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Ethan Cabel

Friday 24th of March 2023
Business City & Politics City Hall Columns Planning Politics
City & Politics, Politics

The long battle ahead: Brian Pallister and the ailing Progressive Conservative brand

The conventional wisdom in Manitoba suggests that the province is on the precipice of a sea change in its political culture. After 17 years of… Read More
Columns

The Conservatives are right about Justin Trudeau

Beyond the vapid talking points and cliched platitudes, we get the sense there is nothing else he has to say. And, even more problematic, no other principled or thoughtful reason for entering politics in the first place. Read More
City & Politics

NDP’s Lethbridge Declaration is smart, cynical Prairie politics

Whatever policy discussions take place as a result of this process are valuable, but secondary. Read More
City & Politics, City Hall

Idle No More exposes Liberal party’s growing irrelevance

The second Liberal leadership debate began in Winnipeg this past weekend with the moderator posing a series of vapid questions to unlikely leadership contender Karen… Read More
City & Politics

Routing out seedy hotel bars shows disdain for Winnipeg (and all cities)

The Woodbine, and other seedy motels and lounges, are part of the human fabric of downtown Winnipeg for precisely this reason. Read More
City & Politics

Assessing Prairie Power, Part Four: Who are we? Where are we going?

Prairie politics have shifted. And many are now asking, just like Tony Soprano: Who am I? Where am I going? Read More
City & Politics

Assessing Prairie Power, Part Three: Brad Wall’s fortress Saskatchewan

Ultimately, over and over again, Brad Wall shows his true colours---as a pragmatist. Read More
City & Politics, City Hall

The top Prairie political gaffes of 2012

This is just a sampling of the most egregious political gaffes perpetrated by Prairie politicians and public officials in 2012. Read More
City & Politics, City Hall

Assessing Prairie Power, Part Two: Greg Selinger’s do-nothing Manitoba

More than any change in government, what Manitoba needs is a political shake-up. It needs ideas. Read More
City & Politics

Assessing Prairie Power, Part One: Alison Redford and the fracturing of Alberta conservatism

As Albertans prepared to vote in a provincial election earlier this year, an unabated Progressive Conservative dynasty that had existed virtually unchallenged for 40 years was preparing to implode. Read More
City & Politics

Why the Liberal Party of Canada is dead on the Prairies

As for the Liberals' culture of arrogance and slimy politicking, look no further than their last three leaders (as well as their current leadership front-runner). Read More
City & Politics, City Hall

One way or another, Manitoba NDP should stop endorsing municipal candidates

With Sam Katz gripped by a massive scandal that has hugely eroded public confidence, the NDP have a substantial opportunity in the 2014 election Read More
Business, City & Politics, Planning

Manitobans should celebrate Exchange District business boom

If only by comparison, the Exchange District of 2012 is humming. Read More
City & Politics, City Hall, Planning

Don’t blame business for oppression of the homeless

“The law, in all its majestic equality,” wrote French writer Anatole France in his novel The Red Lily. “Forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” Read More
City & Politics, Planning

Local bar’s closure a sign of much larger problems

The Lo Pub and Bistro, an Ellice Avenue staple and the University of Winnipeg's long-time student bar, recently closed its doors for the last time. Read More
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