This past week NDP Premier Greg Selinger has been traveling around the Asia-Pacific on a trade mission to places like Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing.
If it wasn’t so serious, it would have already become comical. The NDP announce a much needed community project, and then delay it, again and again and again.
September 5th to the 12th is National Trucking Week in Canada.
Manitoba Hydro has been compared to many things. It has been described as equivalent, in economic terms, to Alberta’s oil resources.
Over the past several months there have been a number of violent attacks on taxicab drivers in the City of Winnipeg.
Last week two more prisoners were accidentally released from custody in Manitoba. At least 6 prisoners have been incorrectly released from custody in the province this year alone.
Last week the NDP government announced the route the new Bi-Pole transmission line will take on its way from northeast Manitoba to a converter station on the southeast side of Winnipeg.
In response to the most recent violent crime numbers that were released by Statistics Canada and which show Manitoba being among the most violent places in Canada, an editorial in The Carillon asked a good question.
When it comes to crime in Manitoba, the Statistics Canada report released this week shows that it is only getting worse.
One of the problems with a news cycle that thrives on the issues of the day is that while attention can quickly be focused on an important issue, that attention is rarely sustained past a few days.
