Firefighters battled six vacant building fires in a three-hour span on Tuesday. Highlights Winnipeg’s steady erosion under Mayor Gillingham’s resistance to change tactics and inability to deliver meaningful outcomes for Winnipeggers.
Winnipeg’s vacant houses have long been identified as a growing problem. “For too long, there are too many properties that seem to be chronically neglected or derelict year after year, and it’s really in many ways unfair to the area property owners who take good care and pride in maintaining their property,” said then Councillor Scott Gillingham in 2019.
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