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What do you think of cancelling Bishop Grandin?

What do you think of cancelling Bishop Grandin?

Poll Question: March 22, 2023 to March 28 , 2023 On March 24th Winnipeg City Council voted unanimously to rename streets named after Bishop Vital Justin Grandin for what the CBC reported as “renewed outrage over the lasting harm caused by residential schools.” Bishop...

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Weaponizing the Law

The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...

Chattering Classes Need to Change Their Anti-Energy Tune

Chattering Classes Need to Change Their Anti-Energy Tune

Canada’s chattering classes – who are often more accustomed to playing the sadly ineffectual dovish role – are rushing to prove their outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demonstrate their resolve to make Putin pay. However, these are often the same people...

Lockdowns Damage Vulnerable the Most

Lockdowns Damage Vulnerable the Most

One clear takeaway from the convoy protest is the realization that pandemic restrictions and mandates are not affecting everyone equally. Liberal MP Joel Lightbound’s clever retort of, “Not everyone can still earn a living using their MacBook while at the cottage”...

Thinking Longer Term: Covid on First Nations

Thinking Longer Term: Covid on First Nations

The pandemic is showing us the consequences of not adequately addressing housing and health care issues on Indigenous communities in Manitoba. Back in April 2020, I wrote an editorial that showed how Indigenous communities – while protected at first from the pandemic...

Find Backbone and Raise the Flag

Find Backbone and Raise the Flag

Manitobans may have noticed that flags at federal institutions in the province are still flying at half mast.  This has been the case since May with the discovery of roughly 200 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia....