Follow-ups on “Nightmare on Watt Street”, more about Plan 2050, and asking whether civic politicians played politics with commemorative awards, are what you’ll hear in Episode 28!
Part 1– Lots of horror stories continue to emerge after Marty’s column in the Winnipeg Sun exposed a rooming house wreaking havoc on a working class neighborhood in East Kildonan. The interview with the whistleblower in the last episode recounted the ways the City of Winnipeg has failed to protect the community.
Coun. Jason Schreyer is scrambling to hold public meetings to turn things around- even as advertising appeared on Thursday to fill a vacant bedroom in the drug den for $650 a month.
You’ll hear reaction not only from readers, but audio from a recovering addict who lived there until March, confirming one of the deaths that occurred inside the Watt St. “death trap” and outraged the rental property is still operating.
Harvey Smith made a point of taking a drive through his ward to see for himself what was happening at night. Do any city councillors do that anymore? No one is speaking up for area families and businesses in fear of more arsons, crime and deaths- and we will keep the pressure on to help them.
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23.20 Part 2– A telephone referendum, held in the RM of Springfield by a taxpayer’s rights group, showed an incredible degree of opposition to Metro’s Plan20-50. Will the rump WMR caucus still supporting the plan- led by Mayor Gillingham – persist in calling them “misinformed” or “conspiracy theorists”? There’s 2900 folks in that RM who’d challenge the name-callers.
Who would residents of Winnipeg ask if they wanted to know how Plan20-50 will affect them? Months later, the City can’t answer that question.
31.00- Another story about crime and disorder affecting law-abiding property owners and residents is in the Winnipeg Sun today.
Riverbank ‘garbage dump’ impacting ability to attract tenants to downtown building
Marty Gold spoke with a representative of the high-end apartment complex at 300 Assiniboine, who have challenged Mayor Gillingham and Premier Wab Kinew to remove the garbage-strewing, arson-starting, drug-using homeless encampments behind their building on the banks of the Assiniboine River.
33.00- Politicizing the Winnipeg 150 Awards has fueled even more cynicism towards City Hall.
An email from a listener – one of many, actually- raised questions about the choices the Mayor and city councillors made for Winnipeg 150 medals, supposedly “nominated for their significant contribution to their neighbourhood or the city at large.”
Some are clearly deserving of recognition.
Others, such as a CBC radio host with no listed volunteer activities since moving here, seem to have been beneficiaries for political purposes.
Some check all the right boxes- except the boxes denoting the actual pre-requisites for the medals. Should people doing a job at a city-funded agency get an award for simply doing the jobs they are paid to do?
Coming up– Transit undermines driver and rider safety; more trouble from downtown homeless encampments; Vandal says vamanos to politics…
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