Joe Curnow
@learnsolidarity.bsky.social
organizing and researching to get funding in and cops out of libraries and public spaces
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A 10-year-old boy needed seven stitches and suffered a chipped tooth after a vehicle collided with his bike and sent him flying at a South Osborne intersection.
Close call sparks push for better bike safety
Mother calls for bike lane installation and new green signal after son struck by car
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
A 10-year-old boy needed seven stitches and suffered a chipped tooth after a vehicle collided with his bike and sent him flying at a South Osborne intersection.
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WHO IS THIS CITY FOR?
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
WHO IS THIS CITY FOR?
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This shouldn’t happen. We don’t have to accept it.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This shouldn’t happen. We don’t have to accept it.
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The City has known for years that the library needs safer infrastructure on the 4th floor. They know Community Connections and safety hosts have a proven record of improved safety and deescalation. They are consciously withholding funding for adequate maintenance and staffing of the library.
The Millennium Library’s fourth floor was shuttered indefinitely Thursday as civic officials again consider safety improvements at the downtown facility.
Millennium Library closes top floor in light of recent suicide jump, threat of another
Temporary measure in effect while civic officials develop safety plan; union considering legal action against city
www.winnipegfreepress.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The City has known for years that the library needs safer infrastructure on the 4th floor. They know Community Connections and safety hosts have a proven record of improved safety and deescalation. They are consciously withholding funding for adequate maintenance and staffing of the library.
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This is Scott Gillingham's fault, and councillors, press, and residents need to treat it like it's his fault. He let DCSP walk on a motion to take over Connections and then let it sit inaccessible. He let redesign plans go unfunded. We deserve a safe accessible library for everyone. He doesn't care.
August 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This is Scott Gillingham's fault, and councillors, press, and residents need to treat it like it's his fault. He let DCSP walk on a motion to take over Connections and then let it sit inaccessible. He let redesign plans go unfunded. We deserve a safe accessible library for everyone. He doesn't care.
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If Janice Lukes or Scott Gillingham had wanted to make Wellington Cres safe, they clearly could have done so. This is a good program! These changes are good ones! But they do not care about our lives or those of our loved ones.
July 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
If Janice Lukes or Scott Gillingham had wanted to make Wellington Cres safe, they clearly could have done so. This is a good program! These changes are good ones! But they do not care about our lives or those of our loved ones.
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Every neighborhood deserves safer streets, except where someone has already died.
Gillingham and Lukes are first class weasels!
Gillingham and Lukes are first class weasels!
July 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Every neighborhood deserves safer streets, except where someone has already died.
Gillingham and Lukes are first class weasels!
Gillingham and Lukes are first class weasels!
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Hey #Winnipeg
This 🧵 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Mayor Gillingham and (most of) @cityofwinnipeg.bsky.social council don't care about the safety of active transportation users.
This 🧵 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Mayor Gillingham and (most of) @cityofwinnipeg.bsky.social council don't care about the safety of active transportation users.
July 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hey #Winnipeg
This 🧵 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Mayor Gillingham and (most of) @cityofwinnipeg.bsky.social council don't care about the safety of active transportation users.
This 🧵 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Mayor Gillingham and (most of) @cityofwinnipeg.bsky.social council don't care about the safety of active transportation users.
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Organizing really is mostly follow up. Oomph
July 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Organizing really is mostly follow up. Oomph
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Vigilante bike lane on Wellington Crescent. Love it.
June 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Vigilante bike lane on Wellington Crescent. Love it.
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Wendy, Rob’s widow, was IN THE ROOM when Janice Lukes promised this. We’re having a block party TODAY at Rob’s ghost bike to celebrate Rob. We hoped we could celebrate safe infrastructure coming in his name, too.
June 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Wendy, Rob’s widow, was IN THE ROOM when Janice Lukes promised this. We’re having a block party TODAY at Rob’s ghost bike to celebrate Rob. We hoped we could celebrate safe infrastructure coming in his name, too.
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Rob Jenner was killed by a driver one year ago TODAY. Councillor Janice Lukes hasn’t delivered on safety measures that she promised the community would be implemented THIS YEAR. And now she’s pushing back even LOOKING at the proposal into JULY.
June 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Rob Jenner was killed by a driver one year ago TODAY. Councillor Janice Lukes hasn’t delivered on safety measures that she promised the community would be implemented THIS YEAR. And now she’s pushing back even LOOKING at the proposal into JULY.
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Janice Lukes’s answer for why we can’t move faster is we don’t have the money, but she’s 100% behind billion-dollar road widening projects that are estimated to save drivers 12 seconds on their commutes, and wants us to celebrate $7m/year for active transportation, much of which is just for studies
April 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Janice Lukes’s answer for why we can’t move faster is we don’t have the money, but she’s 100% behind billion-dollar road widening projects that are estimated to save drivers 12 seconds on their commutes, and wants us to celebrate $7m/year for active transportation, much of which is just for studies
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Personally I would be embarrassed, as a city leader, to solicit praise for setting a five-year target for reducing road death that doesn’t even meet levels we experienced three years ago.
April 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Personally I would be embarrassed, as a city leader, to solicit praise for setting a five-year target for reducing road death that doesn’t even meet levels we experienced three years ago.
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She very clearly wants credit for being an advocate for active transportation without committing to build any infrastructure that will inconvenience her suburban driver constituents.
April 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
She very clearly wants credit for being an advocate for active transportation without committing to build any infrastructure that will inconvenience her suburban driver constituents.
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I'm looking forward to gathering again in a few weeks <3 Join us for collective community reflection & growing connections that can sustain our work around Queerness & Learning. I'd love to see you!
Join part 2 of our online series on Queerness & Learning hosted by the Network of the Learning Sciences in Canada. Register for our informal Reading Group on February 21st, from 12-1:30pm EST at bit.ly/NLSCQT2. Recommended readings are listed in the attached poster and registration link.
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I'm looking forward to gathering again in a few weeks <3 Join us for collective community reflection & growing connections that can sustain our work around Queerness & Learning. I'd love to see you!
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Lisa: “I don’t know if I can say this strongly enough. I am *livid* about what happened last Wednesday.” People following process carefully, and nobody know during entire day that mayor Gillingham had called DCSP and had them throw in proposal that day
January 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lisa: “I don’t know if I can say this strongly enough. I am *livid* about what happened last Wednesday.” People following process carefully, and nobody know during entire day that mayor Gillingham had called DCSP and had them throw in proposal that day
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Mayor Gillingham is the most opaque, corrupt city leader I’ve ever seen and I’ve lived in fucking Chicago.
January 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Mayor Gillingham is the most opaque, corrupt city leader I’ve ever seen and I’ve lived in fucking Chicago.
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And it was the very last fucking thing of the day, so councillors and the mayor got to ask all their rhetorical questions and then adjourn, with no follow-up rebuttal from any of the many people who spoke about funding community connections
January 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
And it was the very last fucking thing of the day, so councillors and the mayor got to ask all their rhetorical questions and then adjourn, with no follow-up rebuttal from any of the many people who spoke about funding community connections
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Goes directly against the assertions from Duncan et al that the lobby space should not be for social services, but that doesn’t matter, because this is (1) free and (2) part of removing, not serving, unhoused people.
January 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Goes directly against the assertions from Duncan et al that the lobby space should not be for social services, but that doesn’t matter, because this is (1) free and (2) part of removing, not serving, unhoused people.
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Proposal is for DCSP to take over community connections space - which is a library service space with added services to serve additional needs - and make it an office for “service connection” - but without librarians.
January 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Proposal is for DCSP to take over community connections space - which is a library service space with added services to serve additional needs - and make it an office for “service connection” - but without librarians.