Provincial politics is front and centre in the first segment of Episode 24, but first Marty provides a couple of quick updates on our recent stories.
– Our Special Report East St. Paul Parents Stop School From Canceling Mother’s Day is the most listened-to episode in the last year.
– In the follow up report, Smear on Mother’s Day Supporters A Lesson in Woke Journalism, we repudiated the slanted federally-funded reporting of the Free Press on the controversy and revealed the radical background of their chosen U of W “expert”. The podcast received accolades from listeners all over the country- and many kind words from the parents at Dr. F.W.L. Hamilton School for demolishing the false allegations that their concerns represented a political agenda.
– When the mainstream media attacks parents and family values, whether in East St. Paul, Brandon, Winnipeg or anywhere else, TGCTS will continue to provide a fair, accurate and balanced voice for the community.
Next, we review the speech NDP leader Wab Kinew gave to the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce; we’ve followed the mining industry closely for 15 years in our broadcasts and we explain why his past statements call into question Kinew’s genuine commitment to resource development.
With Kinew’s support in the polls having flatlined and the PC government trying to outflank the NDP on health care spending, the columnists at the newspaper are working overtime to discredit Premier Heather Stefanson. According to the Black Rod, “For the past two-and-a-half weeks the NDP’s biggest allies at the Winnipeg Free Press have pumped out a barrage of commentary attacking the government, which individually and collectively are so flimsy they only indicate that the writers are grasping at straws.”
We explain how no matter what the story – sex-ed books in schools, the Pride parade, health care hiring – the Premier can do no right in the pages produced at the Mountain Avenue mausoleum.
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19:52 – Crime, Courts & Public Safety – As we reported in the civic election last fall, derelict and abandoned buildings posed a huge risk to the inner city. We talk over some preliminary moves the Gillingham administration is making to deal with slumlords. Another issue raised last fall was the way the City had grown but the ambulance fleet hadn’t- but finally the Province and City have an agreement to add ambulances and paramedic staff.
Something that caught our attention – the shocking number of murders this year on the Main Street strip. Why do elected officials keep their mouths shut about the dangerous decay north of the Higgins underpass?
A final crime note – a mother in St. Vital was going back to her car on Monday afternoon when she smelled out a trap set by two vagrants (she’s since clarified it was not at the mall itself but at Dakota and St. Mary’s Road). Marty reads her description of how she barely escaped, and her warning to others: “it’s crucial for all of us to recognize that safety is not guaranteed, even in broad daylight and crowded areas.” As Marty notes, this kind of menacing behavior towards women was a problem near St. Boniface Hospital a few years ago until action was taken.
To end the program you’ll hear more about our upcoming website, the depth of our experience and passion, and our commitment to provide coverage that reflects our neighborhoods and working people. We make politicians and bureaucrats respond to their needs and not just to the special interest activists, as evidenced by our investigation into the way residents and businesses in St. Boniface were excluded from plans that will gridlock the hospital district.
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