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The Start — So Much Drama In The LDC. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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It's Mackling and McGarry on this Tuesday, September 8th. This FHR is for Booth University College, lead with purpose, with values-based leadership and social enterprise management MBA programs designed for working professionals visit BoothUC.ca. Good morning, Brett McGarry. The traveling conquerors. You both went to Regina. That's right. Back you and Sarah. Yeah, separately for different tasks, different reasons. Both ultimately disappointed in the result of the game on Sunday night. Definitely. I saw visual evidence that you have not turned green. You're still true blue. Sarah McCarty is wearing blue. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. As do thousands of our listeners. You already declared you the most manitoban of all of us here on the start. You can't be switching sides quite yet.
We understand that you're betrothed. The love of your life is Saskatchewan Rough Rider fan, but you have not been contaminated by the disease. Sorry if you're listening Carter. It's a STD Saskatchewan Transmitter disease. Oh, I see myself out. Oh, better than caused any problems in the household. I've struggled some feathers. So nice to start with some last but my gosh, as we begin our Labor Day short and weak, hundreds of Manitoba Hydro customers that Sarah was saying and River Heights in particular are among those still without power, following Sunday night's damaging storm. Yeah, there are outages across Manitoba and Winnipeg, Southern Manitoba, the inter lake according to Manitoba Hydro's outage map this hour. There are five outages combined to blanket an area mostly between Centennial Street and
the West Cambridge in the east and then between Taylor and the South, the Grant in the North. And then there's a section between Lindsay and Waterloo that extends North to Fleet Avenue. So that's according to the Manitoba Hydro outage map that I'm seeing right now. And yesterday our own Richard Klucche, he was out and about in the thick of it, helping us get some insight as to what many of you have been dealing with over the last couple of days. The yard is a mess, things going around and then there's some power lines in our back lane that are leading you. What did you hear? I saw it. Jennifer Boychuk, she's assessing the damage. Hydro crews there, green drop. It's a beehive of activity. Yeah, the wind just went crazy and I thought this can't be a tornado. We didn't get any warnings on our phone. Remember that one day we got all those warnings? I was like, this can't be, you know? And then I thought, whoa, this is really bad. So I closed the windows, round downstairs, got my son. We tried to find our cats, we ran back downstairs and then it was over.
We went so fast. The damage here is quite extensive. I had power to quarter to nine and the storm had already gone. Okay. So that happened? Yeah. That I, my friend how she's fine. And I missed it. So yeah. That's good. Not everybody can say that. No, I feel so bad. And my mom and I said, and my house is there, my cats are so good. You did get to my side. So there's some shocking images on social media if you haven't been to that part of the city or you don't live there, Brett, Mayor Scott Gillingham's Instagram post was the one that was startled me the most as we were back on our way back to the hotel after the game on Sunday night. Words started filtering around our group that there'd been a major storm. And Winnipeg, Jackie had sent me pictures and video that we had a heavy rain in North Caldone. And but it wasn't until we're that rumors of perhaps a tornado in River Heights were circulating. And some of the images that Mayor Scott Gillingham posted on his Instagram as I mentioned,
those were the first ones that really that I saw on my social media, a car in the front yard of someone's house in River Heights, a series of hydro poles, one after the other that were either all the way down or partially downed uprooted trees. It's quite the debris field in that part of the city in particular. And we're thinking about you this morning. Yeah, the rain started around 630 ish in my neighborhood in Osborne Village. And I've seen rainfall like that before. But often it when it's that that's super deluge, it's quick. Like it might come in hot and then it'll sort of it might rain for however many hours, but it'll taper off a little bit. But it was just this sustained pounding for like 20 minutes or so. I could kind of hear a little bit of thunder like there were flashes of lightning, but from where I was, it was mostly rain.
But yeah, seeing wind speeds 80 to 90 kilometers an hour were reported 63 millimeters of rain recorded at the forks. Geez, what a weird contrast because Sunday morning was picture perfect. Isn't that something else? So if you're able to communicate with us this morning, please let us know how you're making out 204 780 68 68. Of course, we'll play some more audio from the conversations and the interviews. Richard Cluce was doing with those impacted in the city on Sunday. Richard was out there yesterday afternoon and the conversation was about the possibility of more rain last night. We did get more rain yesterday. If you're without power, that means you're some pump unless you have a backup battery of some sort or backup generator. That means your some pump was an operational and in an area where you got pounded by rain any more moisture could have posed a super gigantic problem.
So let us know what you're dealing with this morning if you're able to do so 204 780 68 68. And once again, Hydro will join us at 705 for an update as well. And we can also tell you that we have that Sarah has reached out to the Union representing Dynacare as the strike is set to begin as of this morning. And we contact has been established with them. So we'll hopefully be able to bring somebody on at some point this morning. It's Mackling and McGarry. This half hour is brought to you by Booth University College lead with purpose with values-based leadership and social enterprise management MBA programs designed for working professionals visit boothuc.ca. And our next segment will continue to learn more about Greg's adventures in Regina for the Labor Day Classic with a 1930 crew.
It's on the fun side on the more serious side right now hundreds of Manitoba Hydro customers in River Heights are among those still without power following Sunday nights damaging thunderstorms. Yeah, there are several outages which continue in that part of the city according to the latest from the Manitoba Hydro outage map an area mostly between Centennial Street in the West Cambridge and the East and then North South Taylor in the South North the grant. And then there's another section that sort of juts out from that series of power outages to take out power between Lindsay and Waterloo and that extends north to Fleet Avenue. Our own Richard Cluche was out and about in the thick of it yesterday trying to help us understand what what many of you been dealing with since Sunday. Sunday's storm damage on Lindsay and Borbank along mathers between Taylor and Grant Avenue and River Heights is quite extensive. We're going to be without power for days to week some people say so my husband went and
bought a generator. Down trees, roof damage, fences toppled, nerves sprayed. So far it looks like a roof. We've got our fences messed up, our perules in the neighbor's yard and up in a tree, trampolines gone. And you have a brand new porta potty? A brand new porta potty how exciting. Where did that come from? I'm assuming the train yard but I don't know. I'm not sure. The firefighters thought we were having work done but I said no this wasn't here when we left. Robin Canacula is at the corner of Lindsay and mathers and usually when portapoddies go up in the air there's other stuff that's strewn. Oh our yard smells like it has been strewn. Fertilizer? You're going to have beautiful grass. Beautiful grass. Yeah, the look at the brighter side right? Well everybody's fine. There's a lot of cleanup. A lot of cleanup but you know what we have had some great neighbors stop by.
Because our roof and our next our neighbors roof had many shingles. We want to get that before the rain comes. So they came and helped my husband tarp both of our roofs. So that's very nice. I was watching the football game. The bombers were just starting to play. It was the first quarter and 6.30, 7 o'clock. It was a downpour. The wind came in. My back window. I had to close it. I had to go to the bedroom window and close it quickly. It was just like a sheer wall of water coming down. Robbins neighbor Rosanne Buxman, suitcase in hand. Leaving until repairs are made and the hydro comes back off. My wires are down in the back lane. I have no internet, no power, no nothing. Yeah. You're okay. Rattles but okay. I'm rattled. Yeah, but I'm okay. I'll make it through. I am very resilient. Any damage?
To the roof. To the roof. That's about it. Yeah. Could you hear it? I have water damage. The water's coming inside the house as well too. So yeah. Yeah, I could hear it. It was loud. It was, yeah. So you've packed a suitcase? Yes, yeah. Yeah. But you're fine. I'm fine. Yes. But it's anxious. Yes, I know. Thank you Richard. Yeah. Thank you for talking by. I know. I know. The community around here is excellent too. Yeah. My neighbors, they came and they put tarps on my roof already. They are earth angels. They are. That's why we have insurance. That's right. That's why premiums are going up. That's why we have. I called them and they answered today. So on labor day, so that was good. Further down Lindsay toward Taylor, neighbor's Tom Pierce and Elle Thompson, saws in hand, cleaning up all of the tree damage. It's started here. The tree got a pit first.
And then it went down, down here, around the corner of Maffes. It was a car parked on the side of the road, the wind blew it into the yard. And it went further down, took some roof tiles off. It's knocked about 11 pools down. So we've been out of power from probably 8 o'clock last night to now. It's still straight line wind? No, no. It was. Oh yeah. It's all by my yard. It went round. The folks here are convinced it was a mini tornado, not straight line wind. Big circle like this, but it came in through over here. That fence isn't touched. That house isn't touched. The first tree broke was that one. And this one. And then all the way down, all the way down, Lindsay, Maffes corner got the worst of it. And bore bank, all their powers out too. Any warning? No. Well, just this color of the sky. A lot of booming sound. And we figure out later that's maybe the transformer at the corner that went.
And we're really hoping that we'll see either the city or the hydro or both down at the one meters there sometime because we have poles down and trees down. Long weekend. And the power is out since seven last night. These are beautiful trees too. Over 100 years old, a lot of them. So getting close to the end of the. It's older than now. This one broke last two years ago. We had a nice storm here. And these were still long, as was in October. And it got so much ice that it bloomed with the branch off. So this has had three hits. Wow. So I don't know what it's going to survive that. Well, once again, another part of the city left damaged by another powerful summer storm. They started replacing my shingles on Friday. They did one section, my roof Friday. They'll do the other part today. For the last 10 days, there's been pretty much every single day, at least one, if not two, houses getting there.
The shingles on the roof replaced. Yeah, it's a. Could be a busy year to close out the year for a lot of roofing companies. These looks like probably got work stacking up for next spring already. And our question of the day at CJOB.com, another round of big storms at parts of Manitoba this weekend, leaving many without power for an extended amount of time. Do you have any backup power sources full on generator? Only on my sum pump. No, but it will be or no too expensive. Castervote, CJOB.com. Good morning, chats. Before reliable heating and air conditioning, family strong, reliable, strong Winnipeg strong, visit them at reliableheatair.ca. Just the heads up that Manitoba Hydro is set to join us at 705 to give us the latest on the attempts to restore power to hundreds of Manitobans, particularly in river heights. Two prizes up our grabs this morning.
One is a pair of tickets for that. That's dirty dancing at Canada. It didn't destination dinner stage. We have shows for or tickets for the September 19th show. And we also have tickets to give away for a concert. We're announcing at 905. And today's topic has to do with Greg's adventure to Regina for the Labor Day Classic with a 1930 crew and something unique you encountered. It was something I'd not heard of clearly behind the times because apparently these pub crawls have been going on for the last two years. At least I was able to find a story out of Newfoundland from 2024 about something called a roper style pub crawl. A Mrs. Roper, Helen Roper from, remember three's company. Stanley and Helen Roper, they were the caretakers of the apartment building. And it's a, yeah, it's a roper. What do they call it? A roper romp.
A roper romp and everybody dresses up like Helen Roper. And one of these like moumous and they put on a red curly haired wig and the gaudy jewellery, the fake plastic jewellery. And it's not just women that get dressed like this. It's man as well. We had a group of guys, six of them that caught dressed this way. But here's Sheila McGregor, who also was dressed with her friends like Helen Roper. Well, I first had noticed the roper phenomenon on social media. There's pictures posted of 40 something women going on pub crawls through Boston, etc. And it's just snowballed over the last year. In fact, in Winnipeg last week there was a roper crawl over 100 women descended upon Winnipeg, downtown Winnipeg. I wasn't part of that. This is my very first roper experience. We decided in June to come on this trip and we thought we would shake it up. We need characters in the bomber tailgate area.
We decided this was the perfect one. So there you go. Now you know. So a 204 780 68 68 the question we want to ask you is, has a trend ever presented itself to you or have you ever encountered one and you're like, what? What is happening here? I don't know what you people are doing, but I'm into it. Or maybe doesn't that say they have to be a trend. Maybe it's just like a thing or even a saying that you've encountered like the first to tie almost every time we talk to Tyson, he says something that Greg and I are like, what did you say? Because, you know, Tyson's a young person. Like the first time you sit and don't translate it, but the first time you said, I'm going ham. What are you talking about, dude? Hard as like, so we'll just do that there. So Tyson, do you want to kick us off? Yeah, I do. And this is something that's really just been driving me up a wall recently. And especially with the college football season starting, starting to see a lot more college
kids getting on to sports channels and social media. And the one thing I've really started to notice, they all speak in a Canadian accent. It doesn't matter where they are in the States, it doesn't matter what college they go to or where they're from, they're talking like Canadians. And I think it's because that there's this really popular YouTube group called NELK that's run by Canadians. They have a really big NELK. And then they're kind of losers, but they got like this, they've got this big presence so much amongst college kids. And I just, I can't stand it. You guys don't talk like that. That's ours. You can't just take what's cool from Canada and then call us, whatever you want to call us. Okay, because we've helped us to find this a little more, the Canadian accent. Oh, they're saying, hey, they're talking in like the hockey speak. You know, like, let me go out there and you guys want to hack some dirt stereo, bud? And it's like, you guys don't talk like that. Oh, they're going heavy like Ontario, like Northwest Ontario. Yeah. And it's just, it's not right. Sorry, Zana.
It's not right. I'm sick of it. Letter candy style. Exactly. Okay, got it. Well, it's funny you mentioned that I encountered something yesterday. We had a couple of teenagers playing golf behind us at Kingswood and we could hear them having an opero or a celebration on the 14th green. And my buddy said, that's because of those good, good guys. And the guys who are currently in embroiled in advertising scandal with Calloway, but he said that's how those good, good guys behave on the golf course. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go. Let's go. And he says so that's why these kids think it's acceptable to behave that way on a golf course. Oh, that's great. I'm sure you love that trend. Oh, yeah, I do very much. Yeah. But I've seen these knelt guys you right. They are losers. Sarah, what about you? Mine is just like a food trend I've been seeing on social media. Everyone knows like a muck bain, of course, you buy a bunch of food and then you eat it all. But these are like, they're viral fruit desserts, but they're not fruit.
They're, they look like fruit. They look so fake. It's like a chocolate outside, meant to be the shape of a banana or a mango or a raspberry. Google like viral fruit desserts and this will help paint the picture. And then the inside is like ice cream or filling, just meant to taste like the fruit, but it's so deceiving and just it looks like you could just, I just want to like squish them and just I don't know. I don't know. I don't like it. I've never tried one though to be fair, but everyone's like hopping on this trend at all the bakeries everywhere. It's very uncanny valley. Like, you know, when you see like an AI robot and you're like this looks human, but I know it's not it's the same thing with these desserts. It's like, it's look like a fruit, but I know it's not. I don't really want to eat it. It's a decepticon is what it is. Exactly. Transformers reference. I learned a little bit about Transformers this weekend. You'll learn more at 735. I just said quick preview of that. I took a quick listen to it. I happened to press play on a spot where I was saying you really don't, you clearly don't
know your trend. You're like, nope. Forty, what do I do? Stupid internet challenges that aren't even like challenges. They're just dumb like the tide pod challenge. The heck was that? Like, who was that? That was stupid. Like, who was going to eat a tide pod? What are you thinking? Or the milk crate challenge? Remember like they kind of make like a stairs out of milk crates and like people, you're just going to hurt yourself. All they they sent, let's eat some cinnamon. Oh, it's like a tablespoon of cinnamon. Terrible or what people, I'm going to eat a ghost pepper. Or that wasn't dangerous. Yeah. Somebody die from that one ship challenge? Yes, I believe they did. And the cinnamon thing, how like it's even like the texture and what it does and you can't swallow it properly and then the cinnamon on top of all that. What are people thinking? I don't know. Anything for the clicks. Oh, me. Anything for the clicks. I'm thinking about them. I'm thinking about them.
How about me? How can I make them on me? Clouds a hell of a drug. Six, seven, there's a purpose example for today. So a 204 780 68 68 for reliable heating and air conditioning family strong reliable strong Winnipeg strong visit them at reliable heat air dot CA. We want to know about a trend that you have encountered and you wondered like what, what is this? And did you like it? It is Macling and McGarry. Just Tuesday, September 8th. So that means breakfast with the bombers at 735. We'll get a full recap of Greg's adventure in Regina. Well, it will not be a full recap. It will be very heavily edited. There will be things that will never be spoken of again, never be translated on the air. Just so it's perfectly clear, I have a pact with about 47 people that were on my bus for the last couple of days that the things that happened on the bus shall stay on the bus.
Okay. All right. I do want to hear more about that though. But on the serious side this morning, as you likely know by now several hundred man or two of us are without power and we're going to get an update in just a moment from Manitoba Hydro. But we also want to remind you of another service, which is unavailable right across Manitoba, regardless of where you live. Yeah. You heard in Sarah's news or perhaps you're just tuning in 350 employees of Dynacare are in fact on strike after contract negotiations, all between the privately owned company and the Manitoba Association of Healthcare Professionals. That means those locations are unavailable this morning and throughout the day we're looking to connect with the Manitoba Association of Healthcare Professionals at some point in the next hour or two. On the power outage front, we're joined now by Peter Chura, media relations manager with Manitoba Hydro. Good morning, Peter. Good morning, guys. How are you? Great. We assume you're probably exhausted. Where are we at? How many people are still without power? Well, we made some good progress last night, guys.
The Westwood area, we restored all the customers to power there, but we currently have still about 2,500 customers of the power. Mostly in that central and southern rights area where we saw that remarkable damage from high winds on the weekend that brought down poles, brought down trees. So we're expecting with a lot of reconstruction work there to be done that those customers will be without power probably until Wednesday afternoon. Wow. That's not a short amount of time. And of course, part of the issue, certainly last night, Peter was the fact that we did get more precipitation and a part of the city where they'd had a sort of a heavy downpour. No sump pumps was probably potential at the very least cause some severe stress for folks. Certainly, I was in the area yesterday seeing that incredible damage with some, you'd see a back lane that's just been torn apart with trees and poles and power lines and roofing material all over the place. And the back lane right next one over, no damage at all. So it's really an incredible weather event there that caused a tremendous amount of damage
just keeping the power out. No, we could see the storm was coming, but the severity of this storm did that. We know because we know you guys prepare for stuff like this, but did it surprise you it how bad this thing turned out to be? Well, this is an event, a storm that literally threw a vehicle across the street. So there's not much to prepare for that. I don't think anyone expected that for sure. So go ahead in terms of today's forecast with the wind expected to pick up once again to 50 to 70 kilometers an hour out of the southwest. How could that potentially hamper the efforts to get things going again? Well, safety is of course the number one concern both for crews and for the public. So if there is more severe weather that could impact recovery operations, it could slow things down. We have high hopes that it won't. We made a lot of progress in that area yesterday just getting the initial safety piece out of the way in terms of making sure that all those down power lines were deenergized and
grounded in the crews of the proper clearances that they need to go into start sorting that mess out. But if there is more severe weather, that could slow things down unfortunately. Can you give us an idea of how many individuals are involved in this operation to get the power back on Peter? How many hydro workers are out there on the job or intend to be throughout the day sort of thing? I guess I was out there yesterday and literally dozens of crews are out there and vehicles of all sorts and descriptions. Part of the difficulty in neighborhoods like that is just the access with a lot of the damage and back lanes that are clogged up with fallen trees and other debris. Getting through there and having enough room to get large bucket trucks and diggers and other vehicles in there, that's a bit of an issue. But certainly no shortage of crews in equipment on hand. And Richard Klucce went out and spoke with some people in the River Heights area and some of the people were suggesting they might be without power for potentially more than a couple of days, like maybe even weeks. Is that correct?
We haven't heard that guys. The estimate right now for that area is that we have the power back up by Wednesday afternoon, which credit is still a long time. We recognize that and appreciate customers' patience. But that's the estimate that we have at this point. All right, Peter, thank you very much for the update. We appreciate it, sir. Thanks guys. Appreciate the opportunity. Have a great day. Peter Jura with Manitoba Hydro joining us live on 680 CJOB. Any other question of the day at CJOB.com, do you have any backup power sources and your options are full on generator only by some pump? No, but I will be and know too expensive. Cast your vote CJOB.com. Do you have backup power? No. I never would have thought of that for no one. It's becoming, I think, with the more we become dependent on technology in terms of communication and knowing. Like, I've got right behind my door, my garage, I open my door, and I've got some of that slat wall with hooks and stuff.
And I've got right at the bottom, I've got two flashlights and a radio. That's actually a flashlight with a built-in crank radio. Oh, fun. So you can crank it. And then, of course, so you know where the batteries are and that sort of thing. But with all the different things that we have now and fridges and freezers and food is so expensive now, the idea of throwing any food out that's been spoiled either in the fridge or freezer is, you know, sort of unpalatable to most folks. So that's a part of a lot of stress for I think for a lot of folks. It is Mackling and McGarry going to talk bombers in a moment. Tuesday means breakfast with the bombers. But before that Greg, we just got an update from the union representing dinacare. They're going to join us a bit later on this morning. Just after nine o'clock, about nine, fifteen, in fact, we will get an update from the union,
find out if there anywhere close to coming up with an agreement or if there are scheduled conversations, negotiations with dinacare will find out where things stand up to the moment, moving up in a boat an hour and a half time. All right. We also have a concert to announce at nine o'clock and tickets to give away for that. Typically, we give those tickets away in that nine, fifteen slot. So we're going to rejig some things as to when we give away our prizes. We have two prizes to give away. It looks like we're going to give away the first one at just after eight, fifty, which will be either tickets for destination dinner stage. That's 30 dancing for September 19th or the tickets for the concert we're announcing at nine o'clock and then our winner will select which one they get the runner up will be offered the other one. But in the meantime, very excited for this week's edition of what time is it for, Jay? Of breakfast with the bombers Tuesdays after 7.35 might feel like a Monday, but it's
Tuesday and breakfast with the bombers is brought to you by the cooperators. Protect what matters most with insurance. You can count on visit cooperators dot C a and this weekend, the G wagon was amongst the many troops who marched into battle from Winnipeg to Regina this weekend for the Labor Day Classic and this morning, it's breakfast with the bombers fans. That's right. And maybe even a fan of the other team who is mixed in with the blue bomber fans. We'll get to that in a moment before I do anything. I want to thank Tara, Jeffrey and Pat at the 1930 crew for inviting me along on their adventure this weekend. They began this three years ago with one bus last year. It was two this year, three buses and a look site were probably on track for a fourth bus. Wow. Next year, I should say they are. I haven't been officially recruited or asked to join them again next year, but then a shadow to everyone who was on our, but on all the buses in the 1930 crew, so many people
that I'd never met before, some fans that I've met along the way and friends now after you know, you spend three days with people seven hours, one way, seven hours, the other on a bus and consume some beverages and break bread with them. They are friends. So you know who you are. It was great to meet all of you over the last several days. And I want to bring some audio from the tailgate area from from Sunday before the game outside of Mosaic Stadium. I'm of course the fans dominated by those in green and white, including the best costume from somebody on our bus, more on that in a moment. And I want to introduce you to Marilyn donor and Sherry back us. They were dressed in blue and gold, almost like superheroes, Brett. I thought of you when I approached them and asked if they would talk to us about the slogan on the back of their capes, save the 55. Are you wearing a cape that says save the 55?
Why are you so passionate about this? And we don't want the Canadian game to change. And that is part of the Canadian game among other issues that are going to be taken away by the commissioner. We don't want that to change. We want to keep the game in the way it is. Everything she said. Everything she said. How long have you been a bomber fan of CFL fan? 1980. 1980. So I mean this is a big deal right? You're here in Regina. Every time we come out here. And the game itself is such a small part of it. It's getting everybody together. It's the rivalry and just such a good time both here and on the way back. Everything in between. I'm guessing you've both been to grey cups along the way. Absolutely. Yes. This felt like mini grey cup last night. Yes. Oh yes. Actually, we got all three days that we were doing grey cup and win a peg. It felt like that all rolled into one night last night. It was grey. So do you expect for the game today? We'll probably play this on air Tuesday. So it'll be in retrospect.
Let's see how your predictions are. What do you think is going to happen? Oh, we're going to win, but it's going to be a close one. Yeah. I agree with her. 100 percent. We are going to win. We won last week against Montreal. And I think we're going to do it again today. So what got you into the CFL? We got you into the bomber. I've been watching football since high school. So I just went in naturally. No, just because it was fun. It was fun. I understood it. I got it. And it was just a good time. And it got even better as we got older. Sherry or Marilyn, same question. When back in 1980, my brother, my oldest brother, Bruce, was going to a game. And he had put a big sheet up in his basement. And he took spray paint. And he wrote on there, Brock, Dieter Brock number one. And he took the sheet down and it had gone through onto the wall. And I said, oh, your wife's not going to be happy about that. So I thought I got to see what this football is all about.
If it's your willing to put all that up on your wall in the basement. So thanks to Sherry and Marilyn for speaking with us about their passion for the Canadian football league and the blue bombers. And to the blue bombers, they threw a party bread at this place called Crave on Victoria Avenue. It's in an old mansion. That's right on the equivalent of Portage Avenue and downtown Regina, which was bumping all weekend, by the way. But this party was spectacular. And hundreds and hundreds of bombers fans at this party. It was great. I think I sent you some video from the patio. It was it was a rock solid time. Now here is the only audio I'm allowed to play from inside the bus. Go bombers, here we go. Here we go, bombers, here we go. Green guy go home. Green guy. The green guy. The green guy. It's going to be a long three days, buddy. The green guy there that we were given a hard time was Johnny Miss Wagon, a terrific young
man, got to know him over the last few days. Fight or in spite of his choice of football teams, Brett. Can you please describe John's outfit for our listeners? How about I just try to cite the voice of the late Peter Cullen? My name is Optimus Prime from the Transformers, but in the wrong colors. I wanted to throw up when I saw that. Like how dare you be smurched. The great Optimus Prime with Ryder Green. Okay Johnny, spell your name first and last just because we'll probably be doing an article or a new story. Okay, it's J-O-H-N. Last name is M-I-S-W-A-G-O-N. Okay, so you are a part of the 1930 crew. Just tell me how badly you wanted to come to Regina from Winnipeg in your Decepticon, whatever the hell this outfit is, to cheer for the Rough Rider. Okay, so let's get one thing clear.
You clearly don't know your Transformers, but I do not. But anyways, it's an Autobot Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots. But in any case, as the Labor Day Classic came closer, I really wanted to go and go to the Banjabull obviously. But this whole thing came about is, you talk about how bad I wanted to come, right? Let's speak one thing perfectly clear. I bleed green. And what happened was I didn't want to be ran, paired up with someone I didn't know, because they chance to be a bomber fan. Might be some tension in the hotel room. So you guys bent the rules for me to have a single room. It cost me a pretty penny more. But you know what, after all this experience on the bus, I don't have any doubts that whoever I was groomed with was going to be an amazing experience. You're a lovely, great, beautiful people, and I can't wait to do it again next year. So the story as to why you became a Rough Rider fan, I think is even more impressive than your outfit. Right, right? So this is back in the year the 13th man.
I was working for oil bank at the time I believe, and they had transformed me up to Prince Albrecht's sketch one. I didn't really know a lot of people at the time. My co-workers invited me. They said, come on, we got to watch the wake up. It wasn't a big CFL fan at the time. And obviously we have the infamous moment, right? 13th man. Prior to that, everyone was so over the moon and ecstatic. He's like, yeah, okay. He's like, all right, cool. The passion's here. And then the one can ever accuse me of being a bandwagon jumper because what ended up happening, well, we all know how it went, right? And it was like everyone in that, I think it was Bucces and Prince Albert. Everyone's collective depression around me made me depressed. And it was like, oh my goodness, this stuff's real out here. So the following year, I said, do you know what next year? Sign me up, I'm on full tilt and Ben Green ever since. Johnny, you've been, honestly, one of the highlights of this weekend. Your demeanor, the way the interact with people has been fantastic. What are you hoping for today?
You know what? I said this to the bus before we all got off today. I said, at least one of us is going to be happy after the end of this game, right? It might be 40 some or it might be one. I'm not sure. So I just want everyone to have a blast today and you know what, everyone be safe? Have a great time. Enjoy the game. Thanks, pal. Cheers. So 2009, that's the year. The Scatron Rough Riders won the break up on a field goal only to have it taken away because they had too many men on the field. Montreal got a second crack to win the game and kick the field goal. I think it was Damon DeVol from Montreal, missed the field goal. Saskatchewan wins. Wait a minute. They had too many men on the field. And then Montreal got a second chance. Kick the field goal. Saskatchewan had the break up in their hands and then Montreal took it away. So John is not a bandwagon fan. He jumped on board for 2010 after all the people that he, you know, came to know and love
up and up in North Thadalford were so sad because the Rough Riders lost in 2009. One of the greatest moments in CFL history. So thank you for sharing some of your adventures over the weekend, Macling. That's great that you got to participate in this 1930 crew. And it's great to hear that. It looks like they could be expanding to four buses. We've got people already asking, how do I get in on this for next year? So we will let you know. Oh, Carter, please some audio from the bus on the way home. Guessing I was a lot more sleeping and. It was a lot more Carter is Sarah's boyfriend. Yes. Saskatchewan, Rough Rider fan. Yeah. He's still poking the bear. Good for him. Carter, I admire your spirit. It's Macling and McGarry. This hour of the start is brought to you by Canada's first drive through O'Neill McDonald's
at 540, Kenniston Boulevard crews in today. In a moment, we're returning to the White House after the latest antics from the president and of course the tit for tat tariffs are now underway. But just wanted to give you a heads up if you're just tuning in. If you use the audio vault at CGOB.com, it's been malfunctioning since Friday. And this morning, it's in various states of function. I can use it just fine. I'm a desktop computer on my phone. 404 page not found. Greg, you can see it on your iPhone. I can. I can even go as far as to drop down the date and the time. And I've chosen different dates and different times only to be stymied and to be denied. The joy and pleasure of the audio vault on my phone. So yeah, we are aware of the issue and we're doing our best to rectify that as quickly as possible. So and thanks for the heads up. I'm like, we don't know if the if this isn't working or that's not working until you let
us know. So we very much appreciate that because it was a long weekend and we didn't have our Monday sports chat at 835. We'll have our Tuesday sports chat at 835. Bob Irving will join us to recap the Labor Day classic look ahead to the banjo bowl and have a conversation about what's up with the bombers after what they did to Montreal nine days previous. How did the blue bombers? I'm obviously they took the game to overtime on Sunday in Regina, but the rough ride is really dominated many and most aspects and facets of the game. And what are the concerns of Bob Irving? What ray of hope? What bright light might there be for the blue bombers as they get set for the rematch as Doug and Derek would call it the the banjo bowl warm up this past weekend, the banjo bowl itself coming up Saturday at Princess Auto Stadium. In the meantime, we will now turn our attention to the US as Canada's counter tariffs against
the US took effect at midnight in response to President Donald Trump's 50% tariffs. Even as the president continues to ramp up his anti-Canadian rhetoric, hundreds of goods are set to be hit with counter duties roughly equal to the value of Canadian goods that fall under the scope of Trump's own tariffs. So this was done to ensure that quote Canada will match the quantum of US section 338 tariffs dollar to dollar senior Canadian government officials said when announcing the list over the weekend. US President Donald Trump went on an absolute social media frenzy dozens of posts including a declaration to prevent all new bombardier jets built in Canada from entering the US appuzzling comment on the US Canadian dollar disparity also part of his string of posts. An image of North and South America, the Caribbean and Greenland all in stars and stripes. Global News Washington reporter Reggie Jekini joins us from Dallas, Texas today home to this
week's shall we call it Trump a Paloza. Good morning Reggie. So this feeding frenzy that he went on on social media, I mean for anybody else it might be seen as weird but this even for Trump feels a little bit more than par for the course. Possibly and it's clear that he's trying to push back, double down, minimize the Canadian government, other world leaders as well with that American flag over most of the Western hemisphere here which actually had the American ambassador recalled in or at least summons in Iceland. Look, the President making comments about the Canadian currency, I mean look the Canadian currency could go up but that would potentially mean that the price of oil would go up in the US is heavily dependent on oil. So I think that this is just kind of bluster coming from the President in terms of Bombardier I mean there are nine major facilities in the United States employing thousands of Americans across many states that Donald Trump needs in the midterms and in the future.
So these are all just ways to try and go after a Canadian government that he still believes to be difficult. So this relationship gets more or less tenuous it seems Reggie with no real as far as we know any plans for any conversations to break this trade stalemate. Yeah, I mean the Prime Minister has already said that he would return to the negotiating table if the Americans changed their attitude. I mean given the comments from the President on social media over the weekend and in the last couple of weeks it's not likely to draw in any of the Canadians to the talking table here and it means that the trade war and that's a word that the Prime Minister has used is likely going to go on and we know that there is a significant risk here for more American retaliation against Canada's new retaliation and that is simply going to up the stakes. It's going to potentially make things more expensive on both sides of the border and it is going to keep both sides from sitting down with each other. Reggie I'm just curious to know if anybody if you've heard any discussion but obviously you're aware that 9-11 the 25th anniversary is coming up but does there been any discussion
just on like how unfortunate this all is considering how Canada really reached out its hand in 9-11 and I would suggest our bond was really strengthened after everything that happened. Yeah I mean look Americans are really hesitant to tie any other kind of issue to the issue and incident and memorial of September 11th and even in the midst of a trade war we will see Donald Trump even after the GOP convention fly to the Pentagon for the memorial there with JD Vance going to the site at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero. So I mean there really is kind of a disconnect between the two but it goes to show that even though you know Labrador or Gander rather played such a significant role in 9-11 the relationship here is strained and it's not clear that anything is ever going to be able to bring it back together in this administration or in administration's future and it's a question of what does the world look like now when two of the biggest countries who share one of the biggest open borders
are no longer friendly. So this is a large gathering you're in Dallas to cover of Republicans from across the United States but maybe as noteworthy as the size of the crowd and of course that's always a popular topic of discussion when the president is involved is the number of high ranking US officials that consider themselves Republicans that will not be attending this event. Including the Senate Majority Leader John Thune where there's been some heat between the two of them including main Senate candidate Susan Collins who Republicans are desperately trying to keep in that seat in order to keep the state red not going potentially because they understand that Donald Trump may be a little toxic to the Republican base in their home cities and their home states. This is significant. It's also significant that this is even happening in the first place. It hasn't been done in 40 years during a midterm and it's also significant because typically a midterm goes in the opposite direction of the president's party and if this is a rally to try and get the base on board it's really really late in the game to be doing that because
it doesn't leave any time to go after the independence that they're going to need in November. So it's a chance to put Donald Trump front and center in an election where he's not on the ballot anywhere. Well the news Washington reporter Reggie Jikini joining us from Dallas, Texas this morning. Reggie, thank you very much sir. Thank you. It was a case of what could have been for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Sunday evening at Mosaic Stadium in Regina. Well I receivers out all of Aaron the backfield, Neil will stay in as well. Plus Max protection to the end zone. The outbound for singer. Has he got it for the touchdown? Dorian singer. Oh my goodness. In his CFL debut we've been waiting to the 14th week of the season. The guy who popped in training camp. The guy who's looked amazing in practice. The catch the foot down the ball away from the defender and the bombers are a convert
away from over time in the Labor Day Classic. Of course Sergio Castillo stepped up made that point after attempt and sent the game to overtime. Recreary receiver Dorian singer with that last second touchdown which set up over time in the Labor Day Classic. Unfortunately for the thousands dressed in blue and gold in the gap. That's Saskatchewan in case you're unfamiliar with that reference. The riders found the end zone in overtime. The bombers did not. Legendary broadcaster, former and longtime voice of the blue bombers. And I must point out a native of Saskatchewan joins us now. Morning Bob. Hey I don't apologize. Good morning Greg for my Saskatchewan roots. But people should know and I think they do that I am firmly entrenched. Winnipegger and Manitoba and have been for 50 years and a pox on the riders. How about that? Very good. Just want to make sure. You know I revere you and honor your legacy and so I didn't want to say anything untoward
to my friend and idol knuckles are erving. So I apologize Bob for reading back your own work to you. But this is from your ex account from after the game. Another Winnipeg Saskatchewan Labor Day Thriller. Riders full value for the 3226 OT win. They won the line of scrimmage. 463 total yards to 307 for the bombers. Riders blitz effectively. Winnipeg almost never blitz making it easy for Trevor Harris to throw for 362. Hard to watch that rush three or four and then drop eight or nine. Despite the battle back to tie the game it was mostly a disappointing performance by the bombers knuckles after they played so well in their previous game versus Montreal. Yeah Greg the bombers find themselves now on the wrong side of that final line between winning and losing the game time drive in Regina was remarkable to move the ball almost
80 yards in less than 40 seconds is really incredible. And of course the touchdown pass to singer thrilling end at the tie it up and send it in overtime. But right now the bombers are just not Michael Shay said it after the game. We just weren't right he likes to use that word a lot. He's talking about execution and assignments and all the rest of the say we just weren't right often enough. And the same could be said for the Edmonton loss two weeks ago where they lost it in the last second we just weren't right and this is what they're facing right now and you've got a team of a bunch of the chorus still a bunch of veterans. Clara's Willie Kyrie Wilson Stanley Brad Pattenew felt radio over there I could go on it on who are really getting frustrated and I think angry over the fact that things aren't going their way now the way they used to and why is that is it's simply because they don't make the right play at the right time or is it because they are what they are which is a six and sixteen that doesn't have quite what it takes to get across onto the right
side of the fine line between winning and losing and you know is that colorist at a post game scrum interview that I saw on TV and I have never seen him do an interview like that where he gave one word answers basically and he was fuming you could see a frustration is one thing but you could see the anger in his short answers about what had just happened and so you know I think this is getting to him and some of the other players on the team who still in their minds feel they are a top tier team but can't quite go out and prove it the way they have in the past so that's where they stand right now there's six and six you know they're just on the wrong side of that fine line between winning and losing and we'll see how they respond when Saskatchewan comes here on Saturday. And what's your take on you know the fact that a lot of people are up in arms about how offensive coordinator Tommy Kundell did not use Brady Olivera on Sunday.
Well whenever Brady is sort of held in check as he was by the riders people throw that out breath that he you know they didn't use him often enough Saskatchewan just took him away at nine carries for 28 yards they shut him down. I didn't have a problem I haven't earlier games with their usage of Olivera but they didn't have on Sunday I thought they did what they could with Brady Olivera but they could not establish the run and then my comments on Twitter the bombers lost a line of scrimmage they couldn't get the push that you need to open holes for Brady Olivera and so if you can't do that you can't keep beating a dead or if you've got to go another route. Saskatchewan has a tremendous defensive line and the bombers just weren't able to to win that battle on Sunday not consistently anyway we'll see if it turns around on Saturday but now I had no issue with the use of Brady Olivera and this came in the check downs that they used them on and the quick passes from colorist to Brady when he sort of flared
out of the backfield they didn't appear to be there to me Saskatchewan made Olivera a mark man and did a very nice job of shutting him down or he was keeping him in check. I know that some teams will spy a quarterback they call it if they have particularly strong running skills Brady Olivera perhaps was the victim of being spied on Sunday night bomb. Yeah I think so for sure you know I mean going into the game the riders would say on defense the first thing we have to do it every team that plays Winnipeg says this we have to take Brady Olivera away well see you're said and done but the riders made it a priority to not just shut down Winnipeg's running game but to keep an eye on Brady again when he's flared out of the backfield and so you know I think that's where Saskatchewan won another one of the many battles that are in a game now the bombers can turn that around on Saturday we see this from week to week as well as they played against Montreal and one of the things they did against Montreal I
thought that was so impressive is they blitzed more than normal and they had Eloise quarterback Davis Alexander really off his game and unsettled but they hardly ever blitzed and when I say blitz I'm talking about sending five or six right they hardly ever did that and I'd have to go over all the game tapancy if they even did it at all but Trevor Harris had all night to throw the ball and he threw for 363 yards this is the philosophy the bombers use undefense and have for the last two or three years and it served them well for the most part but one of the big differences in the game Sunday was the pressure Saskatchewan had lots of pressure they had four five six man pressure on many plays and Zach Collaris was under duress a lot whereas Trevor Harris all night to throw the winning drive versus Saskatchewan in overtime sort of typified for me the game they just Trevor Harris just being being being down the field touchdown no problem and the bombers got the ball back and Zach Collaris again was under pressure and they just didn't have any answers for the writers
pressure really quick here Bob I sent you a video of a family that was sitting in front of my brother and I at the game they're in the top row of the one corner of the stadium mom dad two little adorable little guys we got to talk them a little bit I'm there with my brother so it's sort of hitting both of us a little bit differently and they're celebrating the rough writers win and it brought a tear to my eye because it exemplifies the the CFL the family aspect of attending a game with you know with your kids and with your family and that game on Sunday the Liberty Classic exemplifies all that's right with the CFL it sure does and I couldn't agree more with you Greg and you see a lot of that here in Winnipeg where families are there you know parents take their kids to the game even if they're two or three years old or babies you see babies in the crowd yeah I think that's what it's all about and these two franchises Saskatchewan and Winnipeg
demonstrate that better than any in the Canadian football league and the rivalry is intense between the teams it's more of a fun rivalry between the fans you know that G-Mac has you've been there many times and and I have to and it never gets ugly or violent at least it rarely has over the years and it's it's just a wonderful thing I think for those of us who love the world of sports I'm looking forward to Saturday because the Badger Bulls going to be insane the fans here will be going nuts and you've got in the West you got Edmonton nine and three Saskatchewan eight and four and then you got BC and Winnipeg six and six Calgary five and seven this is going to be a fantastic finish to the season and if the bombers are going to kind of get where they want to go boys Saturdays rematch with the riders is a very big game Bob Irving will leave it there thank you very much sir we appreciate it all right guys have a great week eight forty eight with Macling and McGarry and by the way we've got a coaches show tonight right Macling bicochet Derek Taylor one of our listeners wanted me or us to ask Bob about you know the bombers not going for two and going for the win
instead of kicking the convert and going to overtime micochet would never do that but don't don't think that Derek Taylor won't ask him on the coaches show a boat that and if an even crossed is bind the percentages would actually suggest that you do it it is Macling and McGarry we got a concert announcement exciting concert announcement in a moment but speaking of excitement mr. Macling we just learned some great news from sports from sports and are sometimes co-host on the start when he's in Winnipeg our good friend Chris Trevler some exciting news from him I won't burst Tyson Rwiki's bubble Tyson will have details on some very exciting news for Chris Trevler coming up in sports at 925 in our next segment will you will check in with the union who represents Dynacare workers who are on strike this morning
and in a moment we're going to learn about what kind of chaos that storm caused for a significant big event in the city over the weekend but first Greg it's time for that concert announcement you may have guessed by the music playing in the background the artist featured Jan Arden and her holiday orchestra coming to Winnipeg and performing sataniel concert hall December 8th you can beat the box office right here on cgob this week with the start for your chance to win tickets tickets go on sale Monday September 14th at noon but we will pick our winner for those tickets or the tickets for destination dinner stage that's dirty dancing a bit later this hour in the meantime Greg Macling I hadn't even fought it all about what was happening in the city Sunday evening when that rain came down but uh boy oh boy I feel terrible for anybody who's trying to do something outside I got this text from our friend uh who's our next guest who says hey guys
if you are going to talk about the weather this morning I've got some stories from taste of Manitoba on Sunday night Sean Jeffrey CEO of the Manitoba Restaurant Association joins us now the two words you used in conjunction Sean were absolute carnage my interest is peaked and I hope everyone is safe in the aftermath yeah you know at first of all uh yeah thanks guys it was uh wow and you know let's let's just uh let's do a throw a positive spin on this to start Manitobans it was pouring here so yes we received a full full complement to that weather on Sunday at Fortebroldshire pretty much right in the middle of dinner so we had roughly about 400 people inside uh taste of Manitoba at the time when that started and it started so fast that uh we kind of had a little bit of a panic mode but thank god we have a really great uh plan in place and safety plan that we were able to get people to safety boat that being said we uh it was definitely interesting because the the fort is an amazing facility but it floods really quick and we just
found out out this weekend so uh we had an entirely flooded facility uh and we actually lost about 20% of our outdoor fender village tents were destroyed um relocated uh pretty much across the bark so um but during this entire time uh the bomber game is on and we you know we lost we lost the internet so we were able to kind of get that on using cell phones and stuff but it's just full regardless of the fact that the fort was flooding and the staff and everyone were running our L.A.C.F everyone was still intrigued and having fun inside the bomber game we are a wily bunch here in Manitoba how about uh the the cooking infrastructure like you say that some of the tents were lost but did any of the restaurants lose any of their equipment funny enough no so the vendor village because it's in a wide open area in what your park it tends to feel the biggest brunt of it and it was the part that flooded the quick the quickest so uh inside the fort because of the buildings inside the the actual fort itself that shields on a lot of the wind
but yeah we lost a couple tents inside the fort we had some equipment but everything's outdoor electrical and that was the biggest challenge we lost all electricity through because we we tied into electrical systems throughout the actual park and because electricity didn't play well water we lost all electricity so yeah we had teams out running trying to hook up electricity to keep coolers running but it was definite you know absolute mayhem um for about an hour and a half and we had to shut down early that day which was pretty detrimental to pretty busy evening that we would normally had but with that being said the amount of Manitoba the hundreds of Manitoba that stood under 10 and still bought food in the middle of a rainstorm until we had to shut down you know i just want to send a quick thank you to Manitoba for supporting Taste of Manitoba this weekend with the weather the way it was we see we saw very close if not more people come to Taste of Manitoba over this weekend that we saw last year with five days of sun and i included the rain and i just blows my mind were you able to get back on track yesterday or did that what went down sunday
takes some of the vendors out of out of business it did took a couple out but in fort you know good enough i had some pretty spectacular staff and volunteers that came in extremely early we're all here by 5.30 in the morning cleaning up and getting everything ready and making sure and then you know the weather that we're supposed to hit us on Monday morning actually kind of went a little bit late so we were able to really get a good day yesterday we were really busy till about four o'clock until it started raining again so you know we had a little bit of a saber there mother nature played well with us but again we have to really throw the credibility out to Manitoba the amount of Manitoba that came out in this Thursday and the Sunday and the Monday weather was you know it's mind blowing like i'm so proud to be a Manitoba today because we we just you know there's some people in the in some of our western provinces when i was growing up in dc that would hide when it was raining um we came out and we showed how you know how strong Manitoba is and i just want to say thank you to everybody that gave the weather and and supported our industry here Sean Jeffrey CEO
Manitoba Restaurant Food Services Association uh thanks for joining us and thanks for the reminder like hey we you know the rain fell on us pretty hard because i had completely i was just in my i was in my hidey hole hiding from the rain and wasn't thinking about what was what else was going on out there so glad you guys managed to make a go of it nonetheless yeah i appreciate it guys and thanks so much again thank you Manitoba for supporting this festival scene extra all right Sean Jeffrey joining us live on 680 cjlb back in yamagiri is sarah McCarthy has been telling you in global news the people who do your blood work are officially off the job as the Manitoba Association of Healthcare Professionals says 350 dinar care lab workers at 22 centers in the province are striking the Manitoba government has filed an application with the provinces later board to deem them essential workers Jason link letter is a president of the Manitoba Association of Healthcare Professionals and joins us now Jason good morning we appreciate you taking the time on this busy day i know that
there are thousands of Manitobans who wish this hadn't come to fruition including your members i suspect absolutely this absolutely could have been avoided and right now our members are on strike as of 6am and they started picketing at 8am how far apart do you remain significantly like not even remotely close and really the pressure that should have been there at the bargaining table wasn't wasn't there and it is because dinar care fully expected government to step in like they did which is why they haven't budgeted at the bargaining table and quite frankly dinar care has done nothing to avoid this strike it's their pressure to get government to give them the money to make this contract happen because dinar care is 100% funded by the Manitoba government and that includes the profits that go to their shareholders
what about funding increases for the services they provide or they're scheduled to predetermined agreed to increases for those services or if say there are more services provided than anticipated are there opportunities for dinar care to go back to the government just thinking about how a contract might work out loud Jason certainly and last week we released information on the previous government dinar care contract that showed they got 12 million dollars extra from government after the last round of negotiations which is also five times what are members got in the last eight years out of a dinar care and the NDP government has signed a new five year contract with them last year and so government is subsidizing dinar care's profits and allowing them to exploit Manitoba workers they should show us and the public that contract that they have with dinar care what's the disparity between what your members make at a dinar care
clinic to I'm assuming you have members that are in publicly funded clinics at hospitals and such Jason forgive me if I don't know that yes for sure we represent both public and dinar care as well so dinar care has the contract for community lab services and the shared health has the contract with us for public and how how how different are those wages potentially let me do 50 percent depending on like the the occupational group like 20 to 50 percent difference and why why is there such a that's a big gap it is a huge gap and it is it is a vehicle that government uses to try and save money and it is the wrong approach on multiple levels because there are private corporations they need to make profit if they're not making profit they have to exist and concurrently government is able to offload that responsibility of depressed
wages onto dinar care instead of taking responsibility for something that they 100 percent fund including reconciliation payments after the fact obviously because that is what we saw has there been any conversation whatsoever of maybe repatriating these jobs if I'm using the correct term here and making these once again fall under the the public scope versus you know using dinar care in in this in this instance and for the service so you know as far as I'm aware no serious conversations has happened around that I know that there is a lot of physicians who have contacted me throughout this process that really feel like that should be the case it's not up to me to make that decision that's a government decision to make but what I can say is lab corps who is the American company that owns dinar care in Alberta opened up a company called Dino Life and signed I believe it was a 15 year contract and three months into that contract
they walked away from it and that needed to get ruled back to government so one of the things that is a point that we're trying to make is that if a company like dinar care can give two weeks notice and leave the province then how is it that we can give five or six months notice of this happening and we're forced back to work by government Jason Lincoln and president of the Manitoba Association of healthcare professionals we have to leave it there but we do thank you for joining us this morning on what surely has to be a busy day for you we appreciate this this coming Thursday is a very important day for millions across the globe one in three Manitobans are impacted by mental health challenges in Canada 30% of all sick leave is related to mental health it is estimated that worldwide more than 700,000 people will take
their own life in a given year on Thursday September 10th the world recognizes world suicide prevention day joining us this morning we have three guests to discuss this will Monique Leveque Ferro is director of development for pure connections Manitoba hello there Monique I Greg and Bracket to hear you Adam Milne is director of peer services with peer connections hello there Adam good morning and Abby Stetcher-Bloyvin of living canvas tattoo is here with us as well hi Abby hi everybody so Adam let's start with you in your opinion why is Thursday such an important day for so many people suicide becomes the answer to a hopeless situation it means choosing like an end to everything because it seems more reasonable than recovering from what they're feeling are feeling something different and I think so much of that is the belief that no one
else can understand what's happening and that you feel alone in it no matter how many people are around you and days like worlds whose I prevention day and the project semi-colon it shows people that they're not by themselves but there's a lot of people who are going through similar things or have gone through similar things and have found something after that and I think that's why it's really important Adam we've been having this discussion with you for for a decade or more and the construct of services has changed over the years thanks to your advocacy or at least in part to some of your advocacy and I will call it demand for peer services for those that are unfamiliar with what peer connections manatoba does can you bring us inside a little bit absolutely so peer support are people with lived experience lived and living experience meaning they've gone through a lot of the challenges that they're talking about their individuals and family members who can speak to others from that position of of knowing what it's like to walk that road
for peer support it's available between Thompson and Winkler and Manatoba either in person or by phone and what really makes a difference is that it's an opportunity to talk to somebody who's not there to give you medical advice not there to tell you how you can fix it they're there so that you can talk about what's wrong and what you want for a better life. And Monique we wanted to ask you if somebody wants to make a donation to peer connections manatoba to help your organization do the work it does how do they do it and where did the funds go? So where they go to donate online as go to peerconnectionsmb.ca what's really important from now until October 10th is if they pick the drop down project semi colon 2026 Manatoba Blue Cross will be matching all donations up to $3,500 so you can do that online you can also call our office if you prefer 7861616 and again it's all
going to an amazing cause. So there are different ways to make a statement different ways to show solidarity with this cause and Abby we know that for a minimum $30 donation to peer connections manatoba on Thursday donors can can can get a semi colon tattoo talk about the symbolism of that tattoo and tell us why you're involved in that fashion. Well it's yeah it's you know the grammar of a semi colon it's it's a to to like a continuation of the sentence right so it's it's almost a mark that represents continuing like like moving on like you could have ended it with a period but you didn't you know or you know somebody that could have ended it with a period but they didn't so they choose the semi colon to move on and I've personally been affected by it I've lost a really close girlfriend of mine and she's one of my best friends and I've lost two of my brothers actually
from suicide as well so it's personally affected me quite quite hard over my life so even for me I wear semi colon tattoo just to remind me about about them and their their struggles and what they went through. So what then on September 10th you're doing something special to to help mark the day and to raise money what are you doing at your at your tattoo business? We are for sure so we have four artists that we're all donating our time to do semi colon tattoos and we have different designs that we put up on our on our Instagram at living canvas tattoo and we're just trying to do as many tattoos as we can for as many people that come in and be there and listen and be a support and help people through it and help support peer connections Manitoba because we totally stand behind what they do. Adam talk about the power of peer connections, peer supports and the ability to connect with people on a different level versus you know
the way you might connect with your counselor or a triage nurse or or somebody in the medical field someone that feels official somehow peer support to me that feels like something that that a lot of people could get down with. A lot of people when something happens they think about the person in their life who has something similar to what they've gone through and they find that person have that conversation. When you're talking about mental health you're talking about any health sometimes that person doesn't have all the information or doesn't they have a lot of bias. I mean they care about you they want what's best for you and they come with that opinion of what's best for you. When you talk to a peer supporter it's someone who understands who can have a conversation from the position of just being there with you and they're not there to fix it. You still access a doctor you can still access a counselor but a peer supporter is that person that lets you explore what it is you want your life to be and can share stories from the same way you would share it
with somebody else that you were just looking to connect with. It's kind of a bridge between the two things the people in your life the clinical supports in your life and it fills that gap about someone who understands and also is a trained professional who can support you through whatever it is you happen to be going through. Adam do you think that people because I'm sure there are a lot of people who have contemplated suicide in their lives and have never told anybody about it. Do you think that people who even just think about it feel guilty or ashamed for even allowing that to enter their mind? I think for some that is very likely true I think that also depending on how you were brought up culturally age wise I know when I was younger it was looked at as a sign of weakness like this is something that you couldn't control that you weren't strong enough to think differently and to me that's the wrong way to look at anything. Our thoughts
and our feelings are things that happen and they get worse when we ignore them and they get better when we talk to somebody about it or we explore it or we find a way to process through it and that's how we don't just lock it away somewhere. How do we convey that? How do we convey the fact that there is help out there Adam that there is support there are supports in many fashions very offered very differently how do we convey to people that are in that place that let suicide is not the answer? There's always more ways to connect with a person. There are new services and new programs coming up every month and every year in different places throughout Winnipeg and Manitoba and Canada in the world and nobody needs to be alone in what they're dealing with. If you need to talk to somebody here support is a free service available to anyone in Manitoba
from peer connections Manitoba where you can call you can email you can walk in our door here you can visit a variety of clinical centers you can find all the places we work on our website. The biggest challenge is recognizing that you don't need to be alone in these thoughts and in these feelings and that exploring them makes it better not exploring them makes you weaker. Winnipeg before we let you go how do we get in touch with peer connections? Peer Connections and B dot c a and if I could add one comment to what Adam said is we've opened up our doors on Saturdays for quick access support and I bumped into someone who said that their daughter while she did not come in on a Saturday just knowing that someone was there that could listen that understood made all the difference so don't let your mental health go to the back burner put her on the front burner and take care of your mental health because that makes us all better. All right and Abby before we let you go living canvas tattoo for those who are
unfamiliar where do they find it? Super easy we are on St James pretty close to the Costco business center and it's 1328 St James Street. At what time will the doors open to start? You're starting 10 a.m. and we're going to 6 p.m. and if there's more people we will stay and we'll do as much as we can do. All right Abby Stetcher Boivin of Living Canvas tattoo thank you very much as well as many thanks to Monique Leveque Faroe director of development for pure connections Manitoba and to Adam Melm who is the director of pure services with pure connections Adam thank you very much. Thank you once again world suicide prevention day is coming up on Thursday. One more time pure connections mb.ca and of course anywhere in Canada 24 hours a day seven days a week you can also call 988 if you need assistance call them there is help out there for you.
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