Winnipeg's premiere podcast tells you the story of a remarkable dirty trick played in the election, from a north end riding no less. It's quite clever although highly unethical and shows someone is scared of someone else gaining ground.
Also today, Metro reporter James Turner echoes our position that rampant alcoholism is fueling violent crime in this city and should be an election issue; Dan Lett isn't very complimentary about the attack ads on Hugh McFadyen but still thinks the NDP is ahead in the race- although he didn't seem to consider another variable; and Kevin Engstrom of the Sun blasts the NDP for gutter politics.
In civics, Gordo's column about a proposed Waterfront Drive development in the FP this weekend was so obnoxious that blogger Cherenkov was compelled to make sure everyone knew the history of Sinclair distorting the plans at Upper Fort Garry to generate support for the Manitoba Club members engineering the kaiboshing of a much-needed apartment block to preserve their back yard view. Since Gary Filmon is involved in some way with the Waterfront deal, I set the record straight that this was a ploy by Gordo to use his bully pulpit to demonize the Tories, even tangientally, yet again. We review the facts of how the bike lobby and their enablers inflated attendance figures at past Ciclovia events for political purposes, and in the crime report, two weekend stabbings lend rise to a 6 letter word no one dares utter to protect our youth from each other - curfew.
Plus shout outs to bloggers and twitterists including Rae Butcher, John Dobbin and Airchecker!
Listen here: http://tgctspod.podbean.com/2011/09/12/tgcts-monday-sept-12-2011-first-report-of-dirty-trick-in-election/
