Performance-based funding — an educational funding system where funds are based largely on how “successful” a school is determined to be — is a concept likely to hurt our education system that has been considered by...

A strike mandate was approved by 96.5 per cent of the 55,000 workers represented by the Ontarian School Board Council of Unions. The council demanded a wage increase of $3.25 an hour per year, equal pay...

Louis Riel’s headstone, located in St. Boniface Cemetery, was defaced on Oct. 17. The vandal made numerous cuts into the image of his face and the name on the headstone.  Riel was a powerful figure...

Let us begin by saying that this is not a Halloween hit piece. We genuinely enjoy the holiday. When Braden was younger, he was far from a Halloween fan. It overshadowed his birthday, and having asthma made...

Manitoba New Democratic Party (NDP) Leader Wab Kinew recently announced at the Manitoba NDP annual convention that if elected, the party will consider banning replacement workers. It is important to explain what replacement workers are and what...

After months of negotiation following the expiry of City of Winnipeg workers’ contracts, there may finally be an end in sight for the workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 500. The potential...