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We tidy up some closing notes on the Manitoba election to start off Episode 19, with a review of the appointments to cabinet by NDP Premier Wab Kinew. His Addictions Minister has already assured the media a "safe injection" site is planned for somewhere... will Bernadette Smith volunteer the neighborhood she lives in for the location? Hear how a 'free drugs' policy is eroding NDP...

Episode 18 provides a rundown of the recent actions and statements of supporters of Hamas across Canada, including in Winnipeg. You'll hear about the organization behind the cross-country rallies and the link to a terror group that takes credit for being part of the murderous October 7th raid on Israel. TGCTS compiled the genocidal chants heard on our streets at the events and the harassment o...

Marty Gold opens Episode 17 by thanking listeners who've expressed their concern and support after the war started in Israel. Those issues, the local impact and local media coverage will be in the next episode. We filed a story as soon as we learned of the kidnapping of former Winnipeg resident Vivian Silver, and provide her own words to describe her career working for peace: Hamas Terrorists...

The cult of personality - and what used to be called a high 'Q' factor - helped propel Wab Kinew and the NDP to a majority government on Tuesday. In Episode 16, Marty Gold looks at the Manitoba election, the winner's careful steps to the right on key platform issues and how a compliant media - as we discussed ⁠here⁠ - was all-in for their former cohort. Kinew of course, was never descr...

In Episode 15, we present another Lesson in Journalism, and explain how the media narrative during the Manitoba election kept certain inconvenient facts out of the public square. As Marty Gold describes, throughout the campaign the media has pumped up themes like "social justice", public safety and health care, and it's been largely one-sided. They certainly didn't look into the...

Hear our special guest for Episode 14 give his views on the crime-fighting platforms of the parties in the Manitoba election- and in particular, on the qualifications of Wab Kinew to become Premier. In a pointed half-hour conversation with Marty Gold, the owner of Jamrock Security, Don Woodstock, says little he heard during the campaign was going to turn the tide against social disorder and street...

In Episode 13, we explore the subtle and not-so-subtle ways the Winnipeg media slants headlines and ignores election news inconvenient to their biased election narrative. And as Marty Gold explains, the cult of celebrity that surrounds Wab Kinew and other NDP champions of 'antiracism' within the media is a root cause behind election reporting that falls far short of serving the public good...

Our latest election interview covers lots of ground, from issues being heard on the doorstep in Southdale to another candidate picking an issue with our guest! Robert-Falcon Ouellette has always been an articulate and engaging guest with TGCTS and our City Circus Shaw TV series. His career includes two Top-4 finishes in Winnipeg Mayoral elections, sandwiching a busy term as an inner-city Liberal M...

ActionLine.ca Do voters have a right to know who their candidates were , as well as who they are , before they cast their ballots on October 3? The question of identity politics in Manitoba is again the topic- in Episode 11, we ask why some candidates get put under the microscope but others get a free ride from the MSM. Part 1 - Kirkfield Park is a constituency where two opposing candidates have u...

www. Actionline.ca Since 2004, followers of TGCTS on radio and online have heard the views of MaryAnn Mihychuk, a well-traveled geologist and consultant who is a former member of the Doer cabinet in Manitoba and the Justin Trudeau cabinet in Ottawa. She’s now serving as President of the Manitoba Prospectors and Developers Association (MPDA).   With the Manitoba election heading for the clubhouse t...

Episode 9 features the return of the Crime Courts and Public Safety update! It's overdue after being squeezed out by election news and our exclusive discussion with Andrew Marquess about beating City Hall in court- but with 5 murders piled up and some near-misses to reconstruct we get right down to business! Part 1 starts out with a review of our unique election content and interviews availabl...

https://actionline.ca Long-time Winnipeg police officer Rejeanne Caron has become a key candidate for the Progressive Conservatives in the party’s effort to retain government on October 3.  Still on patrol in Fort Rouge, Caron responds to violent crime,  property offences , sexual assaults and other calls on-shift, and then campaigns to upset NDP leader Wab Kinew, and deny him a seat representing...

In the third part of our exclusive series, Parker Lands developer Andrew Marquess paints a bleak picture for taxpayers and investors because of the financial risks in dealing with Winnipeg City Hall. The internet lit up with news about a $5M court ruling that the City administration deliberately obstructed his 1900 unit housing project for years and lied to his face. He's incurred millions in...

With the PC platform roll-out resembling tactical chess and the Manitoba NDP's coming across as playing checkers, the aspirations of the opposition increasingly rely on doorstep conversions in discussions with voters. An unexpected addition to the kitchen table conversations during the campaign is the volatile issue of "parental rights". Amplified by heated dismissals of cautious tra...

Identity politics continues to feed divisive headlines that legacy media newsrooms churn out with no shame. In Episode 5 of Season 3, we ask - Is Fake News being used to legitimize evaluating political candidates based on their blood quantums? You'll hear how one of those abhorrent narratives, used to pillory a PC incumbent, was granted the aura of 'fact' by biased Winnipeg newsrooms -...

TGCTS continues our series of interviews with candidates in the 2023 Manitoba election. Our first of Season 3 is a chat with Obby Khan, who held the Fort Whyte seat for the governing PC's in a 2021 byelection and eyes a return to the Legislature. Marty Gold talks with Khan about his background in the CFL, in business and with public safety, and about his stint as a Cabinet minister in the Stef...

TGCTS presents Part 2 of our exclusive interview with Andrew Marquess, the victim of a City Hall plot to hamstring his development plan for 1900 housing units.     “They lied to you.” “Repeatedly.” “That’s not acceptable…” “It is, at City Hall.” Hear Marty Gold continue this conversation with the man who has already been awarded $5M after bureaucrats committed misfeasance. That’s before a hearing...

This podcast opens with a quick recap of the exclusive interview we aired for the Season 3 kick-off, coinciding with the launch of ActionLine.ca , the new home for public affairs in Winnipeg. Part 1 of the sit-down with Andrew Marquess of Gem Equities can be heard here. Then, a fast round-up of other City Hall stories and election interviews coming up, and the surprise promise made on Day 1 of the...

Welcome to the kick-off episode for Season 3, which coincides with the launch of ActionLine.ca , the new home for public affairs in Winnipeg. You'll hear all about it before our exclusive interview with Andrew Marquess of Gem Equities, the businessman at the centre of the biggest news story of the summer. We covered the Marquess case extensively on ⁠July 19 2023 - There's 101 Reasons Why W...

The Manitoba election race is being shaped by the political response to the increasing danger being faced by the public from crime and public disorder. Episode 38 kicks off with Marty Gold noting it took over 6 weeks for the Free Press to catch up to TGCTS coverage about the shocking "number, severity of crimes committed by Winnipeg youth." In the article , community activist Mitch Bourb...

"He was against it, before he was for it.'' The baffling policy waffling of the Manitoba NDP took another surprise turn with a promise to re-open 3 suburban hospital emergency rooms. It's as if they thought no one would remember that their own previous regime had set in motion the shuttering of the ERs so services could be consolidated. In Episode 52 of Season 2, we explain how Wa...

A chance sighting of Wab Kinew, and his as-yet unexplained refusal to take media questions after a campaign announcement this weekend, propelled the topic of Part 1 of Episode 51: The Perils of Media Scrums. As NDP poll support plummeted, the party has been drawn off the 'single issue ballot' approach emphasizing health care, with multiple headlines in the Winnipeg Sun all over the policy...

When it became apparent that the liquor supply disruptors were heading to a contract agreement, the mainstream media lost a reliable supply of daily hot takes and updates. In analyzing the fallout, we see how unionized reporters can show their bias when reporting on government labour issues. As Marty Gold describes in Episode 50, there had already been a difference of opinion between the MGEU and...

Pajo (Paul) Radocaj, 83, was born in Croatia and was a retired construction worker living in the North End. Last August 15, new neighbours moved in. As you will hear, his daughter Vera got a call the next day that something was wrong at her dad's house. This special edition of the Crime Courts and Public Safety update brings the story of a family whose elderly father was brutally murdered last...

After a press conference last week, Manitoba Liberal leader Dougald Lamont took a few minutes for an interview with TGCTS. Lamont is in a dogfight to retain his seat in St. Boniface and he defines the top issues in the riding: cost of living, crime, and healthcare. His seat, and those of his two fellow caucus members Dr. Jon Gerrard (River Heights) and Cindy Lamoureux (Tyndall Park) are being targ...