Envisioning a Bold, and Progressive Future For Winnipeg

  • Freeze transit fares for up to 4 years and seek opportunities to lower base fares.
  • Expand the low-income WINNPass program.
  • Enable credit and debit card tap payments on buses.
  • Implement dedicated transit and carpool lanes on Pembina Highway and Osborne Street.
  • Expand active transit operating hours to 2:30 AM and expand Night Bus routes.
  • Focus first on connecting existing, fragmented bike lanes into a continuous network.
  • Build more dedicated, protected bike lanes and active transportation paths.
  • Implement a municipal public bicycle rental service.
  • Allocate dedicated resources to bike registry systems, theft prevention, and property reclamation.
  • Divest from the WPS budget to directly fund specialized community safety institutions, unburdening police officers from non-violent distress calls and reducing overtime costs.
  • Expand funding for community-led initiatives such as: Community Safety Team, Alternative Response to Community Crisis (ARCC), and the Downtown Community Safety Partnership (DCSP).
  • Work with the Province to expand safe consumption programs and direct pipelines to addictions counseling.
  • Divorce the Professional Standards Unit (PSU) from the WPS to create independent civilian oversight of crime prevention and police services.
  • Create a dedicated City Tenant Protection Unit to track renovictions, enforce proactive building inspections, and mandate developer-funded relocation assistance.
  • Advocate to strengthen provincial rent control programs and eliminate loopholes.
  • Move a formal resolution directing Winnipeg City Council to petition the Province of Manitoba to invalidate “no pet” clauses in rental leases province-wide.
  • Require developers receiving municipal funding, tax credits, density bonuses, or purchasing city land to incorporate pet-inclusive units.
  • Increase direct municipal funding to local shelters and housing outreach organizations (including Eagle Urban Transition Centre, End Homelessness Winnipeg, Naatamooskakowin, Ndinawe, RAY, Sunshine House, and Rainbow Resource Centre).
  • Partner with post-incarceration support programs (such as John Howard Society, Elizabeth Fry Society, and Future Hope) to guarantee a smooth transition to stable housing and community re-integration.
  • Establish a municipal land bank and expand Tax Increment Financing (TIF) programs to assist non-profits, co-ops, and Indigenous housing providers.
  • Enforce vacant building and land surcharges to curb speculation and reactivate empty properties.
  • Pre-zone major transit corridors for multi-story mixed-income housing with mandatory affordable units.
  • Focus first on connecting existing, fragmented bike lanes into a continuous network.
  • Build more dedicated, protected bike lanes and active transportation paths.
  • Implement a municipal public bicycle rental service.
  • Allocate dedicated resources to bike registry systems, theft prevention, and property reclamation.
  • Expand the Small Business Tax Credit (SBTC) and redirect city BIZ grants exclusively to non-franchise, locally owned small businesses.
  • Levy an escalating commercial vacancy surcharge on long-term empty storefronts in key business corridors paired with simplified pop-up licensing for local artists and entrepreneurs.
  • Incentivize shared, multi-business commercial spaces to lower barriers to entry.
  • Establish a city-backed legal aid and lease-negotiation resource to protect independent commercial tenants from predatory rent spikes and unfair evictions.
  • Partner with local BIZs and community land trusts to acquire commercial real estate, permanently preserving affordable retail space for local vendors.
  • Implement “Road Diets” on wide corridors to reduce pavement maintenance costs, add dedicated center-turn lanes, and expand active transit corridors.
  • Codify a Lifecycle Costing Bylaw requiring all municipal asset bids to be evaluated on a 20-to-30-year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) standard (factoring durability, maintenance, and carbon impact).
  • Establish binding Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) on capital projects over $5M, mandating local hiring quotas and requiring contractors to pay the Winnipeg Living Wage.
  • Allow 24-hour construction in low-residential areas to accelerate project completion, while enforcing strict contractor accountability bylaws for missed deadlines.
  • Expand engineer-led traffic signal synchronization to reduce transit congestion and prioritize emergency vehicles.