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Winnipeg’s population has nearly doubled since the 1970s. Fire department call volumes have skyrocketed. Yet today, the city fields fewer firefighters and fewer fire trucks than it did fifty years ago. Instead of fixing the problem, City Hall continues to patch the growing cracks with overtime cheques, withdrawals from the Fiscal Stabilization Reserve (FSR), and press releases claiming “efficiency.”
Since 2018, Winnipeg has spent $58 million in firefighter overtime in a failed attempt to keep trucks in service. That is not fiscal management — it’s a structural failure.
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