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Tag: Winnipeg
Manitoba has a serious worker shortage problem
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is a simple solution: cut taxes to make the province more competitive and help attract and retain talent
School board meetings should happen in-person
Reading Time: 3 minutes Remote meetings are often not taken as seriously as in-person meetings
We can’t obliterate history, no matter how hard we try
Reading Time: 3 minutes If historical figures with 2020 attitudes could be found, renaming familiar streets and place names wouldn’t be so daunting
Dissecting Canada’s NHL underachievers
Reading Time: 4 minutes We could see as many as five Canadians teams in the playoffs – but more likely we’ll see two or three at this pace
Winnipeg’s statue cleansing a distortion of history
Reading Time: 4 minutes The mayor is misreading the events of the Northwest Rebellion and romanticizing a nasty moment in our country’s history
Epidemic of illegal firearms overwhelms Canadian cities
Reading Time: 5 minutes Corrections institutions are merely holding facilities with few effective rehabilitative programs. They must have programs for safe, effective reintegration
We can’t just throw money at crime prevention
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need to to treat the crisis of a growing prison population as a public health challenge rather than the narrower response being advocated
We must fight crime at its social roots
Reading Time: 3 minutes The rash of liquor store robberies in Winnipeg says more about underlying social problems than it does about the effectiveness of police
Don’t romanticize the Winnipeg General Strike
Reading Time: 4 minutes The dangerous, violent seeds of the communist revolution were being sown in Canada