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My vision for Winnipeg Kevin Klein
My memories of the Queen
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hen I first came to Winnipeg, I knew I had come home. I have loved this city from the very beginning. That’s why I ran for City Council four years ago. During my time in office, I have learned so much and everything I have learned makes me more determined to do all in my power to move Winnipeg forward in a better way. First, we have to fix the fundamentals in operations, and I will do that. I know how to do that. That work was part of my career in business. At the same time, I believe we can begin to restore the physical beauty of the city. Citizens deserve to be proud of all our tree-lined streets, including our heritage downtown neighbourhood and beyond to the new suburbs and forgotten parks and green areas. I believe in you, our citizens, who have all donated parts of your heritage, courage and energy to giving us the special flavours of pluralism that makes Winnipeg unique. I am part of the traditional world but also part of the tomorrow world and I believe we can make a stronger and better world based on those roots and on our understanding and
Kevin Klein. acceptance of one another. All our blending and mixing and special ways makes us a better, stronger community. Fundamental to a vibrant, livable city are all the things that I have tackled in my policy announcements and more. Let me bring them to life for you. We have some critical priorities: dealing with homelessness, creating a safe, crime-free environment, providing safe transportation whether on foot, by bicycle, on public transport, in taxis, by u 8 ‘Vision for Winnipeg’
A green corridor for downtown Winnipeg Dorothy Dobbie
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e have a dream of a greener downtown, starting with a green corridor on Graham Avenue from Donald Street to Main Street, as the beginning of the project. Rev. Cathy Campbell, former minister of the Holy Trinity Anglican Church, and her successor the Rev. Andrew Rampton concluded that it was time to address the green deficit in the area, starting with their own lot. Cathy is a tree fan, and she has a solid understanding of how trees affect us and the environment. She knows that people exposed to urban forests and green spaces, no matter how scanty, react
The Richardson Innovation Centre demonstrates how property owners can add beauty and green space to their buildings. better to all circumstances. They are scanty, in a several-block area, there are just 42 trees – Cathy counted. Idea is action and Cathy and An-
drew then pulled together a citizen committee, starting with Wendy Janzen at Colliers and they began to examine ways to accomplish this. The first step was to discover whether there was any interest in the community. There was plenty. Everyone they approached seemed more than willing to get involved, including some of the key city activists and even civic departments dealing with downtown improvement. That was two years ago, and while the group has been held back by COVID-19 restrictions, during that time a great deal of consensus has been built. The group has even held a design conference involving several local landscape architects who got involved as volunteers. It u 7 ‘Green corridor’
HRH Queen Elizabeth, Dwight Macauley and an RCMP Escort.
Dwight Macauley
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ueen Elizabeth’s recent passing has caused many of us to pause and reflect on what she has meant to each of us in our own lives. Clearly, I was no exception. Even though she was 96 years old and said to be in failing health, her death nevertheless shocked the world. She had always been there, and to lose her seemed almost impossible to comprehend. In my life, I’ve had the good fortune to meet Her Majesty and other family members several times. I’ve met the Queen in Winnipeg, Toronto, and Windsor Castle. Every time was a moment to be treasured. Truthfully, meeting the Queen was above and beyond special to me. It was, for the most part, surreal and I was, admittedly, simply in awe. One needs only look at videos of her meeting crowds in her walkabouts – young and old alike, men, women, disabled, veterans; no matter who or where – the faces of the people she met radiated with delight. I vividly recall every visit for several reasons. And each visit also had its funny moments (at least they are funny now!!). In 1984, the black beavers had sex during the ceremony as they were being presented to Her Majesty at the Assiniboine Park Zoo! While I was organizing the 2002 visit, I met several people who told me about Her Majesty’s visit to Winnipeg in 1951 as Princess. They remembered where they were when they saw her u 15 ‘Memories of the Queen’
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