Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition May 22, 2015 It is a surface issue few really want to acknowledge exists in our community, and it is an issue that in a time of rising costs and few options may continue to grow: helping put an end to homelessness must be a priority in our city. In recent weeks, the city of Medicine Hat made a splash with the claim ...
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Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition May 15, 2015 Which door will he take? That was the question hammered home by Progressive Conservative MLA Kelvin Goertzen last week in the Manitoba legislature, a question that spoke to the NDP’s severance package of almost $700,000 paid to departing staffers for myriad of reasons after the slow-motion coup last March. “Which door will he take?” A statement and a question all ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition May 9, 2015 With a resounding and decisive victory in the heart of Canada’s oilpatch, the NDP has accomplished something no party has done since the days of Ernest Manning and his Social Credit party — knock off a Tory government in Alberta. To put it into perspective, when Alberta’s courtship with the Progressive Conservatives began, Pierre Trudeau was prime minister, Richard Nixon ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition April 25, 2015 Manitobans have been kneedeep in hockey fever this week, consumed with whiteouts and Wheat Kings, thunder sticks and jersey-clad ministerial selfies. And yet, while the province is — or was — consumed with hockey playoffs, the political landscape has been shifting around us. Fresh off a federal budget that Conservatives indicate was their form of a “balanced budget,” Manitobans are ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition April 18, 2015 Either Greg Selinger will be remembered as the ultimate salesman for uniting a party with plenty of detractors, or he will be remembered as the one who let the wolves back in the farmyard. In either case, the next year should be one to watch. Fresh from a hush-hush retreat, the premier and the NDP have emerged stating they are ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition April 11, 2015 Having to line up sometimes days prior to secure a daycare spot is an absolute shame. To learn after all that time that the waiting was for naught is the injustice that stands as bitter icing on the cake. As was shared in the Sun earlier this week, many parents were left without options after spending hours in line to ...
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