Winnipeggers are not asking for the impossible. They are asking for law, order, and fairness. What they are getting is silence, excuses, and a government that seems more interested in deflecting blame than in addressing the problems destroying neighborhoods.

In recent weeks, letters from Point Douglas residents have exposed what life in their community has become. Their words are not abstract. They are the raw accounts of people who no longer feel safe in their homes, who have lost faith that their city will enforce its own rules, and who are left wondering who, if anyone, is actually governing Winnipeg.

One resident, Amy Robinson, wrote directly to Mayor Scott Gillingham. She began by reminding him of the widely circulated email titled “A Plea,” which described the daily reality of assa

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