Andrew Tod

  • Requiem for a lacklustre leader

    The political winds of Manitoba are shifting, or so one would be inclined to believe from the smorgasbord of patented verbal back slaps that have been heaped upon freshly-resigned premier Gary Doer.

  • Ignatieff’s summertime blues

    Summer is a strange time for federal politics in Canada. Since Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff opted for the popular choice and refrained from forcing a summer election over a paltry disagreement with his Conservative counterparts over employment insurance legislation, Canadians will be without the sometimes-depraved and often hackneyed ruminations of the brutes from the House of Commons until the fall.

  • Online housing network not ‘magic bullet’

    A recently launched online resource known as the Winnipeg Rental Network is addressing inadequate levels of housing information for those seeking low-income rental units in the city.

  • The real peril of H1N1

    Well, it had to happen eventually. Despite all of the gaudy comparisons to the Great Depression, the news story candle that is the ‘global recession’ had to burn itself out of fashion sooner or later.

  • Yes we…could

    When it comes to the discourse of the city we call home, Winnipeggers are a paradoxical lot. For example, typically disparate social strata-like developers, business owners, activists and ordinary residents alike agree that something must be done about the malaise of our downtown, but most of the city still performs a mass exodus of the area every day at evening rush hour.

  • Two-faced Harper can’t decide

    Stephen Harper does not seem himself lately. Gone are the days of the fiscally responsible hardliner, with his dogmatic adherence to the government bottom line. That persona seems to have died the day that the ill-begotten trio of opposition party leaders raised their collective voice in outrage at the timid Conservative government response to the country’s economic plummet.

  • Where is our civic vision?

    A newfound interest in how Manitobans portray themselves to the world seems to have begun in earnest.

  • Crimes against society

    Fortunately, the trial of Vincent Li – the man who murdered Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus last summer – has ended.

  • Discrimination a two-way street

    The January ceasefire reached in Gaza may have ended the Israeli Operation Cast Lead offensive against Hamas, but here in Canada it certainly has not served to curb public backlash against Israel’s actions.

  • Waiting for the verdict

    On Jan. 7, two prominent members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Winston Blackmore and James Oler, were charged with one count each of practising polygamy. The Bountiful, British Columbia church is a pseudo-religious sect of the Mormon Church which claims God’s word justifies the right of men to marry as many women as they wish. Blackmore is alleged to have somewhere around 20 wives, while Oler’s charges relate to his marriages to two women. Police have claimed that some of these wives may have been 15 at the time of their marriages to the two religious leaders.

  • Hydro ignores our history and heritage

    It is amazing what a difference one day can make. In fact, in the case of Manitoba Hydro – that most sacred cow of all Manitoba’s crown corporations – the period of time that it took to go from announcing an almost impressively naïve expansion plan to public repentance for that very plan took less than 24 hours.

  • Who to choose? Neil Young, Feist…

    By the time you read this, Barack Obama will have been inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. After one of the most indelible political campaigns of all time he will find himself at the helm of the most influential political position in the world.

  • Between good and evil in the holy land

    After stalling for over a week to produce any considerable public comment concerning the latest outbreak of hostilities in Gaza, the Canadian government finally broke its ill-advised silence on the matter last week. Junior foreign affairs minister Peter Kent was sent out to inform Canadians of their government’s position on the situation.

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