Under the Dome

with Larry Kusch and Bruce Owen

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• Of sweaty Mennonites and Rush's snub

  I try to use Twitter and Facebook to connect both with readers and old friends.

  View Full Post 09/30/2010 1:49 PM 0

• Streetcar Backtracks update

  

  On Sept. 19 more than a few people showed up for a special screening of Backtracks at Cinematheque.

  View Full Post 09/22/2010 11:20 AM 0

• Manitoba Hydro vs. The Whistleblower: Chapter 602

  A notice from the Manitoba's Public Utilities Board landed on our desks late Monday afternoon.

  View Full Post 09/21/2010 11:10 AM 0

• Black coffee, Curtis, Brian and James

  And Facebook, Twitter and Menno, too.

  View Full Post 09/20/2010 10:26 AM 0

• Dear Vic, I can be your patsy, too

  

  Dear Vic;

  View Full Post 08/11/2010 11:47 AM 0

• Hell's Clubhouse

  

  So what will become of the Hells Angels clubhouse on Scotia?

  View Full Post 08/4/2010 12:49 PM 0

• Go Sam Go

  Here’s some cheap advice for Sam Katz as he campaigns to keep his job as mayor:
  
  Sam, maybe you or one of your minions should give Paul Soubry  over at New Flyer Industries a dingle.
  
  Like, before you buy a bunch of electric street cars.
  
  Just give Soubry a call and say, “Hey, let’s do coffee,” so the two of you can chat about what New Flyer is doing in Cleveland and Halifax and Ottawa with its swanky buses  being built right here in River City.
  
  And maybe, just maybe, you can do another rapid transit newser, but this time to say that you’re gonna support a local company and create jobs for local people, instead of spending millions on something we got rid of in the 1950s because they were so unreliable and so freaking cold in the winter.
  
  
  Your pal, Bruce
  
  (P.S. Thanks again for the Stones tickets in ’94).
  
  bruce.owen@freepress.mb.ca

  View Full Post 07/6/2010 6:20 PM 0

• NDP crapshooters

  

  Two words I hadn’t heard in my life until this spring? Sewage ejectors.

  View Full Post 06/1/2010 12:52 PM 0

• Photo radar poll

  I’ve covered the photo radar in Winnipeg since its very beginning almost 10 years ago.

  View Full Post 05/27/2010 2:59 PM 0

• “Stand and deliver!”

  There was a Monty Pythonesque moment in question period the other day (OK, insert your own joke here) when the opposition Tories accused Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers of behaving like Robin Hood when it came to the NDP’s treatment of the family farm, and how the government is trying to whittle down spending to deal with the deficit.

  View Full Post 05/19/2010 1:05 PM 0

• The Jets and my brain

  

  All this stuff about the NHL and the future of the Phoenix Coyotes brought back all those memories I thought I had snuffed out.

  View Full Post 05/13/2010 1:15 PM 0

• What’s Jon thinking?

  So there we were on Tuesday sitting up in the legislature press box for question period wondering when things might actually get interesting.

  View Full Post 05/11/2010 4:54 PM 0

• Will summer come to Broadway?

  

  Despite appearances, the business of government works by schedule.

  View Full Post 05/4/2010 12:30 PM 0

• The $1.4-billion question

  

  He’s the former mayor of Brandon, a former MP and now the Progressive Conservative MLA for Brandon West.

  View Full Post 04/29/2010 11:17 AM 0

• Hells Angels clubhouse days numbered?

  

  It only took a couple of minutes in a committee room at the back of legislative building, but it was enough.

  View Full Post 04/27/2010 11:22 AM 0

• A nose-diving tailspin?

  It’s stuff like this that leave you wondering if Jon Gerrard’s Manitoba Liberals are truly crashing.

  View Full Post 04/26/2010 11:38 AM 0

• More jail cells and the NDP

  A curious thing is happening in Manitoba.

  View Full Post 04/15/2010 11:37 AM 0

• If not the NDP, who? Hugh McFadyen?

  This past weekend’s provincial NDP convention in Winnipeg is now but a bitter-sweet memory.

  View Full Post 04/12/2010 12:43 PM 0

• 20 cents of separation

  It wasn’t surprising that this week’s minimum wage announcement pleased neither organized business nor organized labour.

  View Full Post 04/9/2010 2:02 PM 0

• Comparing apples and oranges

  Wednesday's provincial budget in Saskatchewan will likely become part of the debate here Under the Dome as Manitoba politicians pick apart Rosann Wowchuk's financial blueprint.

  View Full Post 03/25/2010 12:53 PM 0