We turn things inside out to start Episode 25, with the Crime Courts & Public Safety update in the leadoff position for a change:
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We bring together more important details from a St. Vital mother who escaped a trap set by two derelicts. As we described last week, when Rebecca Rempel returned to a mall to pick up her vehicle, she was targetted by 2 men “planning to attack me”, and barely got away. It was far more harrowing than was first believed.Hear the added details she didn’t mention in her original Facebook warning to women in Winnipeg, including the attempt to rob her, how a weapon was pulled out, and what she’s doing to improve her self-defence techniques.
Her experience ties into the crime statistics for 2022 just announced — we provide the details of: a record number of murders, property crime up by a third, and youth crime up even more than that.
Violent crime approached 2009 levels- cementing the legacy of Brian Bowman’s tenure as Mayor being the worst thing ever to happen for the average person and for the average business owner in this city. And we repeat the concerns about the inept chief of police, Danny Smyth, who never gets held accountable for his failures.
To end the segment you’ll hear about a big-picture Twitter observation by Tristan Hopper of how the class divide is resulting in crime being minimized in favour of fake social problems invented to consume government’s priorities, paired with official tolerance of drug-addiction fueled social disorder. You’ll want to hear Marty’s assessment of the dangers Winnipeggers now face, thanks to Brian Bowman, Danny Smyth and other weak leaders
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20:41 – Part 2 touches on popular topics – we note the distorted TV coverage of the Alberta election win by Premier Danielle Smith, where Rachel Notley is feted by CBC and CTV talking heads as a winner for losing twice in a row and shedding about 16 seats since 2015. Also, Justin Trudeau’s dud of a visit to Winnipeg last week, and NDP MLA Lisa Naylor discovered that Tory campaign co-chair Candice Bergen isn’t alone in believing Manitoba schools are left-washing students.
On the City Hall beat, City finance chair Jeff Browaty had a few cautions about the projected $27 M deficit, as the police budget can’t be brought under control.
Lastly, a remarkable op-ed in the Free Press challenged the anti-car movement in our city and demolished the logic of unused bike lanes throttling traffic flow and the notion people will flock to crime-ridden transit buses as an alternative. The column sent a certain thin-skinned local architect howling into the abyss online- wethinks he doth protest too much. In fact, the premise of the column- that 50 years ago Mayor Steven Juba, Bill Norrie et al made a key mistake in urban transportation planning – is at the root of why our congestion problems are building.
Coming up in June: more on the impending St. Boniface bike lane battle, an update on the antisemitism of the University of Winnipeg junior varsity basketball team, and the Winnipeg South Centre federal by-election.
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