The Grey Cup is on, so it's time, once again, to remember that Pierre Trudeau rolled up to Grey Cup in 1970 looking like this.

Do Americans know that Canadians never have to deal with this sort of “prior authorization” stress when we need medical care? (Not to mention we don’t get a bill in the mail.) #UniversalHealthCare

I’m heartened that this group exists: “Granite Members for Affordable Housing”. Good for them. Also, there’s a *sea* of parking literally across the street (proposed complex is the X). This should be easy to resolve if the Granite truly wants the housing complex to be built. #Winnipeg

Municipal Board needs to go away. They act like a court of law with high priced lawyers on both sides. Then they just make gut feel rulings based on no set criteria. Imagine giving a tenant the power to veto what a building owner does with its property. How is that even legal?

Winnipeg curling club stops affordable housing complex because they’ll lose half their parking spots. I bike past this block every day and it’s the *perfect* spot for more housing. I hope this can be resolved.

Sadly, Olafson House at 539 William Ave. was torn down this week after its fourth fire in three months. It was one of my favourite houses in the city. Here's a look back at its history and some of those who called it home over the past 130 years: winnipegdowntownplaces.blogspot.com/2025/11/539-...

Falk is a prominent human rights expert who turned 95 on the day he was detained. This is who Canada sees as a potential threat to national security? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My son’s band “We’re Only Here For The Snacks” is on the front of the Globe and Mail Arts Section! Thrilling. Their album “Missed Our Stop” is out Nov. 21 and release party is at the WECC on Nov. 23.

NEW — Rashida Tlaib and 20 other members of Congress have introduced a resolution to officially recognize Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. It notes that between 10/23 and 11/25, the US sent $21,700,000,000 in military aid to Israel and authorized $30,000,000,000+ in new weapons deals.

“The Israeli human rights organisation Yesh Din found that, over the past two decades, more than 93% of police investigations into Israeli offences against Palestinians in the West Bank were closed with no charges filed.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Good. I love the pedestrian “head start” lights. “The City of Winnipeg said in an email after the rally it will be installing a leading pedestrian interval at the intersection by the end of the week.”

Interesting. #Manitoba #DataCentres

I was radicalized at 13 when I wrote my Grade 8 speech on light pollution and learned for the first time that a better world was possible

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Guys, we are winning the trade war. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

READ: Inside one Palestinian family's harrowing experience of having their son's dead body withheld by Israel as a bargaining chip. Israel has held the bodies of 726 Palestinians in refrigerators and the so-called "cemetery of numbers" for decades. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/isra...

Cancelling traffic tickets issued to officers’ friends and associates has been a pervasive practice throughout the Winnipeg Police Service for years, a retired officer says.

It’s astonishing how behind the Canada Revenue Agency is right now. In Aug they adjusted a 2023 return, claiming a T-slip wasn’t filed (it was). Our accountant responded immediately. Today they asked *again* for the money they claim we owe. But they won’t get to our adjustment until *March 2026*.

More than a dozen Israeli soldiers spoke to ITV for their new documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, about how their army’s two-year campaign in Gaza involved shooting unarmed Palestinians en masse, using teenagers as human shields, and flattening entire neighborhoods without pretext of...

Northern light over downtown Winnipeg tonight. Bucket list shot for me. #winnipeg #aurora #northernlights

How long until mortgages/loans are rebranded as licenses/subscriptions b/c they sound more positive and align with tech vibes??

This shouldn’t happen. We don’t have to accept it.

Jon Hamm is in Winnipeg filming a TV series, and is absolutely crushing fall chunky sweater season. (First pic at Vera Pizza, second at 529 Wellington)

The Canadian Poppy Blanket. This was initiated by Winnipegger Sheilah Lee Restall. It’s over 60 feet in length and has more than 8,000 handmade poppies and 2,000 ribbons. It’s on display at the Manitoba Legislative Building. Lest We Forget. #winnipeg #lestweforget #remembranceday

The first report. Would love to see rail relocation happen in Winnipeg in my lifetime.

Gordon Lightfoot album cover from 1978 where he looks like Bryan Cranston on Breaking Bad with a perm

we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

What a preventable tragedy caused by a disinformation grievance industrial complex. Shameful.

It’s bizarre to see all the snow in Ottawa and Toronto but hardly any in Winnipeg (yet).

That’s a terrible article. Detox can be medically dangerous and 24 hours may not be enough to assess a person’s psychiatric health when they’ve consumed methamphetamines. Provided the detox centre has medical care + psych, this enables safer detox + assessment. #MBhealth www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New Yorkers! Hear Standing Together leaders Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green in conversation with NYC Comptroller Brad Lander on November 12. Tickets: standtog.org/NYC

Lots to think about here.

This breaks some people’s brains. In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency. In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it. We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”

Pesky e-bike riders delivering food to people should be ticketed... @tps.ca there appears to be a double standard here because stopping in for some Jerk King, although delicious is not actively responding to an emergency. The use of the lights here, while clever, is certainly inappropriate.

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

This is so confusing.

While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response. It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?

Good critique of the proposed Wellington Crescent bike lanes. Although I suppose this is why the lanes are temporary - they can be tested out. #BikeWpg

These changes would have made the difference in Rob Jenner living or dying in the summer of 2024. They might make the difference in keeping my family or yours alive, too. We have until December 12th to share how important these changes are to us. Let’s get it done.

Whoa, bad design! Between the streetcar rails and the sewer grates…

First Nations women who’ve spent a lifetime fighting for the right to belong in their own communities have been again travelling to Parliament Hill this fall, repeating their calls for change. My latest on the second-generation cut off (no paywall!) ⬇️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Excited to see the narrative flip from curtailment to empowerment. This is one of the benefits of renewable energy --> it produces near-zero marginal-cost power at peak hours! What could we do with that superpower?

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

Rama Duwaji (Zohran Mamdani’s wife): “I believe everyone has a responsibility to speak out against injustice,” she added, “and art has such an ability to spread it. I don’t think everybody has to make political work, but art is inherently political in how it’s made, funded, and shared.”

A root problem with the immigration proposal -- using permanent immigrants rather than temporaries to fulfil the "nation-building" goals of the larger budget -- is that Canada's main immigration pathways, Express Entry and PNP, select for FAR too high skill/education levels for our economic needs

In terms of _content_, as we see with nods to Debs and Nehru, he's deeply comfortable with socialism. This makes sense not just because of his father's work, but also the cultural heritage on his mom's side; the region of India our families are from has always been a hotbed of leftist activism.

An interesting budget provision for the creative industry: An Artist's Resale Right. It's apparently meant for paintings that get resold for lots of money, but could the logic be extended to other works of art? We'll see what "eligible sale" will mean.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.