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[thebasketballgeek]

City of Winnipeg released their 2021 citizen satisfaction survey.

https://winnipeg.ca/cao/pdfs/2021CitizenSurvey.pdf

I agree with the general sentiment. This is a very good place to live, but has a few glaring flaws.

[blueandgoldguy]

I wonder who takes over Fun Mountain when Covid eventually blows over?

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/busine...oan-fun-mountain-for-sale-575802682.html

Any takers here?

[bomberjet]

Under new ownership, someone sane, that place can do well.

[blueandgoldguy]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

Under new ownership, someone sane, that place can do well.

Probably the most important factor!

it would be nice if there was someone or some group with actually money that bought it for a change...as opposed to previous smalltime ownership who was not exactly rolling in the dough. I thought I read an article awhile back stating that the now former owner and her family lived in a big camper/trailer nearby.

[bomberjet]

They have a camping area on site where I assume they live(d). There is also the campground next door. Like I mean fine if you want to live in your camper because you own/work there. Being a 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 🞵🞵 🞵🞵🞵🞵 in public doesn't help your cause.

I haven't been to fun mountain in ages. Seems like there's been some upgrades and such. Overall it's about the same. Always had fun there.

[esquire]

I agree that from what I can see of Fun Mountain in recent photos, not much has changed since I last went there probably around 30 years ago. That has to provide some insight into the profitability of the business... if they were making a good amount money then you would think they'd reinvest some of it into building the place up into a bigger and better attraction that would draw more people. I'm not sure that they've added any new slides since Mulroney was Prime Minister, though.

It's pretty much the same thing with Tinkertown next door. It keeps chugging along but the owners don't ever do much to add anything to it. I guess the nature of the climate here combined with the population level means that it's tough sledding for outdoor amusement operators.

[Biff]

Apparently Fun Mountain is conditionally sold.

From Colliers website.

[esquire]

I hope the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund bought it... that would be our best chance at getting a new slide added to the lineup this summer. Maybe they'll add a new slushie machine too.

[Kinguni]

Originally Posted by esquire

I hope the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund bought it... that would be our best chance at getting a new slide added to the lineup this summer. Maybe they'll add a new slushie machine too.

Saudis would put a dome over it and keep it going year round.

[peg]

Originally Posted by Kinguni

Saudis would put a dome over it and keep it going year round.

Sounds like... Dreamscape...

[The Jabroni]

Originally Posted by Biff

Apparently Fun Mountain is conditionally sold.

From Colliers website.

Yeah, it's been known for a while now around the social media.

The now former owner of Fun Mountain was a nut job anyway. Hopefully the new owners will bring it back to its former glory, and maybe fix it up and maintain upkeep for once.

[Kinguni]

Originally Posted by peg

Sounds like... Dreamscape...

Ack! Forgot about that. Could be!

[pspeid]

I don't know if any NHL fans have been following the Calgary Flames' quest for a new arena, but it seems to be following the standard trajectory of demands, threats and brinksmanship we always tend to see at times like this. Here's a recent media report:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7agU5FHLms

What is really interesting to me are the comments below the video. I knew a number of people in Calgary back in the "boom" days, and their attitude towards public finding of projects tended to be "hang the cost/just build it". Now the comments could have been from Hamilton or Winnipeg or any other city, ranging from "please just build it" to "let them go to Quebec City/who needs them?". While I'm not a Flames fan, and I'd love to see another franchise in Quebec City, it would be a shame to lose the Edmonton/Calgary dynamic.

[esquire]

^ The "we're moving the team" bluff won't work in Calgary because everyone knows that even if CSEG ended up selling the Flames to someone who ultimately moves them out of town, someone else would move a team there instantly. It's too lucrative a market to not have a NHL team.

These 🞵🞵🞵 to the head tactics by NHL owners tend to work best in smaller hockey markets that feel the most vulnerable. Calgary is not really in that boat.

[1ajs]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/nurse-fired-lynn-lake-grievance-1.6318629

Nurse in Lynn Lake fired for reasons outside her practice, says union
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Manitoba Nurses Union says employers should be doing everything they can to retain nurses
Peggy Lam · CBC News · Posted: Jan 18, 2022 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 18


The Manitoba Nurses Union said a nurse who recently moved to work in Lynn Lake, Man., was terminated by the Northern Regional Health Authority for reasons outside of her practice.

"We're in a situation where we need to be retaining every nurse possible in the system, so it's worrying that employers are not doing everything they can to retain nurses," said Darlene Jackson, the union's president.

Lynn Lake is a town of approximately 500 residents, located more than 800 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.

Jackson said she can't disclose more details about the incident because the Manitoba Nurses Union has filed a grievance on this person's behalf and the case will be going to arbitration.

what happend it wasnt good as all the local nurses quit within a month of this happening

[bomberjet]

Of course the union is looking our for their employees.

But why are there so many staff shortages in the north. Are people sick? People quit? I haven't paid a lot of attention lately.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

Of course the union is looking our for their employees.

But why are there so many staff shortages in the north. Are people sick? People quit? I haven't paid a lot of attention lately.

There is difficulty on two fronts... not a lot of graduates from the region, and recruiting people from elsewhere is damn hard. I know some UM nursing graduates, they're mostly in Winnipeg and other cities but some are in glam locales like Hawaii. When you're competing with that, it's tough to recruit people to Thompson.

The current situation has only exacerbated those challenges.

[bomberjet]

Need to train locals and pay people. I guess if they just decide to leave than we're hooped.

If someone offered me 200k / year to go work in Thompson, I would strongly consider it.

[1ajs]

there was a public health nurse and every thing in lynn then all sudden they started quiting. around feb. when this nurse got canned it was the last straw from what i understand in a long list of toxic work place bs comming from the nrha that had impermiated the hospital inn a bad way.. i dont know exact details just tidbits

up till that point it was 80% local nurse's who owned houses and live here and still live here but they all work in the far north now month on month off

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

Need to train locals and pay people. I guess if they just decide to leave than we're hooped.

If someone offered me 200k / year to go work in Thompson, I would strongly consider it.

thompson hospital is worn out depressing place and they dont make 200k to be a nurse there

its faster to drive to lynn lake from thompson and back then it is to see a doc in thompson