Provincial government owes transit more than cuts
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The province has divested itself of the responsibility to match the city’s budget contributions to Winnipeg transit.
With friends like Trudeau and McKenna, Canada’s environment doesn’t need enemies
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In 1879, Leonard Tilley said of a young Canada, “The time has arrived when we are to decide whether we will be simply hewers of wood and drawers of water.” On Sept. 27, Catherine McKenna,...
Waverley underpass panders to wealthy suburbanites
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City council has officially approved the Waverley St. railway underpass, the price tag of which is a staggering $155 million. All but one member of council voted in support of the project, which as...
Urban beekeeping: legal at last
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Local food production in the form of urban agriculture is one of those things that is very hard to formulate a coherent argument against. Producing your own food benefits you in money saved and...
People are a product of their physical environment
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Winnipeg is a city. This truth is self-evident, but was apparently not on our mayor’s mind when he declared “I have no interest in offering a platform for the types of violent and harmful...
Signing the proverbial deal with the devil
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Much was made of Prime Minister Trudeau’s support, during the COP21 Paris accords, of setting a goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius rather than two degrees. At the time, there was...
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