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Anyone who claims they can predict the future is either arrogant, a charlatan or both.\n\nHere are 20 questions that ought to be answered in 2020:\n\n1. Will there be a river trail?\n\nRapidly dropping river levels and irregular ice prevented The Forks from carving out a skating trail late in 2019, but the Red River is now receding very slowly, if at all. While a full-length trail is extremely unlikely this winter, The Forks is still pondering the possibility of preparing a shorter one.\n\n2. Will there be a spring flood?\n\nRight now, two out of five conditions are in place for a spring 2020 flood. Soil moisture was high at freeze up and rivers and streams were also running high. But it's still to soon to make a definitive forecast, despite the heavy snowpack south of the border.\n\nBlocks of ice float on the Red River near St. Andrews in November 2019. (Pat Kaniuga/CBC)\n\n3. Will the Inuit Art Centre increase tourism?\n\nThe Winnipeg Art Gallery's $65-million Inuit Art Centre, under construction on the south side of the WAG, is slated to open this fall. Tourism authorities have high hopes for its role in drawing visitors, especially as part of an ensemble of city attractions that also includes Assiniboine Park Zoo, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and The Forks.\n\n4. Will ordinary people embrace Manitoba 150?\n\nPremier Brian Pallister claimed he called an early election in 2019 to avoid diminishing the province's 150th birthday celebration. Events are planned through 2020 following a launch in December. Will Manitobans notice, never mind attend?\n\n5. Will the province balance the budget?\n\nAccording to Manitoba's auditor general, the provincial books would be balanced right now if the PC government didn't exclude the Workers Compensation Board and an agricultural reserve. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of additional federal transfer payments will also make it easier for the province to slay the deficit in 2020. But since Finance Minister Scott Fielding has declared 2022 the balanced-budget target, all bets are off.\n\nManitoba Finance Minister Scott Fielding wasn't planning on balancing the budget this year. (John Woods/The Canadian Press)\n\n6. What will the education review recommend?\n\nIn 2019, the province started an education review that may see the end of a Canadian anomaly: The ability for school boards to levy their own taxes. The government has already promised to eliminate school taxes over time. The question is whether school boards themselves will be eliminated, or at the very least amalgamated.\n\n7. What happens with the next phase of health-care reform?\n\nThe first phase of Manitoba's health-care restructuring remains on hold while health administrators work out the kinks of emergency-ward amalgamations. At some point, the province is expected to announce plans for rural Manitoban hospitals as well. This may not go over well with the PC's rural base.\n\n8. Do Wab Kinew and Dougald Lamont get to stick around?\n\nManitoba's NDP and Liberal leaders both face leadership reviews this year. Under Kinew, the NDP increased its seat count in the 2019 election. Lamont lost ground for the Liberals but did not embarass himself. It's unlikely either will be punted.\n\n9. Will genuine progress be made on Lake Manitoba flood relief?\n\nThe ongoing federal-provincial fight over Indigenous community consultation has strained relations between Pallister and Justin Trudeau's Liberal government. A half-billion-dollar project lies in balance.\n\nMayor Brian Bowman and city council finance chair Scott Gillingham are expected to unveil the city budget in February. (Trevor Brine/CBC)\n\n10. Will Winnipeg swing the budget axe?\n\nThe city's new budget process allowed senior city officials to scare the heck out of Winnipeggers with proposed service cuts that were only floated behind the scenes in previous years. Expect a mediocre budget, not a disastrous one.\n\n11. Will Winnipeggers embrace the Southwest Transitway?\n\nAfter 44 years of deliberation and construction \u2014 that is not a typo \u2014 the entire Southwest Transitway, from downtown to the University of Manitoba's Fort Garry campus, is slated to open in May. City bus service to southwest Winnipeg will also change, with frequent service along the transitway spine and feeder routes running off it. How well this works may determine the future of transit.\n\n12. Is the East Transitway still in Winnipeg's plans?\n\nWinnipeg is still studying where a proposed bus corridor between downtown and Transcona will go. A preferred route is supposed to be unveiled in 2020 \u2014 along with some sense of whether the city will ever build a second transitway. Mayor Brian Bowman promised to complete six bus corridors by 2030, but there is no money set aside for any of them.\n\nThe Winnipeg Police Service's armoured rescue vehicle drove up to a Redwood Avenue home on Christmas Day. The pensionable status of police overtime is in question. (Bartley Kives/CBC)\n\n13. Will Bowman get his way on police pensions?\n\nWinnipeg wants to stop factoring overtime into police pensions. The police union argues this should be hammered out as part of contract talks. A decision should arrive in 2020.\n\n14. Are Winnipeg's growth fees legal?\n\nIn 2017, Winnipeg started applying what it calls impact fees on developments at the fringes of the city. Developers immediately filed a legal challenge. The matter should be settled this year, meaning Winnipeg will either return tens of millions of dollars to developers \u2014 or spend this money on infrastructure.\n\n15. Will Dustin Byfuglien return to the ice?\n\nAs 2019 comes to a close, defenceman Dustin Byfuglien \u2014 a difference-maker on the ice and a fan favourite \u2014 remains suspended from the Winnipeg Jets and is recovering from surgery. It's unclear whether he will heal in time to play this season and whether he wants to return, given the dispute between him and the club.\n\nDustin Byfuglien has yet to suit up for the Winnipeg Jets this season. (David Lipnowski/Getty Images)\n\n16. Will the Winnipeg Jets make the playoffs?\n\nThe Winnipeg Jets end the year with a winning record, albeit mainly thanks to some fantastic work by goalie Connor Hellebuyck earlier in the season. The team's schedule for the remainder of the 2019-20 season is among the toughest in the NHL. If the Jets don't improve, they'll have a tough time making the Stanley Cup playoffs.\n\n17. Can the Winnipeg Blue Bombers repeat?\n\nAfter ending a 29-year Grey Cup drought in 2019, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers face much less pressure this year. While key members of the championship team are bound to depart, enough of a core remains to make Winnipeg a contender for a second Cup in as many years.\n\n18. Who starts at quarterback?\n\nMuch of Winnipeg's hopes depend on who the club re-signs at its most important position. Zach Collaros took the Bombers to the Grey Cup but may command too much money to re-sign. Matt Nichols did everything the Bombers asked of him before and after he was injured, but is now 32 years old. Chris Streveler is a phenomenal rusher but still needs to work on his passing. It is very likely only two of three will return, at most.\n\n19. Is there a better part of a Valour?\n\nWinnipeg soccer fans were thrilled to see Valour FC begin play in 2019. They were less thrilled with the way the club performed on the pitch. A few more wins in the sophomore season would go a long way.\n\nWinnipeg had a tough year and faces challenges ahead. (Trevor Lyons/CBC)\n\n20. Can Winnipeg turn the corner on despair?\n\nThis is the big question. The city ended 2019 with a record homicide tally, too much violent crime in general, a health-care system struggling to deal with meth addictions and a deep socio-economic divide. How Winnipeg addresses all this not just this year, but throughout the 2020s, will go a long way in determining what sort of city it will be.\n\nAnd on that cheery note, happy new year.", "keywords": [], "meta_keywords": [""], "tags": [], "authors": ["Reporter", "Cbc Manitoba", "Reporter Bartley Kives Joined Cbc Manitoba In Prior To That", "He Spent Three Years At The Winnipeg Sun", "At The Winnipeg Free Press", "Writing About Politics", "Music", "Food", "Outdoor Recreation. 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