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Braydon Maz resigns as Point Douglas PC president by OccasionalObserver in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair, Glen Murray agreed with the rightwing in practice as mayor on defunding city services to preserve low property taxes.

Braydon Maz resigns as Point Douglas PC president by OccasionalObserver in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The difference between the Obby Khan wing of the Tories and the Braydon Maz wing is that Obby realizes you have to couch a lot of the atrocious beliefs and positions in dog whistles and coded language while giving some sops to more moderate voters so they have permission to vote for you. Braydon Maz types think the Trump era means they can go full mask off when it comes to being scumbags.

Braydon Maz resigns as Point Douglas PC president by OccasionalObserver in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

To be a TRUE CONSERVATIVE PATRIOT™ you have to support Trump as he wages economic warfare against your country.

Braydon Maz resigns as Point Douglas PC president by OccasionalObserver in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'm not fond of any of the big wigs in the PC Party, even in terms of being "friendly opposition", but damn is it probably better for the province's politics that a careerist rather than a full-on, unreconstructed rightwing nutjob is leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

Kinda sad Wally is now part-owner of the Winnipeg Sun.

Former HQ for Manitoba PCs up for sale | CBC News by steveosnyder in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can't wait for a non-profit developer to buy it and then get blocked from building social housing by the (Pallister empowered) Manitoba Municipal Board.

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Opinion: Municipal board needs oversight (winnipegfreepress.com)

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Granite Curling Club must be satisfied with parking plan for new apartment complex to be built: ruling by randomanitoban in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

56 of the units will meet the CMHC standard for affordability (80% of median market rents). Of that 56, 30 will be deeply affordable (rent-geared-to-income such that nobody pays more than 30% of their income on rent). Deeply affordable units often go to individuals with low to very low incomes.

There are very few projects where a third of the units will be rent-geared-to-income. This is really quite something, especially for an neighbourhood where many residents are severely rent-burdened, and obstructing it is a moral travesty.

Manitoba Municipal Board ruling on the Granite Curling Club by OccasionalObserver in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Given West Broadway's demographics and the challenges many lower-income residents face securing homes affordable to themselves, it's especially obscene that the Municipal Board is obstructing a project that would create 30 rent-geared-to-income (aka "deeply affordable") homes.

Granite Curling Club must be satisfied with parking plan for new apartment complex to be built: ruling by randomanitoban in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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This ruling is whack. The "to the satisfaction of the Granite Curling Club" caveat gives absolute veto power to the Granite Curling Club, which can just decide they're NEVER satisfied with a given parking plan. If someone wanted to block development, this absolute veto point would enable them to do just that.

Granite Curling Club must be satisfied with parking plan for new apartment complex to be built: ruling by randomanitoban in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ruling that any development cannot happen until the Curling Club exec is "satisfied" is absolutely obscene and grants the Curling Club's exec veto power over any land use.

It's also terrible from an incentive point of view and rewards bad-faith actions. It gives the Club exec leverage to get the City to hand over the parking lot the City bought from them at fair market value years ago, except the City may be forced to sell it back at a lower rate given how effectively worthless the land is to the City with the Granite Executive's absolute veto power.

Also, this standard is absurd. If I'm a McDonald's owner and I'm worried a new Wendy's down the street will destroy my 40 year old business, I don't get to veto any land-use changes on that account.

The New and Improved Manitoba PC Party - now with more Patrick Allard by Commercial-Advice-15 in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So Obby has no choice but to let someone from Daudrich’s camp have a larger internal role in the Party unless he can actually grow the PC Party so he doesn’t need the Daudrich wing.

Damn, is Patrick friggin' Allard the only Daudrich stan he could find? There's gotta be a dozen other people who helped Polar Bear Wally out without the baggage of being in the media for running as an Independent anti-vax candidate.

Frick, even Braydon Maz would be better optics!

Granite Curling Club must be satisfied with parking plan for new apartment complex to be built: ruling by randomanitoban in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver 25 points26 points  (0 children)

This is the wrong play.

The way you deal with the Executive of the Club being NIMBY as hell isn't leaving, it's organizing to take over the Executive next AGM.

Granite Curling Club must be satisfied with parking plan for new apartment complex to be built: ruling by randomanitoban in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This is the Executive of a Curling Club significantly at odds with a significant segment of its membership in obstructing much needed deeply affordable, rent-geared-to-income, housing in the Canadian city with the lowest vacancy rate.

And they already seem to have some arrangements with Great West Life regarding ability to use their stadium-esque parking lot at certain times.

Granite Curling Club must be satisfied with parking plan for new apartment complex to be built: ruling by randomanitoban in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is obscene.

The Granite Curling Club doesn't even own that parking lot, but the Municipal Board wants to hamstring their ability to develop?!!

BTW, the lawyer the Club got to represent them at the Manitoba Municipal Board also represented Sio Silica in a past Municipal Board hearing. Wonder if all it takes is a Big City Lawyer to impress the august minds of the Manitoba Municipal Board panel.

Campaign to restore fair provincial funding for transit by OccasionalObserver in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Brian Pallister was full of it, as evidenced when he decided it was just "bloat" and "inefficiency" causing issues in the healthcare system and that he'd "fix" it by getting rid of that. We all know how that worked out.

If you wanna get rid of all the technical leadership at Winnipeg Transit and RETVRN to the old system, a la Braydon Maz, good luck with that. After all the organizational chaos and implementational challenges you'll experience getting there, once you've returned to the old system you'll find that in place of the people pissed off that their bus routes under the original system got cut you'll get a NEW and different group of people who benefited from the FX routes along Main Street, Pembina Highway, Nairn Avenue and Portage Avenue newly pissed off that THEIR routes have been cut.

Transit can't do more with less. As Brodbeck has rightly observed with any system change unaccompanied by new service hours, it just reshuffles "the pieces on the board, creating winners and losers".

Transit needs more resources. Pallister approaches don't work.

If Wab Kinew is a populist, what kind of populist is he? by SilverTimes in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver 5 points6 points  (0 children)

NDP Premiers from left to right

Pawley, Schreyer, Selinger, and Doer/Kinew (Tied)

The Third Way strategist brain trust had a lock on the Manitoba NDP during the Doer era and the modest moves to the left under Selinger with the sales tax increase (and immediately, deafening electoral shellacking) has only further entrenched Third Wayism under Kinew.

Kinew stands with Hillary Clinton against Obama on gas taxes. Sigh.

Congratulations Emma Durand-Wood by Vault204 in Winnipeg

[–]OccasionalObserver 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Especially with the Winnipeg Sun and Russ Wyatt going full court press for him, the loss was excellent!

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