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Winnipeg Free Press
30-05-2025
- Automotive
- Winnipeg Free Press
Generating goodwill at the parking meter
Opinion Recent reports from the City of Winnipeg about plans to remove all the downtown parking meters left our household upset. We're among the 20 per cent who use the meters. We dig out change or use a credit card. On nice days, we can walk downtown, but when transporting kids or in bad weather, we rely on the meters. Based on anecdotal evidence, the meters sometimes failed. Apparently, so did the phone app that replaces it. The city's efforts to boost downtown visitor numbers should target that 20 per cent — the occasional visitors who haven't downloaded an app but rely on meters instead. This news story made me remember a better parking experience. BROOK JONES/FREE PRESS There are better ways for the City of Winnipeg to handle getting rid of its parking pay stations, which will be removed between July 2 and Aug. 31. A pay station is pictured along Broadway Avenue on May 21. Our family was on summer vacation in Western New York. We took a highway exit to Jamestown. Parking on a hilltop, in the middle of downtown, we put our coins in the old-fashioned crank parking meter and walked, admiring the landscape, to a nice restaurant for lunch. The food was good. When we decided to have dessert, my husband sorted out more change for the meter. We had extra time to stroll downtown, see lake views, window shop and see a comedy centre, inspired by Lucille Ball, who was from Jamestown. We remembered this positive break from the road fondly. In comparison, we encountered numerous 'E-Z-Pass' incidents which left us frazzled. Many highways require tolls but no longer have a payment system without a physical device in the car. We tried to get around Chicago while I scrambled to figure out how to pay for our tolls online. I still don't know if we covered those tolls, though we honestly tried. If Winnipeg wants people to feel comfortable coming downtown, the city should provide alternatives to a reliance on a phone app. Ernie Nuytten suggests in a letter to the editor on May 24 that these parking booklets should be available wherever Winnipeg Transit tickets are sold. Ursula Delfing writes that parking near the downtown 'Parking Store' be free, to avoid getting tickets while trying to obtain a parking booklet. Like our troubles taking toll roads on vacation when we lacked the local 'passes,' Edwin Buettner suggests how difficult these systems would be for those who live outside the city but must come in on occasion for appointments downtown. City employees calculated the savings of removing the meters, but what are the costs of failing to provide access to downtown parking for those without cellphones, tourists, and out-of-town Manitobans who need medical care? The city must calculate costs to provide parking booklet sales elsewhere in the city, especially at hotels and convenience stores. When we discussed these parking issues, other solutions came up. Our household lives in a city neighbourhood. We must have parking permits for street parking. Yearly, we take photos of our driver's licences, car registration, and submit a form. Eventually someone calls us back and takes payment over the phone. What if, after the first registration, we received a 'renewal' email that said, 'According to city records, you live at the same address and have the same two cars as last year. Care to renew your permit? If so, click here. Pay online.' This would reduce costs and save time for the city and those who need street parking. A bigger revenue generator could follow. When tradespeople visit a city neighbourhood like ours with permit parking, they risk tickets if they park for too long. High school students parking on streets near private schools also risk tickets daily. Those who go downtown but fail to make the app or the meter work also hazard parking tickets. Imagine a 'super pass.' The city could set a flat fee, payable once a year, so that electricians, plumbers, realtors, students and theatre-goers could park legally in metered or permit areas without using an app or risking a ticket. The super pass would be available online, or at convenience stores and other locations where people might get parking booklets. Winnipeggers and tourists could choose options: download the app, buy single tickets for one trip to a downtown doctor's office or buy a whole year's pass and stop worrying about parking. Tuesdays A weekly look at politics close to home and around the world. Of course, the yearly fee concept must be worked out, but $500 or more might result in more visitor traffic downtown and many fewer parking tickets. Reducing system inefficiencies, like creating an easy online renewal system that links up with our addresses and car registrations, would also reduce costs. This might boost interest in coming downtown to the Exchange, to theatre venues or festivals. Offering multiple options for parking payment might boost the city's coffers. Better yet, it could reduce citizens' anger over the difficulties in downtown parking and the parking tickets that follow. Jamestown, N.Y. is a long way away. Even so, I'd go right back to crank my change in the old-fashioned meters, check out the scenery, eat a good lunch, and wander its historic downtown. City officials should think about how coming downtown can generate goodwill as well as income. Ripping out the current parking meters may be necessary, but it's what follows that matters. Obstacles to parking will build or destroy Winnipeggers' interest in visiting downtown. Offering multiple approaches to future downtown parking creates a better, more inclusive outcome for all of us. Joanne Seiff, a Winnipeg author, has been contributing opinions and analysis to the Free Press since 2009.
Winnipeg Free Press
10-05-2025
- Health
- Winnipeg Free Press
Nurse fights to be heard after medical emergency kicks off 72-hour hospital odyssey
A Winnipeg nurse who suffered a medical emergency says she was dismissed, denied basic diagnostics and had to fight to be taken seriously during visits to multiple Winnipeg hospitals. 'I followed what I believed to be the right path: I sought medical care promptly and advocated for myself at every turn,' the advanced practice nurse, who has worked in the health-care system for nearly a decade, told the Free Press on Friday. The nurse, whose name is being withheld for fear of reprisal, said she hit the back of her head last Thursday while at home. Blurry vision in one eye quickly escalated to a grey blind spot. BROOK JONES / FREE PRESS FILES A Winnipeg nurse who suffered a medical emergency and went to Victoria General Hospital urgent care says she was told the wait would be hours and that there was 'no point in staying,' despite saying she'd been referred for a possible brain bleed. Her clinical training gave her the confidence to push for answers, but she fears for patients who can't. 'I still found myself in tears, frightened, and fighting to be heard,' she said. Over a span of 72 hours, the nurse visited multiple health-care facilities seeking help. She first went to the eye centre at Misericordia Health Centre on Thursday night, but no doctor was on duty. Told to go to Victoria General Hospital urgent care, she instead went home to rest. When her symptoms worsened later that night, she went to Victoria, but was told the wait would be hours and that there was 'no point in staying,' despite saying she'd been referred for a possible brain bleed. She says no one took her name or vitals. She left in tears. She returned to Misericordia the next morning and a doctor referred her to an ophthalmology clinic. The ophthalmologist, concerned about optic nerve trauma or a brain bleed, sent her to the emergency room at Health Sciences Centre. There, optic nerve swelling was suspected, but couldn't be confirmed without an MRI. She says critical treatment was delayed until a neurology resident finally took her case seriously. By then, 48 hours had passed. 'Time during which early intervention could have protected my vision,' she said. 'Despite repeated requests for an MRI with contrast, prophylactic steroids, a contrast-enhanced CT, a second ophthalmology consult, and a neurology referral, everything was initially denied.' She was eventually diagnosed with bilateral optic neuritis after fighting for the MRI, which she received early Sunday afternoon. The condition occurs when an optic nerve is inflamed and swollen. It is common among people with multiple sclerosis — a new concern. 'That possibility is terrifying, but what's more frightening is how easily it could have been missed altogether,' she said, adding she needs further tests to determine what caused the vision loss, which hasn't fully returned. 'I shouldn't have had to beg for the care I ultimately needed.' Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara blamed the previous Progressive Conservative government in an email statement, saying front-line staff are doing their best to keep up. 'Health-care workers want the best for their patients, so it can be upsetting when they, themselves, don't get the quality of care they expect,' said Asagwara, a former psychiatric nurse. 'We've made progress, with more than 1,600 net new folks working in our system and increasing access to diagnostics, but we have to keep going so that everyone, no matter who you are, gets the best health outcomes.' Darlene Jackson, president of the Manitoba Nurses' Union, said navigating the health-care system is difficult. 'I could not even imagine someone, a newcomer to our country, someone who has no knowledge at all of the health-care system, actually being able to do this themselves,' said Jackson. She said the problem is made worse by high nurse-to-patient ratios — an issue that brought hundreds of nurses to the steps of the Manitoba legislature earlier this week — making it nearly impossible for them to properly advocate for patients. 'As nurses, we say to patients, if you have any changes in your condition, you need to call me, ring your bell,' Jackson said, adding they don't have time to check regularly with bloated patient loads. 'Which is absolutely shameful, because we know as nurses what we should be doing, and I tell you nurses are suffering with compassion and exhaustion. There is just not the time for that compassion. And that's what we're best at.' The nurse who is speaking out said she's not looking to assign blame, something she made clear in her report to patient services at HSC, which the Free Press reviewed. Instead, she is calling for change. 'I'm asking for reflection, solidarity, and actions from those of us who know the system best,' she said. 'Because if this could happen to me, a nurse with nearly a decade of experience, someone who knows the system, speaks the language, and had family by my side, what happens to the person who doesn't? Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. 'What happens to the patient who sits quietly, doesn't know what questions to ask, or gives up after being turned away just once? How many patients are judged that they are 'faking it'? How many stories like mine are never heard, not because the person got better, but because they were ignored, dismissed, or never got the chance to speak up? 'I survived this not because the system worked, but because I refused to be silent.' She said HSC has taken the complaint seriously. 'It is important to the WRHA that the people we serve have a voice in their care,' a WRHA spokesperson wrote in an email statement, noting patients are encouraged to ask questions and participate in their care. Scott BilleckReporter Scott Billeck is a general assignment reporter for the Free Press. A Creative Communications graduate from Red River College, Scott has more than a decade's worth of experience covering hockey, football and global pandemics. He joined the Free Press in 2024. Read more about Scott. Every piece of reporting Scott produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. 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CNBC
06-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
CNBC Exclusive: Excerpts: Tudor Investment Corporation Founder & CIO and Robin Hood Foundation Founder & Board Member Paul Tudor Jones Speaks with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin on 'Squawk Box' Today
WHEN: Today, Tuesday, May 6, 2025 WHERE: CNBC's "Squawk Box" Following are excerpts from the unofficial transcript of a CNBC exclusive interview with Tudor Investment Corporation Founder & CIO and Robin Hood Foundation Founder & Board Member Paul Tudor Jones on CNBC's "Squawk Box" (M-F, 6AM-9AM ET) today, Tuesday, May 6. Following are links to video on and All references must be sourced to CNBC. JONES ON AI PAUL TUDOR JONES: These models are increasing in their efficiency and performance between on the very low end, 25% on the high end, 500% every 3 or 4 quarters. So it's not even curvilinear. It's a vertical lift and how powerful artificial intelligence is becoming. JONES: There's a 10% chance in the next 20 years that AI will kill 50% of humanity. So there's a 10% chance that AI will kill 50% of humanity in the next 20 years. Agree or disagree? So I'd say the vast majority of the room moved to disagree side. I had just heard Joe Rogan and Elon Musk two months ago, where Elon Musk said there's only a 20% chance that AI can annihilate humanity. Now I know why he wants to go to Mars right? JONES: Can I just say I'm not a tech expert, I'm not. But I've spent my whole life managing risk. I that's why I'm here today, is because I'm a I'm as good as there is on macro risk management. And we just have to realize to their credit, all these folks in AI are telling us we're creating something that's really dangerous. It's going to be really great too, but we're helpless to do anything about it. That's to their credit, what they're telling us. And yet we're doing nothing right now and it's and it's really disturbing. JONES: First of all, again, I think markets are irrelevant with regard to this particular topic. ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: Because it's existential. JONES: It's existential, and they're telling us that. JONES ON TRUMP & AI JONES: President Trump has to get in the game. He has to be in the game. You can have good deregulation and good regulation side by side. They're not mutually exclusive. So in this particular instance, in on his watch and on President Xi's watch, in the next four years, we'll probably have artificial superintelligence, which means you take one of these algorithms. It's smarter than any human on Earth, have more than a PhD equivalent. And then you link them with a million others, and we're going to have that big bang. We're going to have artificial superintelligence. So he has to get in the game. JONES: We have cars that can go twice the speed limit. We have planes that can break the sound barrier, but we have created regulations for our safety and for social cohesion to live within that. So we have this large language model has been around for 30 months. It took the greatest generation 18 months for the Atomic Energy Commission to be formed. We have, he has to get in the game and focus like he does on tariffs and on the border. He has to get in the game and regulate this. JONES ON THE MARKETS JONES: You have Trump who's locked in on tariffs. You have the Fed who's locked in on not cutting rates. That's not a good, that's not good for the stock market. We'll probably go down to new lows until either even when Trump dials back China to 50%. SORKIN: And that's what you're expecting. JONES: Oh I'm sure he'll dial back to 50 sometime. I mean, I think that's kind of in the market right now. So he'll dial it back to 50 or 40 whatever. Even when he does that, you got those tariffs the equivalent of a 2%, it would be the largest, there are tax, it's like the largest tax increase since the 60s. So you can kind of take 2 to 3% off growth. And then you've got the Fed who's unless they got really dovish and really really cut, you're probably going to yeah you're probably going to new lows. And then when we're in new lows, the hard data will start to follow. And it'll probably create the fed to move, create Trump to move and then we'll get some kind of rally.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
North Country state lawmakers call for prison changes immediately
PLATTSBURGH — The protests outside of many state prisons this week, including those in the North Country, prompted responses from area state lawmakers. JONES Assemblyman Billy Jones (D-Chateaugay Lake) a former correction officer himself, said the state needs to address the safety issue now. 'Considering recent incidents of exposure and violence at prisons across the state, it is past time that the state address safety in our correctional facilities. The proposed job cuts from NYDOCCS are not the answer,' Jones said. 'Instead, we need more staff now more than ever to make our facilities safer. A full body scan of all visitors and inmates must be required to protect the workers from hazardous contraband, as well as obtaining the technology to scan all legal mail. This needs to be done now and that is why I am pushing for these protections to be included in the budget and have proposed legislation. Jones said it is unacceptable that incidents continue to occur when there is technology already available to make prisons safer. 'It is also imperative that the state makes changes to the HALT Act and put back in disciplinary measures to increase safety at correctional facilities,' Jones said. 'These situations continue to occur without being addressed leaving horrible working conditions. The state and NYDOCCS need to address this now.' STEC State Sen. Dan Stec went even further, calling for the immediate resignation of DOCCS Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III. 'A few weeks ago, two dozen officers and civilian staffers at Upstate Correctional Facility received medical care after a synthetic drug exposure. Last week, inmates took over dorms and forced a lockdown at Collins. These events are occurring because of HALT, loopholes in the secure vendor process and use of body scanners and reduced staffing levels,' Stec said. 'It's clear that Commissioner Martuscello is incapable of responding to these very real safety concerns and has lost the trust of our correction officers. For the safety of these dedicated men and women and to help restore order and faith in the leadership structure of DOCCS, Commissioner Martuscello must resign or be removed from his post.' Stec has sponsored legislation that addresses many of the concerns presented by correction officers, from a repeal of HALT to mandatory use of body scanners and an improved secure vendor process. 'These bills have become more important than ever, as a series of events inside correctional facilities have imperiled the safety of officers and civilian staff,' Stec said. SIMPSON Assemblyman Matt Simpson (R,C-Lake George) also demanded the immediate repeal of the Humame Alternatives to Long term Incarceraton Act, which severely limits the use of solitary confinement as punishment. 'Albany's reckless, pro-criminal agenda has pushed our correctional facilities to the breaking point. There were 1,760 assaults on staff in 2024, upping the previous record of 1,671 assaults set the year prior,' Simpson said. 'Correctional officers and civilian staff are working in the most demanding and outright dangerous conditions due to Democrats' single-party rule and Gov. Hochul's failure to prioritize safety in prisons. Understaffed and overworked COs are left defenseless due to the disastrous HALT Act, while prison closures and Albany's refusal to act have only made matters worse.' Simpson said the HALT Act has stripped officers of their ability to maintain order, staffing levels have plummeted and officers are being forced into double and triple shifts. 'Yet the governor and the Legislature continue to prioritize criminals over the safety of those who protect us. When given the opportunity in last year's budget, Albany did nothing to improve CO retention, morale or the safety of COs,' Simpson said. 'I stand with our correctional officers and demand real reforms that restore discipline and security in our prisons before more lives are put at risk. We need an immediate repeal of the HALT Act and a budget that does not leave our brave COs behind.'
