Posts Tagged ‘crime’
What’s Missing from Mayoral Talk on Crime and Police? Plus Some Candidate News
Episode 15 is a rambling session with Marty and Spirited Kenny that kicks off with Bomber talk! And not just the close game, but the Labour Day Classic telecast. Marty compares it to the great sportscasters he knew and emulated as a teenager and says fans deserve better from the TSN broadcast booth. 7:30 –…
Read MoreKlein Responds To Coun. Eadie / Glen Murray Takes Flak On 4 Fronts
This is number 12 in our podcast series covering the 2022 Winnipeg civic election! We received an extensive response to the comments of Mynarski Coun. Ross Eadie about the entry of Kevin Klein to the Mayoral race- if you want the entire reply of Coun. Klein, we can email it to you. 5.00 The response…
Read MoreWoodstock Warns: “Glen Murray Is A Habitual Quitter”, Last Exit From Mayor’s Office Cost Winnipeg $2M
Another mid-week edition focuses on a Mayoral candidate who speaks from the inner city, Don Woodstock. He held a press conference on Wednesday, challenging Glen Murray to sign a Winnipeg Mayoral Service Agreement promising to serve the full term – unlike his last whirl in the Mayor’s chair – if elected Mayor on October 26. …
Read MoreGlen Murray Should Come Clean About Caledon
Our plan to talk about those ‘other’ candidates took a turn on Thursday, when CBC reported that a retired Ontario small-town Mayor claims she was intimidated by Glen Murray on behalf of a housing developer in 2013. Murray wasn’t a lobbyist, he was a Liberal cabinet minister in the Kathleen Wynne government. Winnipeg newspapers are ignoring this scandal,…
Read MoreKevin Klein Enters Race For Mayor: “The System Is Not Working For You”
On Wednesday, about 100 people gathered in Assiniboine Park to hear Councilor Kevin Klein declare he was aiming for the top spot at 510 Main Street. “The system is broken. The system is not working for you.” After winning election in 2018 as the representative for the ward of Charleswood-Tuxedo-Westwood, Klein spoke his mind at…
Read MoreSouth Osborne Rep Tells TGCTS: Next Mayor Must “Be Brave” And Fire City Planners
Listen to the allegations of corruption made by the South Osborne Residents’ Group about the City of Winnipeg planning department, and how officials let developers ruin their neighborhood with BRT condos no one wants to buy. This week the podcast turns to voters raising serious concerns that Winnipeg needs to have fixed. The message from…
Read MoreThe Don Woodstock Interview: “The Public Don’t Want Another Bowman”
Listen to the full interview here to learn about Don Woodstock and his run for mayor. Marty’s got civics covered!! But first, he gets the lowdown from Spirited Kenny on his Blue Bomber gameday experience last Friday, when the locals edged the Calgary Stampeders to go 6-0 in the CFL West. It’s a funny change…
Read MoreTGCTS Podcast: Police Chief Smyth Makes Himself An Election Issue
Listen to the full podcast to find out why Winnipeg Police Chief Smyth has made himself an issue in the upcoming mayoral election. No Rogers network crash is going to stop The Great Canadian Talk Show from telling you what you didn’t know about Winnipeg police chief Danny Smyth. At his press conference on…
Read MorePolice Chief Danny Smyth Feels Safe At The Forks- Does He Take His Gun?
by Marty Gold Forced by pressure from the police union, Winnipeg police chief Danny Smyth had to hold a press conference on Friday and speak to recent violent assaults in Winnipeg around Canada Day, and in particular those at The Forks. Bursting with smug defiance, never was it more apparent that Smyth has put the…
Read MoreBad Week For The Forks Becomes A Civic Election Issue
Listen to the full podcast to learn more about what Winnipeg Police Cheif Smyth thinks about crime at The Forks. (… bad couple of weeks, actually.) After talking about what they did on Canada Day – Marty was hosting CWE wrestling in West St. Paul and Kenny was Mr. BBQ – the discussion steered towards…
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