WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg police were on the site of the Asper Jewish Community Campus on Sunday morning, but the President of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, which helps fund the facility, has claimed a cone of silence prevents her from explaining exactly why. Concerned parents attending the Rady Community Centre located inside the campus…
Time To Clean Up The Swamp At City Hall
It is time for city councillors to step up to the plate and change the corporate culture that is killing our city. Every time I speak with an individual, a business or an organization about their dealings with the city, I hear very concerning stories of obstruction, intimidation, even coercion. Why aren’t there stories about…
The Prime Minister vs the Attorney General
In 2015 Canadians handed Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party a comfortable majority. The electoral success was as much an acceptance of his positive messages for change as it was a repudiation of Stephen Harper’s secretive, fact and science suppressing, barbaric practice dog whistling and other cloistered governing practices over the previous decade. The Liberal government took…
Limmud Winnipeg Defence of Pro-BDS Speaker Fails Evidence Test
OPINION – The national organization of Limmud in Canada blasted Limmud Winnipeg for showcasing “a member of a fringe Jewish group, IfNotNow, and a BDS anti-Israeli leader Lex Rofeberg”, saying the views and tactics of the podcaster and the far-left wing INN cross the line to an anti-Israel agenda. “There is a limit to what…
Falling Off The Cliff: The High Personal Cost of Public Service
There is an election later this year and, inevitably, a number of current members of Parliament will not return, most involuntarily and some through choice. Regardless how the separation occurs, there is a serious transition from public to private life facing each of those who will not return, but especially the one-term members who cannot…
OPINION: Jewish Federation of Winnipeg Unaware Guest Speaker a Member of Anti-Israel Radical Group
A kick-off event for next weekend’s Jewish learning festival (Limmud Winnipeg) is featuring a keynote address from a member of a fringe Jewish group, IfNotNow, that has harassed pro-Israel organizations and events like Birthright and Ramah summer camps. The religious service and dinner called ‘Shabbat (Sabbath) across Winnipeg’ is scheduled for March 1st and is…
The Third Opium War
One hundred and sixty years ago, the British flooded China with opium and profited while millions of Chinese suffered the painful consequences of addiction. Today, Canada and other nations are being flooded by opiates produced and shipped from China with equally painful consequences. In the early 1800’s China possessed the largest economy in the world.…
Sunday Roundup: Taxis and Bikes and Burst Pipes
It’s was an interesting week – even before the monthly City Council session – when important issues involving longtime topics all land in my wheelhouse without a tip or a Freedom of Information request required. Here’s a fast round-up: Lennard Taylor is a very talented boutique fashion designed and the kind of person that should…
Marty Gold Says Trudeau Carbon Tax to Bleed Manitobans Dry
WINNIPEG – How many ways will the Trudeau government’s Carbon Tax to save the world bleed Manitoba taxpayers dry, far beyond the mathematically dubious “rebates”? In this podcast I count a few of the ways. The announcement that the Carbon Tax soon to come will, in its first year, add $88 to an “average household”…
PEGGO Failing Young Mother 80% of the Time
In this podcast I go into additional details I received from the young mother Nicole, and she confirmed that 4 out of the last 5 times using PEGGO – it failed. She listed the ‘world class’ cities she’s taken public transit, and compared those to the pathetic performance of her hometown: “people who are paying…