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

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

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