This weekend E and I visited the Exchange District in Winnipeg. It was Canada Day, the Winnipeg Jazz Festival was going strong, and there were scores of people filling the streets and market square. But people were not the only ones filling the streets of the Exchange District. A vile stench permeated the streets. The stench of rotting garbage.
As we walked along the streets of this otherwise beautiful historical district, we passed piles of overflowing garbage bags waiting for streetside pick up. How strange that the city had recently done away with the BFI bins. Every other less touristy, less scenic, business district has the bins.
And on a weekend when the population of pedestrians is at its peak for this neighborhood, why would the city of Winnipeg fail to arrange for garbage pick up. Is it possible that the city of Winnipeg is trying to rid itself of those pesky tourists? Does the city of Winnipeg feel that since the residents of this place have to endure the frigid cold, they need to devise some kind of testing for tourists as well?
To me it seems like ridiculously bad business practice, but who am I to question the grand scheme of our esteemed mayors office and his city council.
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