{"id":560615,"date":"2026-03-25T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560615\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:55:09","slug":"network-upgrades-will-temporarily-disrupt-some-municipal-services-city-of-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560615\/","title":{"rendered":"Network upgrades will temporarily disrupt some municipal services: City of Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manitoba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg residents might not have to access some municipal services from Thursday night until early Friday morning while the city works on network upgrades.\n<\/p>\n<p>Call centres, online services could be affected between Thursday night, Friday morning<\/p>\n<p>CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Mar 25, 2026 4:44 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"A man walks past a City Hall sign in winter\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774475709_619_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>The City of Winnipeg says call centres and online services could experience disruptions during planned network upgrades between 9 p.m. Thursday and 5 a.m. Friday. (Darren Bernhardt\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg residents might not have to access some municipal services from Thursday night until early Friday morning while the city works on network upgrades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city says in a news release that its three call centres and online services might be intermittently unavailable between\u00a0 9 p.m.  Thursday and 5 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Possible disruptions to service include:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>311, Water &amp; Waste, and Winnipeg Transit call centres.MyAccount Services and winnipeg.ca.Self-service online forms.MyUtility.Winnipeg Transit app, Navigo, and Peggo purchases (online and in person).Permits Online.Parking ticket payments and appeals.Job postings and job applications.Business licence renewals and pet licences.Winnipeg Public Library online services.<\/p>\n<p>The city says the network upgrades \u2014 scheduled to happen overnight to reduce the public impact \u2014 will improve system security, reliability and performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The changes will help the city provide &#8220;better customer service to residents,&#8221; the release says. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manitoba Winnipeg residents might not have to access some municipal services from Thursday night until early Friday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-560615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}