Motion to hold referendum on Manitoban’s funding presented, withdrawn prior to council meeting
A motion to hold a referendum on defunding the Manitoban briefly appeared in the package sent to UMSU councillors in preparation for council’s Feb. 1…
Evan Tremblay
Progressive Conservative climate action plan not progressive where it counts
The Manitoban government is talking cheap politics, not climate change.
Potholes appear on the road to legalization
Are you now, or have you ever been, high? If the answer is “yes,” you’re not alone. Statistics Canada estimates that 43 per cent of…
The Problems with Pallister: carbon, cannabis, cost of living, and Costa Rica
The actions of the leader of our province on carbon looks like nothing so much as Nero fiddling as Rome burns.
Provincial government owes transit more than cuts
The province has divested itself of the responsibility to match the city’s budget contributions to Winnipeg transit.
With friends like Trudeau and McKenna, Canada’s environment doesn’t need enemies
In 1879, Leonard Tilley said of a young Canada, “The time has arrived when we are to decide whether we will be simply hewers of wood…
Bowman’s proposed flat tax on city sprawl is as silly as it is short-sighted
Grow smart, not sluggish.
Waverley underpass panders to wealthy suburbanites
City council has officially approved the Waverley St. railway underpass, the price tag of which is a staggering $155 million. All but one member of…
Urban beekeeping: legal at last
Local food production in the form of urban agriculture is one of those things that is very hard to formulate a coherent argument against. Producing your own food benefits you in money saved and costs avoided, and benefits the city as a whole in energy saved on transportation costs and increased local food security. It’s also just plain healthier, for the body and the soul, to grow what you consume.
Beekeeping is actually even more beneficial than plain old food production. Not only does it provide honey for the people keeping the bees (and usually enough extra for them to share or sell), but the bees provide an important ecological service – the pollination of flowers – for the entire neighbourhood. The entire city is made a little bit more robust and sustainable as a living system, at no cost whatsoever to anyone other than the beekeepers.
People are a product of their physical environment
Winnipeg is a city. This truth is self-evident, but was apparently not on our mayor’s mind when he declared “I have no interest in offering a platform for the types of violent and harmful views” held by members of a misogynistic group that was planning a meetup this past Saturday. Bowman was joined by the mayors of Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver in denouncing the group – fans of the anti-feminist blog Return of Kings – and declaring them unwelcome in their respective cities.