The Wrap: Train fatality, Canada’s low productivity, green carts and queer history tour

A 78-year-old Winnipeg woman was fatally struck by a freight train while walking with her husband in La Broquerie, Manitoba.

Witnesses described the tragic accident as the couple attempted to cross the tracks. Warning signals were active, but the sidewalk lacked gates.

The RCMP and Transport Canada are investigating the matter.

Chris Kitching has the story.

A productivity lag is Canada’s “Achilles heel,” the Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem told a Winnipeg business crowd Monday.

He addressed roughly 450 business people at a Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the RBC Convention Centre with other observers watching online via a broadcast.

Macklem spoke publicly for the first time since the Bank of Canada cut the country’s key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to 4.75 per cent, June 5.

A new City of Winnipeg report outlines a proposal for curbside composting with the waste diversion fee rising by $9 per household on Jan. 1, 2025 to begin raising money for green carts and kitchen pails five years before citywide compost collection is set to start.

The report does not specify the total increase each home will pay once a full curbside compost program is added.

Garbage collection could also be reduced to once every two weeks as part of a city proposal to boost composting.

After starting with the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation as its programming and outreach co-ordinator last September, Devin Slippert quickly sought out ways to combine their admiration for the city’s built environment with their curiosity about and respect for the city’s undertold queer history.

So Slippert, who uses he/they pronouns, got to work on an important and personal research project: a digital guide to places in Winnipeg that factored into the city’s LGBTTQ+ story.