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Mark Turner doesn’t look like the person you may picture when you conjure up an image of a tea room proprietor – and the Amsterdam Tea Room is no dusty cliché either.

When starting a business, a person quickly faces a decision: Do they want to take the franchise route or the independent route?

Through a picture window at the front of Beyond Flowers on Corydon Avenue, passersby see buckets and buckets of fresh flowers.

Pollock’s Hardware is counting on creativity, determination and good-old-fashioned pluck to get the 97-year-old landmark store to the 100-year mark.

Ask kids about their favourite foods and chicken fingers are likely to land on the list. For Sandi Boulanger, the favourite comes with a childhood memory as sweet as a side of honey dill.

There’s no better way to embrace the holiday spirit than taking a seat for a performance of The Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s perennial favourite, The Nutcracker.