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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

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Building a Safer City

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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

Abandoned Buildings, Abandoned People

On Tuesday August 26th the street census on homelessness was released and the news isn’t good. Turns out the number of people living on...

Sep 234 min read

The Need for Green in Winnipeg’s West End

I grew up in West End Winnipeg, on a neighbourly street situated between Wellington Avenue and Notre Dame. And while my neighbours and I...

Sep 14 min read

Clean Energy Is The Future - So Why Are We Investing in Fossil Fuels?

I don’t know about you, but I have to say I’m a bit confused these days. In fact in political terms I really don’t know whether I’m...

Aug 43 min read

Delay, Delay And More City Delays

I was waiting patiently on June 9th for the city to post the agenda for a Community Services Committee meeting scheduled for the 13th of...

Jun 273 min read

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FEATURED POST

Building a Safer City

TRAIN OF THOUGHT

Building a Safer City

Time For a Shake Up at City Hall

Another New Subdivision, Another City Problem

Abandoned Buildings, Abandoned People

The Need for Green in Winnipeg’s West End

Clean Energy Is The Future - So Why Are We Investing in Fossil Fuels?

Delay, Delay And More City Delays

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