Under the Dome

with Larry Kusch and Bruce Owen

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• Closure and Bill 20 — who’ll blink first?

  

  One of the more clever moves Opposition Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Pallister has made is making Steinbach Tory MLA Kevin Goertzen his party’s house leader.

  View Full Post 05/9/2013 1:43 AM 0

• Handcuffs and tax hikes

  
  Quiz time.
   
  When did Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Pallister say this?
   
  “The reason for that is that there is a significant accumulated debt which will be handed to younger people to repay. Younger people, unfortunately, will be saddled with that burden if things do not change in this country, and they must change because those younger people are my daughter and the sons and daughters and grandchildren of the members of this House and of all Manitobans. We have to bear responsibility for those people as much as for the people of today.”

  View Full Post 04/25/2013 3:35 AM 0

• A worse situation

  

  These words caught my attention in the recently released Manitoba 2011 Flood Review Task Force Report.

  View Full Post 04/9/2013 11:44 AM 0

• Police complaints up from 2010: LERA

  

  The province's Law Enforcement Review Agency recently released its 2011 annual report.

  View Full Post 03/22/2013 11:10 AM 0

• Lake Winnipeg in winter

  

  A couple of weekends this winter I’ve strapped on my cross-country skis and headed out on Lake Winnipeg.

  View Full Post 03/11/2013 8:56 AM 0

• Dandelions--Manitoba's next official flower

  

  There was a time when I'd get after my young daughters for blowing dandelions seed heads all over my lawn.

  View Full Post 03/1/2013 11:45 AM 0

• Geriatric Culling

  An upcoming inquest into the last year's death of Heather Brenan is welcome news to other families who've seen elderly loved ones die in Winnipeg hospitals.

  View Full Post 02/15/2013 9:44 AM 0

• When cops go bad

  

  There's been some gnashing of teeth lately with a jury's acquittal of Winnipeg police officers Const. Darrel Selley and Const. Kris Overwater.

  View Full Post 02/12/2013 8:00 AM 0

• Shotgun weddings NDP style

  Give Local Government Minister Ron Lemieux some credit.

  View Full Post 01/30/2013 3:18 PM 0

• Cowboys and Twix bars

  

  In room 236 of the Manitoba Legislative Building, two sets of eyes watch you coming and going.

  View Full Post 01/18/2013 10:24 AM 0

• Wisconsin nuclear plant to close

  

  It didn't make the news here, but it opened a few eyes at Manitoba Hydro. 

  View Full Post 12/11/2012 10:15 AM 0

• The ghosts of the legislative building

  

  She walks the upper galleries of the ornate legislative library late at night, when the lights are out and the only real people around are security guards.

  View Full Post 10/30/2012 9:15 AM 0

• ‘O Brad Wall, Brad Wall, wherefore art thou?'

  

  The last time I checked, he had a full-time job in Saskatchewan.

  View Full Post 02/29/2012 12:36 PM 0

• Kennedy’s just visiting

  It’s time to put to rest one rumour floating around at who might be the next Jon Gerrard.

  View Full Post 02/10/2012 10:20 AM 0

• Tory race and new crime rate

  Tory leadership race

  View Full Post 02/7/2012 11:03 AM 0

• More random thoughts

  Manitoba Hydro

  View Full Post 01/31/2012 12:17 PM 0

• Does the PUB matter?

  The Public Utilities Board came out with its long-awaited decision in the Manitoba Hydro general rate application on Tuesday.

  View Full Post 01/18/2012 3:18 PM 0

• Cabinet shuffle or scuffle?

  Boy, I’d like to be a fly on the wall in the NDP caucus room.

  View Full Post 01/13/2012 1:13 PM 0

• The PUB on MPI and Hydro

  Over the past few weeks I’ve asked Manitoba Public Insurance and Manitoba Hydro about how much in legal bills each has paid so far in their jurisdictional disputes with the province’s Public Utilities Board.

  View Full Post 12/23/2011 11:57 AM 0

• Selinger sit-down and the PUB

  Fellow Freep reporter Larry Kusch and I did a year-end sit-down with Premier Greg Selinger late last week.

  View Full Post 12/20/2011 3:51 PM 0