Downtown dog park dilemma unnecessary
What about a downtown dog park is so complicated it requires the City to spend at least a year studying the idea, let alone actually designating one? Read More
Winnipeg: One Racist City
Maclean's writer and former Winnipegger Nancy Macdonald has done Winnipeg a great favour in airing our dirty secret to the rest of Canada. With her recent article she has painted a damning picture of our city for the rest of the country to digest. Like turning on the light in the basement where vile acts of abuse no one in the family wanted to talk about took place. Read More
Every joke is a tiny revolution
For over 4,000 years, humans—of every creed, colour, locality and ethnicity—have been using wit to peacefully protest social ills and the excesses of the elites; employing irony, sarcasm, analogy and host of other literary devices to cleverly critique monarchs and monguls, governments and gods. Read More
Is Oswald prepared to run on record as Health Minister?
While even Oswald is unlikely to keep the NDP in government come the next election, having her at the helm of her beleaguered party would make for a much more spirited campaign. Read More
When the facts change, Harper ignores them
If Stephen Harper has a legacy it is his utter contempt for facts, and his government's thuggish efforts to ignore or eliminate those that clash with his dogmatic agenda. Read More
Pay employees living wages, not poverty wages
The minimum wage is simply too low... And it is morally reprehensible so many employers continue to cling to it simply because they are obliged to do so by law. Read More
Provincial election cannot come soon enough
Why should Manitobans expect anything more from a Premier and a political party so desperate to retain their grip on power they have abandoned any sense of principle, honour, or humility? Read More
Has Winnipeg lost its Bowmentum?
So much for Bowmentum. Less than a month after the municipal election in which Brian Bowman was swept into the mayor’s chair with a remarkable… Read More
The NDP’s leadership crisis
The noblest thing Greg Selinger could have done—and should have done—is call an election now. Even more democratic than allowing his parliamentary caucus to determine his fate would have been to allow all Manitobans to do so. Read More
We remember because we should, because we must
Why do we remember? Why do we remember the carnage and the chaos, the battlefields and the death, the decisions to go to war and… Read More
Things were supposed to get better: Canada and sexual violence against women
It wasn't supposed to be this way. It shouldn't be this way. Enough is enough. Read More
The shameful end of Greg Selinger’s premiership
Manitobans now find themselves in the peculiar situation of seeing firsthand what an attempted coup d'etat looks like, Westminster style. Read More
Determined by those who showed up
With the 2014 municipal election quickly fading from memory, it is worth noting there were some significant winners and losers on election night. Read More
Education suffers with school trustees on municipal ballots
By all means voters should cast their ballot for school trustees in this election, but let this be the last municipal election in which they are asked to do so. Read More
All because Isabella Burgos was born a boy: The poison of bullying
Bullying is borne from the hate-filled crucible of prejudice, which is taught by bigoted parents, encouraged by zealots, and rewarded by gutless teachers and principals. Read More
Decisions were made: A case for autonomous and empowered judicial inquiries
Blame in the deaths of Brian Sinclair, Heather Brennan, David Silver, Phoenix Sinclair, and Tina Fontaine should be real, specific, and proportional Read More