HomeDiagramsDatabaseMapsForum About
     

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > Canada > Manitoba & Saskatchewan


View Poll Results: Winnipeg's (CMA) Population in 5 Years Will Be.....
740,000 or less 40 23.39%
740,000-750,000 26 15.20%
750,000-760,000 24 14.04%
760,000 or more 81 47.37%
Voters: 171. You may not vote on this poll

Closed Thread

 
Thread Tools Display Modes
     
     
  #221  
Old Posted Dec 26, 2010, 4:32 PM
jmt18325's Avatar
jmt18325 jmt18325 is offline
Heart of the Continent
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Winnipeg
Posts: 7,284
Quote:
Originally Posted by Boreal View Post
It is happening here, and across the country. The middle-class is shrinking by leaps and bounds, and could soon find itself on the endangered species list.
Please provide evidence of this. Thank you in advance.
     
     
  #222  
Old Posted Dec 26, 2010, 5:52 PM
thurmas's Avatar
thurmas thurmas is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB
Posts: 7,595
Franks I am pretty certain Winnipeg has already surpased Quebec city in population. We were very close in the last census and our growth rate has more than doubled since then so it will show.
     
     
  #223  
Old Posted Dec 26, 2010, 6:57 PM
FrAnKs's Avatar
FrAnKs FrAnKs is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ville de Québec / Quebec city
Posts: 5,674
Quote:
Originally Posted by thurmas View Post
Franks I am pretty certain Winnipeg has already surpased Quebec city in population. We were very close in the last census and our growth rate has more than doubled since then so it will show.
I don't want to get it bad. but anyway this is only ''ranks'' . Those cities will keep their personalities for ever. Quebec city have something that winnipeg cannot have. And the same for Winnipeg.

It's just that, in history of Canada, I don't love how some pretty nice cities lost ALOT of ranks from the top of the list ( Ex. Halifax or Quebec city )

Anyways good news for Winnipeg, Keep it up !
__________________
PROVINCE OF QUEBEC ==> 9 000 000
MONTREAL METRO ==> 4 550 000
QUEBEC CITY METRO ==> 878 000
     
     
  #224  
Old Posted Dec 26, 2010, 7:45 PM
Boreal's Avatar
Boreal Boreal is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Winnipeg
Posts: 1,698
Quote:
Originally Posted by jmt18325 View Post
Please provide evidence of this. Thank you in advance.
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/gap/20...rinking_o.html
http://www.suite101.com/content/cana...inking-a197352
http://canadianmoneyforum.com/showthread.php?t=5683
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/us...shrinking.html

...includes everything from the Grope and Flail to Stats Can to the anecdotal.
     
     
  #225  
Old Posted Dec 27, 2010, 12:34 AM
jmt18325's Avatar
jmt18325 jmt18325 is offline
Heart of the Continent
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Winnipeg
Posts: 7,284
People generally haven't gotten poorer, and there is no evidence of that. Wages have in fact outpaced inflation at most points.
     
     
  #226  
Old Posted Dec 27, 2010, 6:40 PM
Riverman's Avatar
Riverman Riverman is offline
Fossil fuel & rubber
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Ontario's feel good town
Posts: 4,023
Deleted double post.

Last edited by Riverman; Dec 27, 2010 at 6:51 PM.
     
     
  #227  
Old Posted Dec 27, 2010, 6:50 PM
Riverman's Avatar
Riverman Riverman is offline
Fossil fuel & rubber
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Ontario's feel good town
Posts: 4,023
Quote:
Originally Posted by jmt18325 View Post
Except that the NDP did balance the budget. You don't like the way they did it, but they did it by introducing proper accounting principles. Hydro is a Crown asset, and its revenue is crown revenue.
Hydro is also deeply in debt. "Balancing the budget" as you call it by further adding to Hydro's debt is nothing more than a shell game. Fortunately the voters will see right through this as I'm sure this will come up during the election.
     
     
  #228  
Old Posted Dec 27, 2010, 10:40 PM
Winnipegger@Heart Winnipegger@Heart is offline
BANNED
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 619
I hope we will finally see the NDP ousted.
     
     
  #229  
Old Posted Dec 27, 2010, 11:03 PM
1ajs's Avatar
1ajs 1ajs is offline
ʇɥƃıuʞ -*ʞpʇ*-
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: lynn lake
Posts: 25,833
and put some other idiot in cause last time i checked the conservitives guy is not much of a option...
     
     
  #230  
Old Posted Dec 27, 2010, 11:11 PM
vid's Avatar
vid vid is offline
I am a typical
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Thunder Bay
Posts: 41,172
Ontario's hydro oligopoly is also in a lot of debt, most of our hydro bills (something like 60% of the bill) is debt recovery and transmission costs. (Apparently it costs 40 dollars a month to send electricity down a wire to my home, from the power plant 2 miles away.) Doesn't help that each of the five companies has a CEO making about two million dollars a year, plus bonuses. The city owned hydro distributor is pretty good at reducing the cost a bit, though--I'd be paying close to double if I lived in the bush.

Whatever you do, don't do whatever we did.
     
     
  #231  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2010, 12:53 AM
Winnipegger@Heart Winnipegger@Heart is offline
BANNED
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 619
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1ajs View Post
and put some other idiot in cause last time i checked the conservitives guy is not much of a option...
I will take Hugh McFadyen anyday of the week over stale, long-in-the-tooth Sellinger. We need someone who is younger, and hipper than our current premier. The NDP has really made Manitoba a welfare province, and it is time to tighten the purse-strings in some places, while spending more in others, and making us truly competitive.
     
     
  #232  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2010, 1:19 AM
RTD RTD is offline
BANNED
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 867
Quote:
Originally Posted by Winnipegger@Heart View Post
I will take Hugh McFadyen anyday of the week over stale, long-in-the-tooth Sellinger. We need someone who is younger, and hipper than our current premier. The NDP has really made Manitoba a welfare province, and it is time to tighten the purse-strings in some places, while spending more in others, and making us truly competitive.
Here here! Here's to bootin' out the socialists!
     
     
  #233  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2010, 2:03 AM
vid's Avatar
vid vid is offline
I am a typical
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Thunder Bay
Posts: 41,172
Kinda sad when the right wing candidate is the hip one...

Tim Hudak, our PC leader, is kind of creepy. Better than the others though, as long as he stays away from the Mike Harris school of fuckuperry.
     
     
  #234  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2010, 3:57 AM
GORDBO GORDBO is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: WINNIPEG
Posts: 305
It's amazing, how in just a few posts. We go from Wpg's projected population, to hydro rates in Thunder Bay!
     
     
  #235  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2010, 4:22 AM
vid's Avatar
vid vid is offline
I am a typical
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Thunder Bay
Posts: 41,172
Conversations do that. We could start off discussing the difference between spices and herbs and work our way to a discussion about architecture in Switzerland.
     
     
  #236  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2010, 4:43 AM
JayM's Avatar
JayM JayM is offline
Youth of a Nation
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Posts: 1,196
Quote:
Originally Posted by Winnipegger@Heart View Post
I will take Hugh McFadyen anyday of the week over stale, long-in-the-tooth Sellinger. We need someone who is younger, and hipper than our current premier. The NDP has really made Manitoba a welfare province, and it is time to tighten the purse-strings in some places, while spending more in others, and making us truly competitive.
Honestly It was a bad idea for the NDP to have Sellinger to be party leader, Steve Ashton was and still is the better candidate.

Also noted rabbits are cute but they don't make good leaders.
     
     
  #237  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2010, 2:14 PM
Winnipegger@Heart Winnipegger@Heart is offline
BANNED
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 619
A rabbit would be more effective, and adored than Sellinger.

In relation to the topic, a Hugh McFadyen government would attract more investment, thus more people to the province.
     
     
  #238  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2010, 2:16 PM
GORDBO GORDBO is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: WINNIPEG
Posts: 305
If it were a Playboy bunnie, She'd get more accomlished as well!
     
     
  #239  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2010, 6:07 PM
1ajs's Avatar
1ajs 1ajs is offline
ʇɥƃıuʞ -*ʞpʇ*-
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: lynn lake
Posts: 25,833
perhaps we need to move this to the politics thread....
     
     
  #240  
Old Posted Dec 28, 2010, 8:50 PM
Spocket's Avatar
Spocket Spocket is offline
Back from the dead
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 3,505
Quote:
Originally Posted by jmt18325 View Post
Except that the NDP did balance the budget. You don't like the way they did it, but they did it by introducing proper accounting principles. Hydro is a Crown asset, and its revenue is crown revenue.
Yeah , and if Hydro was a private venture it would be in the black , developing further profit initiatives , and contributing healthily to the tax base . Sure it's a Crown asset ... and the NDP is doing to it what governments always do to profit generators by depriving it of its ability to develop and compete in a changing world . Forget the party lines , I really don't care about that ... they all do this but some are more economically astute than others . The NDP occupies the lowest rung on that ladder .
Remember the Rainy Day fund ? I guess we had quite a few rainy days before the global economy went temporarily belly-up .


Quote:
Originally Posted by jmt18325 View Post
Then you simply haven't been paying attention. Economic growth, healthcare, infrastructure, trade, education, crime prevention and prosecution - all have improved under the NDP. You don't want to see it, fine, but you can't pretend it doesn't exist.

Unlike you, some of us can see past party labels. The NDP in Manitoba is nothing like the federal NDP. I vote Conservative federally, and so far in Manitoba, I've voted for the NDP. Obviously, with at least Doer, the federal Conservatives agree with me. They don't sem to mind Selinger either.
Economic growth ? Well then why are we still a have-not province with no change in that status for the foreseeable future ?
Healthcare ? Sure , they've invested in it and sure , I'll give them credit for it as well . It's one of the few things that we can always count on the NDP to invest in and I'm not knocking them for it . Of course , in taking private players out of the game (think Pan Am clinic) we wouldn't know whether we could have it any better or not .
Infrastructure ? What exactly stands out in your mind on this matter ? I guess the Floodway might be a special case but every party would have committed to that . I don't think any party would have done things any differently in this regard. Ever since Ottawa loosened the purse-strings and increased transfer payments. Come to think of it , wasn't it the NDP that insisted that Floodway workers have a union-approved contract ? Strange because the only people who strike are people in unions and the Floodway was supposed to be open to private bidders . Gosh , go figure .
Education ? Uh ... how do you figure that that's any better ? You mean by throwing more money at it ? Have grades improved ? I mean , that's what the whole point of education is supposed to be so if we're not turning out more graduates with higher test-scores then I don't see how the NDP has done anything special in this regard . If you mean new buildings well sure ... they've put some cash towards it and they get credit for it .

Okay ... now this makes me laugh : Crime prevention and prosecution .
The provincial NDP HAS been barking at the feds to do something about crime and for that they DO get credit . Unfortunately their federal counterparts are morons. With that said , it doesn't change the fact that there is very little that the provincial government can do to actually fix the problems we have in any direct way . I neither blame them nor credit them for the problems or the solutions respectively .

Now , as to the party-line jab you took at me : Nope . You're wrong , wrong , wrong . I personally could give a rat's ass what the name of the party is . I rather liked Doer actually and honestly found him to be quite the most tolerable of virtually every politician that I could think of . The problem is that now he's gone and he was the only thing keeping the rest of his socialist dinosaurs from doing a Pawley-encore . Now that Selinger has taken the reins off , it's all back to the same old outdated ideology that drives economies into the ground . That's the same method of doing things that almost bankrupted us in the eighties and Selinger still hasn't clued in . I don't want McFadyen running things but then , that's why I voted for Gerard last time around .
__________________
Giving you a reason to drink and drive since 1975.
     
     
This discussion thread continues

Use the page links to the lower-right to go to the next page for additional posts
 
 
Closed Thread

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > Canada > Manitoba & Saskatchewan
Forum Jump


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 8:30 AM.

     
SkyscraperPage.com - Archive - Privacy Statement - Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.