St. Andrews

And Mr. Mackling, we've now gotten an update on what's going on on Highway 8.

Yeah, so it looks like they're closing Highway 8 between 27 and 230 near St. Andrews.

We've been dealing with this crash all morning, down to one lane at times, at least in one direction now.

It appears that they've closed the highway in both directions.

Um, I wasn't like, there's certain people who grew up in the MMF literally being the children of ministers of, like, in the cabinet, and, um, yeah, there's a lot of that in the MMF where, uh, yeah, children grow up attending the meetings and, and all of that.

But, um, how I sort of entered into the MMF was, uh, my grandfather finally told my mom, uh, where his mom was from, uh, which was, um, St. Andrews, a, a town called Mapleton, just, uh, very, like the next little neighborhood north of Lower Fort Garry on the Red River settlement.

Um, [clears throat] so he told her that's where, um, his mom had grown up, uh, she'd also, she'd been born in Kenora, so she'd grown up going back and forth between St. Andrews on the Red River all the way up to Winnipeg River, like through the Lake Winnipeg up to the Winnipeg River down there all the way into the English River, uh, the literal superhighway of the Les Voyageur.

Um, and so she was like, "Oh, shit, we should get a Manitoba Métis Federation, uh, citizenship." Um, and she, she was like, she kinda realized why we lived in Grand Marais where my grandfather had retired.

Uh, it, it was kind of like the kind of the vacation spot of the CN workers.