Conservatives seek fresh start with Speech from the Throne
On Wednesday, Oct. 16, the Conservatives kicked off a new session of parliament with the Speech from the Throne. The speech came after an extra-long…
Canada
PST’d off
Caleigh MacDonald Entrepreneur Robert Half once said, “People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that…
Over-regulating the small guy
Earlier this month, the Manitoba Agriculture-Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) collected and is currently slated to destroy thousands of dollars of agricultural product from a…
Not our Canada
Tariq Sohail The Quebec government’s shocking initiative to marginalize a small population of minorities comes at a time when Quebec’s public debt currently is, as…
Local news briefs
Winnipeg athlete files multi-million dollar lawsuit Kevin Kwasny, a football player from Winnipeg, has permanent brain damage as a result of an injury on the…
International touring fees hurt Canadian music scene
Seamus Hamilton-Pattison Touring is a risky venture for any independent or smaller band or artist. The financial rigmarole required to book venues across a country,…
Drunken uncle singing
B.A. Johnston returns with yet another album to add to his ever-growing banquet-sized merch table. True to form, this album sounds like a recording of…
Extraordinary sport
On the off chance you ever find yourself in the billiards room in an air force base officer’s mess hall, you should take a moment…
Hostility toward feminism blocks positive change
One would think that with all the positive change brought about through feminism it would not get such a bad reputation, unfortunately that is not…
TransCanada Corp. proposes west-east pipeline for 2017
TransCanada Corp. has proposed converting 3,000 km of natural gas pipeline into use for crude oil transportation. This pipeline would ship oil from Alberta and…