Spring brings with it a newness, a freshness, that breath of fresh air that sweeps away those winter cobwebs. Along with the change in temperature, the longer days with more sunshine and the newness of the world comes mating season. It’s a time where the majority of species challenge the life cycle once more! Mating…
No Country for White Men
History is full of cruelty, oppression, war, conquest and colonization. As soon as humans learned to wield crude clubs and organized themselves into clans and tribes, they began using power and violence to assert their will over other humans. There really aren’t any humans who were immune from the infection of violence. Regardless of culture,…
Virtue Signalling
WINNIPEG – Driving from the Airport down the Kingsway with my daughter Shauna, we were doing a little political jousting as we often do. Shauna is not, as they say, of a like mind with me about Tories – although she does admit to like John Tory, Toronto’s mayor. Shauna has a Masters in Theatre…
A & W Turns 100
WINNIPEG – This year is the Centennial for a restaurant chain with many ties to the Winnipeg area. On June 20, 1919, Roy Allen opened the first root beer stand in Lodi California The first A and W promotion was giving away Root Beer to soldiers returning from World War 1. Frank Wright an employee…
Theresa May’s Ides of March
March 2019 has proven to be an interesting time to visit England. The political drama of Brexit is everywhere. I mean everywhere! Forget TV, newspapers and the radio, you can’t step into a pub or a restaurant without overhearing at least one discussion on the issue. For a political junkie from Canada, it has been…
Is Manitoba Housing Ground Zero of Winnipeg Meth Epidemic?
Months after insisting they had no further answers to give me, Manitoba Housing was cajoled into coughing up a significant chart detailing where the agency has provided sharp containers for meth (and other) Intravenous drug users. As well, sometime after they first stonewalled my inquiries last October, mobile security units were issued portable receptacles to…
Dinner with Frank
WINNIPEG – I had the privilege recently of enjoying a dinner with Frank Mahovlich, the former hockey player and senator, who regaled us with stories of his past. One of them was about his recent trip (2017) to Moscow to have dinner with Putin – the occasion was a celebration of the 45th anniversary of…
Garden City Alumni Demand Seven Oaks School Trustees Debook Fundraiser Featuring Linda Sarsour
The Jewish community was joined by friends across the multicultural spectrum in Winnipeg, expressing shock that a school division is renting space to an event showcasing controversial Islamist-American pro- BDS activist, Linda Sarsour of Brooklyn, NY. Tickets for a 100th anniversary fundraiser – booked for next month into the Seven Oaks Performing Arts Centre on…
The Silent Road to Christchurch
Hate and intolerance do not have a singular definition. They fall on a continuum. Harbouring hateful and intolerant ideas and feelings can reside subtly in the subconscious or they can take the form of extreme violence against those we may hate or are intolerant towards. The murder of fifty Muslim worshippers in Christchurch is the…
OPINION: Reason Cops Were Called to Asper Campus Might Deepen Split In Winnipeg Jewish Community
The CEO of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg was unaware Lex Rofeberg is a leader of the radical US anti-Israel group IfNotNow until I revealed it in a Manitoba Post column. In fact, Elane Goldstine admitted in our half hour chat last Friday that before I started investigating the situation, “I did not know anything…