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  “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...

A letter to the FreeP. ( They didn't publish it. ) Re: Mayor turns on lights, sirens in urgent call to province for more ambulances, paramedics Winnipeg had 22 homicides in 2025. MPI reports 21 roadway fatalities in the same year. Maybe if you (mayor & council) followed the multitude of recommendations to slow down traffic and add bike lanes, the firefighters and paramedics wouldn’t have to spend so much time scraping humans off the road and as a result wouldn’t be stretched so thin for all the other demands on their time. 7,375 collision victims. 156 pedestrians hit. 130 cyclists hit. 165 serious injuries. 932 minor injuries. 5,995 minimal injuries. Slowing all the traffic down a few kms/hr, adding mere additional seconds to car commutes: how many millions more minutes might we recoup in lives not lost?

If-you-see-something-say-something strikes again.  Sick and tired of motornormativity, I'm setting event notifications straight. Don't just tell people where they can park when they attend your event. Have some hope for humanity and believe we can step out of our death machines and get around in a more human way. Especially for an event that is pitched as a picnic. This is what they sent: So this is what I wrote:  I know you already have a lot of details in this message. I know that realistically, most of your attendees will come in private vehicles. But can you please add notes for bus and bike travellers the next time you send a message like this? What constructs our view of “normal” is not only what we personally see and interact with but also how our world is talked about. When “where do I park?!” always gets top billing in event information whereas “which bus can I take?” and “is there a safe place to leave my bike?” are never even addressed, it reinforces the impre...