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Old Posted Jan 21, 2012, 6:51 PM
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Nikki Ashton kind of looks like Tony Clement.
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Old Posted Jan 21, 2012, 8:28 PM
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Nikki Ashton kind of looks like Tony Clement.
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Old Posted Jan 21, 2012, 10:13 PM
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So is he... ?

Oh I know what you're saying now. Yeah, I just posted it here because there was no where else to put it but I had to say it somewhere. The similarity creeped me out.
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I disagree with the spending of public money on a Christmas Party, but to do it in a restaurant you own, that is just plain ballsy.
I still don't see anything wrong with any of this.
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Old Posted Jan 22, 2012, 4:58 AM
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I still don't see anything wrong with any of this.
Sam Katz did it. Therefore, it's wrong.
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The Katz Xmas party is sooo not worth losing sleep over.

There are a good number of very real problems that we should be talking about instead, like the lack of private capital available for investment in this city since Crocus left, the zero level of vision on a long term transit strategy for this city, runaway crime, etc. etc.
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Does anyone know of anyone who would make a competent mayor? Everyone talks about how amazing they would be in office, but I am surprised at the lack of quality people that run for office. The fact that a majority of the voters went with "Well I have to vote Katz or Judy will become mayor" is a sad statement. As all of us are potential mayors here what would be some major implementations here. Lets be formal about this. I would like to here some solid political ideas coming forth from this. I am good friends with Greg's kid, Pascal Toupin Selinger. He has told me he would love to be mayor, and I personally believe one day, after some maturing, he would do a good job.
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Does anyone know of anyone who would make a competent mayor?
I would.

However I wouldn't want to take on the longer work hours, personal scrutiny, stress and huge pay cut. Being a mayor is a thankless job.

I suspect most smart successful people feel the same way.
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I would.

However I wouldn't want to take on the longer work hours, personal scrutiny, stress and huge pay cut. Being a mayor is a thankless job.

I suspect most smart successful people feel the same way.
Wow, and from all the talk here I would have thought there were no well-paying private sector jobs in Winnipeg. And yet, making $123,000 (1/3 tax free, so actually much higher than that) is a HUGE pay cut for you. Not to mention the huge expense account, and mayors office budget... Not bad Hotwired, not bad
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I would.
However I wouldn't want to take on the longer work hours, personal scrutiny, stress and huge pay cut. Being a mayor is a thankless job.

I suspect most smart successful people feel the same way.
I would also love to hear some of your proposals. Where could we cut spending? How would we pay for major infrastructure projects? Etc...
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i voted for Rav Gill. I have him on twitter. Funny guy.
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katz is a saint now??
aww

he privitized our sand pits wa 60 millin dallor asset he sould for 10illion to a freind... like come on...

we can also bring up the parking lot he got himself free rent on beside his park no? theres endless list of scrupious buisnes deals hes made.........


if u guys even knew half the shit i've heard about him. the media knows and yet says very little
Katz isn't there for anyone but himself.
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Sam Katz-West St. Paul-Brent Olynyk connect the dots.
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Old Posted Feb 15, 2012, 6:12 PM
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Type in Andrew Marquess.
He is the developer who Katz allowed to head the Fort Rouge infill project.

He has had 28 suites against him.
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Type in Andrew Marquess.
He is the developer who Katz allowed to head the Fort Rouge infill project.

He has had 28 suites against him.
That's almost enough to build one of the buildings.
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Type in Andrew Marquess.
He is the developer who Katz allowed to head the Fort Rouge infill project.

He has had 28 suits against him.
Not surprising.

Ever hear of the saying "Birds of a feather flock together?"
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I would.

However I wouldn't want to take on the longer work hours, personal scrutiny, stress and huge pay cut. Being a mayor is a thankless job.

I suspect most smart successful people feel the same way.
Al Golden would like you to thank him less, can you vote for him next time he runs?

You ever wonder why Katz doesn't mention Golden's name anymore? They've been separated ever since Katz did a number on Golden at the ballpark on the concession business. Katz gave it to someone who could do him more good and put coin in his pocket.

Katz is the only guy I know that can shake your hand and pick your pocket at the same time. Yeah, its a thankless job, but its lucrative.
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Winnipeg Free Press - ONLINE EDITION

‘O Brad Wall, Brad Wall, wherefore art thou?'

By: Bruce Owen

Posted: 02/29/2012 12:36 PM | Comments: 8 (including replies)

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The last time I checked, he had a full-time job in Saskatchewan.

But that hasn’t stopped a few on Manitoba’s right from trying to clone Wall and his success with the Saskatchewan Party in Manitoba.

They apparently want to call it the Manitoba Party with the goal of fielding candidates in the next provincial election in 2015. It would include disgruntled Tories and Liberals and anyone else who views the reigning NDP as a Marxist scourge driving the province to financial ruin, making it the Mississippi of Canada.

If Wall is their messiah, Saskatoon radio host John Gormley is their prophet. His book Left Out: Saskatchewan's NDP and the Relentless Pursuit of Mediocrity is considered essential reading for those who see a future so bleak, because of Manitoba’s NDP, that their children’s children will be living in dung huts on a scorched prairie. Gormley’s book is part a how-to on how to fight back against so-called unimaginative, uninspired, do-nothing government. In Saskatchewan’s case, that would be the NDP under Roy Romanow and later Lorne Calvert.

In Manitoba, a new right-wing party could supposedly duplicate the Saskatchewan Party’s electoral success. Wall was swept into office in 2007 and last Nov. 7, cemented his and his party’s hold on power by winning 49 of 58 seats in the Saskatchewan legislature, leaving the once-mighty NDP with nine seats.

Again, the general feeling of those said to be behind a Manitoba Party — I’ve tried to speak to some of those said to be involved, but they’re as quiet as church mice on a Sunday—is that this province is in the same floundering boat Saskatchewan was before Wall.

The icing on the cake for them was the Oct. 4 provincial election and the Progressive Conservative’s failure to win more than the 19 seats it already had going into the fall campaign.

There’s also the dismal PC campaign, abandoning the proud Tory legacy of former Premier Gary Filmon, in a misguided attempt to outdo the NDP on just about every plank except the Bipole III transmission line.

Because of that, they believe that the Progressive Conservative name is so damaged it won’t be able to recover by 2015, and that the NDP will coast to victory for another four years.

So, what is to be done?

Easy, they say. Unite. Unite. Unite. Fight. Fight. Fight.

Trouble is, is the Progressive Conservative name really that damaged in Manitoba?

Yes, to talk and to look at some in the party five months after the election it’s like watching an episode of The Walking Dead.

But there’s still a pulse. Its heart still beats.

Why the Saskatchewan Party has been so successful in that province is because the Progressive Conservatives cut their own throats. The lid on their coffin was hammered shut in the early '90s when 14 former PC MLAs were convicted of fraud and breach of trust in a phony expense-claim scandal.

In Manitoba, we don’t have that. We only have a PC Party that made a few dumb decisions in the fall campaign. There will be no criminal charges, no public inquiry.

What’s also missing is a Brad Wall. Simply, we don’t have one.

Another drawback to this low chatter about a Manitoba Party is that it distracts from the real business at hand — finding a replacement for outgoing PC leader Hugh McFadyen and then moving forward.

Whether it’s to be Brian Pallister or Kelvin Goertzen or whomever, they’ll have their hands full enough raising the PC profile going into 2015 without being sandbagged by a second right-wing party.

Unless, of course, the PCs do the unthinkable and fold their tent and join it.

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I see great potential in this new party.
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I see great potential in this new party.
I see great potential to split the right of centre vote.
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