Tag: politics
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Winnipeg Budget Day 2023
Today was budget day for Winnipeg City Council. Perhaps the most important day of the year. And I watched it so you don’t have to! Spoiler: it passed 14 – 2 and it’s a huge step in the wrong direction. There’s plenty of discourse on Twitter (I’d suggest starting with Millennium for All’s feed). You…
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My Top 3 Winnipeg Mayoral Election Issues
I spent more of my long weekend than intended summarizing Winnipeg’s Mayoral candidates’ platforms for an epic tweet thread. This got me thinking about what the most important issues to me personally. Fund Winter This city is very bad at winter! Last year especially was an epic disaster of unplowed sidewalks and streets. Forget winter…
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The Portage & Main Debate
Debate surrounding the referendum to reopen the Portage & Main intersection to pedestrians has been dominating my social media so much so that I feel compelled to comment. My feeds are filled entirely with #VoteOpenWPG proponent and in my humble opinion they could be doing a much better job. I’m not even strongly opposed to…