Under the Dome

with Larry Kusch and Bruce Owen

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• The (protest) Sounds of Silence

  NDP political operatives have been telling anybody who will listen for nearly a week that the Tories and the hog farmers have made a secret pact on Lake Winnipeg.

  View Full Post 06/20/2011 1:14 PM 0

• Cottage flooding

  This weekend I took a bike ride through Wanasing near Victoria Beach on Lake Winnipeg.

  View Full Post 06/13/2011 1:37 PM 0

• Sidewalks are safer

  I’ve been trying lately to ride my bike as often as I can to work.

  View Full Post 06/10/2011 11:24 AM 0

• Wisconsin's wind

  A few days ago Manitoba Hydro's Bob Brennan told me one of the hurdles the Crown corporation faces in selling more power to the United States is competition from American wind farms.

  View Full Post 06/6/2011 11:41 AM 0

• Lake Manitoba and things to come

  

  As a cottager, I can’t imagine for a second what folks at Twin Lakes Beach, Delta, Sandpiper, Dauphin Lake, Oak Lake and everyone else who lives, works and plays along the shores of our lakes, are going through.

  View Full Post 06/2/2011 12:29 PM 0

• Bipole III: $11,000 vs $13.68

  Here's a partial transcript of what happened Monday night at the legislative building.

  View Full Post 05/31/2011 2:29 PM 0

• ‘Paging Gord Steeves'

  Will he or won’t he?

  View Full Post 05/27/2011 12:04 PM 0

• Manitoba Hydro: Tell Your Story Better

  I spend a few moments each day, some moments are longer than others some days, reading and writing about Manitoba Hydro.

  View Full Post 05/26/2011 1:00 PM 0

• Gary Who?

  There was a time not that long where the NDP was worried about two things: Bipole III and no one knew who the heck Greg Selinger was.

  View Full Post 05/16/2011 4:35 PM 0

• The Black Swan

  The Public Utilities Board is slowly winding down its mega-hearing into Manitoba Hydro, and whether the Crown corporation has done a proper job of studying what could wrong in the next 10 years as it plans to spend $20 billion to build two new dams to sell more surplus power to Minnesota and Wisconsin.

  View Full Post 05/10/2011 1:49 PM 0

• Steeves vs. Oswald? Let’s get it on

  It’s been almost a month since the provincial Tories spring dinner, but the chatter continues.

  View Full Post 05/5/2011 11:08 AM 0

• Gord Steeves, Tory candidate?

  Watch this video from the Progressive Conservative’s spring dinner a couple of weeks ago and tell me what you think.

  View Full Post 04/29/2011 4:30 PM 0

• Beaches, buses and Scary Monsters

  So the NDP will spend $100,000 on studying how the beaches at Victoria Beach can be saved by high water levels and big waves. Freep reporter Bill Redekop and shooter Joe Bryksa covered the story in Thursday’s Free Press.

  View Full Post 04/28/2011 11:53 AM 0

• Hydro & Minnesota: Power chums

  We've heard a lot about Manitoba Hydro over the past couple of years.

  View Full Post 04/25/2011 2:23 PM 0

• Women make inroads, still have a ways to go

  They may make up only 18 of the 55 members (there are two vacancies) in the Manitoba legislature, but it can be argued that never have women played so prominent a role in the provincial government.

  View Full Post 04/18/2011 10:44 AM 0

• Cop chopper eye in the sky

  Someone told me a couple of days ago about an interesting benefit of the Winnipeg Police Service’s new helicopter.

  View Full Post 04/6/2011 5:37 PM 0

• Tories and NDP lead drive for cash

  Manitoba’s political parties have been busy preparing their 2010 financial statements, as required by Elections Manitoba.

  View Full Post 04/5/2011 1:06 PM 0

• Selinger on MPI and Bipole III

  

  This post features Premier Greg Selinger on this spring's Manitoba Public Insurance rebates  (on average $450, mailed out May 31) and the new estimate for Bipole III  ($3.28 billion from $2.24 billion).

  View Full Post 04/1/2011 3:25 PM 0

• The $16-billion question

  The damage of a recent leaked Manitoba Hydro document  on the cost of Bipole III goes beyond just the political potshots.

  View Full Post 03/25/2011 8:23 PM 0

• Dear Editor of The Victoria Beach Herald

  Dear Editor of The Victoria Beach Herald;

  View Full Post 03/22/2011 12:31 PM 0