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Season 5 kicks off with an in-depth interview with Elmwood- East Kildonan Councilor Jason Schreyer, who takes on bureaucrats, unchecked construction inflation and ongoing City borrowing he says is unsustainable. The 3 term Winnipeg councillor wants a review of the rules around long-term borrowing, especially when it’s underwriting infrastructure projects that come in way over budget. “It was not something being talked about regularly” when he was first elected. Now city finances are in trouble. A member of the Water and Waste committee, he also addressed whether the City should be leveraging performance bonds posted by contractors to control spiraling costs. SEASON 5 BRINGS MORE FEATURES, MORE PUBLIC AFFAIRS ANALYSIS AND MORE INTERVIEWS ! SUPPORT OUR ⁠$5600 FUNDING CAMPAIGN⁠ TODAY! Part 1 - 3:05: "The problem is more and more pressure is being put on municipal governments" since the 1980's, said Schreyer. Council recently voted to finance an extra $23M for a South Winnipeg recreation campus but is draining Happyland Pool over a $100,000 shortfall, which Marty Gold challenged as being unfair to the less affluent St. Boniface ward. "I’m not going to dispute what you’re saying," replied Schreyer. "We've got a problem with construction inflation more than any other inflation at city hall.” 9.30- A discussion about contractor performance bonds. How is Council protecting the public interest and who is being held accountable? An example Schreyer has seen first-hand is in our report: ⁠Goulet Bike Lane Barricaded, New Lanes A Treacherous Wreck⁠ "There should be answers for these questions you're asking." Part 2 - 16.07 - Jason Schreyer notes the media had never once asked him about construction inflation before this interview. He feels that the media contributed to a lack of information for taxpayers “about why costs are going up, increasing all our taxes, fines, fees, levies, and rates at an unprecedented rate and actually reducing services.” The interest being paid on long-term bonds is "not sustainable" and Schreyer agrees that it's time for a review of city practices. Citing the rate of inflation outpacing wages for 30 years, “now we’re forced to, relative to the income of Winnipeggers, sell more and more debentures." “I don’t feel like its my job to defend the administration or City Hall. Cost overruns happen, (but) we should do a record of how often contractors are actually under the estimates... we should always be vigilant in terms of every single construction contract, yes we should.”   Comments, news tips, Interac donations- [email protected] 22.10- A former Mayoral candidate has raised the idea of the City generating millions by opening an aggregate plant- and Schreyer said there was a good precedent:   “I’m very grateful to Don Woodstock for taking up these issues. … back in the day, the city owned its own gravel quarry." Hear Schreyer describe his questions about whether the City selling off its quarries had saved any money- and the stonewall bureaucrats put up. "There is no answer from the administration on this. That tells you what kind of trouble we’re in. We can’t think, 'if the administration can’t give answers that’s the end of that’- the opposite is true!” Listen for why Schreyer and Coun. Russ Wyatt just pushed off a proposed housing plan on Dawson Road because bureaucrats were unprepared for their line of questioning. "It's the right thing to do." 26:56  The interview concludes with Schreyer focusing on accountability from City Hall and councilors. "I don’t blame people for that concern, I have that concern. Do you think I get my questions answered at city hall?" he states. "There is no accountability on the issue of further debt. Because if you really project it… I don’t see how it's sustainable... I’m not here to look at things with rose-coloured glasses on." 28:18 - Episode 1 closes with a recap of Schreyer's major points, and our focus on first-time donors for the Season 5 funding campaign!

Season 4 concludes with more news about antisemitism in Winnipeg that the local media is, once again, concealing from the public. This time, it's because the Jew-haters are taking over one of the media's sacred cows- the Pride movement. We review the words the militants used that the media don't repeat. Part 1- As Marty Gold explains, a trend emerged with confrontations at Pride events around North America, provoked by the "Free Palestine" mob who benefit from a sympathetic media. We pick up on a point made by the Black Rod, concurrent with our exposing how the Free Press ran a hit piece on a retired teacher seeking a school board seat: "Will you ever see a Free Press story reading "pro-Palestinian protestors---associated with the terrorist group Hamas that committed mass murder in Israel in October"? Of course not."  How did this favoritism play out last weekend? In San Francisco, "pro-Palestinian" allies within the Pride movement oppose any involvement by supporters of Israel. Pride honchos agreed to exclude a parade float from Israelis. Exclusion, rather than inclusion. And not just in SF: "Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters bring Philly gay pride parade to a halt" reported the New York Post. "Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters crashed (the parade) chanting the anti-Israel slogan, “Palestine will live forever! From the sea to the river!"... "... the pride marchers looked on with perplexed and dampened expressions... Some protesters in the anti-Israel group held up a rainbow flag with the words “no pride in genocide” painted on it" That describes part of happened on Portage Avenue too. Except the Winnipeg media left out the parts about Israel and the Jews. Episode 52 recaps Pride Parade reports from 3 outlets to deliver the full scope of the radical demands- and not just the ones to exclude Jews. A CTV piece set the stage- "dozens of protesters" carrying a banner "‘No Pride in Genocide.'" We add details from CBC, which downplayed it as "Parade was paused for short time due to blockade, discussions with Pride Winnipeg." Comments, news tips, Interac donations- [email protected] 13:07 "Short time" to CBC meant 45 minutes, with "50 people" extracting "time at the main stage to make others aware of (their demands) in order to leave the road." No other media reported on this intimidation. But- CTV and CBC failed to report on the demands about Jews. The Free Press almost did, but stopped short. The newspaper described the demands of "more than a dozen protesters" but failed to mention the Z-word: "Refuse to allow Zionist organizations (a) place in Pride events." Just like San Francisco, Winnipeg's Pride would not tolerate support for a Jewish homeland allowed. Essentially, no Israelis and no Jews. We explain why the media hides the antisemitism within the LGBTTQ+ movement. But what will Mayor Scott Gillingham- a professed Zionist, or Premier Wab Kinew do? Would Gillingham and Kinew agree with Pride excluding 4000 Somalians, or Syrians, or Ukrainians for their political beliefs? 33:10 Part 2- Episode 52 reveals there was a surprise dry run on Saturday by the rainbow-adorned Hamas cheerleaders. Again, MSM didn't tell the public. The drag-themed gala by the Rainbow Resource Center surprised many in attendance- and at least one board member- when a stage performance incorporated "a political rally for Palestine coordinated by venue management." "The (Met) venue was not safe on PRIDE" as the anti-Israel mob made their move. What should disturb all is how the Met crowd cheered the highjacking of the show. The antisemites didn't get stopped Saturday, and they didn't get stopped Sunday. They want Jews excluded from their Pride events. A theme for Season 5- IS THAT YOUR WINNIPEG? To conclude Season 4, we recap the most-heard episodes, the growth of the ActionLine.ca audience, and preview what's coming up in Season 5, starting next week. (See also: ⁠Dahlia Kurtz: Trudeau fiddles as Canadian Jewish institutions burn⁠)

Episode 51 of Season 4 is a Lesson In Journalism, about a Winnipeg Free Press attack on two candidates in the LRSD school trustee by-election. It was an obvious hit job timed for the Saturday edition before the June 6 vote. The powers that be in the Free Press newsroom decided to manufacture a controversy and 'Make the story fit the headline' to fool voters in St. Boniface. "I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie." George Orwell, 1943 From the first paragraph, the narrative is laid out in a style of "professional journalism" where facts don’t matter and anything challenging the narrative is excluded. The article, filled with innuendo and outright falsehoods, should be studied in every J-school in the country as a lesson on how a newspaper can influence an election by, as Orwell described, publishing a report with no relation to the facts. ⁠Check out the top episodes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, make a donation towards our costs, and help our public affairs coverage spring into Season 5 ! Part 1- Two candidates seeking to win the vacant Ward 1 seat were singled out over supporting 'parental rights' LRSD Board members, candidates seeking to join their club, and even the Superintendent were given free rein to invent malicious false claims about the pamphlets, and paint Sandra Saint-Cyr and Marcel Boille as "belligerent, confrontational and anti-inclusion." Marty Gold knows the facts because as a voter in the ward, he has the election literature the reporter was bashing. He also has the loaded, one-sided questions sent to one of the targets, ⁠Sandra Saint-Cyr, who was interviewed in Episode 46⁠. The story wanted to divert attention from their in-school practices, and we wondered why. Hear how Boille is smeared for courting supporters of deposed trustee Francine Champagne and defending her. The substance of his platform- "students do not belong to the trustees or the teachers" and wanting "quality academic and vocational education" was never divulged in the hit piece. 16:56 Part 2- While the LRSD Supt. claimed Saint-Cyr misrepresented the “lived experiences” in the schools, and others insisted parents were fully informed about division practices, we let you compare the candidate's supposedly controversial statements with actual LRSD policy- unlike the Free Press. The article misled readers about why Saint-Cyr hadn't responded to them - hiding that reporter Chris Kitching gave her only 3 hours to reply. 27.00- The road map of influencing the by-election pivoted on trapping Saint-Cyr with loaded questions built on Orwellian "emotional superstructures" about "banning books", 'safe inclusive' schools, and "Do you consider yourself to be on the right or far-right?" Did Kitching ask anyone he quoted if they are "left or far-left" for his story, so readers can get context on their bias? Listen to all the questions and the narrative behind them. 34.55- "Political suicide questions" to frame Saint-Cyr as a "child-hater" is how a listener described it, with the Free Press hoping no one reads what she wrote or the LRSD rulebook. That's because the issues she raised- including keeping "private and confidential" information from parents, biological males competing against girls, and allowing boys into girl's change-rooms - is LRSD policy. That's the "lived experience" of kids in their care. Are parents who have concerns "hateful"? Comments, news tips, Interac donations- [email protected] 46:59 Part 3- To bolster their web of misinformation, the Free Press trotted out an Ontario 'hate expert'. They didn't say he's a self-described 'queer activist' who has an avowed hatred of Christians. 56.20 - Justin Trudeau gives the newspaper almost $1M a year, and in return opponents of "progressive" policies are keel-hauled by, as Orwell explained, "retailing these lies." We offer free advice for the new owners of the Winnipeg Sun on how to compete with the Free Press.

In Episode 50, Marty Gold walks listeners through his ongoing Season 4 reports about antisemitism and illustrates a continuing reluctance of Winnipeg media to tell the truth about the conduct and behavior of their like-minded friends in the 'From the river to the sea" crowd. Last week we published a blog story on ActionLine.ca: ⁠Antisemitism Training To Be Mandatory at U of M Med School⁠ It was the latest installment about the manifestations of Jew-hate across our province and ⁠our nation⁠. In ⁠our schools⁠, in ⁠our newspapers⁠, and ⁠among political leaders⁠. Not a single MSM outlet has reported on what University of Manitoba President Michael Benarroch said: - “Antisemitism continues to exist on our campuses today” - The anti-Israel valedictory speaker “tarnished” the med school graduation event - “I hear far too often from students and colleagues who do not feel UM’s campuses are safe for them.” To report these facts would disrupt the "it's anti-Zionism not antisemitism" narrative the biased Winnipeg media uses to cover up for the pro-Islamist campus activists. ⁠Check out the top episodes⁠⁠, make a donation towards our costs, and help our public affairs coverage spring into Summer! 18:49 Part 2- After 4 days, a Free Press typist covering a formal complaint about the valedictory speech included two sanitized sentences about Benarroch’s initiatives: "In response to the criticism, U of M president Michael Benarroch said the university would offer additional anti-racism training to students, faculty and staff. The training will be mandatory for students in the Rady faculty of health sciences." Notice what's missing? The word "antisemitism". What Benarroch said was: "including antisemitism training for our students, faculty and staff." The Free Press- and the rest of the Winnipeg media- doesn't want you to know. It's not the first time the broadsheet has ducked using the word antisemitism. Hear how the reporter steered her article about an antisemitism complaint, into a bleating session for other pro-Hamas leftists in town who are being criticized after outing themselves by voicing support for the doctor now under investigation. 26.30- Local media doesn't clue in the community about incidents Canada-wide either: a comic illustrator barred from a BC festival, or about the two Jewish schools shot at in the last week. The pattern is clear, that hate and violence towards Jews is "Not News". We list media outlets that made no mention of Benarroch admitting the U of M has a problem with Jew-haters. 32.00 - It's not just the "Jew" thing. Winnipeg media has contorted itself to avoid reporting on race relations gone wrong. A significant underlying factor behind the attacks on Food Fare employees has been mob behavior encouraged by aboriginal activists and the evident distrust between them and the Palestinian grocers. Justice Minister Matt Wiebe pronounced he wants police to act, but he also hid what's really behind the violence. Marty Gold explains how in recent years, police chief Danny Smyth cowered from violent mobs, including a pro-Hamas attack on Jews near the Legislature in 2021 that was followed by the statue-destroying, cop-hating aboriginal radical mob 6 weeks later. No one was charged in either riot, and the signal was sent that mobs rule our streets. Smyth helped cause the problem, and no one should expect him to do anything as he counts down the days to his retirement in September. Comments, news tips, Interac donations- [email protected] Coming up: Coun. Jason Schreyer on city debt, public safety, and deficient public consultation; Nurses ready to revolt against Wab Kinew; and Will the Sun Rise Again?

A full house turned out in St. James on Friday to say farewell to Brian Smiley. From all walks of life and his endeavours, but especially we heard about family and friends from the lake. Marty briefly describes the celebration of our old chum in Part 1 of Episode 49. 8:02 Part 2- The headlines have been blaring for a month about confrontations at a West End supermarket fending off shoplifters. An April 28th incident where a woman swung, missed and got punched by an employee was followed by CBC making excuses for the thieves, and other kinds of 'warriors' making direct threats towards Food Fare for confronting them. Marty Gold explains that the subsequent CBC report criticizing confrontations as "normalizing something that's not normal" had it backwards. What's become normalized in Winnipeg is stealing from retailers, and that's what has to be addressed. What's not normal. is labeling what's going on as "petty shoplifting by individuals who are poor, struggling, maybe dealing with substance abuse issues, unhoused or underhoused." That's narrative, not reality. And it drove antagonism that bad actors took to heart. Comments, news tips, Interac donations- [email protected] This week's Free Press story provided the details of the escalating intimidation at the Portage and Arlington store that has included staged Candid Camera style thefts to instigate bad publicity and litigation, a jumping in a parking lot, and a premeditated revenge raid with brass knuckles and batons by a gang of 5. Every incident thus far has had a common denominator- invoking the 'victim' of the April 28th rhubarb by aboriginal crusaders. Hear how on May 3rd, self-described "angry Indians" demanded the firing of the now-suspended employee involved in the April incident. The demands were accompanied with threats to the store's operations and a declaration about native sovereignty over the property ("our land"). We questioned how these tactics would be reported if "white people" did this to an immigrant family grocer. 23.00 - "You can't touch us", taunted a group of 4 attackers on May 14, when they scoped out the joint with a shoplifting excursion around 5 pm and got thrown out. What message does it send when the 17 year old isn't sent off the streets for a single day? He brandished brass knuckles leading a mob with weapons, attacked and hospitalized 3 grocery store clerks, and gets a scolding from a cop and is sent off with a court date. Who does that protect? 26:16 - “We never know what to expect.” Food Fare told about the dollar value of stolen goods they retrieve every month before it's walked out their door, and shoplifting at that store has "quadrupled." Armed with phone cameras, it's a set-up to engineer criminal, civil, or human rights complaints against the store- ie Lawfare. Faced with a lawless mob - armed goons - intimidating a supermarket and 4 of them still on the loose, Police Chief Danny Smyth shows no concern. Neither does Wab Kinew, Scott Gillingham, or other political leaders. If the mob were from another segment of society, would politicians call out the intimidation, violence and hate? Are they waiting until another grocery owner gets muscled? 38:38 Part 3 - A fast wrap-up with a peek at an upcoming interview. We're rolling on towards Season 5! ****** Help us cover the costs of bringing unique and informed local commentary and reporting⁠ ⁠to you, click here for our Donate page!

A recap of violent incidents across the city is the theme of Episode 48, including a possible lead in an inner-city homicide. Part 1- Our recent episodes get a mention, as does the controversy about antisemitism on display at the University of Manitoba medical graduation- which earned a stern rebuke from the Rady family. Will this issue trip up the NDP at the doors in the Tuxedo by-election? 8:48 Part 2- Disturbing details of separate mall parking lot beatings in Tuxedo and Grant Park that newsrooms haven't warned the community about, but we do. One victim lost almost every tooth in their mouth, to a trio who took off in a stolen car; the other was carjacked in a brazen noon hour assault. One senior said they won't even carry plastic to the mall anymore, lest they be purse-snatched. Then we continue east to Osborne Village, where Mayor Gillingham visited the neighborhood with CBC last week to address the rampant crime that forced Starbucks to shutter. As Marty Gold explains, corporate practices that tolerated drugged out zombies using the restaurant until it was too late were part of the problem. 18.50- Gillingham made the point that social issues don't underly every incident, and that some criminals just "think they can get away with it." While that seems an entirely reasonable statement, an anti-cop, anti-capitalist, antisemitic professor at the University of Winnipeg ivory tower pounced with a Marxist word salad: "This rhetoric is made possible by concessions to the separation of criminalized people into categories of those who deserve to be policed and those who don’t... Regardless of the person or issue being policed, policing is a repressive and harmful response." Her oppression narrative was immediately dismantled by a critic who raised the eruption of consequence-free Liquor Mart carry-out heists a few years ago, and by a fellow who works in a beer vendor describing the threats he gets. If policing represses violent thieves, the working class seems to be all for it. Check out the top episodes⁠⁠, make a donation towards our costs, and help our public affairs coverage spring into summer 22.30- Continuing on to St. Boniface, one 7-11 is already closed overnight, and another might not be far behind after a failed 2 am robbery. A 17 year old with priors unloaded bear spray but was tackled by 2 customers. We wonder what would keep kids like this out of trouble... more recreation probably?... except Council keeps closing pools in the French quarter. 25.30 Foodfare on Portage at Arlington keeps appearing in headlines, but after 3 employees got the brass knuckle treatment from (yet another) 17 year old, one detail wasn't heard in the news. He had been tossed out of the supermarket earlier and returned for revenge, but sources tell us- he brought some friends. Is that the kind of gang Wab Kinew said he'd go after? 27.00- A body was found in the back lane around the 400 block of Notre Dame near Isabel last Tuesday. You'll want to hear about a potential clue from someone who had played online video games with the victim, Leo Amus Caribou, and was trying to find out what happened. Rounding out the episode is a couple of arrests of violent criminals with a common denominator - failure to comply. One case involved a slew of weapons and drugs; the other, trying to mow down store employees with a stolen car. Just remember that to the Criminal Justice experts at the U of W, "policing is a repressive and harmful response." ********* Coming up: Updates on Happyland Pool, Tuxedo by-election candidates, and a chat with East Kildonan Coun. Jason Schreyer!

The ‘Sport of Kings’ has been thrilling fans of thoroughbred racing at ⁠Winnipeg’s Assiniboia Downs ⁠since 1958. TGCTS returns to covering the world of sports with this special interview. Last year ASD set a betting record, but there's a lot more happening at the west Portage Avenue destination than just 'playing the horses'. It's an important part of our history and social fabric and brings the community together with exciting events like Indian bareback horse racing, the Manitoba Night Market, musical acts, the circus and the best buffet in town! 5:50 Part 2- With the 67th season going to the post on Monday, Marty Gold spoke with Darren Dunn, CEO of the track. They talk about the history of the local sport and the legendary sportsmen who led the way, ASD's enormous impact on the local economy with their partners - using the hashtag #DoTheDowns to drive online engagement. You'll hear how the facility rebuilt the business model to fit into the entertainment habits of Manitobans and customers worldwide after the pandemic "shut off our revenues like a light switch within 48 hours." Racing has shifted to a Monday to Wednesday schedule and now all sorts of shows and gatherings- including weddings - are taking place there the rest of the week. Comments, news tips, Interac donations- [email protected] 11.53- By the numbers, it's an amazing success story. Dunn describes ⁠the Downs supporting the agriculture industry⁠ with quality full time jobs and sustaining a tradition of sports excellence, with dedicated owners, expert trainers, skilled jockeys, and world-class breeders that engineered the Manitoba heritage of⁠ the last 2 Kentucky Derby Winners.⁠ "The skill and talent that resides in our barn area, in our jockey's room, that's on display on our racetrack, can race anywhere." Dunn is thrilled about the upcoming ⁠Western Canada Derby Series⁠, where the stakes are high and the best from ASD prove they are championship calibre. It kicks off August 5th with the Manitoba Derby. 16.20- To end the podcast, Darren Dunn talks about the late Jim Farrell, deeply involved with ASD for decades both on the microphone and behind the scenes. As a mentor and a friend, the old-style CKND news anchor brought warmth, good humour and a true love of the sport to the ASD community. This summer- on Mondays kids get in free for Family Night and they'll light up in wonder at the spectacle, sounds and sights. For the grown-ups- "Pick a name, pick a number, throw a couple of dollars down" and be part of the action at Assiniboia Downs ! ⁠Check out the top episodes⁠⁠, make a donation towards our costs, and help our community affairs coverage spring into Summer !

In Episode 46, you'll hear about the Louis Riel School Division By-Election to fill a Trustee seat in Ward 1 on June 6th. School board elections have long been used as a farm club for the Manitoba NDP- and with no spending or donation rules it's a wild-west environment for unions and other radical groups to seize a lever of political power. After the LRSD Board forced Francine Champagne to resign, 5 residents have ⁠filed nomination papers⁠. Unlike Winnipeg's MSM, we explain the far-left lens used to determine that she failed the ideological purity test demanded by the other trustees. As the Black Rod reported, LRSD has adopted the teachings of a Brazilian educator celebrated by Marxists. Paulo Friere's foundational belief was students must liberate themselves and become social justice warriors: “All education is political; teaching is never a neutral act”.   The disastrous effect on math education in Manitoba was explained in our last podcast. Check out the top episodes⁠⁠, make a donation towards our costs, and help our public affairs coverage Spring into Summer LRSD is at the forefront of indoctrinating employees and students with "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism" mandates. After all, who's against anti-racism and inclusion? Parents represented by Francine Champagne believe that children should be allowed, for instance, to mature at their own pace and to grow up and form healthy adult relationships- and she said so. To 'Woke educators' this is hate speech. Now those parents and the rest of the electorate have to pick a replacement for Champagne. Marty briefly discusses 4 of those candidates- and then interviews the fifth. 20:11  Part 2- Sandra Saint-Cyr describes moving to Winnipeg as a teen and an education career that spanned the UK, Sweden, Norway and Manitoba- which included an FN-run school and then 3 schools within LRSD. Married to a retired policeman and mother to 4 children, she tells how "My focus has always been centralized on the learner and the family behind the learner." She states the Division has been excelling in literacy programming, going back to the basics after 'whole language' curriculum proved a failure. 29.00- Saint-Cyr believes "Parents make good parents but large, multilayered governmental organizations never make good parents.” At the door, voters tell her they "want to be informed and to have a voice,“ but aren't sure how. She notes the protocols for "LRSD Policy AC - Respect for Human Diversity," are not widely known about by teachers, let alone parents. That policy is cited to justify keeping parents in the dark about their kids experimenting with gender identity. "If we're withholding critical information about a child's development from the parent... we have systems and supports in place (like clinical support). Those systems work very well and at no point prior to this have I experienced when the parent wouldn't be fully informed." Comments, news tips, public speaking and hosting [email protected] 38:22 Part 3- A Free Press report claimed “they are elected to represent the perspective of their constituents," but when Champagne did that, she was labeled a bigot who "fell out of line". Marty asks Saint-Cyr about the lack of ideological diversity on the LRSD Board. Citing a 2017 provincial rule, she says "our only option is to affirm" a student's gender spectrum self-ID. 50.00- "A teacher's being asked to diagnose and support a decision we have no expertise to do... It's critical that parents are part of every decision we make for students." But with numerous countries now backing off transitioning underage youth, "parental consent is at the heart of the issue. We need to involve the family." Saint-Cyr shares concerns of some parents about sexualized library content. "That is an area that needs attention and I believe change," which will depend on parents stepping forward at Board meetings to bring questions forward. ( For more info: [email protected] )

In Episode 45, we take a deep dive into the battle over math education in Manitoba. After playing out in the media for almost 20 years in plain sight, we go through the history. Math is hard for lefties when the actual educators refuse to let the Paulo Friere critical race theory fan club take over school curriculum, and promote "anti-racist" math in which everyone is either an oppressor or "oppressed." Store clerks can't round up to give you change or multiply how much 3 orders of fries costs, but to the promoters of fuzzy math, that's not a problem. We earn your support - ⁠⁠⁠donate at this link⁠⁠⁠, and check out the lists of top stories! Part 1- We analyze the trail of skirmishes in the Winnipeg Free Press (starting with 09/10/11): "Teachers' math skills 'alarmingly weak'... Some teachers didn't get adequate math courses when they were in high school and thus can't teach their students properly, the petition alleges" "... A student can get into a faculty of education with only Grade 12 consumer math, Professor Anna Stokke said. "I wouldn't even call it a math course -- it's a life-skills course." "It's a disaster. They're coming in with grade-school math." Another instructor noted- "Young children can develop a fear of mathematics if their teachers do not have a good understanding of the subject." Faced with pushback, the newspaper platformed far-left attack dog Neil Dempsey, in "‘Drill and kill’ no way to teach math in 2011". You'll hear how how his ilk of "educators" rely on half-truths and insulting critics - memorization baaaad! Next was Dempsey's WFP polemic in 2016. He aligned himself with a Stanford "expert" recently alleged to have "in 52 instances misrepresented supporting research she has cited in her own work in order to support her conclusions. These include the notions that taking timed tests causes math anxiety." The pushback he got from another U of M math Professor, Robert Craigen, exposed the scam: "These puff pieces are usually sprinkled with a generous helping of “research shows” without specifics, or generic “researchers” cited as having such and such opinions... We ask to see this research and, most often, the only reply is dismissal tactics." By 2013, "Manitoba went from ranking fifth (in the PISA test) to dead last in Canada." That was the result of emphasizing "cultural sustaining pedagogy" and progressive groupthink, with unqualified public school instructors being trained to bake the DEI narratives of Marxist revolutionaries into the classrooms. Comments, news tips, Interac donations- [email protected] Part 2 24.53- A big topic locally last fall became "math anxiety" - whipped up online by a trustee's spouse. Prof. Stokke wrote in the Free Press in January that: "the percentage of Manitoba students performing below level 2, which corresponds roughly to innumeracy, doubled since 2003. The percentage of highest-performing students halved. More students are struggling in math, and fewer are excelling." Her C.D. Howe Intelligence Memo is at https://www.cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/anna-stokke-reversing-decline-canadian-math-scores "Students must develop a firm foundation through a lot of practice before they can grapple with more complex math... Public funds should not be spent on math programs that fail to recognize the importance of explicit instruction and sufficient practice." Dempsey tried to rebut Stokke as "uninformed" "scary" and "harmful"- but as you'll hear, he falsely pinned statements on Stokke that her op-ed hadn't included, and soon apologized for misquoting a former NDP minister. In other words, he spread disinformation. He also wedged "climate change" into his narrative. Because it's not about math, it's about indoctrination. You'll hear her takedown of Dempsey and about how Manitoba reversed a plan to eliminate tests. If only 50% of Ontario Grade 6'ers met standards, how bad will our kids score? As Stokke said, "Maybe the cure to math anxiety is to teach kids math."

Episode 44 opens with listener comments about our tribute to Brian Smiley; an update on the Dan Rentz 911 suicide call from Episode 42; then lots more updates in the city hall and provincial round-ups! 8:00 Part 2- Using the bully pulpit of the Free Press, Brent Bellamy is the mouthpiece of the elitist 'urban visionary' crowd in Winnipeg, aligned with the radical bike lobby. When Coun. Ross Eadie wrote to the newspaper disputing Bellamy's proposals that would make River and Osborne a nightmare for disabled and blind pedestrians, Bellamy mocked the concerns. You'll hear Eadie's detailed explanation and the crass, no class response from Bellamy, distorting the issues and dismissing the objections of the councilor who is himself blind. It's indicative of how actual public safety is an afterthought to the anti-car, anti-capitalist mob Bellamy fronts for. As Eadie put it: "This guy has an architecture stamp – wow... maybe architects should be penalized under the Accessibility For Manitobans Act." Comments, news tips, Interac donations- [email protected] 19.40- That attitude against protecting genuine public safety is on display with the debate about closing Assiniboine Avenue at Main Street. Marty Gold provides the history of the idea, which was a favorite of the Manitoba Club front group, "Friends of Upper Fort Garry" in 2010. The flaws of the idea were put on the record by Kelly Ryback at the Public Works meeting - starting with a naval base down the block and the use of the road to get to St. Boniface Hospital. You'll hear audio clips from the subsequent discussion by councilors and the stunning deceptions that the bureaucrats were pulling to conceal their plans, dissuade public input, and cater to their allies in the bike lobby. 26.45 - Janice Lukes and Russ Wyatt question the department heads. You'll hear how emergency services were not actually asked about ambulances getting delayed going to the hospital, the dirty trick of labeling the report as 'information' when they intended to "roll this out" anyways, and Wyatt challenging this "dangerous" idea. Lukes called it "a tricky recommendation" and "confusing." Another trick was revealed- summer repairs on Assiniboine will block eastbound lanes, which will lower the numbers of vehicles diverted northbound down Fort Street and make it seem less obstructive of traffic than it really is. 34. 14- While the administration called it a "pilot", Wyatt rightly said, "It's a trojan horse, not a pilot". You'll hear the bureaucrats admit they didn't mention the word 'pilot' anywhere in the report or that the proposal to forbid right hand turns onto Main St. is for a YEAR. This is an example of the public service deliberately deceiving the public to tamp down their input. Not coincidentally- immediately after Wyatt identified the bike lobby as manipulating this initiative, the YouTube feed of the meeting was mysteriously cut off. He's taking his complaint about being censored to the Governance Committee. Marty recaps how stakeholders like small businesses and residents downtown are being shunted aside by high-paid liars on the public payroll who favor the bike lobby elitists. Lastly in the City Hall round-up, a Matt Allard sighting. Hear the questions he's going to be asked as we continue to seek an interview with him. It's not only about the Goulet bike lane, but that's a start. There's a Happyland Pool fundraising update to end the segment. 48:47 - Part 3 - Provincial round-up Update on the Bell MTS layoffs in Brandon, as we again scoop MSM; More reasons why Wab Kinew's NDP shouldn't follow the BC model of hard drug decriminalization and 'safe supply'; Four hopefuls- at least- are lining up to contest the PC nomination in Tuxedo to replace Heather Stefanson, one of whom is a strong voice for the Jewish community, Larry Pinsky. ******* To support the Truth for Lily, Justice For Dan $25/ticket fundraiser raffle: [email protected]