The news story of the year in 2024 was the trash-canning of the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region’s Plan20-50 after a backlash from residents and industry leaders in the targeted districts, and from municipal governments among the WMR membership.

Critics who came to the public hearings were labelled by WMR officials and a compliant media as “conspiracy theorists” and accused of “spreading misinformation” — but that backfired.

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Told to “just read the plan,” more and more people noticed the plan itself referred to various goals and objectives advanced by groups like the United Nations that had nothing to do with the realities faced by their communities. The details about centralized control of planning made clear that decisions of local councils were going to be subservient t

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