Saw a pink chicken running around 3 Corners Bekondo. A cheeky voice in my head asked “Why paint chickens?” riffing off a bewildering book and calendar series of psychedelic cats. When I verbalized the question Mike teased me about the flamingo strain of chickens before admitting it was for identification – so you know which chickens are yours and which belong to your neighbour – like painted sheep in England.
“We’ve increased support for municipalities year after year because we know strong communities depend on reliable, stable and predictable funding increases,” Municipal and Northern Relations Minister Glen Simard said in an emailed statement to the Free Press Tuesday. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2026/06/23/winnipeg-transit-needs-funding-boost-additional-staff-to-follow-new-provincial-accessibility-regulations-city-report This in answer to City of Winnipeg chair of Public Works Janice Lukes plea for the province to cough up money for the needed upgrades. Listen carefully because these are words I won't often say: I gotta agree with Lukes on this one. If the province is handing down new standards, given their higher capacity for raising revenues, they ought to help the city fund meeting said standards. What Simard fails to acknowledge is that those "year after year" funding increases started at the bottom basement after Conservative cuts and likely h...
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