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Winnipeg city councillor and Speaker of Council Devi Sharma left chambers in tears on Thursday morning.
Sharma (Old Kildonan), an award-winning community advocate and the first woman in Winnipeg history to hold the position of speaker, began to weep after Coun. Kevin Klein (Charleswood-Tuxedo-Westwood) spoke in chambers of the COVID-19 crisis in India.
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“Councillor Klein put some very heartfelt remarks on the record about what is happening in India at this moment in time as we all deal with the pandemic and it really punched me in the gut at that moment because of all of those images we’ve been seeing on the news in the last little while,” Sharma said. “It just flooded back into my mind and I was overcome with emotion.”
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A city council motion is calling for potential new rules to ban medical cannabis cultivation entirely in residential areas or limit the number of plants that can be grown in each house. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune/TNS)
A trio of city councillors is seeking options to rein in large medical marijuana grow operations within some Winnipeg homes.
A trio of city councillors is seeking options to rein in large medical marijuana grow operations within some Winnipeg homes.
A new motion calls for city staff to explore potential new rules to ban medical cannabis cultivation entirely in residential areas or limit the number of plants that can be grown in each house.
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Publishing date: Mar 08, 2021 • March 8, 2021 • 1 minute read • (Left to right) Coun. Vivian Santos (Point Douglas), Coun. Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan), Coun. Janice Lukes (Waverley West) and Coun. Cindy Gilroy (Daniel McIntyre) gather to celebrate the unveiling of a commemorative plaque honouring women in Winnipeg civic politics, on Monday. Photo by James Snell /Winnipeg Sun
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The City of Winnipeg celebrated International Women’s Day on Monday by unveiling a plaque honouring the women who’ve served on Winnipeg city council over the last century.
The plaque holds pictures of all women who’ve held civic office in Winnipeg, including Jessie Kirk, Winnipeg’s first female city councillor (1920), Susan A. Thompson, Winnipeg’s first female mayor (1992), and the city’s first female speaker, Devi Sharma (2013).
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An artist’s rendition of the proposed 22-unit apartment building that Dwell Design hopes to build at the corner of Stafford Street and McMillan Avenue.
Hundreds of condominium and apartment units have risen in the McMillan area over the past few years. The quiet residential neighbourhood is rapidly changing.
Hundreds of condominium and apartment units have risen in the McMillan area over the past few years. The quiet residential neighbourhood is rapidly changing.
Four recent condo and apartment developments have sprung up on McMillan Avenue in the last couple of years. Speculators continue with plans for additional complexes.
Members of the city’s Governance Committee have voted to increase the openness and transparency of the mayor’s $1.8 million office budget, although the…