It’s a tradition in Manitoba for elected officials to host a community gathering at their offices for the Christmas Season. The offices of civic, provincial and federal politicians are decorated with Christmas trees and ornaments, baked goods, treats and apple cider. Fellowship is in abundance and politics per se, takes not just a back seat,…
Marty Gold Asks How Does Bill 46 Go Unnoticed ?
The new federal drinking and driving laws in Bill 46 have not raised an eyebrow among the sizeable human rights crowd in Manitoba and the media isn’t raising the alarm about the legislation at all, and that doesn’t seem right. In this podcast Marty Gold tries to figure it out because in the 1980’s, activists…
Marty Gold Asks – Why does 311 keep this a secret?
Mayor Brian Bowman will be spoke via video-link with the Parliamentary Committee on Health about the meth crisis in Winnipeg Tuesday morning, and an important aspect of the discussion wasn’t fully discussed between the Mayor and Members of Parliament: the collateral affects – beyond crime – of meth use on the general public and property…
Marty Gold Says – It Was a Parking Authority Cash Grab
Citizen journalism has a history of helping drivers in Winnipeg get their problems with the Parking Authority in front of City Council and the public. We know a thing or two about their dirty tricks and bureaucratic bumbling. After arts patrons and others in the Exchange District took an almost $300 hit Wednesday night when…
Marty Gold Says – City “Experts” at Wasting Money
Bungling City of Winnipeg bureacrats are bleeding taxpayers dry and maybe someone has to kick Mayor Bowman in the shins under the table to get him to finally pay attention. Marty Gold takes 10 minutes to recap 3 recent examples of waste he’s covered in previous podcasts – PEGGO, bike lanes, and the 311 service…
Marty Gold has Questions for Police & Councillors
The backlog earlier this year at the Ombudsman’s Office was indeed, a sign that the Winnipeg Police Service was targeted by a series of Freedom Of Information requests and there was subsequent jockeying of information and redactions. Now, news reports about FOI results provided by the Winnipeg Police Service paints the brass, if not Chief…
Marty Gold Says – Criminals are Running Wild In Winnipeg
One woman, a mother protecting her children, blinded in a botched 2AM home invasion on Flora; a 19 year old woman, a store clerk, beaten unconscious for taking pictures of two thieves in St. Vital; a third young woman robbed at a bank machine in St. Boniface. That’s a small sample of the mayhem in…
Winnipeg Watchdog – Council Has To Get A Grip On Transit
The new City Council will get to work this week, and for bus riders – and no doubt bus drivers – it won’t be a minute too soon. And it’s not just late and disappearing buses stranding users and PEGGO payments card fiascos that are rattling transit customers. As Marty Gold explain in this podcast,…
Do Young People Want to Stay in Winnipeg?
Over the summer, I asked my daughter what one of her high school friends was doing. Her response has raised all sorts of questions for me about our community. Apparently her friend is worried that she will be the last person from their high school friendship group left in Winnipeg after all the others have…
Marty Gold – PEGGO Bus Pass Rip Offs
Considering the amount of airtime and ink spent on enhancing city bus transit services in the Mayoral platforms, solving the constant repeated failures of the Peggo bus card payment system should have been a major announcement from a candidate. It’s the election issue that wasn’t. Marty Gold tells the podcast audience some real life details…