The Sausage Factory

with Dan Lett

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• Update from H1N1 land: good news

  Shrek II is over, Finding Nemo has just begun AND THE ADJUVANTED VACCINE IS HERE!

  View Full Post 11/16/2009 1:23 PM 0

• Report from the H1N1 front lines

  10:18 a.m.

  View Full Post 11/16/2009 10:31 AM 0

• Our capacity for absurdity

  Why is it that society’s most absurd qualities come to the fore at those times when we can least afford to be absurd?

  View Full Post 10/30/2009 10:58 AM 0

• Premature Gesticulation?

  WINNIPEG — NDP leadership hopeful Steve Ashton spiced things up on Monday for countless journalists when he issued a news release that pretty much settled the matter of who was going to win the race to succeed Gary Doer.

  View Full Post 09/14/2009 5:25 PM 0

• Caldwell coy on leadership rumour

  Will he or won’t he? He apparently won’t. Maybe.

  View Full Post 09/10/2009 4:54 PM 0

• Apparently, it was so.

  

  After weeks of concern that B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell was seriously considering cuts to health care and education to battle the province’s growing budget deficit, the most conservative Liberal in Canada fulfilled everyone’s worst fears with a Speech from the Throne that calls for — you guessed it — cuts to health and education.

  View Full Post 08/26/2009 11:04 AM 0

• Lunacy repeating itself?

  Say it ain’t so, Gordon. Say it ain’t so.

  View Full Post 08/14/2009 10:46 AM 0

• An admission and a startling revelation

  It’s difficult to admit this, but recently I fell into the habit of reading more of my news online than in print.

  View Full Post 08/10/2009 9:49 AM 0

• Further to my excellent downtown adventure...

  It has occurred to me after reading some of the comments here, and those emailed directly to me, that one of the problems we have here is a dislike of "downtown lifestyle."

  View Full Post 07/2/2009 12:06 PM 0

• My most wonderful downtown adventure

  This past weekend I was lucky enough to spend most of Saturday and part of Sunday in Winnipeg’s downtown.

  View Full Post 06/29/2009 2:41 PM 0

• Reflections on Somali pirates, Canadian warships and rigors of flying

  
  It's been more than a week since I returned from nearly two weeks aboard HMCS Winnipeg, the Canadian warship that had been participating in a NATO-directed counter-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden. Here, in brief, are some of the things I learned:

  View Full Post 06/18/2009 9:52 AM 0

• Guilty with an explanation

  Sometime before I had children, I was returning from a jaunt in the Assiniboine Forest with my dogs when I decided to stop at Grant Park Mall to pick up something from Safeway. After my purchase, I tried to exit the mall parking lot on the east side, and proceeded to make a right-hand turn on Wilton Street to make my way to Taylor Avenue.

  View Full Post 05/8/2009 11:38 AM 0

• Buffoons make it easy

  
  Journalism is a great job. I’ve always felt that what I do beats working for a living. Some of my detractors may agree with that comment, although they may apply a completely different connotation. Anyway, the days I love being a journalist usually involve stories like this.....

  View Full Post 05/4/2009 1:59 PM 0

• Good, bad and downright ugly

  A quick perusal of the morning headlines will produce a wide range of ideas – good ones, bad ones and ideas that should be shot, buried and never talked about again.

  View Full Post 04/27/2009 11:27 AM 0

• The Jack Bauer syndrome

  

  In the category of guilty pleasures, I have to admit to being a loyal follower of the television show 24.

  View Full Post 04/23/2009 1:06 PM 0

• Truth in advertising?

  

  I really have to send a special shout out to the marketing department of the Conservative Party of Canada for their latest pamphlet, which arrived at my house about two weeks ago.

  View Full Post 04/21/2009 2:19 PM 0

• Time to mix things up

  So, I’m back from the floods in Fargo, the image of the boneless chicken wings at Buffalo Wild Wings stilled burned into my memory.

  View Full Post 04/6/2009 11:47 AM 0

• What journalists need?

  A recent column by the Globe and Mail's Lawrence Martin argues that what journalism needs is more "Jon Stewart outrage."

  View Full Post 03/21/2009 12:41 PM 0

• The depths of abject stupidity

  
  Today in Washington, the CEO of American Insurance Group, Edward Liddy, denounced $165 million in executive bonuses paid out last weekend to current and former employees, while at the same time urging Congress not to ask for the money to be repaid.

  View Full Post 03/18/2009 1:19 PM 0

• Striking a blow for the forces of revisionist history

  
  Pope Benedict XVI and Canada's minister of science and technology, Gary Goodyear, both did their part yesterday to roll back the clocks on the battle against HIV and AIDS and evolution.

  View Full Post 03/17/2009 10:06 AM 0