What are the major issues facing the city, and Manitoba as a whole? And what single word best defines the province’s pallid and petrifying Premier Brian ‘Poltergeist’ Pallister?

Plus: a rundown of last week’s gruesome and grotesque civic political results from coast to coast.
Music and audio from:
Swinging Strings: ‘Welcome to Winnipeg’ (Eagle Records, 1967)
The Weakerthans: ‘One Great City!’ (‘Reconstruction Site’, Epitaph Records, 2003)
‘My Winnipeg’ (dir. Guy Maddin, Buffalo Gal Pictures, 2007)

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