Nov 21 2024- Winnipeg’s Policy Keeps Homeless Encampments In Business

The Great Canadian Talk Show

Episode 32 begins with a recap of Marty Gold's latest reports and columns in the Winnipeg Sun, and the reaction to our most recent podcasts about City Hall.

He also previews his upcoming Sunday column about appearing at the Council public hearing this week regarding amendments to zoning bylaws to allow for new HAF-funded housing at malls and along commercial streets.

You'll hear how the entire process and the public hearing itself didn't serve the public good.

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17.00- Part 2- There are 40 agencies involved in the city plan to deal with homelessness and demands for shelter spaces.

While some, like St. Boniface Street Links, are taking down illegal camps and getting affected occupants into social service programs, Main Street Project - and official City policy- persists in placing the "human rights" of those campers over the rights of the taxpayers whose lives and safety are upended by the criminals.

26.00 - MSP opposes relocating encampments from river banks to safer spaces inland. Yet the organization takes tax funding from those same residents pleading for relief. Some of those residents told the media this week they don't want to be identified for fear of retaliation.

Even Premier Wab Kinew isn't down with the MSP approach.

“As a society, we do not accept when people are not of sound mind that we allow them to continue suffering.”

Is it time to defund groups like MSP that enable criminals to disrupt the peace and threaten those who blow the whistle? And is it time for Wab Kinew to offer up some Crown Land the homeless encampments can move to? And who is responsible for refugees being among the homeless?

You'll hear some surprising statistics about emergency service trips to illegal camps- we await a price tag for those visits.

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39.25 Part 3- Crime Courts and Public Safety Update

A 27 year old Philippino Winnipegger rode his bike to a hotel vendor just before closing time last year to grab a case of beer. Instead he was viciously beaten by a youth mob and stabbed to death by the then-14 year old ringleader.

That punk proceeded to assault 3 of his accomplices.

Manslaughter, robbery, weapons charges (brass knuckles!) - and he got 3 years in closed custody. What did he learn from this? What he can get away with if his lawyer plays the 'bad upbringing card.

Who should have been wondering "it's 2 AM on Remembrance Day, where's junior?"

We ask- what are the repercussions for the parents, social workers, and Nahanni Fontaine's provincial Families Department?

49.45- Another day, another lawsuit against the City of Winnipeg. We go over the details of the claim made by a Nova Scotia company who were turfed from working on the North End Sewage Plant. The way they tell it, it smells like city honchos are covering up for their own bumbling - again.

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COMING UP- More on bus safety; An update on antisemitism in Winnipeg; Dark days for Manitoba Hydro; more interviews!

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