This week I have the pleasure of speaking with a community leader, whose also a mentor and a voice of Aboriginal youth, not only in Winnipeg, but across Canada, Michael Redhead Champagne. Recently, Statistic’s Canada released a report that indicated more than half of the youth incarcerated in our country are Aboriginal. Manitoba has the…
Kevin Klein Asks: Whose Priorities Come First in Politics?
Sunday Dinner is an opinion podcast, where I want to engage you in an open, honest, and frank discussion about the issues that impact our lives daily. This week I talk about “Priorities”, specifically, political priorities. Whose priorities come really first? Politician’s or ours? I share some examples where I feel priorities are definitely not…
Dorothy Dobbie Says – Put a Private Hospital at the Kapyong Barracks
WINNIPEG – I was 29 when I was diagnosed with an illness that required surgery. It took 10 days from the time my doctor informed me of the issue until I woke up in St. Boniface hospital with the problem solved. Today that action would take months, perhaps even more than a year. Back then,…
Dougald Lamont – The PC’s & NDP’s Flawed Financial Curriculum
Credit Cards in Grade 9 & Lessons from Tax Frauds? All Part of The PCs & NDP’s Flawed Financial Curriculum By Dougald Lamont, Leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party, and Liberal candidate for MLA St. Boniface Manitoba has serious problems in education: too many students have low test scores in reading, writing and math, and…
Opinion Podcast – MPI – It’s Time for Change
WINNIPEG – In the news this week, Manitoba Public Insurance has applied to the public utilities to once again raise our rates. On Sunday Dinner this week, I talk about your comments left on our Facebook page about the MPI rate increase story and share some ways, I think, MPI could save money and ultimately…
Kevin Klein Asks: When will politics be treated as a business?
WINNIPEG – After being in the media as long as I have you become doubtful of what any politician promises, because their promises are always the same. They say they will fix everything when elected, but then we hear the famous ”It was much worse than I thought” excuse. Look back in time. List all…
How the Upcoming Tuition Hikes Affect You
WINNIPEG – There’s a group of people between the ages of 18-37, who feel as though they’ve been getting the raw end of the deal when it comes to what they’re being left for their educational future here in Manitoba. The group, which has been dubbed “millennials” (although the majority of the people in this…
Mayor Brian Bowman “Smart Decisions Start with Accurate Information”
By Mayor Brian Bowman WINNIPEG – Earlier this spring, I delivered my fourth State of the City Address. Hosted by the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, it’s a great chance to discuss the many different challenges and opportunities facing Winnipeg. Winnipeg is a city that’s growing. Our population is projected to grow steadily and strongly well…
Victoria Hospital Cuts Toast for Patients in Day Surgery
WINNIPEG – Health services in Manitoba are on everyone’s hot list this year as the government makes changes to the way the Regional Health Authorities work, based on a report prepared for but never exercised by the NDP. The reason they failed to act is that these changes are necessarily disruptive. Along with necessary disruption,…
We Celebrate 148 Years This Manitoba Day
WINNIPEG – On May 12, 2018 Manitoba will be 148 years old. Quite the accomplishment! Our province was the fifth to join Canada and became a province through the Manitoba Act, passed by the Canadian Parliament in 1870. Manitoba began as a postage-stamp-sized province before growing into the Manitoba that we see today. We have…