Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition June 10, 2016 Sometimes leaning on your majority is not the best way to do business. Never was that more evident than this past week when the Liberals backed off on the gung-ho nature of their promise of electoral reform. Less than a month before, the party announced it would soldier on with the election promise to reform the Canadian electoral system, and ...
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Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition June 3, 2016 Much to the chagrin of dyed-in-the-wool Conservatives everywhere, it seems like Canadians just can’t quit Justin Trudeau. Either Trudeau is on a prolonged honeymoon or this truly is a relationship built to stand the test of time. Close to seven months after the election where the Liberals rose to power, Trudeau and his party have inched 7.2 per cent higher ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition May 28, 2016 The City of Brandon has a plan. It may sound optimistic, but there is some reason to believe this time will be different. Clearly over the past decade, city “plans” have made headlines in many editions of this fine publication for reasons both good and bad. Undoubtedly those past plans followed sharing sessions with one of a myriad of consultation ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition May 21, 2016 There is an antiquated belief that has been around for generations that goes as follows: “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” The basic premise is that without some form of discipline, in this case corporal discipline, a child’s behaviour will be maladjusted or unruly. In the political realm, it is almost exclusively the duty of a party whip that ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition May 14, 2016 For the Manitoba Liberals, 2016 will clearly go down as a case of “what could have been.” The final nail in the post-election coffin struck this past week with a rather low-key announcement that leader Rana Bokhari would be calling it quits after a little more than two years and one election at the helm of the beleaguered party. Bokhari’s ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition May 7, 2016 You kind of have to feel for Brandon West MLA Reg Helwer. One of the loyalists of Brian Pallister’s members over the last four years, Helwer found himself in the audience last Tuesday as opposed to being on stage when the new Progressive Conservative cabinet was sworn in at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. To be fair to the ...
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