Random Acts of Kindness

It pays to be nice

What a surprise!

View Full Post | 05/21/2013 2:00 AM | 0

Nick Martin: Telling Tales out of School

MTS horrifies Montana educator

One Montana educator is horrified by the prospect of Manitoba’s potentially reflecting sexual orientation and gender identity issues in school curricula.

View Full Post | 05/17/2013 4:00 PM | 0

Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson: The Grape Nut

Best of what's left from the fest

While my initial plan was to write about many more of the wines brought in special for the Winnipeg Wine Festival, a quick trip to the Grant Park Liquor Mart (where all the leftovers landed) Thursday revealed many of the wines have already flown out the door.

View Full Post | 05/17/2013 2:48 PM | 0

Mike McIntyre: Mike on Crime

Harper sends wrong message with tweet about missing person tragedy

View Full Post | 05/14/2013 5:37 PM | 0

Mia Rabson: The Capital Chronicles

Rare win for voter turnout, big fail for political spin

The spin doctors are working hard today to disect the byelection results in Labrador yesterday.

View Full Post | 05/14/2013 10:25 AM | 0

Bob Cox

Selling government, like Coke or Nike

Stephen Harper finally conceded something this week that people in the newspaper business have been saying for a long time – federal government advertising is no longer about informing citizens.

View Full Post | 05/9/2013 12:13 PM | 0

Under the Dome

Closure and Bill 20 — who’ll blink first?

One of the more clever moves Opposition Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Pallister has made is making Steinbach Tory MLA Kevin Goertzen his party’s house leader.

View Full Post | 05/9/2013 1:43 AM | 0

Dan Lett: The Sausage Factory

Ontario's 'Big Move:' pay more to get more

The debate in Manitoba over infrastructure funding is still pretty heated, two weeks after the NDP government announced it was raising the sales tax by one-point to essentially double the annual cash contribution to capital projects. When fully implemented, and combined with current cash-to-capital contributions, in theory the proposal will generate about $560 million annually for infrastructure (based on current PST yields).

View Full Post | 05/7/2013 12:48 PM | 0

Gabrielle Giroday: The Back Story

More than a victim

I couldn't believe it when I woke up yesterday morning to a stack of emails about an alleged serial killer. For years, there has been rampant speculation about a serial killer in Winnipeg. What has been a highly sensitive issue for policing -- in the constant roller-coaster of First Nation/policing relations -- had shown up at the forefront, at last.

View Full Post | 11/6/2012 3:37 PM | 0

Tyler Walsh: Star Wipes

Cranking iPhone video up a notch

In my neverending quest to make the iPhone a legitimate tool in our newsgathering arsenal, I may have found a device that finally resolves all audio concerns.

View Full Post | 02/24/2012 3:28 PM | 0

Mary Agnes Welch's Gripe Juice

Thanks, baby

Normally, I use this space to gripe about government types. This time, I am full of love.

View Full Post | 01/15/2012 6:10 PM | 0

Neil Babaluk: A(sessippi) to Z(ed Lake)

Asessippi

This blog is titled Manitoba Parks: A(sessippi) to Z(ed) Lake. I travelled to Zed Lake early on in the journey, but after visits to 75 provincial parks I still had not been to the “A” park from the title, Asessippi Provincial Park. That all changed the weekend before Christmas, when my odyssey to visit all of Manitoba's road-accessible provincial parks came to an end with a trip to Asessippi.

View Full Post | 01/3/2011 12:46 PM | 1

Gary Lawless: Wake-up Call

Calm before storm on draft day

LOS ANGELES - All quiet on the Western front.

View Full Post | 06/25/2010 1:49 PM | 0