Look for source of voter anger
Opinion “His answer to everything is cuts and be angry, that’s not Canada.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on July 31, 2023 in Hamilton, Ont. The prime...
There’s more to the personal care home story
Opinion Tom Brodbeck’s column (Auditor general’s triple assault reveals scope of Stefanson regime’s incompetence, July 28) rightly points out that in Winnipeg, at least, there has...
Coups and choices
Opinion If you are a democratically elected leader in one of Africa’s Sahel countries — let’s say, Niger — and you suspect that the army is...
Winnipeg’s three Rs: recreation, roads, rapid transit
Opinion The Winnipeg Free Press and Probe Research recently conducted a poll asking people to identify their top infrastructure spending priority for the City of Winnipeg....
The aftermath of folly
Opinion “I said to Putin: ‘We could waste (Prigozhin), no problem. If not on the first try, then on the second.’ I told him: ‘Don’t do...
The new robber barons of the web
Opinion Digital entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg is the entitled youngster who dwells in the parental basement — and stubbornly refuses to pay rent. And, no, Zuckerberg doesn’t...
Citizens deserve control of their info
Opinion Political parties at the national and the provincial level are collecting too much personal information about voters, often without their consent. A 2019 survey found...
George Soros and an old conspiracy charge
Opinion Few individuals changed the world like Henry Ford. By 1930, four of out of every five American families owned a car, thanks primarily to his...
What’s in a name? A lot
Opinion According to a recent study, the average woman in Manitoba earns 71 cents for every dollar a man earns. Racialized and Indigenous women earn even...
Leaders need to lead
Opinion Ralph Waldo Emerson’s salutation to old friends is worth considering: “What’s become clear to you since we last met?” It has become clear to me...