Complete & Safe Bike Path Networks

A bike path that ends abruptly isn't just inefficient; it's a severe safety hazard. In light of tragic, preventable accidents on major routes like Dugald Road, this plan mandates the immediate connection and proper separation of our local active transit trails to ensure cyclists can commute safely across the ward.

Chief Peguis Trail Loop Completion

To ease severe traffic bottlenecks and remove heavy industrial transit from our quiet residential streets, we must finish the job. This pillar prioritizes completing the extension of the Chief Peguis Trail loop, streamlining traffic flow across northeast Winnipeg and making our neighborhood streets safer for local families.

Shifting Council & EPC Meetings to 6:00 PM

Major city meetings like the Executive Policy Committee (EPC) and Full City Council currently take place at 9:30 AM, forcing working residents to lose wages or take a day off just to have their voices heard. I will fight to move these critical debates to 6:00 PM so working families and small business owners can easily participate in local democracy. Government should adapt to the schedules of hardworking citizens, ensuring true transparency and accessible public delegations.

The Guardian Camera Partnership

Public safety requires smart, community-backed collaboration, which is why my action plan introduces the "Guardian Camera Partnership" alongside a retroactive "Legacy Guard" rebate program. This initiative establishes a completely voluntary, secure residential security camera registry that allows homeowners to assist law enforcement by speeding up critical evidence gathering during neighborhood investigations. To directly support the residents who invest in protecting their properties, the program provides direct financial incentives and rebates for active, registered home monitoring systems, strengthening our streets without expanding administrative red tape.

 Transit Shelter Safety & Security Mandate

Transit crime has hit historic highs, and many of our neighborhood bus shelters have been rendered completely unusable by vandalism, open drug use, and safety hazards. Regular, paying commuters no longer feel safe waiting for a bus.I will fight to heavily expand the joint Winnipeg Police Service Rapid Response and Community Safety Officer patrols directly to neighborhood hubs and major suburban transit routes. Furthermore, we will install proactive, high-visibility blue-light emergency call boxes directly at all major neighborhood shelters, connecting riders instantly to real-time emergency dispatch.

The Neighborhood Action Team Expansion

Small-scale property damage, graffiti, and minor illegal dumping are ignored by police, while the city's standard maintenance crews are buried under major infrastructure backlogs. As a result, neighborhood decay goes completely unchecked. I will aggressively advocate to expand the city's newly funded Neighborhood Action Teams, ensuring dedicated crews are permanently assigned directly to suburban wards. These teams will be explicitly tasked with rapid-response cleanup of graffiti, immediate illegal dumping removal, and fixing broken park equipment within 72 hours of a report.

Strict Contractor Accountability & Late Penalties

Transcona families are tired of driving past empty, gridlocked construction sites where projects sit unfinished long past their deadlines. My action plan will enforce steeper, non-negotiable daily financial penalties known as liquidated damages on construction contractors who fail to complete public road and infrastructure projects on schedule due to their own poor planning. By strengthening our municipal contract enforcement and holding private companies strictly accountable for every day they run late, we will protect taxpayer dollars, significantly accelerate project completion times, and minimize prolonged traffic disruptions across our neighborhood streets

Modernizing Outdated Bylaws & Cutting Red Tape

Many of Winnipeg’s municipal bylaws haven’t been comprehensively updated in decades, leaving our city choked by archaic language, obsolete styles, and confusing regulations. My platform focuses on aggressively auditing and rewriting outdated city bylaws—particularly supporting the ongoing modernization of our 20-year-old zoning and building codes. By stripping away dense bureaucratic jargon, aligning municipal definitions with modern provincial laws, and digitizing application processes, we will transition city hall to a "yes-first" culture. This common-sense modernization will cut unnecessary red tape for Transcona families trying to renovate their homes and make it vastly easier for local businesses to invest and grow in our community

Streamlining Permit Approvals & Cutting Downtown Red Tape

A growing neighborhood shouldn't be held hostage by slow, centralized bureaucracy downtown. Right now, local homeowners trying to build a basic deck and small businesses trying to renovate their storefronts face months of costly, frustrating delays waiting for simple building and development permits. My platform mandates a strict "Service-Standard Guarantee" that forces the planning department to process routine residential and commercial permits within accelerated, fixed timelines. By expanding automated plan-checking tools, cutting out duplicate multi-department reviews, and ensuring that permit fee revenue is reinvested directly into frontline approval staff rather than general city coffers, we will replace red tape with common-sense efficiency and get Transcona moving forward.

Protecting Our Seniors: Localized Snow-Clearing Support

A heavy winter snowfall shouldn't trap Transcona seniors inside their own homes or force them onto dangerous, icy sidewalks. My platform introduces a coordinated, ward-level "Seniors Snow Assist" partnership matching local student volunteer groups and community organizations with elderly residents who need physical help clearing private walkways and windrows left by city plows. By backing our neighborhood volunteers with micro-grants for fuel and equipment, we will ensure our seniors maintain their independence, stay active, and navigate our community safely all winter long.

The Transcona Helping Neighbours Initiative

I will allocate a portion of the ward's annual budget to purchase a commercial riding lawnmower for a community-led, volunteer-run yard maintenance program. This initiative will provide free grass cutting and property care for seniors, individuals with mobility issues, and families experiencing financial hardship. By supporting our most vulnerable residents, we can keep our neighborhoods looking pristine while building a stronger, more supportive community.

The Modernized Emergency Vehicle Pre-emption Initiative

Fire trucks and ambulances are routinely gridlocked at busy suburban intersections during peak hours, losing precious minutes trying to navigate heavy commuter traffic safely. I will fully support the immediate rollout of automated Emergency Vehicle Pre-emption technology across all major arterial intersections. This system utilizes intelligent signaling to automatically turn traffic lights green for oncoming emergency vehicles, clearing the path ahead and significantly slashing response times to critical household emergencies.

Growth Pays for Growth Developer Infrastructure Mandate

"For too long, everyday Winnipeg taxpayers have been left on the hook for the massive infrastructure costs triggered by major private developments. When new subdivisions or commercial hubs are built, existing homeowners shouldn’t have to subsidize the multi-million dollar costs of twinning regional roads, expanding main corridors, or upgrading massive sewer lines just so a developer can profit. My platform introduces an ironclad 'Growth Pays for Growth' framework that mandates a fair-share infrastructure cost agreement for private developers before their projects are approved. By ensuring that the corporations making the profit pay the true cost of the regional expansion they cause, we will protect existing Transcona taxpayers from unfair infrastructure burdens and ensure our public funds are spent on fixing our existing neighborhood streets."

Smarter Subdivisions: Breaking Developer Gridlock on Infill Infrastructure

When new housing or community developments are planned, local infrastructure like sewers, water lines, and traffic flows must be modernized before the first foundation is poured. I support a common-sense overhaul of the city's development framework to break the current gridlock where builders stall over infrastructure costs. By creating a transparent, front-ended cost-sharing model for developers, we will accelerate responsible local construction while ensuring that the financial burden of major system upgrades falls on industry investors, not on existing Transcona taxpayers.

The Public Recreation Facility Protection Act

Local community centers and pools are facing rising security challenges, property damage, and staff safety concerns, forcing facilities to close doors early or restrict public access. Our community spaces must remain safe havens. I will mandate the deployment of targeted municipal safety grants specifically to upgrade security infrastructure at suburban community clubs. This includes funding smart access control systems, proper exterior lighting, and dedicated security coordination training for our local recreational facility staff.

The Water Meter Modernization Protection Plan

The city is rolling out remote-reading water meters to update its utility tracking. However, if these transitions aren't strictly managed, homeowners face confusing catch-up bills from past estimated readings. I will establish a consumer protection mandate within the Water and Waste Department. Any household transitioning to a modernized meter must be provided a clear, plain-language billing audit. If historical billing errors or massive estimated discrepancies are found during the upgrade, the city must offer a zero-interest, flexible installment plan rather than demanding immediate lump-sum payments from families.

Transparent Capital Project Dashboards: Tracking Your Tax Dollars

When a major public works project is announced, taxpayers deserve to know exactly where their money is going and whether the project is running on schedule. I will mandate the creation of a live, public-facing online "Capital Project Dashboard" for all city infrastructure builds over $500,000. This transparent tracker will display real-time updates on budget spending, contract deadlines, completed phases, and contractor performance ratings. If a private company starts running behind or over budget, the public will see it immediately—bringing total corporate accountability out into the light.

Smart Construction Staging Keeping Transcona& Winnipeg  Moving

When major work happens on a main road, drivers naturally turn to nearby side streets to get around the gridlock. City Hall’s current lack of planning allows contractors to tear up main arteries and surrounding residential detour routes at the exact same time, leaving drivers trapped. My plan is simple if a main corridor is under construction, adjacent detour streets must remain 100% clear and work-free. We need smarter coordination so we can fix our roads without completely gridlocking our neighborhoods.

Eliminating Ghost Sites (Inactive Lane Closures)

We’ve all seen barrels and lane closures sitting empty for weeks with no active workers or equipment on-site.  Implement an Active Work Only permit policy where contractors face daily fines if lanes remain blocked without active, ongoing work taking place. If work stops, the lanes reopen to traffic immediately.

Boulevard & Topsoil Restoration Deadlines

Contractors frequently finish road paving but leave boulevards torn up with gravel, topsoil piles, and missing sod for up to a year. Tie final contract payouts to complete boulevard and sod restoration, setting a hard 30-day deadline after pavement completion to restore residential lawns and public space back to clean condition.

Contractor Boulevard Upkeep & Litter Control

When contractors dig up city boulevards, exposed dirt patches sit untouched for months, turning into eyesores filled with weeds, rocks, and blown litter. Enforcing  a strict interim maintenance policy holding contractors responsible for keeping open sites clean, weeded, and debris-free until final sod is laid or the City cleans it and bills the contractor directly.

Ironclad Site Cleanliness & Strict Construction Enforcement

Our residential streets and existing neighborhoods are not dumpsters for private developers. For too long, residents have had to watch loose construction debris, plastic wrap, insulation, and trash blow off unmanaged job sites straight onto their pristine lawns, fences, and public ditches. The current slaps on the wrist clearly aren't working. My platform implements an ironclad 'Zero-Tolerance Site Cleanliness Bylaw' for all new home builds and major construction projects. Contractors will be legally mandated to utilize heavy-duty, fully enclosed containment bins and clean their perimeter daily. If a site is found leaking trash into our neighborhood, the city will issue heavy, escalating financial penalties on the spot, backed by immediate 'Stop-Work' orders for repeat offenders. We welcome responsible growth, but if you want to build in our community, you will respect the families who already live here."

The Live Infrastructure Accountability & Delay Tracker

Winnipeg drivers are tired of sitting in gridlock next to completely empty, barricaded construction sites where no work has been done for days. If a contractor shuts down lanes on our major commuter corridors, they should be actively working on them. My platform mandates the creation of a public, live-updating 'Infrastructure Accountability Tracker' for every major roadwork project in our ward. Contractors will be legally required to log daily site activity. If a job site sits empty or work is put on hold, the public dashboard will display the exact, transparent reason why—whether it is concrete curing cycles, utility utility-line conflicts, materials shortages, or weather delays. By putting an end to ghost construction sites and exposing unnecessary delays to the public, we will hold private contractors accountable, speed up project timelines, and keep Transcona traffic moving."

Proactive Multi-Language & Indigenous Language Modernization for 311 Services

"Winnipeg is a proudly diverse city located in Treaty One Territory and the Homeland of the Red River Métis. However, our municipal customer service system has failed to keep pace with both our historic roots and our rapidly growing multicultural community. Today, our neighborhoods are home to thousands of residents who speak heritage languages like Tagalog, Punjabi, Hindi, and Ukrainian, as well as traditional Indigenous languages including Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), Ininiwíwin (Cree), and Michif.  

When a homeowner needs to report a hazardous pothole, a frozen water main, or a neighborhood safety issue, language should never be a barrier to getting city action. While City Hall claims to have back-end translators available, the current 311 setup is entirely passive. Residents are forced to navigate complex, English-only phone menus and confusing digital web forms just to reach a human being.

My platform introduces an ironclad modernization mandate to integrate proactive, upfront language selection menus into both our 311 phone lines and digital reporting apps. By making Winnipeg’s prominent heritage and traditional Indigenous languages accessible right at the push of a button on the main menu, we will break down barriers, honor our community's diverse heritage, and ensure that every single resident can easily work with City Hall to keep our neighborhoods safe and clean."

Community Gardening Grant Framework

Our local garden clubs and community green spaces are the pride of Transcona, yet they lack stable municipal backing. This initiative establishes a dedicated, localized fund to provide small structural grants directly to neighborhood garden groups, ensuring volunteers have the soil, tools, and water access needed to keep our community vibrant.

Expanding community food infrastructure

I will advocate for utilizing underused municipal green spaces and vacant city land for expanded community gardens and urban agriculture initiatives in Transcona. Partnering with community groups to build accessible, neighburhood-managed gardens will provide fresh, healthy produce directly to local families.

Supporting Local Food Banks & Pantries

I will work to establish stronger municipal partnerships with local food banks, faith-based organizations, and community centers to secure reliable space for neighbourhood food drives and pantries.

Food Rescue & Distribution Networks

I will advocate for the City to serve as a coordinator between local grocery stores, restaurants, and food distribution non-profits to divert surplus quality food away from landfills and directly into local meal programs.

Accelerating Affordable & Supportive Housing 

At City Hall, I will advocate to streamline zoning, reduce municipal permitting delays, and offer incentives for non-profit and co-op housing developers looking to build deeply affordable and supportive units in our ward and our city.

Intergovernmental Collaboration

Housing requires cooperation across all levels of government. I will use my position at City Hall to aggressively advocate for provincial and federal funding under the National Housing Strategy to be directed toward local, community-based housing projects in East Winnipeg.

Tackling vacant land and Empty Buildings 

Transforming neglected spaces and abandoned properties into valuable community assets through proactive municipal enforcement and strategic redevelopment incentives.

Backing First Responders & Community Safety

As Winnipeg grows, our frontline community safety services must keep pace to ensure help is always there when you make the call. I will fight to ensure Transcona receives its fair share of city-wide emergency services funding, prioritizing targeted investments in specialized equipment, regional paramedic flexibility, and proactive fire-prevention resources. By supporting the training and staffing our local first responders need, we will keep our neighborhood streets, schools, and community centers safe and secure for every local family.

The Buy Local Municipal Procurement Mandate

Millions of dollars in city contracts for basic goods, supplies, and services are routinely awarded to massive national or international corporations simply because local, independent businesses can't navigate the complex 100-page bidding documents. I will push to introduce a localized procurement tier into the city's purchasing guidelines. For any municipal contract under $100,000, the city will actively prioritize bids from companies that maintain physical offices and employ workers directly within the Winnipeg metropolitan region, keeping our tax dollars circulating right here in our own local economy.

Honest Accounting for Property and Education Taxes

Every year, Transcona homeowners open their property tax bills and see a number that keeps climbing. City Hall likes to play a Shell Game—hiding behind a 3.5% municipal tax increase while completely downplaying the fact that local education property taxes are surging by nearly 9% due to rising assessment values. The city might not set the school budgets, but they do control the property assessments that drive the taxes up, and they are the ones collecting the cash at the door. We need to end the practice of hiding tax spikes behind complicated provincial credits and confusing mill rate math.

Stopping the Creeping Cost of Water, Sewer, and Waste Bills

It’s not just your property taxes hitting your wallet—it’s the quarterly utility bills. The city quietly approved multi-year increases to your water and sewer volume rates, alongside hikes to the daily Waste Management Fee for garbage and recycling. City Hall tries to sweep these under the rug by saying the increases are incremental or less than feared, but for a regular family, it adds up to hundreds of extra dollars a year for the exact same basic services.

Moving from File and Forget to Real Customer Service

Every Transcona resident has a story about calling or emailing 311 to report a pothole, a damaged park bench, or a missed snow plow, only to receive a generic tracking number and absolutely zero follow-up. Our current 311 system operates like a black hole where resident complaints go to die. As a municipal operator, I know our front-line crews want to fix these issues, but the internal tracking system disconnects the resident from the worker on the ground.

Fair Cost-Sharing to Build Homes Without Stalling Development

We desperately need smart infill housing and density upgrades in our mature neighborhoods, but developers are currently hitting a massive bureaucratic wall. Right now, if a developer wants to build a small multi-unit building or an infill project, City Hall often tells them they must pay millions of dollars upfront to upgrade an entire regional sewer line or water main a kilometer away—even though future surrounding projects will benefit from it. This convoluted system causes years of gridlock, leaving vacant land sitting empty and driving up housing costs.

Publishing Real-Time Service Audits for Our Neighborhood

City Hall loves to bury its performance reports in massive, 400-page annual documents published months after the fact. If a neighborhood's parks aren't being mown on schedule or snow plows are lagging, residents shouldn't have to wait for an annual report card to see what went wrong. Accountability requires real-time data that regular citizens can actually view and understand.

Defending Winnipeg Trees and Stopping Blanket Clear-Cutting

Winnipeg’s iconic urban forest is one of our most valuable community assets, but it is currently under severe attack. Between the devastating spread of the emerald ash borer and Dutch elm disease, we are already at risk of losing nearly half of our total tree population over the next 40 years. To make matters worse, City Hall’s execution has been broken. Just recently, the city tried to secretly strip $1.2 million out of the urban tree-planting budget to fund unrelated projects—only backing down after massive public outcry and direct pushback from community advocacy groups. On top of that, the city continues to allow private developers to completely clear-cut mature, century-old trees on infill development sites before a single building permit is even issued. We don't have to choose between adding housing density and saving our trees. We can have both—but only if we enforce strict rules that stop treating mature trees as disposable obstacles.

Dedicated Veteran Housing Fast-Tracking

Veterans face unique challenges when transitioning to civilian life, and finding affordable, stable housing can be incredibly difficult, occasionally leading to housing insecurity. We will implement an expedited, zero-red-tape approval pipeline for non-profit organizations and housing groups building dedicated veteran housing or supportive living complexes. The city will waive standard development fees and prioritize these permits to get heroes into stable homes faster.

The Poppy Boulevard Memorial Street Renaming

The sacrifices of our local service members deserve to be visible year-round in the neighborhoods they fought to protect, not just remembered once a year in November. I will launch a localized initiative allowing residents to petition for honorary secondary street renaming in our ward. Streets featuring historical connections to local veterans will receive distinctive poppy-emblazoned street signs to permanently honor their legacy within the neighborhood fabric.

Full Mobility Freedom for Our Heroes—Standard Buses and Transit Plus

Right now, the city only offers free transit and Transit Plus rides to veterans on one single day of the year: Remembrance Day. But service-related disabilities and everyday transport needs don't disappear on November 12. If a veteran stepped up to protect our country, the absolute least our city can do is provide them a free, dignified ride wherever they need to go, 365 days a year.I will fight to expand city transit policy to offer completely free, year-round access to all registered veterans, active-duty personnel. Veterans relying on Transit Plus shouldn't have to face rigid scheduling bottlenecks or risk missing a critical appointment due to system waitlists. We will establish a specialized priority booking tier for veterans traveling directly to or from healthcare and clinical facilities.

Restoring the 50 50 Transit Funding Partnership

For decades, the Province of Manitoba and the City of Winnipeg split net transit operating costs, the operational gap left after collecting fare revenue, equally through a statutory 50 50 funding agreement. In 2017, the provincial government unilaterally ended this agreement, freezing the annual transit grant at 42 million dollars. While provincial contributions remained flat, municipal spending on transit operations grew significantly. Without a true matching provincial partner, the burden fell entirely on Winnipeg taxpayers and transit riders through higher fares and stretched municipal budgets. We must Re establish Fair Matching Operating Grants I will fight to bring back the statutory 50 50 cost sharing agreement so the Province covers half of net operating expenses for conventional and accessible transit. This will protect Winnipeg property owners from absorbing the entire operating deficit of the transit network and create long term funding stability that allows for multi year infrastructure and route planning. I will fight to mandate that every dollar returned through the restored 50 50 agreement is legally ring fenced strictly for Winnipeg Transit operations. This prevents transit funds from being absorbed into general revenue accounts or redirected to other municipal programs while ensuring all restored provincial dollars are transparently tracked in dedicated transit operating accounts subject to annual public audits.