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Devi Sharma
Candidate in the 2014 Old Kildonan Council Ward race.
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Councillors call for police HQ audit
Saturday, 16 November 2013
Councillors Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan) and Russ Wyatt (Transcona) have yet to decide their votes, while Coun. Justin Swandel (St. Norbert) declined to discuss his. Councillors Dan Vandal (St. Boniface), John Orlikow (River Heights-Fort Garry) and ...
A spat of historic proportions
Thursday, 07 November 2013
The vote for Devi Sharma as the first woman Speaker of Winnipeg city council was supposed to be unanimous. But three councillors who voted "No" Wednesday are being accused of playing cheap politics and tarnishing a historic moment. Coun.
AntiKatz councillors say 'no' to EPC 'yes people'
Wednesday, 06 November 2013
Orlikow said he felt the members of EPC and new speaker Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan) were chosen to be "whipping people to vote a certain way." Orlikow said Coun. Paula Havixbeck's (Charleswood-Tuxedo) claim that she was pressured to vote in the city's ...
Another councillor leaving EPC
Monday, 28 October 2013
Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan) and Grant Nordman (St. Charles): Sharma and Nordman have also tended to vote alongside Katz, but have displayed more of an independent streak. Coun. Jenny Gerbasi (Fort Rouge-East Fort Garry): Gerbasi, who served on ...
Fielding quits mayor's inner circle
Saturday, 26 October 2013
Justin Swandel, who quit EPC last fall, or promote one of three other non-EPC councillors considered friendly to the mayor: Thomas Steen (Elmwood), Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan) or council speaker Grant Nordman (St. Charles). Joining EPC at a time when ...
Lots of failing grades at Winnipeg City Hall
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Devi Sharma. REPRESENTING: Old Kildonan. Sharma continues to be one of the quieter members of council. And the only thing she did really speak up about in the past 12 months is the need to increase each councillor's personal slush fund by $40,000.
It's Cool 2Be Kind, police tell kids
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Other locations are: Boom Done Next (1-883 Notre Dame Ave.), Pembina Trails School Division (181 Henlow Bay), Winpark Dorchester Properties (585 River Ave.), Seven Oaks School Division (830 Powers St.), Coun. Devi Sharma's office (646 Leila Ave.) ...
Taxpayers billed for Harvey Smith's sign stunt
Friday, 13 September 2013
Devi Sharma opposed the motion. “Just because something garners media attention, that doesn't make it right,” she said. “I don't agree that our ward allowance can be used in this manner.” Several councillors themselves railed against the ward budget ...
CUPE ripped as golfcourse leases die
Thursday, 30 May 2013
... John Orlikow (River Heights-Fort Garry), Harvey Smith (Daniel McIntyre) and Dan Vandal (St. Boniface). In favour (seven): Mayor Sam Katz and Couns. Scott Fielding (St. James-Brooklands), Mike Pagtakhan (Point Douglas), Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan), ...
Mayor Sam Katz's bid to lease Winnipeg golf courses fails
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Those opposed were councillors Ross Eadie, Jenny Gerbasi, Paula Havixbeck, John Orlikow, Harvey Smith and Mike Pagtakhan. On leasing (two-thirds support needed): 7-8. Those in favour were Mayor Sam Katz, councillors Scott Fielding, Devi Sharma, ...
Links plan loses on scorecard
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Justin Swandel (St. Norbert), John Orlikow (River Heights-Fort Garry) and Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan). If the plan's defeat appears imminent, Katz and Wyatt have the option of withdrawing it from the floor of council next week. In 2012, widespread ...
The $40000 question: Controversy over wardbudget bump won't go away
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan) pitched the idea of increasing the amount by $50,000 to council's governance committee, which made a request for the executive policy committee to consider during their 2013 budget deliberations. Sharma, a former executive ...
A route not yet taken
Saturday, 02 March 2013
Dan Vandal (St. Boniface), Jenny Gerbasi (Fort Rouge-East Fort Garry), Brian Mayes (St. Vital) and Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan) voted in favour of the dogleg at the committee level. Manitoba Hydro opinion: The provincial Crown corporation will never sell ...
City committee approves route for second phase of rapid transit line
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
A Winnipeg city councillor also wants expanded Transit services on Sundays to accommodate the province's new Sunday shopping hours. Coun. Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan) said the Sunday bus schedule remained the same after the province expanded ...
City of Winnipeg committee orders report on trash pickup
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Devi Sharma. Mike Davidson, CUPE's local 500 president, argued an audit could determine if the city has saved money on waste collection since it decided to privatize the service in 2005. “The savings have never materialized and the contracted out ...
Grading city council: Too many Fs, not enough As, for Winnipeg politicians
Saturday, 27 October 2012
The last representative to give a self-assessment to the Sun was Devi Sharma. But Sharma, councillor for Old Kildonan, declined to do so with a letter grade. “My constituents will decide what kind of job I'm doing. It's not for me to judge,” the first ...
Live from city council
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Devi Sharma. The motion passed unanimously. Backyard hens: Coun. Harvey Smith wants the city to again report on allowing hens to be raised in city neighbourhoods, as a healthy food source. The idea has been raised in the past but never received council ...
City considers transit cops
Wednesday, 04 July 2012
As a result, the public works committee -- councillors Dan Vandal (St. Boniface), Jenny Gerbasi (Fort Rouge), Brian Mayes (St. Vital) and Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan) voted to set aside the bus-security report until October and asked transit to speak ...
Amid hubbub, $300 million in freeways approved
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan) and Paula Havixbeck (Charleswood-Tuxedo) called for the roadwork to be completed earlier to improve traffic flow to and from the CentrePort transportation hub. Sharma said the Chief Peguis Trail extension is one of the main ...
Coun. Devi Sharma will decide fate of waterpark proposal
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Devi Sharma. On Wednesday, council will debate a plan to sell the city-owned surface lot known as Parcel Four for $6 million to Alberta hotel chain Canalta, which intends to build a 250-room hotel, 50,000-square-foot water park and 450-stall parkade on ...
Waterpark decision will show world who we are
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
But there are other reasons why this water-park deal needs to be stopped Wednesday when Old Kildonan's Devi Sharma is likely to cast that deciding vote. Sharma wasn't discussing what she was thinking on Monday, but I can tell her -- as I assume her ...
Coun. Sharma may hold deciding vote on water park
Monday, 23 April 2012
Devi Sharma appears to hold the deciding vote on Winnipeg's water-park subsidy on Wednesday, as all 14 other councillors have come to a decision about their intentions. Elmwood-East Kildonan Coun. Thomas Steen said today he's leaning in favour of ...
Councillors' spending revealed
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan) paid the city $116 after her executive assistant went to Walmart and purchased the wrong model of vacuum cleaner for her constituency office on Leila Avenue. "It was a mistake. I don't want a $99 vacuum from Walmart," Sharma ...
City committee votes to rescind transit fare hike
Monday, 05 March 2012
Dan Vandal (St. Boniface), Jenny Gerbasi (Fort Rouge), Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan) and Brian Mayes (St. Vital) -- voted to rescind the proposed 20-cent hike. Gerbasi, Mayes and Sharma called the hike unfair, while committee chairman Vandal – who voted ...
Cheaper homes take bigger hit
Thursday, 01 March 2012
By comparison, Coun. Devi Sharma (Old Kildonan) will pay $18.25 less on her property tax bill after the value of her home increased by about eight per cent. Katz said elected officials have no control over reassessments, which are calculated using a ...
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