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Mayors Can Be Frontline “Climate Doers” – Just Not In Winnipeg

Sadiq Khan ,Mayor of London, UK at the 2025 C40 meeting of mayors A few weeks ago, 300 city mayors gathered in Rio de Janeiro ahead of COP 30 to reaffirm their pledge to take decisive action on climate change. They’re called the C40, an organization that began in 2005 when 40 mayors from 40 cities met to discuss the role municipalities could play in fighting climate change. Since then the organization has expanded and is closely aligned with the 14,000 cities that now belong

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Mayors Can Be Frontline “Climate Doers” – Just Not In Winnipeg

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A Bad Budget for Climate and Nature

To say I’m disappointed with the new federal budget would be the understatement of the year. Truth is, I’m frustrated and angry, not just because of what’s in the budget but by what has been cut and what is glaringly absent. In the glaringly absent department are the environment and nature. That’s reflected in the decision to axe the 2 billion tree fund which did exemplary work in helping to expand urban forests to enhance climate resiliency. Add to that the fact that there a

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Building a Safer City

Avenue Mont-Royal in Montreal, a car free zone It’s a well-known fact that our city council throws a lot of money at the police in their efforts to keep us safe. But is more investment in policing and surveillance cameras really the only way to create a safer city or is it just the easy, “I don’t have to think about it too hard” way to reassure the populace that something’s being done to protect them? I think it’s the latter, and so do a lot of social and urban planning exper

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Time For a Shake Up at City Hall

Mayor Scott Gillingham and Finance Chair, Jeff Browaty, of “Joe Lunchbox” fame. I don’t know how many of you remember this, but our current mayor, Scott Gillingham, won his position in the 2022 civic election with just 27% of the vote, the smallest vote share for any mayor in recent history. Some 53% of Winnipeg voters chose, instead, to cast their ballots for one of the more progressive center-left candidates. And if the two progressive mayoral candidates hadn’t split the vo

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They call me “the tree lady” - I’ve been called worse! - because I’m passionate about protecting and expanding Winnipeg’s urban forest. But first and foremost, I’m writer, filmmaker and environmental activist with a wide range of interests. In addition to publishing a novel and short stories, I’ve written and directed more than a dozen award-winning science and nature documentaries for CBC’s The Nature of Things With David Suzuki.

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Mayors Can Be Frontline “Climate Doers” – Just Not In Winnipeg

TRAIN OF THOUGHT

Mayors Can Be Frontline “Climate Doers” – Just Not In Winnipeg

A Bad Budget for Climate and Nature

Building a Safer City

Time For a Shake Up at City Hall

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