Recently Google's street view was launched in Canada. Strangely Winnipeg was excluded even though they recently covered the city, but I expect that that will be fixed in the coming months.

I spent a few minutes poking around the places of my childhood on street view to see how things had changed. Overall, it was a rather sad and surreal experience.

- My childhood home is now unspeakably ugly.
- The area in town where I used to ride my bike through forests and corn fields is now cookie cutter houses.
- The field I launched model rockets from is also plagued by housing.
- My favorite toboggan hill at Kaufman's flats is fenced off and forgotten.
- Bridgeport is getting a new bridge but lost the hotel which built its infamous 'sin town' reputation.

I'm worried what things are going to look like for my children.