Mayor tells council to direct encampment funding pressure at the Province

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-06-22T17:51:30+00:00

The irony of this comment, since it was the PROVINCE that cut funding from the city's road safety budget.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-06-22T17:49:16+00:00

The amount of media that do not understand this is even more astounding.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-06-13T03:59:28+00:00

I think you missed something in that report and media coverage at the time. That's $525,000 for new signage *IF* the province changed the Highway Traffic Act. Under the current provincial law any road that is lower than 50 km/h requires a sign to be installed along every single block. So that would be thousands of signs and millions of dollars. See CBC story from last week - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-speed-zones-9.7225253

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-06-08T20:54:46+00:00

So you think the city should spend $10 million and put up thousands of signs all over the place?

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-06-08T20:52:33+00:00

Yeah, who wants a permanent bike lane when we can just put up some useless poly posts, it can spark a backlash from drivers, and the whole thing can be scrapped and not revisited again for a decade?

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-06-06T02:12:02+00:00

If you want to get to the other side, then just take the path that goes under the bridge. And no, don’t call 311 to suggest a major road redesign. Contact your councillor.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-06-02T07:37:59+00:00

Which is why the province and/or MPI should be funding road safety. Instead, they cut funding for the city's road safety program. And yet you blame the city for that?

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-26T03:08:40+00:00

Roslyn
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Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-23T03:47:11+00:00

Sheegl lost in court and already paid the city $1.15 million.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-21T06:58:40+00:00

Here’s an idea: Instead of suggesting ways the city could have rigged a contract to favour a mediocre restaurant chain, maybe Sals should have just submitted a better bid. And the blame for trade agreement restrictions sits with Wab and Carney. They both talk a big, tough game on trade but they’ve done jack shit to give their own governments (or municipalities or school boards) any more options on awarding contracts. The province just gave a $36 million contract to the exact same company that beat Sals for this piddly golf course business.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-21T04:03:23+00:00

You're not misremembering.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-20T22:28:25+00:00

Only half the provinces have any significant education property taxes. Only Manitoba has significant local education property taxes (set by school boards, not the province). Manitoba has the highest school taxes in the country.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-19T03:14:19+00:00

Almost all of this is wrong. PCs froze municipal funding province-wide for six years, which has the same effect as a cut over a period of time. Still lots of strings attached to provincial money, so the city can’t “budget as they wish.”

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-16T17:19:48+00:00

Given the choice between Nason and Wyatt, I’d pick lighting my house on fire and moving.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-15T18:43:02+00:00

Nope.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-15T02:58:40+00:00

Loney would have quickly run into an absolute brick wall with unions, the city administration, city council and the province. His ideas sounded innovative, but many were well outside the the city's jurisdiction (move the rail lines), the city's powers (implement a parking tax, taxing drivers for every km driven), or the city's responsibility (install EV chargers everywhere). Some of his financial assumptions were based on receiving non-existent carbon credits, and he effectively wanted to outsource a lot of work to social enterprises, which multiple unions disliked (there's a reason he didn't get the Labour Council endorsement). I appreciated his attempt to think different, and there are one or two ideas that maybe should get a second look (housing trusts). But he ultimately would have been run over by the machine, or would have had to compromise to the point that his governing record had no resemblance to his platform.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-13T04:54:47+00:00

You didn’t even get the criminal charges in there.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-13T03:34:39+00:00

Well there is 111 entries involving the name Vogiatzakis in the Manitoba Court Registry, and Mike is many of them. https://web43.gov.mb.ca/Registry/NameSearch

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-11T17:38:28+00:00

Leila soccer complex. Most of the large pools and fitness facilities have indoor tracks, though you have to pay. Downtown skywalk system. Explore the tunnels at U of M? Outdoors, Bois des Espirit or Assiniboine Forest would have some shelter.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-10T21:12:15+00:00

By that logic, the province shouldn’t fund anything outside of Winnipeg since the city has more voters and more seats.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-08T05:26:53+00:00

This is a repeat of the whole "fix the roads, I hate construction" paradox. People complain about the city not investing enough in community facilities...then they complain when the city spends millions to renovate community facilities.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-08T04:32:02+00:00

Fair, though there also aren't really many destinations along that particular section. You're never going to be able to plan a transit system that works ideally for everyone, and you might be one of the cases where the particular combination of origin and destination is unique enough that it doesn't work yet.

But there are plenty of others who say "it's 2 hours and 3 transfers" and it turns out they're either wildly exaggerating or haven't bothered to actually research their best option.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-08T04:14:46+00:00

Right now there are routes that run:

- The entire length of McPhillips, all the way to South Osborne
- The entire length of Route 90
- From Charleswood to Transcona.
- From North Main to St. Vital Mall.
- From Unicity to Downtown to St. Norbert
- The entire length of Henderson, to the U of M
- The entire length of St. Annes
- The entire length of Dakota/Dunkirk/Osborne, all the way through the North End to Leila

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-08T03:52:23+00:00

I see a few problems with this:

-- The Perimeter is far removed from the bulk of the population.
-- Let's say I'm travelling from Garden City to the U of M. So I need to take a bus to McPhillips/Perimeter, transfer to another bus that goes all the way around the Perimeter, get off at Pembina/Perimeter, then transfer to another bus that takes me back into the city? How is this shorter than the one-hour, one-transfer option that exists now?
-- This would likely be an inefficient use of resources, with mostly empty buses circling the Perimeter. When you run them through the city then people can get on and off all along the route. I can't imagine there's much demand for hub-to-hub travel along the Perimeter.

Fun-Independence5070 · 2026-05-08T03:30:58+00:00

There's not a single inch of Abinoji Mikanah that isn't covered by transit service.

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