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It is another edition now of Inside Politics.

Joining me is Winnipeg Sun columnist professor at the University of Manitoba, Royce Koop.

We've taken a few months off here.

I decided to throw my hat back into the ring of politics with nonsense.

And then their leader got attacked and got beat up so bad by a teenager and a 40, I think she was 48 year old woman.

that he has life-changing injuries.

What is wrong or where did we go wrong? I have a column in the Winnipeg Sun.

I know you do as well.

I want to use this segment to look at the civic election.

If you take advantage of the links at the bottom of the episode description, you'll be able to see my columns in the Winnipeg Sun-Tribune that led into the election, as well as my... it's a review.

That's a better way of putting it.

Uh, those links are actually in the, um, when I think of it, it's in the last episode, the, the interview with Kelly Ryback.

Now, the Winnipeg community has been here since 1993, coming up from Nova Scotia, where they lived since 1983.

The Winnipeg Sun, when they arrived, covered that.

Two members moved into the North End house with 50 more expected within weeks, they said.

Well, now there's 60 plus another 20 children living there.

That little stint.

Over at the Winnipeg Sun, and then my good friends over here said, hey, you want to come back?

And you know where this is going to go.

As we've been talking this morning about your Christmas starting gun, inevitably you know the questions are going to start coming in.

Control the little things at first, like how you dress or how you wear your hair.

As one former member said into the Winnipeg Sun, she left the group because they were controlling every part of her life down to her appearance.

and control is the big thing folks one young woman joined that group when she was 20 and a student at red river two years later she left when the group tried to arrange her marriage it's another thing that seems so consistent now her story is one that turned criminal though because she actually told the newspaper there that the man she looked to as her spiritual leader was also sexually abusing her.

She'd agreed to go with him to recruit students at the University of Manitoba, but there they ended up in his bed.

It was good driving down there.

And for the Winnipeg Sun Tribune there, you do it once a week?

Yep.

That's right.

The good, good glasses.

But anyways, thanks again for coming on the show.

And yeah, you can check you out in the, the Winnipeg sun and maybe Mike and I will be the sunshine boys.

And we'll take a little picture and put that on a good old social media.

here for this audience.

And secondly, my column, upcoming column on Sunday in the Winnipeg Sun will have a variety of other sort of reporter's notebook, which you don't really, election notebook, you don't really see that anymore in the Winnipeg media.

But since I'm an old-timer, I do these kinds of things.

I want to indicate, as I have perhaps previously, that I simply, because of The pace of things and some changes in terms of how life works around here and the fact that, to my shock, we've adopted a cat.

And it's time to hold leaders accountable.

I really hope people go out and vote and realize their vote matters now more than ever.

With regards to the observations about what goes on in this city, a lot of what he's referring to is not only on the podcast, but my coverage in the Winnipeg Sun.

And there will be links in the episode description here, both on ActionLine.ca, our home base, as well as on Spotify.

It was a contentious start to an open forum for the Winnipeg mayoral race when an audience member had some choice words for candidate Kevin Kline just as he was about to make his opening remarks.

It was a reference to a column printed in the Winnipeg Sun, which Kline owns, entitled Grave Misdirection.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Many readers interpreted the piece as residential school denialism, and it was condemned by the Southern Chiefs organization, one of the hosts of the forum.