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“Ironically, according to the proponents of capitalism, people who are selfishly motivated to maximise profits will produce the greatest good for the greatest number. Capitalists believe that their economic system creates social good out of the selfish motivations of the individual”

In the past when Manitobans thought about violence, there might have been a tendency to think it was limited to only certain parts of the province’s largest city.

It was a Sunday afternoon at the end of October, 2008, my wife and I were sitting in our living room watching Bill Moyer’s Journal on Prairie Public Television.

This past Thursday something remarkable happened in the Saskatchewan legislature. Every political party, including the NDP members of the legislature, voted in favour of a resolution in support of the development of nuclear power to help meet that province’s energy needs.

If you managed to solve your one big problem, another would rush in to take its place. Then another and another.

There is so much talk today about end time events, and what it should mean to us.

On Wednesday March 25th, Premier Gary Doer stood up in the Manitoba Legislature and declared that the NDP government had balanced the budget. It was a statement so untrue it is a wonder he wasn’t blushing when he said it.

Last fall, my son, my wife and I were working on a building project in my son’s backyard. We were putting a roof of the grandkids play structure.

There are many math based classes that challenge students in their grade school and university studies. For Manitobans in general, there is a new numbers game that is being played that is equally challenging. It’s called NDP math.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but…to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment (Dorothy Nevill).