DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I just ran into the short-haired girl I was crazy in love with back in high school. She wore all black clothes, kind of looked like a guy, but used dark lipstick and dyed her hair different weird colours. She always looked like a scary, powerful woman and she loved to tease me, because I was shy back then.
She was standing there in the sun, and I liked her new look — blue-black hair, dressed in a black suit, hot-looking and powerful as ever! But after we started talking, she suggested we go catch up over a drink and lunch.
After eating and drinking a lot on my tab, she was a bit tipsy and confessed she already has a boyfriend she quite likes, because he doesn’t bow down to her.
To get even, I told her I had a girlfriend, “but that could change.” Then I paid the tab. She finally liked something about me!
Police HQ report ‘outrageous’: Kinew
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Police HQ report ‘outrageous’: Kinew
Joyanne Pursaga 6 minute read Yesterday at 6:18 PM CDT
Premier Wab Kinew says public inquiry findings that taxpayers were overcharged more than $40 million for the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters project and two city leaders broke the public trust are “outrageous.”
Inquiry commissioner Garth Smorang’s report, which was released Monday, concluded former mayor Sam Katz “violated the public trust” and council code of conduct, while the city’s former chief administrative officer Phil Sheegl suffered from a “complete lack of a moral compass.”
Smorang also found the city was overcharged $43.3 million for the project, with $42 million of that going to key contractor Caspian Projects.
“It’s outrageous that people who were elected betrayed the public here in the city. It’s outrageous that there were people in business who ripped you off, ripped me off — I was paying property taxes in Winnipeg at the time — and ripped all of us off to the tune of $43.3 million. That’s crazy,” said Kinew.
Policy change gives Manitoba renters a break from proposed hikes
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Policy change gives Manitoba renters a break from proposed hikes
Scott Billeck 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 5:33 PM CDT
Aidan Wilson said he was reduced to tears after getting a call from Premier Wab Kinew’s office.
He’d just learned tenants of a West Broadway apartment, including himself, would no longer pay a hundreds-of-dollars monthly rent increase as of Nov. 1.
“It’s been a lot to deal with, it’s a lot to push for, and it’s a lot to speak up. All of these emotions just kind of came flooding out,” Wilson said Tuesday at a news conference alongside Kinew.
The premier announced that renters will not have to pay the increases until the provincial Residential Tenancies Branch hears landlords’ arguments and issues its decisions.
In 2017 I sat in a legislative committee room and asked a simple question about the bill that would take Power Smart out of Manitoba Hydro and turn it into a brand-new Crown corporation:
“What problem does this solve?”
I never got an answer. Not long after, I was sitting as an independent.
Nine years later, we have the answer. It didn’t solve much.