Winnipeg Sun
HIGHEST INFLATION RATE IS IN WINNIPEG
Winnipeg posted one of the fastest inflation rates in the country in April, underscoring mounting cost pressures for Prairie households. Statistics Canada’s latest consumer price index shows Winnipeg’s annual inflation reached 4.2 percent in April, up...
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Concerns over CMHR ‘Nakba’ exhibit must be addressed
As recently reported, Shurat Hadin-israel Law Center, is raising concerns over the upcoming ‘Nakba’ exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights: “Shurat Hadin – Israel Law Center announced this week it has formally sent a legal demand letter to...
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IS WINNIPEG BURNING UNDER GILLINGHAM?
Firefighters battled six vacant building fires in a three-hour span on Tuesday. Highlights Winnipeg’s steady erosion under Mayor Gillingham’s resistance to change tactics and inability to deliver meaningful outcomes for Winnipeggers. Winnipeg’s vacant...
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Beef Price Battle
With summer around the corner, Canadian consumers are being asked to fork out a small fortune for every slab of beef they throw on the grill. And while astonishingly high beef costs are nothing new for Canadian shoppers — with sticker prices for their...
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Exhibit Controversy Escalates
A prominent Israeli legal organization is threatening legal action against the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over an upcoming exhibit on the Palestinian Nakba, alleging the Winnipeg museum is promoting a politically one-sided narrative that could...
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DITHERING DUO
Winnipeggers are tired of watching governments avoid difficult decisions while neighbourhoods decline around them. Families are worried about safety near schools, businesses are dealing with vandalism and disorder, and residents are losing confidence...
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Crews battle 7 fires in Winnipeg
The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service said crews were called to fires in homes and garages from Monday evening into early Tuesday morning. The most serious fire happened at about 7:55 p.m. Monday in the 300 block of Lock Street. Firefighters arrived to...
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Tariffs Take Toll
Analysts at the Bank of Canada estimate prices on goods affected by Ottawa’s counter-tariffs against the United States last year were roughly six per cent higher on average than non-tariffed goods. The federal government imposed tariffs of 25 percent...
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Assiniboia Downs
The evolution of our local horse racing track, Assiniboia Downs, into a premier event facility is an accomplishment that needs to be seen to be believed and appreciated. With the 69th season of live racing scheduled to open on Tuesday evening with the...
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BURGER BUG BONANZA
Manitoba health officials are warning the public about possible exposure to hepatitis A at two Winnipeg locations as the province continues to deal with a growing outbreak of the virus. Manitoba Health, Seniors and Long-term Care said people may have...
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Grow Up, Manitoba MLAS
The Speaker of the Manitoba Legislature needs to be congratulated. Tom Lindsey has had more than enough of the low grade back and forth in the Legislature and has taken steps to get our elected representatives to behave like adults. That won’t be easy...
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Manitoba Declares HIV Public Health Emergency
Manitoba has declared a public health emergency over the growing spread of HIV as the province records some of the highest infection rates in Canada. Chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin announced the emergency Thursday, saying HIV...
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Dutch Heritage Day
Canada and the Netherlands have a long history together. As of the 2021 census, there are over one million Canadians with Dutch heritage, and roughly 40,000 of those are dual citizens. As a result, many people across this country celebrated two Dutch...
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Tough Times Ahead
Families in Winnipeg are already feeling stretched. Groceries cost more, mortgages have reset higher, and small businesses are watching every dollar. Against that backdrop, Prime Minister Mark Carney is asking Canadians to accept a risky idea: that our...
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COMPASSION OR COSTLY FAILURE
There’s a sentence in this debate that people are afraid to say out loud. It sounds cold. It sounds harsh. But it’s starting to feel unavoidable: What if we’re approaching homelessness completely the wrong way? A recent case out of Vancouver should...
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Food Prices Soar!
As noted by Kevin Klein in his recent column on the Manitoba Government’s challenge to grocery property controls, such a move does not address the larger issue driving up food prices: “Property controls are one piece of a much bigger puzzle. Food...
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Transit Chaos at City Hall
Winnipeggers who rely on transit are paying the price for City Hall’s latest round of political spin. The changes announced this week are not a fix. They are a temporary patch designed to manage backlash. The reality is simple. The transit overhaul...
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BAPTISM BY FIRE
A little better. A little bigger. A little stronger. That’s what Winnipeg Jets prospect Garrett Brown expects when he makes the jump from the college ranks to the pros this weekend. The 22-year-old defenceman, who just signed his first contract last...
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More Spin Than Savings
Families in Winnipeg are feeling it every time they walk into a grocery store. Bills are higher, portions feel smaller, and paycheques are not keeping up. The NDP government’s latest announcement targeting grocery store property controls may sound...
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Manitoba Métis
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is calling on the federal government to resolve outstanding treaty obligations and legal uncertainties before moving forward with legislation to implement a Métis self-government agreement. In a statement issued Tuesday...
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WATER AID TRIPLES
Demand for financial help with utility bills in Winnipeg has climbed sharply following recent program changes, according to a new administrative report set to be reviewed May 1. The report to the city’s standing policy committee on water, waste and...
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ELDER MURDER
Manitoba Justice of the Peace Weldon Klassen thought that, yes, mediation was the way to go. He was addressing the concerns of Gladys Bellamy, 80, who asked for the peace bond against Jose Francisco Raulino, 74. The day after — last Tuesday — cops...
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Prices Going Up
I, like many others, am disappointed that the City of Winnipeg awarded the food and beverage service at two city-owned golf courses to a Us-owned corporation. I suppose all the Buy Local – Buy Canadian hyperbole was made with hollow elbows. It was...
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WINNIPEG’S BILLION DOLLAR GAMBLE
Winnipeg’s city council is considering a freeze on water and sewer rates in 2027 IF the provincial and federal governments contribute to funding the final stage of the North End Sewage Treatment Plant. The city has budgeted a 4.2% rate increase for...
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HOPELESS HOUSING
Canadians have been told for years that the housing crisis is the natural result of market forces. Interest rates went up. Demand outpaced supply. Population growth added pressure. That explanation is simple, familiar, and politically convenient. It is...
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Tone Deaf City Hall
There are moments when leadership is tested, not by speeches or social media posts, but by a simple decision. This was one of those moments. And City Hall failed. The decision to replace Salisbury House at two Winnipeg golf courses with a U.s.-based...
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NAHANNI FONTAINE’S DOUBLE STANDARD
The media has been full of Nahanni Fontaine’s self-righteous indignation over the past couple of weeks — and if you only followed those headlines, you’d think she was the lone defender of decency in Manitoba politics. Her now widely circulated “we all...
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MANITOBA INFLATION!
Premier Wab Kinew continues to paint a steady, optimistic picture of Manitoba’s economy. The latest numbers tell a different story, and they are not open to interpretation. Statistics Canada reports Manitoba’s inflation rate jumped a full percentage...
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GILLINGHAM’S MANY BROKEN PROMISES
When Scott Gillingham ran for mayor, he offered voters clarity. He committed to a 3.5 percent property tax increase, promised to help deliver 8,000 new homes, and spoke directly about tackling homelessness and making Winnipeg Transit a better system....
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YOU’RE ON THE HOOK
Should citizens be required to indemnify government officials to receive government services? Should citizens be required to personally indemnify government officials for the officials’ own negligence or unlawful conduct as a condition of receiving...
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ENCAMPMENT PLAN SCRAPPED
City staff are recommending against moving ahead with a proposed managed homeless encampment pilot this spring and summer, citing tight timelines, high costs and limited provincial capacity to support the initiative. A report going before Winnipeg’s...
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MORE BUSINESSES CLOSE THAN OPEN
More Canadian businesses are shutting down than opening, according to new data that points to a sustained slowdown in entrepreneurship across the country. A report released by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) shows closures have...
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LIBERAL MAJORITY
The morning after the Liberals secured a majority government, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canadians can expect Parliament to be more substantive and less performative. “There’s a difference between real testimony, real substance, getting to...
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HOLE TO HEAVEN
A rare atmospheric phenomenon known as a fallstreak hole cloud was spotted over Winnipeg early Friday morning, drawing attention from residents and weather watchers across the city. Photos shared by the The Weather Centre of Manitoba show a striking...
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Tories can thank Trump for a Liberal Majority
By the time Mark Carney turns off the light and heads to bed Monday night, he will know for certain that he is presiding over a majority government. Carney and his Liberals currently have 171 seats in the House of Commons; the three byelections taking...
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MEMORIAL MOVED
Earlier this week, with little fanfare, the bronze statue of a First World War soldier, the one that stood guard at Portage and Main for over a century, was removed from the bustling downtown corner and relocated to the military section of Brookside...
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REALITY REJECTED
We often complain that we don’t get the truth from politicians. We insist we want them to be forthright and honest with us but it isn’t so. Writing his famous book The Prince in the 1500’s, Niccolò Machiavelli wrote something similar, essentially...
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POPULAR PREMIER?
Manitobans continue to give Premier Wab Kinew strong personal approval ratings, but remain far less convinced about the performance of his government, according to new data from the Angus Reid Institute. The April 8 report shows a gap between Kinew’s...
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$100K DRUG BUST AT STONY MOUNTAIN
Correctional officers at Stony Mountain Institution seized more than $100,000 worth of drugs and unauthorized items earlier this week, according to Correctional Service Canada. In a news release issued Wednesday, CSC said the contraband was...
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TRUMP THREATENS TEHRAN IN TIRADE
American President Donald J. Trump has threatened Iran that their “whole civilization will die tonight” if they don’t surrender the Strait of Hormuz immediately. On his Truth Social account, he wrote, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to...
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ENJOY THE VIEW
As the Artemis II astronauts set a new record for being the farthest humans from Earth during a lunar flyby, Canadian Jeremy Hansen said they hoped others would soon go even farther. The six-hour flyby is the highlight of NASA’S first return to the...
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IT’S NOT FIXED
Premier Wab Kinew keeps repeating a familiar line: “We’re fixing healthcare.” It sounds reassuring. It suggests progress. It implies a system turning a corner. But the data tells a different story. If we are serious about restoring trust in...
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SETTING FOR SILVER
The Winnipeg skip playing his first world curling championship was no match for the seven-time gold medallist from Sweden. Team Canada’s Matt Dunstone threw what he could at Niklas Edin’s squad in Saturday’s final but came up short in a 9-6 loss in...
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BRADY, BALI BOY & BOMBER BEAST
Asking pro football players about their off-season typically generates a ho-hum response about home life and training. Winnipeg Blue Bombers running back Brady Oliveira lowers his shoulder into that stereotype and obliterates it like a would-be...
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Liftoff!
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen is on his way to the moon after lifting off Wednesday aboard the Artemis II mission, marking humanity’s first crewed journey beyond low Earth orbit in more than half a century. The 50-year-old from London, Ont., is...
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REIMER’S RECORD RAISES RED FLAGS
Dr. Joss Reimer officially begins in her new role as Canada’s new Chief Public Health Officer, replacing Dr. Theresa Tam, on April Fool’s Day. Manitoba residents who have “lived experience” with Reimer’s woke priorities for public health aren’t...
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CONVENTION CONTROVERSY
Wab Kinew’s speech at the federal NDP convention no doubt appealed to the dregs of the NDP, the socialist performatively aggrieved rabble gathered in Winnipeg to elect their new leader. The party, no longer the party of the late Jack Layton, Tom...
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Budget Betrayal
Unless something changes, the former Mcintosh Indian Residential School (IRS) will not be searched any further for unmarked graves. Representatives from Grassy Narrows First Nation say they have been informed by federal officials that funding for...
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Santos Shifts Stance
Point Douglas city councillor Vivian Santos made a big announcement on Friday but seemingly wanted it to go as unnoticed as possible. She waited until 5 pm to inform residents and business owners in her ward, and more specifically the area around the...
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Fielding charged with sexual Assault
A former Manitoba cabinet minister and Winnipeg city councillor is facing a sexual assault charge following an investigation by the Winnipeg Police Service. Police said Scott Fielding, 53, was arrested March 26 by members of the service’s sex crimes...
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Fake Firm Fiasco
A new federal report is raising serious concerns about how Ottawa is handling contracts meant for Indigenous businesses — and whether the system is being abused. Federal procurement ombudsman Alexander Jeglic says several government departments,...
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Transcona Transgression
A Winnipeg city councillor has been charged following a police investigation into an alleged sexual assault involving an adult man. The Winnipeg Police Service’s sex crimes unit began investigating in February after receiving a report from the...
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NDP Budget Disappointment
You spin me round, right round. That is the best way to describe Premier Wab Kinew’s budget. A lot of motion, a lot of messaging, but Manitobans are no further ahead. The government is promoting a plan to remove PST from certain grocery items. It...
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‘Stop truck 1. Stop.’
Clément Lelièvre says the pilots of the Air Canada jet that collided with a fire truck on a runway at New York’s Laguardia Airport likely saved his life and the lives of other passengers late Sunday night. The pilot and co-pilot of Flight AC8646 were...
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Tears of Silver
Heartbreak is heartbreak, no matter how you colour it. Kerri Einarson’s Team Canada had experienced the bronze version of it in two world championships. Today she’s feeling it in silver. The38-year-oldfromcampmorton, Man., dropped the world women’s...
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ONE TO GO
Going from first to nearly worst has been an adjustment for Victor Olofsson, but he’s handled it like a pro. Olofsson’s first goal for Calgary was the winner on Friday as the former Colorado Avalanche winger led the Flames to a 4-1 victory over the...
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Hydro Hikes Despite Promises
Manitobans will see Hydro bills rise over the next three years after the Public Utilities Board approved a series of increases tied to the utility’s worsening financial position. In a final order released this week, the board confirmed a 4% rate...
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CRISIS IGNORED
In just three months, six people have died in residential fires in Winnipeg. Another remains in hospital, fighting for their life. For firefighters, these are not numbers. They are people pulled from smoke-filled homes, families shattered in the middle...
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NDP has done nothing
One year after a Winnipeg woman died while waiting for heart surgery, her family and a national advocacy group say little has changed in Manitoba’s health system. Debbie Fewster died in 2024 after waiting more than two months for cardiac surgery,...
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FACTS MATTER
While Manitobans have begun the spring ritual of dodging potholes, politicians in Ottawa are falling all over themselves to participate in a time-honoured tradition of switching parties. For many Canadians, there is nothing honourable about our...
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Inflation Drops to 1.8%
Canada’s annual inflation rate slowed to 1.8 per cent in February, dipping below the Bank of Canada’s two-per-cent target as price pressures eased in several key areas, according to new data from Statistics Canada. The federal agency reported Monday...
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Oh’ CANADA, what has happened?
What has happened to Canada? Many Canadians are asking that question because the country they believed in feels different today. Confidence in the rule of law, public safety and political leadership has weakened. When citizens begin to doubt those...
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Jets WIN 3-1
The Winnipeg Jets snapped a two-game losing skid and beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-1 on Saturday afternoon. “I thought we were competitive on pucks,” Jets head coach Scott Arniel said in his post-game comments. “We knew that with their talent and...
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Winnipeg Doc Exposes the Truth
A letter arrived in my inbox recently from a Winnipeg physician. Dr. Lynn Stevens has practiced medicine in our city for 33 years. Her message was not political. It was personal. And it should concern every Manitoban. Dr. Stevens wrote to the...
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Paramedic gets Pink Slip
A Manitoba paramedic who refused to respond to a life-threatening emergency call near the end of his shift was fired by his employer and later disciplined by the profession’s regulator. A disciplinary panel of the College of Paramedics of Manitoba...
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Polling the Pain
Athe Manitoba Nurses Union says the province’s decision to cut back private nursing agencies before a public replacement system was ready has worsened staffing shortages, a claim echoed by a former nurse who warns the move removed a critical “pressure...
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Lagasse Walkout Exposes PC Turmoil
With the amazing advances in medicine in the last one hundred years, we are living longer and generally enjoying a higher quality of life as we age. Hip and knee replacements allow us to carry on with our lives in ways that was not possible only a few...
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Nakba Exhibit Consultants Are Anti-israel Activists
It looks like critics who were concerned about whether there would be bias in the upcoming Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) exhibit “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” had cause to be concerned, after all. When the exhibit was...
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Women’s Day
Sunday was International Women’s Day, a day meant to celebrate progress. The gains women have made in business, politics, and public life deserve recognition. But for many families, including mine, the day also brings back painful memories. My mother...
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Freedom of expression under assault today
What kind of country fines its citizens for expressing an opinion about biology? What kind of government inserts itself into everyday language and declares certain words mandatory? Canada is moving closer to that line. This month alone, two human...
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Winnipeg citizens deserve responses from city council
In the private sector, there is a simple rule. If you do not return your customer’s call, someone else will. In public office, that rule should be even stricter. Taxpayers are not customers by choice. They fund the operation whether they like it or...
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Manitoba Mom Dies Abroad
The daughter of a Canadian woman killed in a bus crash in the Dominican Republic says her family is still searching for answers three days after the incident that left another Canadian dead and 13 others injured. Amanda Fullerton of Lockport, Man.,...
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WMR Membership Meltdown
Heading into the August long weekend of 2024, regional power-brokers were brimming with confidence. The development blueprint they had composed for a private corporation called the Capital Planning Region had passed through the board of their operating...
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Bloodvein Blockade Battle
The Manitoba Lodges and Outfitters Association is urging the province and the RCMP to intervene in what it describes as an illegal checkstop operated by Bloodvein First Nation on a provincial road in Manitoba’s northeast. In letters sent to Justice...
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Jets bitten again in OT
Michael Misa scored the game-winner as the San Jose Sharks beat the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 in overtime on Sunday afternoon. Misa split between Haydn Fleury and Adam Lowry, before his tight angled shot beat Connor Hellebuyck to the short side at 1:40. The...
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Acceptable hate speech?
Canada has made fighting racism a national priority. Governments at every level have funded programs, revised policies, and strengthened human rights protections to confront discrimination based on race, religion, and heritage. That commitment should...
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