View From the Legislature

There is something special about the Olympic Games that cause casual sports fans, and even those who generally have no interest in sports at all, to tune their television to sports that often languish in relative obscurity at any other time.

Following the resignation of Fort Whyte MLA, Hugh McFadyen, a by-election for the vacant seat has been called for Tuesday, September 4.

This past Saturday, Brian Pallister officially became the new leader of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party.

It has been another hot summer that has resulted in a few intense storms in Manitoba.

On Tuesday Statistics Canada confirmed that for the third year in a row both the Province of Manitoba and the City of Winnipeg topped the list for violent crime in Canada.

The NDP Minister responsible for Manitoba Hydro said recently that there would be a review done on upcoming capital projects planned by our largest Crown Corporation.

Phoenix Sinclair died at the age of five in 2005 after suffering horrific abuse at the hands of her mother and common-law husband.

Last week, Manitoba Progressive Conservative Leader Hugh McFadyen announced that his last day as leader of the Party and MLA for Fort Whyte will be July 30th.

The livestock industry and its producers won an important victory last week when the World Trade Organization (WTO) upheld an earlier ruling that Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) laws in the United States discriminated against the Canadian livestock industry.

This past Sunday I participated in the sod turning for the Four Winds Housing project in Steinbach.