Opinion It’s a simple concept: federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland wants the wealthiest Canadians to pay a bit more to help pay for affordable housing […]
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Hospital staff need protection; is pepper gel the right prescription?
Opinion In the rush to protect front-line hospital staff, has the NDP government put its pepper gel before the cart? Last week, responding to criticism […]
Tories unabashedly deliver load of ‘do as we say, not as we did’ in opposition
Opinion Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative party is not in a great position to lecture anyone about budget cuts to infrastructure spending. The Tories underspent their infrastructure […]
HAL’S HEADLINES: Let’s get on with the scramble at Portage and Main!
Article content Scramble intersections, where all vehicles stop so pedestrians can cross every which way, were first used in North America in the late 1940s. […]
NDP broke election promise and it’s probably a good thing
Opinion The Manitoba NDP broke a major election promise when it unveiled its first provincial budget last week. It promised voters it would keep the […]
Slight improvements in city ER wait times cause for cautious optimism
Opinion If Manitobans are looking for any sign health care is improving under the NDP government, they may want to check out emergency room wait […]
Tories living in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones at NDP over crime rates
Opinion When violent crime rose in Manitoba in the early 2000s, no one really knew why. There were plenty of theories, but nothing that could […]
Clock ticking on NDP’s bold health-care pledges with long-suffering Manitobans
Opinion It wasn’t the biggest change to health care made by the former Progressive Conservative government, but it may have been among the worst. The […]
Premier, finance minister unveil a more progressive lobster trap
Opinion It is one of the first rules of governing: when a new government is elected, it must never eliminate a tax cut brought in […]
Borrowing from our future: NDP budget drives up debt
Opinion The most important number in the NDP’s first budget unveiled Tuesday is not how much money the government plans to spend on health care, […]