ER wait times do not have to be new normal
Opinion What is stunning after six years of health-care reform in Manitoba is the Progressive Conservative government appears to have no plan to reverse the damage...
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...
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...
Break standoff to get at what’s come between you
Opinion DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My husband went to Folk Fest with some friends and camped. I loudly refused to go, because of illness in our family....
Signing off after three years of sharing your stories
Opinion I remember the fear and excitement of walking into the newsroom for the first time when I was an intern at the Free Press in...
Confronting the impacts of academic marginalization
Opinion I think back to my first-year experience at the University of Western Ontario in 1968. A small-town girl on her first big adventure under her...
Face it, ‘firsts’ aren’t always meant to last
Opinion DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My wife and I were each other’s “firsts” in everything. For many years we were very sexual, and experimented with many things....
Cool rules
Opinion With temperatures set to hit 30 C or higher for the next number of days, many will be looking to beat the heat with a...
Remakes OK, but how about some originality in your world?
Opinion If you’re wondering who the 2023 The Little Mermaid remake is for, it’s for me. And by “me,” I specifically mean millennials who were children...
Give partner’s sober, unexpected reunion a shot
Opinion DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: We arrived up at our cabin and were greeted by a man, who was already moving stuff into the rental cabin next...