Thursday May 17 2012 – Ticket(gate)-taking NDP Ministers in conflict with Criminal Code? plus: Launch of City Circus on Shaw TV

Posted on May 17, 2012

We ask the questions the mainstream media does not in this podcast, including:

- What does the Criminal Code statutes say under “Corruption and Disobedience” about bribery of judicial officers (including members of a legislature of a province) and frauds on the government;

- How does the concept of mens rea, in this case the state of mind of the recipients or donors of Winnipeg Jets tickets, impact the atempts of Premier Greg Selinger to blow off this scandal?

- Selinger’s caution last week “They shouldn’t take them where they might be a perceived conflict of interest” places Advanced Education Minister Erin Selby smack in the middle of her own scandal with Red River College, as exposed by Graham Hnatiuk here – http://progressivewinnipeg.blogspot.ca/2012/05/erin-selby-ignores-ethics-complaints.html

“With the detailed complaints Selby received, the important need for a
non-College investigation would be lost on nobody, as the multiple conflicts of
interest and misconduct of College officials were astounding. To let them
investigate themselves would be akin to a Star Chamber.”

Hnatiuk recounts how Selby summarily dismissed not 1, not 2, but THREE people with detailed ethics complaints about various RRC executives’ and staffs’ actions in the Kick-FM scandal who had been ignored by President Stephanie Forsyth; mere months later, Forsyth handed a scarce Jets-Rangers ticket to the Minister, a former Cre-Comm grad  (thanks to an alert reader for the correction, she went to Concordia) who regulates the College and provides the tax money the College funnels to the debt-ridden campus radio station.

Our diagnosis of Finance Minister Stan Struthers’ amnesia, Energy Minister Dave Chomiak’s ‘apology flu’, and 4 Jets tickets slipping out of  Healthy Living Minister Jim Rondeau hands (that he got from the Liquor Commission)  into the mitts of Conservation Minister Gord Mackintosh, all included in today’s episode.

And wait till you hear the dismissive headlines we collected by following the Free Press that served to try to distract the readers from the serious ethical questions now swirling around the NDP government.

The alternative media balance to that kind of MSM reporting can be found online

here   Jets Ticket Scandal: It started with an innocent question back in March 

and here  Premier Greg Selinger isn’t talking about his free Jets ticket 

and here   The lazy press lets Selinger and Struthers get away with ticketgate cover-up

PLUS: A brief roundup of who got Jets tickets at City hall – 5 members of EPC and counting, for starters – and ask the question, Did Sam Katz jump the shark, when he floated the idea of Izzy Asper Park? Wait till you hear what we think Izzy would have wanted for a park across from the Human Rights Museum.

 

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Last Tuesday, we debuted a 13 week series on Shaw TV called City Circus: Transparency and Accountability in Winnipeg Politics.

This is Citizen Journalism on Winnipeg TV, produced by people who have done it, taught it and promoted it for 5 years without soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants that should be going to truly charitable/community causes.

TO SEE EPISODE ONE, CLICK HERE:

http://tgcts.com/city-circus

Here are the air days/times of City Circus on Shaw TV channel 9:

Tuesdays 9:30pm (new show)

Wednesdays 4:30am

Thursdays 1:30am; 9:30pm

Saturdays 4:30am; 10:30pm

Sundays 3:00am; 1:30pm
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from the emailbag about City Circus:
Exciting stuff!  Congratulations.  If I was in Winnipeg, I would love to help out.  Here in Dauphin I’ve gotten a taste for asking politicians the tough questions (thanks to your training).  Best wishes, and thanks for continuing to provide the alternative voice our society so desperately needs.
Cade
Marty I am so happy for you and for all what you’ve done for our city and for you now to get a chance with Shaw. I cannot wait until I hear your first show and I will continue to be a avid follower great job you kick gas buddy
Lance  
Congrats Marty. You were away to long. Can’t even imagine the whooping the NDP would have got on Ticketgate if you were on a month ago.
Phil Walding
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