• In August 25, 2012, Manitoba held its first-ever Filipino Street Festival , at Garden City Shopping Centre’s premises (www.cbc.ca)
• Sam Katz earns $126,000 a year as the mayor of Winnipeg (Winnipeg Free Press, August 18, 2012)
• There have been 409 assaults against transit drivers in Winnipeg from 2000–2012 (Winnipeg Free Press, August 13, 2012)
• There are about 200,000 cigarette smokers in Manitoba and that, on average, each smokes 15 sticks of cigarettes a day (Winnipeg Free Press, August 11, 2012
