Here comes the boom!
At the end of the Second World War, a new generation was born. This population explosion is known as the “boom.” Now, some of us may have heard this term thrown around from time to time and not thought...
View ArticleGive Grandma a break!
Kyle Mirecki’s article “Here Comes the Boom!” (Feb. 16, 2011) argued that “with a growing number of seniors, a small birth rate, and with senior public expenditures costing 2.5 times more than youth...
View ArticleGetting shit done
I love the current Harper Government. I hope we can somehow rid ourselves of this cumbersome democracy once and for all and finally establish Stephen Harper as supreme monarch of Canada. King Harper...
View ArticleMemorials across Canada held to remember Jack Layton
The one-year anniversary of Jack Layton’s death was marked with memorials across the county, including Winnipeg. Winnipeggers celebrated the late leader of the Official Opposition at the Lo Pub, the...
View ArticleHistoric win turns deadly
What should have been a historic celebration for Quebec’s first female premier turned into tragedy when shots were fired on Sept. 4. A victory speech by the newly elected Pauline Marois of the Parti...
View ArticleReclaiming Canadian values
Monday, Sept. 17 marked the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement as well as the commencement of the fall session in Parliament. Several activists groups in Winnipeg took that...
View ArticleA four-point plan for democratic reform
The American political system is superior to the Canadian political system. There, I said it. Oh, the American system has problems. Don’t get me wrong. Hyperpartisanship, the influence of special...
View ArticleNew wave of Trudeaumania strikes Winnipeg
Manitoban Liberals came out en masse on Oct. 20 to attend a rally where Justin Trudeau discussed his newly announced bid for the leadership of the federal Liberal party. Kevin Lamoureux, Liberal MP for...
View ArticleProvincial justice minister puts pressure on feds
Justice and safety ministers from provincial, territorial, and federal offices gathered together to discuss issues at the forefront of Canadian safety. The yearly meeting, also known as the FPT...
View ArticleThe Conservative heart
My grandparents lived in the Interlake region of Manitoba many years ago. At the time, the community in which they made their home was mostly agricultural. Exposed to the harsh seasonal elements, with...
View ArticleCanada needs improved environmental protections, says lawyer
Canada needs to vastly improve its environmental laws and regulations in order to protect the health and environmental well-being of Canadians. That was the primary message conveyed in a lecture hosted...
View ArticleCanada’s supply management system imposes heavy burden on households, says...
On Oct. 5, 2015, after five days of intense negotiations, Canada agreed to a tentative trade deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) alongside 11 other countries. In the wake of recent...
View ArticleMarching in Shoalidarity
On September 12, hundreds of protestors marched from the Manitoba legislature to the Winnipeg Aqueduct Monument to raise awareness for the dire water situation in Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, which...
View ArticleOff with our head
Watching Justin Trudeau and his 30-member cabinet being sworn in earlier this month, something struck me as extremely off-putting about the whole affair. It wasn’t the spectacle they made of Trudeau,...
View ArticleHarper’s war on news media
Canada’s 42nd general election campaign is now well under way and the media is in full campaign coverage mode, although for one party that might not mean much. The Conservatives’ campaign has been the...
View ArticleSaving the CBC
The CBC has been hobbled. Decades of funding cuts under both the Liberal and Conservative governments and political interference through board appointments by Stephen Harper have severely hampered the...
View ArticleConservative candidate dips out of U of M debate
Given the Conservatives’ track record of skipping public debates, not many people were shocked when Gordon Giesbrecht, Conservative candidate for the Winnipeg South riding and a professor at the...
View ArticleWinnipeg South candidates respond to federal election questions
In the lead up to the 2015 federal elections, the Manitoban requested interviews with each of the candidates for MP in the Winnipeg South riding, home to the University of Manitoba Fort Garry campus....
View ArticleThe grass can be greener on both sides
As a result of the recent federal election, the topic of legal and regulated marijuana has gone from a far-flung possibility to a nearly immediate reality for Canadians. Legalization became a hot issue...
View ArticleRe: The grass can be greener on both sides
As Colorado has proven, re-legalizing cannabis makes money for government (The grass can be greener on both sides, Jan. 20, 2016), however, at the expense of law enforcement agencies and their unions,...
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