Transcona

Welcome to our program, part of, uh, our ongoing coverage of the 2026 Winnipeg civic election, talking with candidates, especially those who make the effort to, uh, contact me and ask to be interviewed.

And so far we've done a number of candidates, uh, in Transcona, St. Boniface, and, uh, now Elmwood once again with Jessica Wiebe.

You'll be hearing her after the break.

Um, I- I made the comment, I, I repeated to her in this interview that I'm really impressed with the people that have come forward, even, uh, how do I put this? Even if I don't agree with them, uh, i- in terms of their political bent, right, the orient- the political orientation being left ring- w- left wing, right wing, all that.

Very civics heavy the last while.

But if you click on the City tab, you'll specifically be able to see the, um, the interviews we've done with the candidates in the civic election, with a few of them, including, uh, uh, in Elmwood-East Kildonan, Chris Giesbrecht, uh, and, uh- Adam Dudek.

Okay, sorry, Chris is in Transcona.

Adam Dudek in East Kildonan-Elmwood.

what? No, but he does have a separate Caulfield relative who played in the American Hockey League.

And speaking of the American Hockey League, I have the biggest fan of American Hockey League players, T. Kona Pauly on the line, the mayor of Transcona.

How you doing?

Hey, easy now.

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the pride of Transcona, um, and without Diedrik Mills, who's on the six-game injure list.

Uh, Daunte McMann is a very, very capable running back.

Small, shifty, speedy, quick.

Zach Williams, that, that's pretty cool, man.

I, and when I read, when I read about that, and Dave Dickenson was just, you know, really beaming proud about the young man, uh, to play that tough, to have to go back in the game and just basically suck it up.

So he's not playing this week, but I know you mentioned him, the pride of Transcona, and, and, uh, yeah, good on you, Zach.

Uh, that's, uh, Manitoba proud, brother.

Uh, another fascinating conversation with somebody who's taken time out of their private life to try to work for the betterment of their community.

In the civic election, I've talked to a number of candidates at Transcona, East Kildonan, Elm- uh, Elmwood-East Kildonan.

Here in St. Boniface, my home base.

There are a couple of others.

Let's go.

So let's bring in the mayor of Transcona.

Hello, gentlemen.

T. Cona, my man.

The fight itself was awesome.

I saw the giant Costco truck full of Charmin that had to get to Transcona because Pauly was absolutely losing it.

I get it.

You know, I was jumping up.

Yeah, let's do a call.

I got time.

We have the mayor of Transcona on the line.

T. Cona, how you doing? T-Kona Pauly, how are you doing,

How is it that because one city councilor is really in favor of bike lanes, whether it's in this ward or other wards, a lot of times the city councilors hold sway, and yet in this instance, this is a truck route that affects vehicles coming to and from in no particular order, St.

Vital further out, right? Sage Creek, Transcona, East Kildona, and they're coming, you know, they come from north and south and they want to come towards downtown, you know, up and down Archibald or whatever.

And they've done, there's been no consideration of the people from other parts of the city that rely on the truck route.

I don't understand why there's not a rule about, special rules, about putting bike lanes or AT infrastructure on or near truck routes because it's like one defeats the purpose of the other.

CPC capital of the world.

He's from Transcona, born and raised, still lives there.

Transcona is about to open a crumble cookie.

Yeah, very soon.

Therefore, solidifying Transcona's claim, they are the chains per capita.

Whoa.

Chains per capita capital.

Where's

The Honourable Mintu Sandhu, Minister of Public Service Delivery and MLA for the Maples.

Shannon Corbett, MLA for Transcona.

The Honourable Malaya Marcelino, Minister of Labour and Immigration and also the MLA for Notre Dame.

Honorable Renee Cable, Minister of Advanced Education and Training, and the MLA for Southdale.