Welcome to Winnipeg, racism capital of racist Canada

Maclean’s magazine, that Toronto bastion of smug middle-class superiority, has had a team of investigative journos do their homework, and by golly, if they didn’t figure out that Winnipeg is the most racist city in all of Canada!

Well, that sure is a kick in the nuts for the Metis mayor and the Black police chief, ain’t it?

I don’t want to diss Maclean’s. After all, that’s one of the few print platforms in Canada that still pays actual writers with cheques that don’t bounce. Most everything else you read in Canada’s print media is written by unpaid interns who are grateful for the McDonalds gift certificates they take home.

But I think what’s driving this hate-Winnipeg campaign is museum envy.

That’s right; museum envy. Nobody has been more sceptical than the think-tank here at Fallling Downs about the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. We were from the very beginning taken aback by the droll ironies that inevitably resonate when you park such an edifice in a city with huge issues around racism and poverty.

In the first place, there’s something odious about putting human rights in a museum.

But this is not the place for that, so I’ll just point out that the Asper’s were, in spite of everything else, proud ‘Peggers, and they wanted their baby in Winnipeg, not in Toronto or Ottawa.

And that’s what has given rise to the museum envy emanating from the eastern elites. It galls those people no end to see such a monument in what they consider a prairie hick-town!

As for the nuts and bolts of the article, nah, I don’t buy it for a minute. Is there a race problem in Winnipeg? Absolutely! Is Winnipeg’s race problem worse than Regina’s or Saskatoon’s or Edmonton’s or Calgary’s or a thousand towns and cities across this great land that we stole from those people?

Absolutely not!