Dear Winnipeg, Recently, I’ve been seeing something I’ve been hoping for ever since I began writing about municipal finances over five years ago: a broad acknowledgement that our city does
Dear Winnipeg, One of the most talked about issues these days is housing affordability, or rather, the lack of it. Whether talking about the ability to afford housing in general,
Dear Winnipeg, Oddly enough, despite Portage & Main being the main issue that pushed me to start Dear Winnipeg, I have never actually written a single letter about it. Until
Dear Winnipeg, At the risk of being characterized as obsessed with accounting, please indulge me while I show you how municipal budgets work. When we talk about the City budget,
Dear Winnipeg, The fact that you saw the word “accounting” in the title and still clicked through to read this tells me you are a special human being. One that
Dear Winnipeg, This December marked 5 years since I started Dear Winnipeg, and the letter you’re reading is the 100th published here. If you were to read it all from
Dear Winnipeg, I might be a little late to the game here, but November is Financial Literacy Month in Canada, and today is still technically November. So what better time
Dear Winnipeg, I don’t know who needs to read this, but my neighbourhood is a place. That may sound obvious on the face of it. After all, by the most
Dear Winnipeg, I realize it’s been a while since I last wrote. What can I say? I’ve been busy! I promise I’ll tell you all about it, but it’ll have
Dear Winnipeg, Last week, I read that the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia published a report in which they noted the significant economic impact of Taylor Swift‘s latest world tour.