Tom Brodbeck

For a health-care system that already operates at near-disastrous levels, a strike by front-line workers would have plunged hospital and home-care services into absolute chaos. With emergency room wai...

There’s little doubt an expanded police presence in downtown Winnipeg during major events would help people feel safer. It may even reduce some crimes, such as vehicle break-ins and possibly some viol...

It's not unusual for politicians to flee a sinking ship when they know their government is going down. It's a normal part of the political process and it's happening right now with the federal Liberal party.

For a political organization that purports to embrace the tenets of market economies, it’s odd how Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative party has an aversion to competition when it comes to choosing a...

So much for the federal government’s “fiscal guardrails.” The Trudeau government promised Canadians a year ago that it would cap its deficit at $40 billion and reduce it over time. However, just like...

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When the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) reached an agreement to sell Rupert’s Land to Canada in the spring of 1869, it came as a complete surprise to the people living in what is today Western Canada. They were neither consulted on the proposed annexation nor given any details about how it would affect their lives.

It’s no wonder emergency-room wait times continued to hover at record levels in Winnipeg in 2023-24. Despite promises by the previous Progressive Conservative government and, now, the NDP to expand ho...

You know things are in rough shape financially at city hall when councillors question whether they can afford to spend $200,000 or so a year to clean up needles, weapons and sharp objects in parks whe...

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