Saint Boniface

These were candidates that, by and large, stepped forward and asked.

Iskildon and Elmwood and in St. Boniface, which I'll be talking about, actually, I guess in this segment.

I'll address this because we'll start off with dingers.

A dinger is a baseball term, and I didn't think of looking it up, so I don't know if it has a different connotation outside of sports.

The two sides of the equation, whereas Michael Tyus of the Furby United Residents said, you know, one neighborhood's getting a flood, the other's suffering a drought, and they're both being told it's working.

Those stories, number of front pages in the Winnipeg Sun Tribune for yours truly, those have been dingers.

And another dinger, just online Tuesday and front page Wednesday, about crime in St. Boniface and the lack of response from the existing city councilor or the, I shouldn't say, well, this existing current city councilor, I'll be fair in this, Matthew Allard.

Here's some comments that have been received about that column.

In fact, Manitoba has the largest Francophone population among the prairie provinces.

About two-thirds of Franco Manitobans live in the Winnipeg area, particularly in neighborhoods such as Saint Boniface, Saint Vital, and Saint Norbert.

The province also has significant German and Ukrainian communities, as well as a large indigenous population, representing more than fifteen percent of the province's population.

As for the average age, it's around thirty-nine point seven years, compared with forty-one point nine years for Canada as a whole.

This episode, part of my ongoing series covering the 2026 city election.

And in particular, since, uh, we have been located in St. Boniface since, um, April of...

No, not April.

April's actually when I signed the lease.

That's, uh, the latest, uh, columns in the Winnipeg Sun Tribune.

More election coverage coming up there as well as here on the podcast.

Robin Vilda joins the program after this break, one of the, uh, four candidates in St. Boniface, one the incumbent, Matt Allard.

Uh, Robin, uh, it's a good interview.

Sylvie Schmitt will be my guest, a National Union official with... background in health and safety in particular.

And she is running in St. Boniface, a lifelong resident in St. Boniface.

And now, as I mentioned, with the Unifor Local, a lot of experiences, like lived experiences at Winnipegger.

It's a great interview.

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This episode, of course, part of our continuing series of interviews and coverage of the 2026 Winnipeg Civic Election.

I'm joined today by a candidate who is a lifelong Francophonie, a member of the St. Boniface community, who's stepped forward, put her name on the ballot today.

and is sort of stepping, I don't know if it's, I guess it's stepping up the way we look at politics from the French Language School Division School Board, trustee there.

You need a hazmat team to clean it up.

Now, I haven't gone back to Cinnabon and checked just how cleaned up it is.

I was on foot on Lizzie.

I was on foot by Omens Creek.