Another City of Winnipeg fake public consultation, and the Premier admits his approved drug-use site will adversely affect the neighbours, are the focus of Episode 8.
Part 1- A recap of recent episodes and Winnipeg Sun columns – here’s the latest: Winnipeg ducks questions about it’s $2B debt
Marty also notes the passing of two politically-connected matriarchs in the community.
Olga Fuga and Katherine Morrisseau-Sinclair both had controversial tenures heading non-profits – Fuga in the 1980’s at the Citizenship Council of Manitoba and KMS around 10 years ago at the Native Women’s Transition Centre.
The saga with Fuga made headlines, while newsrooms scurried away from the KMS controversy in fear of her husband Murray.
Later this summer you’ll hear more about their obsession with power, our investigations into their actions, and how the lingering ill-will after they left their organizations affected their reputations.
14.05 Part 2- “We have a plan to move transportation into the future” announced the City on Monday.
But ‘TRANSPORTATION 2050: Reimagined Mobility‘ is based on far-fetched ideological goals like “Winnipeggers make 50 percent of trips by walking, cycling, transit and ride sharing by 2050.”
In the winter? We call BS.
It smells a lot like ’15 Minute Cities’ and it’s tied into a broader plan for the “Metropolitan Region” that shifts decisions about your community to a board of political overlords from surrounding municipalities.
As Marty explains, the last thing the urban visionary cultists at City Hall want is genuine engagement with residents most affected by their schemes. So, they rig council approval by holding fake consultations.
‘Pop-up public events’ being held on short notice (barely 24 hours for the event at St. Vital Mall for starters) will supposedly garner public feedback. The locations and schedule – all shopping malls and none on weekends – are designed to exclude working people with 9-5 jobs who would ask tough questions.
You’ll hear how buried on page 26 is a claim that policies will “Improve speed and avoid delays for emergency vehicles. • Design streets with emergency vehicles in mind”.
Since City Hall that never once consulted with the WRHA or St. Boniface Hospital about throttling traffic flow on Goulet – we call BS on that too.
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27.35 Part 3 – Wab Kinew admitted to CTV that “there will be an impact when you open a supervised consumption site in terms of the next few blocks around it.”
At the “Safer Consumption Site Announcement” held a few days later, seemingly none of the reporters there mentioned Kinew’s concerns about public safety nearby and suggestion foot patrols might be needed. Neither did the “harm reduction” champions, some of whom instead lamented that the NDP isn’t planning to hand out free opiodes to users- yet.
38.00 We identify some of the ‘experts’ steering the project, and review the experiences of people in BC, Calgary and Ontario who deal with the disgusting and dangerous fallout when a drug den is licenced in their neighborhoods.
43.05 – Local reaction questioned how keeping addicts hooked helps anyone but the poverty industry.
51.30- Hear audio of cops in London identifying the diversion of “safe supply” to organized crime rings.
There’s a few other things never mentioned in media reports about the site, which our analysis indicates will go somewhere near Siloam Mission north of Logan Avenue: No targets for getting addicts into recovery, no explanation how it will get people using contaminated drugs at home and dying to go to the site to have it tested, and nothing about a reduction in discarded needles.
But it will create an army of employees who will depend on there being a continuing stream of drug addicts to justify their paycheques- and new dangers for the people who live and work nearby.
Coming up- more neighborhood coverage, another interview with a City councilor, and your comments!
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