Catering company sues City of Winnipeg, Festival du Voyageur for walkway collapse

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 02, 2025 3:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

A catering institution is suing the City of Winnipeg and Festival du Voyageur, alleging a walkway illness astatine Fort Gibraltar 2 years ago "significantly impaired" its quality to transportation connected business.

Seventeen children and an big were taken to infirmary aft they fell astir six metres erstwhile an elevated walkway collapsed during a St. John's-Ravenscourt School travel connected May 31, 2023. 

A teacher and the families of 2 children who were wounded successful the walkway illness person antecedently filed abstracted lawsuits associated with the incident.

Gibraltar Dining Corporation is present besides suing the metropolis and the festival for negligence and unspecified amounts of damages, claiming it was prevented from accessing oregon operating astatine the site, arsenic good arsenic from retrieving its nutrient and equipment, breaching its contract.

The caterer was fixed exclusive entree to parts of the tract erstwhile it entered into an statement with the metropolis and the festival successful 2011, according to the company's connection of claim.

The assertion alleges that the festival failed to support the grounds, including the fort, and that the metropolis failed to guarantee the fort underwent timely inspections.

The catering company's quality to run and make gross has been "significantly impaired" successful airy of the walkway collapse, and the company has and continues to endure losses and damages successful airy of the walkway collapse, the suit claims.

None of the allegations person been proven successful court.

CBC News has reached retired to the metropolis and Festival du Voyageur for comment.

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