Something I've learned to appreciate about shooting Winnipeg, and really just shooting cities in general is that it is incredibly difficult to find angles, concepts and places to shoot (or shoot from) that people haven't already seen a thousand times. It's one of the things I love about photography, the creativity it takes to try to do things differently and see/show different perspectives, and the grind it sometimes takes. It is probably the closest thing I've found to that same grind in skateboarding. In a city, there are people walking around at all times, basically in all places, and everyone has a camera in their pocket ready to take a photo at any moment. This leaves those unique shots and angles harder to conceptualize, plan and find. 
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A good way that I've found is to kind of deconstruct those shots we've all seen so frequently by, going to those super heavily photographed places, start standing right where everyone shoots, and not take my camera out of the bag. In this case, I started at the river bank on the St. Boniface side where you see all the shots of the bridge, museum and downtown taken from. That's where my walk will start. I'll look to find ways I can either get a different angle, use a different lens, frame it differently, shoot through something, get higher up, lower down, add layers, ect. As I mentioned in posts before, always a good way to get a layer off the bat is just to start this walk in the rain, in the snow, at sunset, at sunrise, in the fog, ect. and then look for the ways to add those other things to it if you think it applies and doesn't clutter the shot.
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The walk I was on took me down this street and it worked out well. There are a ton of things I'd change, preferably I would keep going back until there were no cars on the side (I find em' a little distracting, but also maybe cool cause of the way they reflect the colours in the glass). But I think the main thing would probably be to just use a longer lens to compress the image more and make the bridge more of a focal point than it is with the 35. A 50 would have worked, but an 85 would probably be best, and it would also likely eliminate the cars as well, two birds.