After blizzards in two provinces and a family funeral, we get back on track with Episode 4 and review recent events at City Hall, fallout from our our columns in the Winnipeg Sun, and some insight into the NDP’s fake safe drug consumption site consultations.
Part 1– The sights seen on trips to Regina and Deloraine for CWE wrestling fundraisers, including the unprecedented sight of dozens of freight trucks littering the ditches and medians.
8.25 – Marty speaks briefly about the sudden passing of our friend Joanne Cochrane of CTV Winnipeg, and how she always worked to make the community a better place.
15.15 Part 2- Coun. Sherri Rollins finished decorating the windows of her new ward office at the same time she ankled her post on EPC.
Now, Ross Eadie (Mynarski) is Chair of the Water, Waste and Environment committee, taking on the mammoth budget for the new sewage treatment plant. The recent budget meetings have proven that City Council, by and large, refuse to accept they have a spending problem. How will the longtime maverick fit in with the Gillingham ‘team” ?
25.10 – The promotion of Markus Chambers to Deputy Mayor is noted, coming while the hiring of a new police chief by his Police Board has become such a boondoggle an outside lawyer has been hired to revisit the process. Hear an idea about why that’s the case.
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29.55 Part 3– We were first to report that 7-Elevens were going to be shuttered. Last week, the 7-Eleven on Salter at Flora was closed, as did the Maples outlet on Jefferson, thanks to an endless stream of thieves and criminals.
Next, a recap of recent Sun columns and reports that have ripped the covers off important issues:
– “The amount of people sleeping in there was disgusting. No wonder patients leave and nurses quit.”
So You’re Really Sick? Enter ER At Your Own Risk
39.45 – “When you drill a bit deeper past the headlines of the story, you can see both the strength of the provinces’ rational and the questionable nature of the opposition.”
Not so fast, Dan Lett-
Media Cheerleaders Won’t Deter Consumption Site Questions
– “There was only one pen and one pad of paper per table. (No) website you can enter in some concerns or questions. Nothing. It was a checkbox ‘we consulted,’ That’s it.”
Fake Consumption Site Consultations Not Fooling Pt. Douglas Stakeholders
You’ll hear some information about the Thunder Bay drug use site being used as a model for the 200 Disraeli project, and an explanation how the NDP invented a 500 meter ‘consultation radius’ to try and control the anticipated neighbourhood outcry.
– Also this week, four candidates for the Grand Chief By-Election happening Wednesday emerged from the AMC nomination process. The most familiar name of the group is former Peguis First Nation Chief Glenn Hudson, who has been in the public eye since first being elected chief of his home community in 2007, serving 6 terms and 14 years in total.
https://winnipegsun.com/news/provincial/gold-hudson-three-others-via-for-top-amc-post
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Joanne Cochrane, our friend, gone too soon:
