Capital city of Manitoba, Canada.
Seasons: Winter, harsh; Spring, floods;
Summer, dry and tolerable; Fall, nothing fun happens.
Temperatures range from -50 to +30 degrees celcius
Ups: Folk Fest(Hippy gathering), lot's of
weed, great bands, Slurpees(Slurpee capital), it's better than Regina.
Downs: Natives, mosquitos, murder capital of Canada,
bad weather, bad roads, lot's of
car theft.
Nicknames: the 'Peg, Winterpeg, Win-a-pig
Name origin: Winnipeg is Cree for Muddy
Water, because it was founded on a spot where two rivers met, now called the Forks. The Forks is where the Assinboine River and the Red River meet.
Come to Winnipeg, smoke some
weed, buy a Slurpee, get your car jacked by natives, throw a
bike in the Red River and run to
safety from the West Nile infected mosquitoes, then ask yourself, how can Regina be any worse?