Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition October 24, 2015 As Dorothy once professed in the 1939 film classic, “The Wizard of Oz,” “there’s no place like home.” Our nation awoke from a dream this past weekend to a new reality and a new chapter as a country. For some, that dream ended in bitter defeat and was not without its share of victims. But for others, it was an ...
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Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition October 17, 2015 If this election has proven anything, it’s that sometimes it’s not the knockout that scores a win but a series of blows over time that leads to victory. The knockout punch isn’t likely to happen on Monday, but as the days turn to hours, it may be the late-round flurry that counts. On the local front, aside from a couple ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition October 10, 2015 It is about to get ugly here, folks. With less than two weeks remaining in the federal election campaign, it looks like the Harper Conservatives are prepared to pull out all the stops to finish ahead come Oct. 19. Without a doubt the coming days will be full of rhetoric about the safety, security and financial well-being of this country ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition October 2, 2015 It would appear the faltering fortunes of Premier Greg Selinger and his party have created some inroads for Manitoba’s “party of one.” A recent Probe Research poll commissioned by the Winnipeg Free Press indicates that the NDP’s numbers in Manitoba have, dare we say, sunk to the levels of the provincial Liberals. For a couple of decades now, the provincial ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition September 25, 2015 As Canadians head into the home stretch in this lengthy election campaign, both NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau have drawn a line in the sand as to whether either would support Stephen Harper should his party win a minority government on Oct. 19. “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell,” Mulcair quipped about the thought of ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition September 19, 2015 It didn’t take long for Winnipeg Centre to again garner some national attention. This time, it was not for the colourful comments and quips made famous in the House of Commons by longtime NDP MP Pat Martin, but for his off-the-cuff remarks toward Green party candidate Don Woodstock at a recent riding debate. Martin was heard calling Woodstock a “son ...
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