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A Bad Budget for Climate and Nature

To say I’m disappointed with the new federal budget would be the understatement of the year. Truth is, I’m frustrated and angry, not just because of what’s in the budget but by what has been cut and what is glaringly absent. In the glaringly absent department are the environment and nature. That’s reflected in the decision to axe the 2 billion tree fund which did exemplary work in helping to expand urban forests to enhance climate resiliency. Add to that the fact that there a

Nov 204 min read

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A Bad Budget for Climate and Nature

Nov 204 min read

Building a Safer City

Avenue Mont-Royal in Montreal, a car free zone It’s a well-known fact that our city council throws a lot of money at the police in their efforts to keep us safe. But is more investment in policing and surveillance cameras really the only way to create a safer city or is it just the easy, “I don’t have to think about it too hard” way to reassure the populace that something’s being done to protect them? I think it’s the latter, and so do a lot of social and urban planning exper

Nov 113 min read

Time For a Shake Up at City Hall

Mayor Scott Gillingham and Finance Chair, Jeff Browaty, of “Joe Lunchbox” fame. I don’t know how many of you remember this, but our current mayor, Scott Gillingham, won his position in the 2022 civic election with just 27% of the vote, the smallest vote share for any mayor in recent history. Some 53% of Winnipeg voters chose, instead, to cast their ballots for one of the more progressive center-left candidates. And if the two progressive mayoral candidates hadn’t split the vo

Oct 133 min read

Another New Subdivision, Another City Problem

So, here we go again folks. We just get the protection of the Lemay forest done and dusted and bingo, there’s another proposed subdivision for 23 homes on 2 acre flood plain lots right across the Red River from the Lemay on the old Daman Farm site. A subdivision that will not only result in the destruction of a significant portion of a riparian forest but may also pose a potential threat to the area’s groundwater aquifer. In fact the threat to groundwater is so significant, t

Oct 14 min read

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They call me “the tree lady” - I’ve been called worse! - because I’m passionate about protecting and expanding Winnipeg’s urban forest. But first and foremost, I’m writer, filmmaker and environmental activist with a wide range of interests. In addition to publishing a novel and short stories, I’ve written and directed more than a dozen award-winning science and nature documentaries for CBC’s The Nature of Things With David Suzuki.

Recently, I’ve written a series of opinion editorials for The Winnipeg Free Press on urban issues, from climate change and trees to downtown renewal.

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A Bad Budget for Climate and Nature

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A Bad Budget for Climate and Nature

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Time For a Shake Up at City Hall

Another New Subdivision, Another City Problem

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