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....
City must take a gardener’s approach
Opinion The impending closure of Happyland Pool has been in the news a lot lately. So have vacant property fires and leftover rubble in inner-city neighbourhoods....
Balancing free speech and hate speech
Opinion I am a Canadian Jew and a Zionist. My family history is one of Russian pogroms, exclusion from clubs, neighbourhoods, and careers and university quotas...
We carry our parents with us, wherever we go
Opinion My parents didn’t get to see much of the world. When my father retired, my siblings and I chipped in to buy our parents plane...