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Flood review past due
Having resisted repeated demands for an inquiry into the quality of the 2011 flood forecasting and fighting, Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Steve Ashton launched Wednesday four reviews that will examine not just how the province prepared for the historic Assiniboine River flood, but look as well at how Manitoba's landscape ...
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Mr. Swan languishes on jails
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Dismiss MGEU's challenge
The Manitoba Government and General Employees Union is dogged in its aim to keep Manitobans from hearing the hard truth about how five-year-old Phoenix Sinclair could be murdered and buried nine months before child welfare authorities knew she was missing. It now wants to shut down an inquiry called years ago and launched recently into the death.
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Spare us vacuous tough talk
Manitoba is on track to run a deficit millions more than forecast in the Selinger government's 2011/12 budget. Despite what the government may say about how bad it could have been, how it strived mightily to contain the damage in the face of emergency flood expenses, the public ought to demand the province get serious about cutting costs. That means taking hard steps, not just talking tough, when negotiations with public sector unions hit the table.
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