Winnipeggers work to cut down on food waste, which costs Canada billions each year

A vision for growth, sustainability and reconciliation

Dec. 19, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press  – As the world shifts to a low-carbon economy, Manitoba finds itself at a pivotal moment. The time to act is now — to harness our province’s unique advantages, setting Manitoba on a path toward green innovation, sustainable practices and high-quality jobs. Without decisive steps forward, Manitoba risks losing out to other regions already mobilizing their economies for tomorrow and attracting the next wave of investment.

City’s resistance to electric buses a mistake

Dec. 13, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press.  The City of Winnipeg is scaling back plans to electrify its fleet of transit buses. That’s disappointing. Winnipeg was once a leader in the transition from carbon-emitting buses to battery power. The city led the nation in 2015 when it launched a pilot project to put four electric buses on the road.

Winnipeg’s compost drop-off program ‘incredibly successful’, tripling expected totals

Dec 13, 2024 – CBC News – Winnipeg’s community drop-off composting program has exploded in popularity with triple the amount of organic waste being contributed over what was expected.

Higher density key to fixing budget woes

Dec. 9, 2024 – The Winnipeg Free Press – Our city has been growing three times faster in area than in population, meaning overall density has been dropping as it grows. In 2019, the city compared the built-up area of Winnipeg over 50 years and found that the footprint of the city had increased by 96 per cent, almost doubling, while the population increased by only 37 per cent. If Winnipeg had simply maintained the density it had in the 1970s, the city’s footprint, and its corresponding infrastructure would be 30 per cent smaller than it is today.

This would have gone a long way to balancing our civic budgets.

The climate crisis is our greatest health crisis

Dec. 7. 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – As a physician observer attending the recent United Nations Conference of the Parties (or COP 29) in Azerbaijan, it was clear the deeply unhealthy COP process needs some massive therapy if we aim to curb the single greatest health crisis of our time: the climate crisis.