Not long ago the provincial government in Manitoba announced an ambitious plan to spend $5.5 billion on “core infrastructure” over the next 5 years. This is the main pillar of the NDP’s economic strategy, and as such the government needs to show that it’s all worthwhile. To that end, the government commissioned a study by…
I want to depart from my usual bitching and moaning about governments to talk about something else that has been on my mind lately: the poor quality of the spam and phishing schemes that have been sent to me lately. It is really appalling. Just appalling. For example, the following email came to me recently:…
On April 18, 2012, an email was sent out by the government to immigration workers and support agencies inviting them to attend a debate in the legislature the following day over a NDP motion to request the Federal government back down from their plan to take over certain immigration programs. After 9 months of relentless…
Seemingly out of nowhere, Winnipeg’s mayor has decided to sue a university newspaper and its writer for a column that was published two months ago. – Free Press– The column titled The Local Political Blunder – Sam Katz strongly insinuates that Katz orchestrated inside deals behind a corrupt fire hall tendering process.* The first question…
I was scanning the Winnipeg Sun today when I came upon a full page ad directed at Manitoba Hydro employees: The ad starts by buttering up Hydro employees by telling them that they “have done a fine job”, then sets about explaining why their employer is going to shambles. The ad explains that the NDP…
The Canadian men’s skeleton team for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia will only have two athletes, and one of them will not be named Jon Montgomery. Until recently many people, myself included, assumed that Jon would be there. Why wouldn’t we? He is the reigning gold medalist, he was the fastest Canadian in…
Other people have died shortly after being released from hospital, but recent back-to-back fatalities have put a spotlight on a possible systemic problem within the Manitoba health care system. Walking into that spotlight last Friday was the Minister of Health, Erin Selby, not to take responsibility on behalf of the health care system but to…
A few predictions for the coming year in this colder-than-Mars city of Winnipeg … Manitoba Politics There will be less excitement in the Manitoba political arena this year than last. Last year brought a new leader to one of the three major political parties when the refreshingly youthful Rana Bokhari took hold of the Liberal…
One of the things I liked most about 92.9 Kick FM, Red River College’s campus radio station, was alternative music that provided a departure from the classic rock or top 40 stuff at the mainstream stations. With the death of that station a couple of years ago there is no consistent source of new alternative…
Something you should know about me: I am a little bit of a hoarder. Not a big league hoarder with stacks of boxes, clothes, chicken bones and Safeway bags filled with collectable dust bunnies. I am actually reasonably organized, but I also happen to have MPI statements dating back several years. My MPI renewal also…
