Decade-in-the-making do-nothing climate plan a national disgrace

On the environment, Prime Minister Harper is akin to Nero fiddling while Rome burns. The planet is in crisis. The climate is already changing, perhaps irrevocably so. And yet, Canada, already late to the table, has arrived with a what amounts to a back-of-the-napkin plan. Read More

City & Politics, Columns, Politics

Promotion is the new termination

The Premier's decision to shuffle his cabinet on April 29th ought to have raised more eyebrows—especially his decision to promote Kerri Irvin-Ross, embattled Minister of Family Services, to Deputy Premier. It is bizarre the Premier would choose to fete such a failure. Read More

City & Politics, Columns, Politics

Unfit for duty: CFS minister must go

It is time the Premier appoint someone new to the role who might bring the kind of leadership, drive and direction needed to set about cleaning up this wretched mess. Read More

City & Politics, City Hall, Columns, Politics

Seeking patios; rich, suburban need only apply

No wonder Bowman promised to stand up for downtown Winnipeg: there won't be anywhere for him to sit down. Read More

City & Politics, City Hall, Columns, Politics

Out damn’d selfie spot

Nothing is more synonymous with the crippling narcissism of contemporary Western culture than the "selfie." And here we are encouraging people to take them! Yes, City of Winnipeg, let's encourage more of this destructive behaviour that actively discourages individuals from taking a critical eye to their surroundings; replace it with smug, self-indulgent filler for personal social media feeds. Read More

City & Politics, Columns, Politics

Greg Selinger is without shame

It is the era of shameless politics. Where no amount of ignominy, scandal or deceit prompts a thoughtful walk in the snow. Read More

City & Politics, Columns, Politics

Don’t dismiss dignity

Imagine what our society would look like if we made the preservation and promotion of human dignity the cornerstone of every public policy. Read More

City Hall, Columns

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

Columns

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

City & Politics, Columns, Politics

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

City & Politics, Columns, Politics

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

City & Politics, Columns, Essay, Politics

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

City & Politics, Columns, Politics

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

City & Politics, City Hall, Columns, Planning

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

City & Politics, Columns, Politics

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

Columns

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