Join Michel Durand-Wood for the Launch of You’ll Pay For This, Book 1 of the City Project (Great Plains Press). Test your knowledge about municipal finance by participating in a “Price is Right” game for a chance to win some prizes! This presentation will be followed by a conversation with host, Patty Wiens and a book signing.
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.
Cities provide valuable quality of life amenities like parks, pools and libraries. They’re also responsible for providing critical life-sustaining services, things like sanitation, public safety and clean drinking water. Vitally, they need to be able to do it not only today, but for generations to come. So how do we know if our city can afford to do this forever? And if not, what needs to change? Most people have no idea what the answer is, or how to find it. But have no fear: help is on the way! Luckily, you can read this book while you wait for it to arrive.
Just kidding – you’re the help. (Or you will be after reading this book.)
You’ll Pay For This is part of The City Project, a series edited by Emma and Michel Durand-Wood.
Michel Durand-Wood lives in the Winnipeg neighbourhood of Elmwood with his wife and three children, and he writes about infrastructure and municipal finance at DearWinnipeg.com. His writing has been featured extensively online and in print, including Strong Towns, Streetsblog USA, CBC, the Winnipeg Free Pressand La Liberté.
Host Patty Wiens is Winnipeg’s First Bicycle Mayor, and a board director and newsletter editor for Bike Winnipeg. Patty is a passionate advocate for safe streets and she spends much of her time promoting year-round cycling on her YouTube channel, Instagram, and herwebsite. She has been featured on YouTube channels and podcasts including The War on Cars, Active Towns, Radio-Free Urbanism, and Tom Babin’s Shifter. She was also named one of Ace Burpee’s Top 100 Most Fascinating Manitobans of 2024. She’s the host of That’s Her Problem!, a podcast exploring women’s relationships with their communities, and her upcoming book, That’ll Never Work Here: Challenging the myths around biking in a winter city, coming this Fall.