River Heights

[upbeat music] Today on the podcast for the start, as we continue our civic election preparation, we talked about crime.

We visited with the Smashed Windows Club in River Heights to find out if things are getting better, worse, about the same.

We also had our monthly visit with Premier Wab Kinew, and he had some things to say about the impending report on the police HQ inquiry.

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And on, when it came to property crime, Mackling, I don't know about you, but I, I know the first people I thought of.

That's right.

Our next guest is with the Smashed Windows Club in River Heights.

Andrew MacRae, our former colleague, our friend, joins us now.

I know that there is some work on Watt Street, and that's, that roadway is, is much improved.

But certainly, um, like there are times where it's a bit of a competition between River Heights and-

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... like that, and, and these people, they, they have nice homes.

They invested in their community, and their roads and lanes are garbage.

J- and it's like River Heights.

Neighborhoods that have paid and paid and paid, and they continue to pay.

I didn't grow up with a cottage.

I grew up on the mean streets of River Heights, Drew.

I was playing basketball at River Heights Community Center, not fishing.

First, for the record, I didn't grow up with a cottage either.

But at various times, I had an opportunity to cast a line and go fishing before I was in my 30s.

We got a family four-pack up for grabs.

But right now, as you may or may not know, the ward of River Heights, Fort Garry, will have a new representative at City Hall following the upcoming civic election.

Yes, just to refresh your memory, for 17 years, that part of the city has been represented by John Orlikow, who has decided on his own volition not to run.

Yesterday, Richard Klucza presented a series of interviews with the three candidates vying to replace Orlikow, and one of the topics discussed has important implications, I would suggest, for the entire city, for the future of the entire city, and that is what to do with Route 90.

I support it at three lanes.

It's being planned at this point of time not to take extra traffic as it goes, but to take the traffic that is needed at this point.

I liken Kenaston to a river that's overflowing its banks, and all of that traffic is flowing, yeah, it's cutting through Linden Woods, and it's flowing down all of the streets in, in River Heights.

And it's going down Lanark, and it's passing through Grant, and it's more traffic at that intersection with more cars trying to do more turns and things than, than was ever planned or, or arranged for that particular intersection, and that's causing problems, and it's causing accidents, and somebody got hit there.

You know, I've been in the last year, my car's been broken in twice, my son's car's been broken in.

You sound like you live in River Heights, madam.

That's what they've been putting up with there.

And, you know, basically you do the police report and they basically tell you, well, now

But that's that area there.

Not as bad as other areas, even in River Heights.

In any event, I hope I've clarified that Kevin Kline is...

I've got nothing to do with the Kevin Kline campaign.