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Downtown Winnipeg Bay building to be transferred to Southern Chiefs’ Organization for mixed-use development

Government sources say the six-storey, 655,000-square-foot Bay building in downtown Winnipeg is to be transferred to Indigenous leadership and will be used partly for affordable housing.The downtown Winnipeg Bay store was closed in November 2020. (Lyzaville Sale/CBC)Downtown Winnipeg’s Hudson’s Bay Co. store will be transferred to Indigenous leadership and transformed into a mixed-use development with an…

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Gas detected in downtown Wheatley, Ont., 6 weeks after explosion

Hydrogen sulphide gas has again been detected at the site of an explosion in downtown Wheatley, Ont., according to municipal officials, six weeks after an explosion injured 20 people and has displaced many residents and business owners.Hydrogen sulphide gas has again been detected in downtown Wheatley, Ont., which is shown here, two days after an explosion in August that…

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