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Remember when in June 2024 there was an HR audit at city hall that reported that 67 per cent of the city's workers had not completed a formal job performance assessment and J Lukes said it was "just earth-shattering," and we never heard about it again? Let's add a new ill defined department.

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Yeah, technically that is a different type of construction, but the point stands, Gillingham has been a horrible mayor. His list of failures is long and his accomplishments are few.

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MHCA Members Breakfast Features Conversation with Mayor Gillingham – Manitoba Heavy Construction Association

In case there was any doubt about who Gillingham works for during election season. He works for the Manitoba Heavy Construction Association, not for the people of Winnipeg. mhca.mb.ca/mhca-news/mh...

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He works for the Manitoba Heavy Construction Association, not for the people of Winnipeg.

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Yes. That is the reason ST makes more sense. Set the clock for our region accurately and then solve the problem school start times of flexibility of work hours for families as the actual problem that needs to be solved.

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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The whole point of daylight “savings” is that the summer months have a surplus of morning daylight that can be moved to the evening to reduce lighting costs. But the winter months have a shortage of daylight in the morning already, so this is just spending further into debt, with lives on the line.

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Permanent standard time would have been the correct decision. Really the people debating for DST are debating the merits of flexible work hours or 9-5 vs 8-4 workdays. Currently only about 8% of Canadians work within a strict 9-5 pattern and that number is falling.

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Finally, at city hall they measure the success of the WPS based on the number of calls they responded to. (And allocate funds accordingly) As if responding to more calls is good. We are solving for the wrong metric. At this point our money is better spent on reducing the need for calls.

Of course, we should consider the police can't solve the underlying issues we are experiencing in downtown Winnipeg. (And across the city) Poverty, homelessness, access to mental health support, and addictions. Police are not the right tool to solve these problems.

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Interestingly we have one of the highest rates of spending on police among large cities in Canada, but we have a below average number of police per resident when compared to those cities.

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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

At what point do conservative voters start asking if we are getting enough value for the hundreds of millions of dollars we are spending on the WPS each year?

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“Study after study, in every way, shows circadian rhythm would be improved by [permanent Standard Time], and it would benefit health outcomes, across the board, in every level.” —California Assemblyman Joe Patterson (R), in support of SCR-7 👏 Thank you!

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here is the 3D Gaussian Splat model I've been working on... superspl.at/scene/d29a49b7

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Big Bee - SuperSplat

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Next I want to try a much smaller specimen. Maybe an ant or something in that range.

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Creating a 3D Gaussian Splat model of a bee specimen on 226 images. This is really the first full workflow test run using the multi background triangulation matte process that removes backgrounds and sensor dust. My process combines 27000+ source images into 226 focus stacks with alpha channels.

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bringing our kids into our agenda? If the agenda doesn't include a future for our kids, what are we even doing?

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm really hoping we get fresh and more progressive thinkers at city hall this fall. Nobody can deny that the status quo approaches of Winnipeg career politicians has failed to create a thriving city.

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I also don't understand how the WSD doesn't see this practice as a massive legal liability. My mom was a principal in Ontario and when she first saw this in Winnipeg she immediately said, there is no way their board would allow it given the risks.

Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Views from the ViaRail Canadian between Armstrong and Allanwater Bridge Ontario. This is Thunder Bay wildfire 36. Which is actually a few fires that merged. 3012 square kilometres burned and still not under control.

Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Also having students as traffic patrols is absurd. We are shifting the risk and responsibility on to the kids because we didn't want to inconvenience drivers.

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Making macro focus stacks with an alpha channel that was created using multi background triangulation matting. Hopefully this will improve my 3D Gaussian splat model creation. #macrophotography #entomology #3DGS

Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just a reminder that two years ago there was a report at Winnipeg City Hall that most managers had no record of a performance assessment and many had no job description. All the members of the EPC were shocked and appalled, and we never heard about it again. #wpgpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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'Earth-shattering' report finds gaps in City of Winnipeg workforce reviews, accountability | CBC News

The City of Winnipeg has released what one councillor called an "earth-shattering" report on workforce management that found the city lacks adequate processes for reviewing staff performance and measu...

Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

WestJet should pay its employees starting when they arrive at the airport for work. Anything less is wage theft. The government should be stepping in and correcting these unfair practices.

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I made these mosaics with an app I've been building. My plan is to eventually draw these designs onto paper using a plotter. #penplotterart #mosaicart #penplotter #algorithmicdrawing

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Instead of spending billions hundreds of billions on an oil pipeline that can only carry one product in one direction, (only while oil is valuable) we should be twinning the two main CP and CN lines from coast to coast so freight and passenger services can move freely in both directions.

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Boarding the #viarail Canadian on Canada day feels appropriate. #canada

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

No man, that was sarcasm. Of course the parking spaces are negligible. In my city we can't get bike lanes, bus lanes, pedestrian corridors without business going nuts about a few parking spots.

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Just think how many parking spaces those local businesses had to lose, just so a few hundred pedestrians a day could hang around there.

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Along with her partner in crime the Mayor, Failed to meet the modest roadway safety strategic plan of 20% reduction in roadway deaths and serious injuries, (the rate actually increased by 7.5%), failed to reduce raw sewage outflows, failed to develop a plan to meet transit accessibly laws.

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Tim Fennell @timfennell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"I want to go out on a high note of doing good work," In the last term Lukes voted to reduce funding for roadway safety, voted to reduce funding for new bus acquisitions, voted to reduce the scale of the new bus garage, delayed reduced speeds, oversaw a failed launch of the new transit system...

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It can, but we need more emissions free capacity. Currently our government is planning to build a new gas generating plant to meet demands. Of course I don't support that route. We should be leaning into wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear. Most of our grid is already powered with hydro.

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I'm specifically talking about the Manitoba energy grid which our provincial government controls. Even in the short term we have agency over how energy is produced inside our province, we can't as easily control imported fuels.

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You can trace if the electricity is green if the entire grid is green. Which could be the case in Manitoba if they don't build a new gas plant and close down remaining gas plants.

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The problem with hydrogen is that hydrogen is hydrogen. Hydrogen isolated using green energy is exactly chemically identical to all other hydrogen. So it becomes difficult, when trading internationally, if the hydrogen is actually clean.

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But when there is a far cheaper non-green alternative, when you scale it up, the cheaper option tends to win over the green option.

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So in my view, alternative fuels that you plan to burn should be used only for things like jets and rockets where batteries charged with emissions from power are simply not viable.

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