jerseys, reminiscing...
Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based writer and editor working mainly for business publications. He writes for the New York Times, Canadian Business magazine, Globe and Mail, Bloomberg Businessweek Custom Publishing, Toronto Star, MoneySense and more. Bryan's the editor of Review magazine and is a senior editor with Connected for Business magazine. He's also a contributing writer with Hello! Canada and was once a weekly music columnist for Metro News. He's been nominated for several National Magazine Awards and he's co-authored