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Long live the Queen!
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Queen Elizabeth was in Winnipeg earlier this month for just over six hours, but no one can say they were not spent productively. She came, she waved, she stood by the Sals on Esplanade...
What ya gonna do when the police want to talk...
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Last month’s G20 conference in Toronto saw, according to a report on CBC.ca, “more than 900 people arrested during the .” Additionally, an untold number of people had their person, bags and vehicles searched....
Of foul weather and fouler politicians
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Manitobans love to complain about the weather. It’s either too hot, too muggy or too buggy; too wet, too windy or too dry; too cold, too much snow or not enough. Granted, Manitoba depends...
Letters to the Editor – June 23, 2010
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Dear Samantha Lockhart,
I am an international PhD student at the University of Manitoba. Recently I have had a chance to go through your article entitled “Putting an end to Apathy” published in the Manitoban. Since...
The evil tree bears shooting fruit
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On May 25 and 26, Winnipeggers were jolted by one story after another of gun violence on our streets. Three young people shot, one fatally, and once again the pit bulls of the political...
Joe, don’t let your music kill you
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"Stars were falling across the sky myriad and random, speeding along brief vectors from their origins to their destinies in dust and nothingness." –Cormac McCarthy
We all have a brief time on Earth. Some of...
The Tories are at it again
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I would love to believe that the Conservative Party of Canada takes sustainability seriously. I really would. Though I believe it is a false choice, I could at least take seriously their mentality of...
