Our coverage of many important local issues has been getting mentioned on local blogs (in some cases we picked the stories up from bloggers first and then advanced them).
Here is a short listing of those blog posts for your reading pleasure:
* Winnipeg Free Press conceal their bias for Friends of Upper Fort Garry and refuse to report the developers' side of the story:
http://progressivewinnipeg.blogspot.com/2008/02/fuck-friends-of-upper-fort-garry.html
http://www.kevinghill.com/?p=243
http://anybody-want-a-peanut.blogspot.com/2008/02/wanted-gordon-sinclairs-fingers.html
http://riseandsprawl.blogspot.com/
* The useless Transit diamond lane on Osborne in front of Great West Life:
http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/03/08/osborne-st-diamond-lane-doesnt-make-a-difference/
* Free Press editing of a story was so twisted the reporter felt compelled to apologize five days before the paper even issued a "correction":
http://waverleywest.blogspot.com/2008/02/smoking-gun-bowtie-joe-apologies-or.html
http://waverleywest.blogspot.com/2008/02/bowtie-joe-redux.html
http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/03/04/fallout-from-paraskevas-piece-hits-truwinnipegorg/
* Lack of government planning for public emergencies aka "CanAlert" may have disastrous consequences for Waverly West residents;
http://waverleywest.blogspot.com/2008/03/waverley-west-and-tornadoes.html
* Mayor Sam Katz had no idea about a proposed expansion of suburban Charleswood, spurred by the Waverly West expansion:
http://waverleywest.blogspot.com/2008/02/mayor-sams-confession.html
* (Former) Free Press editor Nick Hirst spiked LTE's
complaining about Crocus Fund viability, and complained to Crocus honcho Sherman Kreiner it was becoming difficult to mute the critics:
http://waverleywest.blogspot.com/2008/02/end-of-balance-in-winnipeg-media.html
* Mainstream media wants you to ignore blogs that point out their factual errors and selective reporting:
http://www.winnipegfreepress2.com/blogs/lett/?p=80
* The lobby for for former Blue Bomber quarterback Chuck Ealey to be elected to the NCAA College Football Hall of Fame:
http://rusirius.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/pigskin-ponderings/
* And as a bonus, a website with some great photography of many of many of the city landmarks and neighbourhoods we discuss on the show:
http://winnipeglovehate.blogspot.com/
