Dan Lett

It started out as a protest against a proposed change in tax rules. It may end up as a much-needed debate over how to make meaningful improvement in health care. The medical establishment in this coun...

It is often said the wheels of justice grind slowly, and that is certainly the case with the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters scandal. In its first budget, the NDP government set aside $500,000 to...

Former premier Heather Stefanson’s sudden resignation from the Manitoba legislature last week will not spare her from an investigation over allegations she attempted to rush approval of a controversia...

The COVID-19 inquiry is dead. Long live the expert-led review. Buried deep within the NDP government’s inaugural budget was a somewhat muddy admission by Premier Wab Kinew that Manitoba will not hold a full commission of inquiry into the province’s pandemic response. The budget did set aside $500,000 to do preparation for an inquiry into the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters scandal. But despite having promised for years to hold a legally empowered inquiry into the pandemic, the post-mortem of the COVID-19 response was suddenly downgraded to “a review.” Mike Sudoma/Free Press Files Then-leader of the opposition NDP Wab Kinew started […]

The COVID-19 inquiry is dead. Long live the expert-led review. Buried deep within the NDP government’s inaugural budget was a somewhat muddy admission by Premier Wab Kinew that Manitoba will not hold...

Last fall, Premier Wab Kinew won the hearts and minds of enough Manitobans to earn the right to govern the province. And if ongoing approval rating polls are any indication, he remains quite popular w...

This past weekend, Premier Wab Kinew treated delegates to the NDP annual general meeting to a nugget of exceedingly good news. In his keynote address, Kinew stunned the more than 1,000 delegates in attendance when he said Manitoba would be receiving somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 million over the next year from a lawsuit settlement against tobacco companies. Kinew said the money, which he described as a first instalment on a total settlement that could reach several billion dollars, will be used to improve cancer treatment in the province and build a new CancerCare facility. It was a stunning […]

Is Manitoba's NDP government running out of time to find its perfect answer to the opioid crisis?