The Great Canadian Talk Show The Great Canadian Talk Show

A full house turned out in St. James on Friday to say farewell to Brian Smiley. From all walks of life and his endeavours, but especially we heard about family and friends from the lake. Marty briefly describes the celebration of our old chum in Part 1 of Episode 49.

8:02 Part 2- The headlines have been blaring for a month about confrontations at a West End supermarket fending off shoplifters.

An April 28th incident where a woman swung, missed and got punched by an employee was followed by CBC making excuses for the thieves, and other kinds of 'warriors' making direct threats towards Food Fare for confronting them.

Marty Gold explains that the subsequent CBC report criticizing confrontations as "normalizing something that's not normal" had it backwards. What's become normalized in Winnipeg is stealing from retailers, and that's what has to be addressed.

What's not normal. is labeling what's going on as "petty shoplifting by individuals who are poor, struggling, maybe dealing with substance abuse issues, unhoused or underhoused." That's narrative, not reality.

And it drove antagonism that bad actors took to heart.


Comments, news tips, Interac donations-
martygoldlive@gmail.com

This week's Free Press story provided the details of the escalating intimidation at the Portage and Arlington store that has included staged Candid Camera style thefts to instigate bad publicity and litigation, a jumping in a parking lot, and a premeditated revenge raid with brass knuckles and batons by a gang of 5.

Every incident thus far has had a common denominator- invoking the 'victim' of the April 28th rhubarb by aboriginal crusaders.

Hear how on May 3rd, self-described "angry Indians" demanded the firing of the now-suspended employee involved in the April incident. The demands were accompanied with threats to the store's operations and a declaration about native sovereignty over the property ("our land").

We questioned how these tactics would be reported if "white people" did this to an immigrant family grocer.

23.00 - "You can't touch us", taunted a group of 4 attackers on May 14, when they scoped out the joint with a shoplifting excursion around 5 pm and got thrown out.

What message does it send when the 17 year old isn't sent off the streets for a single day? He brandished brass knuckles leading a mob with weapons, attacked and hospitalized 3 grocery store clerks, and gets a scolding from a cop and is sent off with a court date. Who does that protect?

26:16 - “We never know what to expect.”

Food Fare told about the dollar value of stolen goods they retrieve every month before it's walked out their door, and shoplifting at that store has "quadrupled." Armed with phone cameras, it's a set-up to engineer criminal, civil, or human rights complaints against the store- ie Lawfare.

Faced with a lawless mob - armed goons - intimidating a supermarket and 4 of them still on the loose, Police Chief Danny Smyth shows no concern. Neither does Wab Kinew, Scott Gillingham, or other political leaders.

If the mob were from another segment of society, would politicians call out the intimidation, violence and hate?

Are they waiting until another grocery owner gets muscled?

38:38 Part 3 - A fast wrap-up with a peek at an upcoming interview. We're rolling on towards Season 5!

******


Help us cover the costs of bringing unique and informed local commentary and reporting⁠ ⁠to you, click here for our Donate page!

A recap of violent incidents across the city is the theme of Episode 48, including a possible lead in an inner-city homicide.

Part 1- Our recent episodes get a mention, as does the controversy about antisemitism on display at the University of Manitoba medical graduation- which earned a stern rebuke from the Rady family. Will this issue trip up the NDP at the doors in the Tuxedo by-election?

8:48 Part 2- Disturbing details of separate mall parking lot beatings in Tuxedo and Grant Park that newsrooms haven't warned the community about, but we do.

One victim lost almost every tooth in their mouth, to a trio who took off in a stolen car; the other was carjacked in a brazen noon hour assault. One senior said they won't even carry plastic to the mall anymore, lest they be purse-snatched.

Then we continue east to Osborne Village, where Mayor Gillingham visited the neighborhood with CBC last week to address the rampant crime that forced Starbucks to shutter. As Marty Gold explains, corporate practices that tolerated drugged out zombies using the restaurant until it was too late were part of the problem.

18.50- Gillingham made the point that social issues don't underly every incident, and that some criminals just "think they can get away with it."

While that seems an entirely reasonable statement, an anti-cop, anti-capitalist, antisemitic professor at the University of Winnipeg ivory tower pounced with a Marxist word salad:

"This rhetoric is made possible by concessions to the separation of criminalized people into categories of those who deserve to be policed and those who don’t... Regardless of the person or issue being policed, policing is a repressive and harmful response."

Her oppression narrative was immediately dismantled by a critic who raised the eruption of consequence-free Liquor Mart carry-out heists a few years ago, and by a fellow who works in a beer vendor describing the threats he gets.

If policing represses violent thieves, the working class seems to be all for it.

Check out the top episodes⁠⁠, make a donation towards our costs, and help our public affairs coverage spring into summer

22.30- Continuing on to St. Boniface, one 7-11 is already closed overnight, and another might not be far behind after a failed 2 am robbery.

A 17 year old with priors unloaded bear spray but was tackled by 2 customers. We wonder what would keep kids like this out of trouble... more recreation probably?... except Council keeps closing pools in the French quarter.

25.30 Foodfare on Portage at Arlington keeps appearing in headlines, but after 3 employees got the brass knuckle treatment from (yet another) 17 year old, one detail wasn't heard in the news.

He had been tossed out of the supermarket earlier and returned for revenge, but sources tell us- he brought some friends. Is that the kind of gang Wab Kinew said he'd go after?

27.00- A body was found in the back lane around the 400 block of Notre Dame near Isabel last Tuesday. You'll want to hear about a potential clue from someone who had played online video games with the victim, Leo Amus Caribou, and was trying to find out what happened.

Rounding out the episode is a couple of arrests of violent criminals with a common denominator - failure to comply.

One case involved a slew of weapons and drugs; the other, trying to mow down store employees with a stolen car.

Just remember that to the Criminal Justice experts at the U of W, "policing is a repressive and harmful response."

*********

Coming up: Updates on Happyland Pool, Tuxedo by-election candidates, and a chat with East Kildonan Coun. Jason Schreyer!

The ‘Sport of Kings’ has been thrilling fans of thoroughbred racing at ⁠Winnipeg’s Assiniboia Downs ⁠since 1958.

TGCTS returns to covering the world of sports with this special interview.

Last year ASD set a betting record, but there's a lot more happening at the west Portage Avenue destination than just 'playing the horses'. It's an important part of our history and social fabric and brings the community together with exciting events like Indian bareback horse racing, the Manitoba Night Market, musical acts, the circus and the best buffet in town!

5:50 Part 2- With the 67th season going to the post on Monday, Marty Gold spoke with Darren Dunn, CEO of the track.

They talk about the history of the local sport and the legendary sportsmen who led the way, ASD's enormous impact on the local economy with their partners - using the hashtag #DoTheDowns to drive online engagement.

You'll hear how the facility rebuilt the business model to fit into the entertainment habits of Manitobans and customers worldwide after the pandemic "shut off our revenues like a light switch within 48 hours."

Racing has shifted to a Monday to Wednesday schedule and now all sorts of shows and gatherings- including weddings - are taking place there the rest of the week.


Comments, news tips, Interac donations-
martygoldlive@gmail.com

11.53- By the numbers, it's an amazing success story.

Dunn describes ⁠the Downs supporting the agriculture industry⁠ with quality full time jobs and sustaining a tradition of sports excellence, with dedicated owners, expert trainers, skilled jockeys, and world-class breeders that engineered the Manitoba heritage of⁠ the last 2 Kentucky Derby Winners.⁠

"The skill and talent that resides in our barn area, in our jockey's room, that's on display on our racetrack, can race anywhere."

Dunn is thrilled about the upcoming ⁠Western Canada Derby Series⁠, where the stakes are high and the best from ASD prove they are championship calibre. It kicks off August 5th with the Manitoba Derby.

16.20- To end the podcast, Darren Dunn talks about the late Jim Farrell, deeply involved with ASD for decades both on the microphone and behind the scenes.

As a mentor and a friend, the old-style CKND news anchor brought warmth, good humour and a true love of the sport to the ASD community.

This summer- on Mondays kids get in free for Family Night and they'll light up in wonder at the spectacle, sounds and sights.

For the grown-ups- "Pick a name, pick a number, throw a couple of dollars down" and be part of the action at Assiniboia Downs !


⁠Check out the top episodes⁠⁠, make a donation towards our costs, and help our community affairs coverage spring into Summer !

In Episode 46, you'll hear about the Louis Riel School Division By-Election to fill a Trustee seat in Ward 1 on June 6th.

School board elections have long been used as a farm club for the Manitoba NDP- and with no spending or donation rules it's a wild-west environment for unions and other radical groups to seize a lever of political power.

After the LRSD Board forced Francine Champagne to resign, 5 residents have ⁠filed nomination papers⁠. Unlike Winnipeg's MSM, we explain the far-left lens used to determine that she failed the ideological purity test demanded by the other trustees.

As the Black Rod reported, LRSD has adopted the teachings of a Brazilian educator celebrated by Marxists. Paulo Friere's foundational belief was students must liberate themselves and become social justice warriors:

“All education is political; teaching is never a neutral act”.  

The disastrous effect on math education in Manitoba was explained in our last podcast.


Check out the top episodes⁠⁠, make a donation towards our costs, and help our public affairs coverage Spring into Summer

LRSD is at the forefront of indoctrinating employees and students with "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism" mandates. After all, who's against anti-racism and inclusion?

Parents represented by Francine Champagne believe that children should be allowed, for instance, to mature at their own pace and to grow up and form healthy adult relationships- and she said so. To 'Woke educators' this is hate speech.

Now those parents and the rest of the electorate have to pick a replacement for Champagne. Marty briefly discusses 4 of those candidates- and then interviews the fifth.

20:11  Part 2- Sandra Saint-Cyr describes moving to Winnipeg as a teen and an education career that spanned the UK, Sweden, Norway and Manitoba- which included an FN-run school and then 3 schools within LRSD.

Married to a retired policeman and mother to 4 children, she tells how "My focus has always been centralized on the learner and the family behind the learner."

She states the Division has been excelling in literacy programming, going back to the basics after 'whole language' curriculum proved a failure.

29.00- Saint-Cyr believes "Parents make good parents but large, multilayered governmental organizations never make good parents.”

At the door, voters tell her they "want to be informed and to have a voice,“ but aren't sure how. She notes the protocols for "LRSD Policy AC - Respect for Human Diversity," are not widely known about by teachers, let alone parents.

That policy is cited to justify keeping parents in the dark about their kids experimenting with gender identity.

"If we're withholding critical information about a child's development from the parent... we have systems and supports in place (like clinical support). Those systems work very well and at no point prior to this have I experienced when the parent wouldn't be fully informed."


Comments, news tips, public speaking and hosting
martygoldlive@gmail.com

38:22 Part 3- A Free Press report claimed “they are elected to represent the perspective of their constituents," but when Champagne did that, she was labeled a bigot who "fell out of line".

Marty asks Saint-Cyr about the lack of ideological diversity on the LRSD Board. Citing a 2017 provincial rule, she says "our only option is to affirm" a student's gender spectrum self-ID.

50.00- "A teacher's being asked to diagnose and support a decision we have no expertise to do... It's critical that parents are part of every decision we make for students."

But with numerous countries now backing off transitioning underage youth, "parental consent is at the heart of the issue. We need to involve the family."

Saint-Cyr shares concerns of some parents about sexualized library content. "That is an area that needs attention and I believe change," which will depend on parents stepping forward at Board meetings to bring questions forw

In Episode 45, we take a deep dive into the battle over math education in Manitoba. After playing out in the media for almost 20 years in plain sight, we go through the history.

Math is hard for lefties when the actual educators refuse to let the Paulo Friere critical race theory fan club take over school curriculum, and promote "anti-racist" math in which everyone is either an oppressor or "oppressed."

Store clerks can't round up to give you change or multiply how much 3 orders of fries costs, but to the promoters of fuzzy math, that's not a problem.


We earn your support - ⁠⁠⁠donate at this link⁠⁠⁠, and check out the lists of top stories!

Part 1- We analyze the trail of skirmishes in the Winnipeg Free Press (starting with 09/10/11):

"Teachers' math skills 'alarmingly weak'... Some teachers didn't get adequate math courses when they were in high school and thus can't teach their students properly, the petition alleges"

"... A student can get into a faculty of education with only Grade 12 consumer math, Professor Anna Stokke said. "I wouldn't even call it a math course -- it's a life-skills course."

"It's a disaster. They're coming in with grade-school math."

Another instructor noted- "Young children can develop a fear of mathematics if their teachers do not have a good understanding of the subject."

Faced with pushback, the newspaper platformed far-left attack dog Neil Dempsey, in "‘Drill and kill’ no way to teach math in 2011".

You'll hear how how his ilk of "educators" rely on half-truths and insulting critics - memorization baaaad!

Next was Dempsey's WFP polemic in 2016. He aligned himself with a Stanford "expert" recently alleged to have "in 52 instances misrepresented supporting research she has cited in her own work in order to support her conclusions. These include the notions that taking timed tests causes math anxiety."

The pushback he got from another U of M math Professor, Robert Craigen, exposed the scam:

"These puff pieces are usually sprinkled with a generous helping of “research shows” without specifics, or generic “researchers” cited as having such and such opinions... We ask to see this research and, most
often, the only reply is dismissal tactics."

By 2013, "Manitoba went from ranking fifth (in the PISA test) to dead last in Canada."

That was the result of emphasizing "cultural sustaining pedagogy" and progressive groupthink, with unqualified public school instructors being trained to bake the DEI narratives of Marxist revolutionaries into the classrooms.


Comments, news tips, Interac donations- martygoldlive@gmail.com

Part 2 24.53- A big topic locally last fall became "math anxiety" - whipped up online by a trustee's spouse.

Prof. Stokke wrote in the Free Press in January that:
"the percentage of Manitoba students performing below level 2, which corresponds roughly to innumeracy, doubled since 2003. The percentage of highest-performing students halved. More students are struggling in math, and fewer are excelling."

Her C.D. Howe Intelligence Memo is at https://www.cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/anna-stokke-reversing-decline-canadian-math-scores

"Students must develop a firm foundation through a lot of practice before they can grapple with more complex math... Public funds should not be spent on math programs that fail to recognize the importance of explicit instruction and sufficient practice."

Dempsey tried to rebut Stokke as "uninformed" "scary" and "harmful"- but as you'll hear, he falsely pinned statements on Stokke that her op-ed hadn't included, and soon apologized for misquoting a former NDP minister. In other words, he spread disinformation.

He also wedged "climate change" into his narrative. Because it's not about math, it's about indoctrination.

You'll hear her takedown of Dempsey and about how Manitoba reversed a plan to eliminate tests. If only 50% of Ontario Grade 6'ers met standards, how bad will our kids score?

As Stokke said,

Episode 44 opens with listener comments about our tribute to Brian Smiley; an update on the Dan Rentz 911 suicide call from Episode 42; then lots more updates in the city hall and provincial round-ups!

8:00 Part 2- Using the bully pulpit of the Free Press, Brent Bellamy is the mouthpiece of the elitist 'urban visionary' crowd in Winnipeg, aligned with the radical bike lobby. When Coun. Ross Eadie wrote to the newspaper disputing Bellamy's proposals that would make River and Osborne a nightmare for disabled and blind pedestrians, Bellamy mocked the concerns.

You'll hear Eadie's detailed explanation and the crass, no class response from Bellamy, distorting the issues and dismissing the objections of the councilor who is himself blind. It's indicative of how actual public safety is an afterthought to the anti-car, anti-capitalist mob Bellamy fronts for.

As Eadie put it: "This guy has an architecture stamp – wow... maybe architects should be penalized under the Accessibility For Manitobans Act."


Comments, news tips, Interac donations- martygoldlive@gmail.com

19.40- That attitude against protecting genuine public safety is on display with the debate about closing Assiniboine Avenue at Main Street. Marty Gold provides the history of the idea, which was a favorite of the Manitoba Club front group, "Friends of Upper Fort Garry" in 2010.

The flaws of the idea were put on the record by Kelly Ryback at the Public Works meeting - starting with a naval base down the block and the use of the road to get to St. Boniface Hospital.

You'll hear audio clips from the subsequent discussion by councilors and the stunning deceptions that the bureaucrats were pulling to conceal their plans, dissuade public input, and cater to their allies in the bike lobby.

26.45 - Janice Lukes and Russ Wyatt question the department heads. You'll hear how emergency services were not actually asked about ambulances getting delayed going to the hospital, the dirty trick of labeling the report as 'information' when they intended to "roll this out" anyways, and Wyatt challenging this "dangerous" idea. Lukes called it "a tricky recommendation" and "confusing."

Another trick was revealed- summer repairs on Assiniboine will block eastbound lanes, which will lower the numbers of vehicles diverted northbound down Fort Street and make it seem less obstructive of traffic than it really is.

34. 14- While the administration called it a "pilot", Wyatt rightly said, "It's a trojan horse, not a pilot".

You'll hear the bureaucrats admit they didn't mention the word 'pilot' anywhere in the report or that the proposal to forbid right hand turns onto Main St. is for a YEAR. This is an example of the public service deliberately deceiving the public to tamp down their input.

Not coincidentally- immediately after Wyatt identified the bike lobby as manipulating this initiative, the YouTube feed of the meeting was mysteriously cut off. He's taking his complaint about being censored to the Governance Committee.

Marty recaps how stakeholders like small businesses and residents downtown are being shunted aside by high-paid liars on the public payroll who favor the bike lobby elitists.

Lastly in the City Hall round-up, a Matt Allard sighting. Hear the questions he's going to be asked as we continue to seek an interview with him. It's not only about the Goulet bike lane, but that's a start.

There's a Happyland Pool fundraising update to end the segment.

48:47 - Part 3 - Provincial round-up

Update on the Bell MTS layoffs in Brandon, as we again scoop MSM;

More reasons why Wab Kinew's NDP shouldn't follow the BC model of hard drug decriminalization and 'safe supply';

Four hopefuls- at least- are lining up to contest the PC nomination in Tuxedo to replace Heather Stefanson, one of whom is a strong voice for the Jewish community, Larry Pinsky.
*******

To support the Truth for Lily, Justice For Dan $25/ticket fundraiser raffle:
sheenapaterson.massagetherapy@gma