Winnipeg public service is recommending the default residential speed limit drop from 50 km/h to 40 km/h. Council’s public works committee will debate it March 4. The estimated cost is $525,000, largely for signage and promotion. The stated goal is safety. The question is simple. Is this the biggest issue facing our city today? In recent weeks, a child was attacked on a Winnipeg Transit bus with a baseball bat. That is not a traffic-calming issue. It is a public safety failur

When the Winnipeg mayor, Scott Gillingham, talks about modest increases, he rarely mentions that Winnipeg’s water and sewer division has become a piggy bank for general spending and is among the highest in Canada. Mayor Scott Gillingham has decided that word games are his preferred tool for shaping public opinion. He speaks as if affordability is something achieved through slogans rather than decisions. He repeats the same lines about keeping costs down while residents watch