RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg The RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg is a major meeting and convention facility located in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The Winnipeg Convention Centre was recommended as part of the Metro Corporation of Greater Winnipeg (Metro) Downtown Development Plan of 1969. Metro and the Province of Manitoba announced the $35 M Winnipeg Convention Centre on Thursday, September 10, 1970. Always in opposition to metropolitan government, Mayor of Winnipeg, Stephen Juba did not attend the announcing press conference. Originally named the Winnipeg Convention Centre, the publicly owned facility was built in 1975. The building, designed by Canadian architect Isadore
Winnipeg Statement gained and much lost by an attempt to rephrase what we have said in Winnipeg. We stand squarely behind our position but we feel it is our duty to insist on a proper interpretation of that position." They added: In 1998, the Canadian bishops voted by secret ballot on a resolution to retract the Winnipeg Statement. It did not pass. Calls for retraction continue, though some see the Canadian bishops' December 1, 1973, document, "Statement on the Formation of Conscience", as evidence that they were trying to distance themselves from the Winnipeg Statement. In 2008, the Canadian bishops issued a