Brandon

This is my point, we can't call the guy a scumbag criminal when so little of the facts is known. Same goes with the club. Unless he has admitted guilt.

Has Kelly been convicted yet or admitted guilt? I am not a fan of the guy but I wouldn't quite call him a criminal until proven guilty. I wouldn't expect the Argonauts to go public about something that isn't out of the realm of possibility of being a complete lie. More information (or a court case) would be needed before truly reserving judgement. Now with Kenny Lawler it's black and white... the dude was caught drunk driving. Not much needed in that for proven guilt.

It's not downtown and also that stretch is slowly fading away. A few of the business owners wanted to create more patios and more foot traffic but the locals in the area put up a stink against it because they didnt' want the increased noise at night.

Very true! PTSD is a very real thing and it's not like men are immune to it.

Winnipeg is a poor city, with inflation and the rising cost of everything it will be a forever challenge to fill those seats at those prices.

Considering the internet has several public articles about Toronto hiring the first woman assistant strength coach for the team, it was only a 2 second google search to find the answer. After seeing the pictures of her I would more then likely wager that a narcissist like Chad Kelly would hit on a very beautiful young lady. I do agree @bluto that innocent until proven guilty and that she could just be trying to play victim and screw the company and him out of money. But if I were a betting man , I'd feel way more comfortable putting money on this being the truth.

How does Toronto go from MBT to an even crazier guy?

Significantly worse and this is why the City/Province is trying to force people to come back to work downtown. I can only speak looking in from an IT perspective, but with everything moving to the cloud and without the need of having IT equipment on site and the ability to staff your positions across the country (or world). The need for a physical building decreases every day. On one project that I was involved with they moved 100 staff out of a floor in a building downtown to work from home and the cost savings was approximately 5 million per year. It is so much cheaper for a company to buy desk/chair and pay for everyones internet then for them to maintain a building and the infrastructure. It needs a radical change, they need to make downtown an area that people want to hang out or preferably live in. They attempted to revive downtown in the 80's with Portage Place failed and retail now is even further dead so retail is out of the question. My radical idea to revitalize downtown is the following: 1 - Zero tolerance on public intoxication/drugs and pan handling harassment. It's absolutely critical that they crack down on this before anything else. Ideally the Federal Gov't/Provincial Gov't would update the justice system so rather then sending people to jail they would be forced to get clean at a rehab facility. Build a rehab facility out of town (NIMBY naturally) where people can get clean and healthy. I just came back from Mexico and when we went to the downtown for tourists I saw plenty of security and was approached by zero drunk/methed up people. I felt significantly more safe despite seeing a guy with an AK-47 protecting the jewelry store. 2 - Close down motor traffic on Broadway from Donald to Osborne from May - September or maybe even year round. Make this our version of Sparks St in Ottawa. Have street festivals and restaurants with extended patios in the summer. The city has loads of parking nearby and make this a place that people to visit and walk up and down the strip. 3 - All 3 levels of the Gov't work with buying Portage Place and making this a University of Winnipeg International students destination. From what I understand Portage place was designed so that condos/appartments can be build on top of each end. The U of M have a large amount of international students coming in with huge money behind them crowding into houses and attending schools. Get these students to come downtown with their big money and live in the housing that will be build atop Portage Place. It would be in close proximity to the current U of W and the injection of cash from young 18 - 30 year olds living downtown would be a huge boom that would help fill out all those empty buildings along Portage. 4 - Launch a new "touch the universe" / science museum / childrens / agriculture Manitoba museum. The current childrens museum we have is absolutely garbage. Over the last five years we visited a number of other childrens museums in the States that were heavily packed full of tourists and families. It wasn't like they were doing anything insanely expensive but had really fun interactive activities and educational. 5 or so years ago I was fortunate to attend the Opaskwayak Indigenous days and they had really neat little activities such as learning how to bead , cook, hunt, dance , etc... It's a huge miss opportunity to do something similar in town with fun interactive stations. They could have a section on farming with large interactive exhibits which many other childrens museum already have. Etc... A place to bring families to Winnipeg or into downtown for the local citizens. But alas all of that cost money and Winnipeg is broke and is extremely poor so it would require the Feds to pump in huge dollars. Instead the city will be to scared to fight the homeless/drunk/panhandling epidemic and will suggest cheap stupid ideas such as opening Portage and Main and will continue to stall on making any drastic changes and downtown will continue to rot. For fun I include a few pics of Sparks street to show what it is like:

Yes most big cities do have terrible areas within downtown that normal people would avoid at all costs , the "bad" area. But would you say 100% of Vancouver downtown is like this? I have never directly gone to East Hastings so I can go only go by stories and the videos on the net, but from what I understood it is a small area full of heroin addicts and it's terrible... but then you cross the tracks or move a few blocks and you are back to million dollar beautiful buildings and back to normal people. It's funny that you say Garden of Eden.... I have gone to Stanley Park and it's a beautiful area that I found completely safe so... yes Vancouver does have a garden of eden lol. Vancouver downtown has large areas with a huge amount of foot traffic and extremely nice and expensive places to live. Clearly far more people desire to visit and live in downtown Vancouver then Winnipeg and it's not because of "perception". Once again... I challenge you to name me any area of Winnipeg downtown that is the "hot" place to visit and where at all times it has foot traffic and people wanting to live. Winnipeg downtown from every corner is dead and a dump. Maybe the Forks if that counts as downtown is the only area with a pulse.

1 - Yes but in the context of tourism and attracting people, extremely poor ticket sales is an indicator that it is not bringing in tourists. So it is a complete failure in that regards and in the context of "profitability" it's an even bigger failure. I didn't even go into the scandals within the museum and the racism issues it has experienced within. In all facets this museum is a huge fail. 2 - I pointed this out earlier.

The old post a gif because you can't prove me wrong.

How about the source being the official CMHR year end report of the financials and futures. Boy it really is getting tiresome always being right. Also the earlier comment about the suburbs... Any normal person driving through our downtown can clearly see it is a dump. Anyone who says otherwise is delusional and suffering from denial. Face it, downtown is a dump and Winnipeg is not a place where people want to come and visit. It's the truth.

During the development of the Museum and after receiving the money from the various levels of Gov't they dropped the forecasted attendances considerably from the lack of interest and public response of the museum. It went from an Asper vanity project to the city/province/feds trying to salvage the money pit that it became. A more recent update on the financials : Not every museum is going to turn a profit but when you have a museum that isn't bringing any tourists and where it depends on free tickets or kids in school to fill it up. It is a money pit. The latest angle that they are doing now is pushing "online visitors" which is useless for the city. Someone visiting the web page is not bringing in any tourists dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-Chi's It has the full story of who owns what on wiki. Apparently it was Hep-A outbreak! I can see why they never recovered from that.

Watch him post a sad face tweet when he is cut and Rourke is brought in to replace him.

Well it appears Kenny Lawler was given a "promo" vehicle from a local dealership... I'm sure it still happens around the league.

Terrible news I would of thought that retired NFL players had some kind of enhanced medical coverage? If not then they should.

I remember going to the Regent location and it was always busy and it was your standard tex-mex which at the time was good since back in the 80's Winnipeg didn't have nearly the amount of diverse food options. I remember them using super soakers and shooting Tequila into peoples mouthes. The owner sold his franchises in town and the people/group who took over had no idea how to run a restaurant and destroyed the business within a few years. Eventually the new owners lost the franchise and changed the name to something else (name escapes me) and the place closed soon after. In the States during the early 2000's Chi-chi's had e-coli at several restaurants or something along those lines and the company died. Eventually someone used the name to sell Salsa and Chips and I used to see it at the grocery stores in Fargo. Modern day if you go to Paradiso in the States it is kind of close to the same experience as Chi Chi's.

Yes but the goal for a museum is to bring in tourists. Get people from outside of Winnipeg to spend money in Winnipeg. The Calgary Stampede attracts people from around the world... they inject money into the local economy. The CMHR doesn't do this at all. I'm assuming the Fed Gov't covers the losses every year so thankfully it doesn't fully burn the local economy.

Wow so students make less % then the amount of comped tickets that are given out. That's a bad thing. Wait until you find out that the Gov't also pays for a large amount of the tickets in which they give away which are not counted in the "comped tickets". Older article - https://winnipegsun.com/2015/06/06/human-rights-museum-attendance-dwarfed-by-zoo-other-museums Pre Covid - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-museum-human-rights-senior-staff-1.5469043 Those poor attendances also don't factor in the novelty of visiting a new building... the initial rush of interested people. Post Pandemic the attendance has further dropped. I'm not even going to get into the corruption and other issues the place has, but it has been a huge miss on bringing in tourists. So once again... I stand by what I say because I know I am right. Numbers do not lie.

I've always assumed that lots of players had back room deals with local companies... I.E. Take a smaller salary on the books with the club.... meanwhile Adam Bighill gets paid an additional large amount of money from his "part time" job in the city.

For the stats? Stats Canada and if you don't feel like going through the massive stat sheets that they have then you can google search. Seriously you've never heard Winnipeg being called Murder Capital of Canada before? It's always a joke when the numbers come out between Winnipeg and Edmonton exchanging the title.

But the stats say otherwise, yes Vancouver with a much larger population will have higher totals. But per capita Winnipeg has more crime. Also Winnipeg has had a drug war for over 10 years downtown. Remember what I said... media only reports a tiny fraction of the crimes that are commited around town. For the larger cities Winnipeg, Regina, and Kelowna are always near the top for highest crime rate in Canada. Thompson and its crime rate is insanely high. Once again stats don't lie, the museum is not well attended. It's a draw for only a niche part of the population. Not opinion it's fact.

Stats Canada over the last 20+ years. Have you never heard Winnipeg always battling Edmonton for Murder Capital of Canada? 546 000 tourists visit Jets games? Or would you say it's predominately people who reside in Winnipeg who go to the game and then immediately goes home? Apples and Oranges comparisons. Need I post about how the attendance at the Human Rights Museum is significantly lower then what they had projected, losing money, and how they are struggling to get people into the door. It's a niche attraction and not something that will bring a large amount of tourists into the city. It's been a huge bust so far hence why people always joke about making it into an indoor waterpark to salvage all the money that was lost constructing and maintaining it.

You make the mistake of getting your info from the news/media. I remember the time several years back when Trump was arriving in Canada and the news reported a massive riot and how stores were locking up shop and boarding up the windows. The news made it out like it was a scene from the movie the Warriors. I was on the scene of that so called riot and it was 25 hippies who held signs for 10 minutes peacefully and then walked away. The news isn't reliable. CBC being by far the worst. Per capita Winnipeg has far more crime then those 3 cities. Where you find poverty you find crime, that's why Regina and Winnipeg have higher crime rates and the worst homicide rate across Canada. A large factor is that these cities have a large indigenous community which many come from insanely dangerous places. Thompson often is the worst city in Canada for crime. What the news/media reports is probably only 5% of that total incidents of serious crime. Talk to a police officer , someone in justice, or even folks who work at hospitals and in ambulances. Soooooo much really messed up and bad things happen that people are completely unaware of. I assume this is done on purpose to not freak out the general population. The stories that I have heard are horrendous and people would be horrified if they knew about what goes on. Statistically you are wrong and Toronto is a safer place. You are more likely to be killed here in the Peg. I did say Edmonton and Buffalo are comparables to Winnipeg and if that is what we are comparing with then that's extremely sad. Bottom of the barrel. I have not been to Calgary in a few years, but I have been to at least 20 other cities and each of them were light years better then Winnipeg. My co workers from Edmonton who came in last year said downtown visually is similar to what they have with the buildings and the size... but the overall safetyness and cleanilness was much better in Edmonton. Also Winnipeg downtown is deserted during the days now since many people are working from home, when I drive through downtown down Main and up Portage , I can count maybe 20 working class people on the streets? It is super quiet these days. Also....