Finding sewage treatment money a necessity
Opinion Can you imagine if the city shut down all new commercial, industrial and residential development for a week, a month or even a year? It...
Canada’s nuclear waste problem is not solved
Opinion On Nov. 28, right on schedule, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) triumphantly declared they have picked their site for the future Deep Geological Repository...
Syria: Jihadis once again
Opinion One week in, the ceasefire in Lebanon seems to be holding, but everything is connected: only three days later, the civil war in Syria started...
Children, museums and sponsors
Opinion Did you know that cows produce milk because they are mothers? Or did you think they produced milk because they were machines? If it were...
Newfangled feasibility study uses old solutions
Opinion Yesterday, my kid packed his lunch. He included homemade apple chips. We made those apple chips in the dehydrator, slicing up apples from a neighbour’s...
The lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Opinion Welcome to another beautiful August long weekend in Manitoba. If you are reading this online, outside of Manitoba and perhaps outside of Canada, I want...
Transportation, the north, and the future
Opinion Transportation in northern Manitoba received scant attention under the Brian Pallister and Heather Stefanson regimes. Based on terrain, the North is hard to plow. Based...
The August deadline
Opinion When you spend four years writing a book on climate change, you get to know most of the leading players. I have never seen them...
A look back at Comstock’s crusade
Opinion History cannot predict the future. Yet it can offer insight into trends and patterns of the past that help us understand current issues. My view...
More thoughtful capital gains policy needed
Opinion THE federal Liberals finally brought forward a motion on their controversial capital-gains tax proposal. The associated legislation, however, is not tabled, with many details uncertain....