34 Replies to “More Dangerous Than A War Zone”

  1. So glad I don’t live in Winnipeg anymore. The don’t call it the largest reserve in Canada for nothing.

    1. Nothing wrong with Winnipeg as long as you know where to avoid, which is “tourist” attractions.

      1. I got my garage broken into once a week living in Winnipeg. My home was broken into once a year. I can’t tell you how many times my car was vandalized or had parts stolen off it. You don’t realise how bad Winnipeg is until you leave it.

    2. Yes, a family member was attacked with a machete and nearly lost his arm. This was a “Craigslist sale gone wrong”. Winnipeg has a crime problem. That’s certain.

  2. What’s with the building that looks like a pickelhaube? WW I monument, perhaps? To a design that even Kitchener, Ontario, was wise enough to reject?

    1. As a native of K-dub I am both offended by and entirely in agreement with that statement.

      I used to tell visitors that thing outside the library was a giant Oktoberfest sausage.

  3. I lived in Winnipeg for a few years 40 years ago – major shithole neighborhoods. I felt safe in neighborhoods where the faces looked like mine.

  4. Anyone want to be that the people doing the stabbing come from places where people have names like, “Walkswithbears” or “crowfeather” or “mehavebigscreen”….

    And they can’t drink the water?

    I was in Winnipeg for a while, and the streets after dark were not safe. Looks like daytime is getting to be just as bad.

    I guess the billions we send to certain “communities” isn’t doing much good.

    1. Actually the problem is the reserves kick out the worst and drive out the best. So anyone who is a criminal, wife beaters, drug dealers, and murderers get driven off the reserve. Also anyone who wants to get advanced education or a decent job has to leave. So Winnipeg gets the best and the worst.

      1. They are just enforcing native “Justice” where if you offended the tribe, the punishment was usually exile (and a slow death).

        It’s just the second half of the punishment is no longer operable

  5. Horrible…and yes, welcome to Winnipeg.
    Speaking of horrible . Nothing says Winnipeg quite like that effing architectural monstrosity, dead armidillo Human Rights Museum. Modernistic bullshit that Roger Scruton would have a field day with.
    I mean, unless the crime happened near or at that particular location why is it even pictured in the article???

    1. The crime did happen near that spot. The holy aura of the “Human Rights” museum was not enough to deter the perpetrators.

      By the way, how many know that free admission, in perpetuity, to the museum is accorded to a certain identity group?

    2. Whoah whoah that is not modern art-that is POST-modern art! There is a big difference.

  7. WINNIPEG — Two Ukrainian refugees attacked at The Forks on Canada Day intend to leave Manitoba, as a rash of incidents highlights an increase in violent crime in Winnipeg.

    The city’s emergency services responded to three serious stabbings and two shootings, including Winnipeg’s 27th homicide of the year, over a bloody long weekend.

    Friday night’s stabbing at The Forks was the third attack in five days at the national historic site.
    “We saw a young man holding his chest and his neck desperately asking for help as he walked toward traffic,” said witness Julya Zan. “The knife was sticking out of his neck.”

    As other drivers went around the victim, Zan, 26, and her husband, Jorge Torres, stopped their car and helped him as he lay on a sidewalk, she said.

    The couple’s friend was on the phone with 911.

    The 22-year-old victim and his friend told Zan they were crossing Israel Asper Way at York Avenue when they accidentally bumped into a group of at least three men around 10:40 p.m.

    After apologizing, both men were hit with bear spray, and one was stabbed.

    “He said it was so shocking and it happened so fast he didn’t realize he had been stabbed,” said Zan, who moved to Canada from Ukraine in 2010.

    She spoke in Ukrainian to the victims, who were in shock, as they waited for police and paramedics to arrive.

    “As I was trying to calm this man down, I was freaking out,” she said. “I’ve never seen anything like that before.”

    As the stabbing victim turned pale and was rushed off in an ambulance, Zan worried he wouldn’t make it.

    In a news release, Winnipeg police said the victim was “bleeding profusely” with a life-threatening wound.

    Staff at Health Sciences Centre stabilized him after he arrived in critical condition.

    His 23-year-old friend was treated and released.

    Police are looking for multiple suspects, who fled on foot.

    Zan, who has visited the stabbing victim in hospital, said the men told her they fled Kyiv when Russia launched its unprovoked war on Ukraine in February.

    After spending time in Poland, they arrived in Canada two weeks ago.

    The pair moved into an apartment in downtown Winnipeg the day of the attack, said Zan.

    “They told me they don’t want to be here anymore. They are looking at moving to another province,” she said. “Their opinion about Manitoba and Winnipeg has definitely changed.”

    Traumatized by what she witnessed, Zan doesn’t feel comfortable returning to the area. She has had flashbacks of the victim with the knife stuck in his neck.

    “It could have been anybody; he was a totally innocent guy walking down the street,” she said. “It just makes you question if you should be going downtown.”

    In the earlier incidents at The Forks, a father and daughter were attacked by three teenage girls at about 8 p.m. on June 27, and two men were stabbed at about 12:30 a.m. two days later, said police.

    Four youths and two adults were arrested in the latter attack.

    On June 20, a 16-year-old boy was critically injured and an 11-year-old boy was caught in the crossfire during a shooting at the Red River Ex.

    Between April 2021 and March 2022, reports of violent crime in Winnipeg increased by 18.3 per cent compared with the previous 12-month period, according to the latest police figures.

    The total was 3.7 per cent higher than the five-year average.

    Reports of violent crime in March, as Manitoba emerged from another COVID-19 lockdown, jumped by 19.7 per cent compared with March 2021.

    The figure was 37.9 per cent higher than the five-year average for the month.

    Coun. Markus Chambers, chair of the Winnipeg Police Board, said the city could be on pace for a record number of homicides, with 27 so far.

    A record 44 homicides occurred in 2019.

    Of this year’s killings, the police clearance rate is high, and most have involved people who know each other or gang activity, said Chambers.

    “This is not the perception that we want, that it’s a violent city,” he said, noting tougher economic times can lead to an increase in crime.

    To be proactive, Chambers said, he wants the police board to meet with downtown groups to discuss safety in the area.

    He said the board wants to hear from Winnipeggers to help police to identify neighbourhoods that may require an increase in police presence or strategies to combat crime.

    Recent violence isn’t doing any favours for Winnipeg’s reputation and attempts to attract new residents and tourists.

    ….There’s more but it devolves into bla, bla, bla.

    1. Not many people outside Winnipeg know that in order to enter a government liquor store you have to pass through security and show ID. This is in the aftermath of rampant gang crime in the city.

  8. How many blacks and/or Muslim Refugees are there living in Ukraine? Asking for statistical purposes only. Seems to me that Ukraine is fairly 99.875% caucasian … and culturally uniform (except those baaaaad Russians in the East).

    Someone should have WARNED these Ukraine refugees they weren’t in Kansas anymore …

  9. Ah yes, Winnipeg. A veritable hotbed of anti government, misogynistic, racists. Probably some disgruntled ex freedom convoy, Westerners… out of work because they are two, TWO boosters behind.. desperate.

  10. the whole press have gone quiet as whores in church on the ukraine war. and the prez isnt playing the piano with his nether parts anymore. something coming soon.

  11. Europeans have been fed this noble Indian crap and expect there to be noble Indians here. It’s as though they expect the landscape to be full of Indians living in a gentle symbiosis with nature and talking to animals who help them with their chores like they’re Snow f*cking White or something.

    1. You can blame German writer Karl May for much of that. His novels about Old Shatterhand and his faithful Indian sidekick Winnetou were enormously popular, even though he never set foot in the American west until later in life after he had written several books. Before that, he made it all up. It’s like someone writing something like Shogun while spending almost their entire life in a small town in Saskatchewan.

      Then, of course, there are the Indian clubs in Germany, much as there are groups such as the Society for Creative Anachronism here in North America. People dress the part and have “Indian” gatherings, such as weekend campouts, complete with teepees.

      Oh, and don’t forget that North America itself has created and sustained much of that image in Europe. One of my aunts in Germany came to visit us nearly 60 years ago. She mentioned at one time that the Canadian TV show The Forest Rangers (complete with Gordon Pinsent playing the Mountie in a scarlet tunic) was apparently quite popular in certain parts of Europe.

    2. Lots of Canadians who’ve never driven through a reservation have this fantasy too.

  12. “Other drivers went around the victim,” (who had a knife sticking out of his neck and was bleeding profusely. So much for kind, compassionate Canadians….

      1. “There has always been a realness and sincerity to how Winnipeggers talk about this city and whether you visit here or live here”

        The speaker must be in on it. They must be having a laugh.

  13. Do not live in prairie cities east or North of Calgary they are all dangerous. Actually, I’m inclined to think anything outside of Calgary is terrible. Living in Edmonton will make you wish for a knife in the throat, and may just deliver it.

  14. Reminds me a saying – the only good thing about Winnipeg is the bypass around it (which I have taken more than once).

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