Songs, tears at Winnipeg council meeting after death of Coun. Jason Schreyer

Cameron MacLean · CBC News

· Posted: May 02, 2025 7:49 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Winnipeg metropolis councillors began the process of moving connected without Jason Schreyer, resuming a assembly gathering postponed successful the aftermath of the Elmwood-East Kildonan councillor's death.

Councillors sang, cried and paid tribute to their person and colleague. Schreyer's decease shocked his chap assembly members, who learned the quality connected Tuesday.

The adjacent day, assembly gathered for its regularly scheduled meeting, but rapidly adjourned until Friday.

The greeting gathering featured agelong speeches and aggregate philharmonic tributes — truthful galore that Mayor Scott Gillingham aboriginal joked that it had been "the astir Jason Schreyer-esque" meeting ever.

"He would emotion this day," Gillingham said.

Schreyer was known to sometimes sing connected the level of council, and often performed karaoke with chap assembly members, including Mynarski Coun. Ross Eadie, who called Schreyer his "best friend."

The 2 assembly members referred to their singing duo arsenic "the Councillor Brothers," a play connected the John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd philharmonic drama enactment the Blues Brothers.

"We mislaid a fantastic antheral who cared passionately astir people," Eadie said.

"[My] bosom is … truthful sad" for Schreyer's wife, children and parents, helium said.

Schreyer was the lad of erstwhile premier and politician wide Ed Schreyer, but Eadie said helium was a "reluctant politician."

"He was doing a batch of worldly passionately for radical each the time. That's conscionable who Jason Schreyer was."

Schreyer was 57. No origin of decease has been given.

New room for northwest Winnipeg

A caller room could unfastened successful the Garden City Shopping Centre successful the autumn of 2026.

A City of Winnipeg report recommends signing a lease for astir 14,500 quadrate feet of abstraction successful the mall.

Gillingham said Old Kildonan Coun. Devi Sharma has pushed for a caller room successful her ward.

"The Maples area, the northwest portion of Winnipeg, is an breathtaking area. It's increasing significantly," helium told reporters successful a quality league Friday.

"It does not person a library.… This is astir the radical of northwest Winnipeg and providing room services to them that they've been waiting connected for a agelong time."

The metropolis says it volition walk much than $2 cardinal to renovate the space, with ongoing costs expected astir $205,000.

The metropolis antecedently considered moving the West Kildonan Library into a abstraction successful the promenade successful 2022, but changed those plans aft assemblage pushback.

A feasibility survey presented to assembly successful June 2024 laid retired imaginable upgrades to the library, but the task remains unfunded, metropolis spokesperson Pam McKenzie wrote successful an email.

The metropolis study is connected the docket for adjacent Thursday's spot and improvement committee meeting.