http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials From overnight in-paper feed, daily en-gb Sat, 18 May 2013 17:52:35 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/mr-katz-strikes-out-again-207988891.html Mayor Sam Katz's taxpayer-funded campaign to promote his personal plan for the future of several Winnipeg golf courses is an abuse of power and more evidence he doesn't have the faintest grasp of public policy principles. The mayor and his ally-in-chief, deputy mayor Russ Wyatt, have broken just... Sat, 18 May 2013 07:47:35 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/welcome-to-the-1900s-drinkers-207835851.html Dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century -- yes, the 1900s -- the Manitoba government is now opening up the sale of alcohol on the merits of the commodity itself. It is allowing people to imbibe without having to order food and in a venue other than a bar, beer garden or restaurant. Fri, 17 May 2013 07:29:47 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/resign-mr-duffy-207835611.html Farmers and gardeners are spreading their spring manure, but the biggest stink wafting across the land has its origin in Ottawa, where a Senate scandal has tainted the prime minister's office and raised more demands for the excretion of the moldering Red Chamber from the national body Fri, 17 May 2013 07:30:30 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/mayor-selinger-207673411.html Winnipeg has a new mayor. His name is Greg Selinger, who has picked up where former mayor Gary Doer left off. Mayor Selinger, who doubles as the premier of Manitoba, announced $7.5 million in grants for recreation facilities, playgrounds and community centres in Winnipeg. This used to be the Thu, 16 May 2013 09:14:09 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/economy-trumps-in-bc-207673371.html There are several lessons to be learned from the Liberal upset in British Columbia. Polls are not the word of God, the economy matters most, and the environment is not a ticket to office. B.C. Premier Christy Clark was supposed to lose the election to the NDP -- every pollster said so, right to Thu, 16 May 2013 09:48:13 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/ndp-needs-its-fix-207500451.html Faced with mounting criticism of the evils of gambling, the Conservative government of Gary Filmon imposed a moratorium on VLT expansion in 1993, but even that wasn't good enough for then NDP leader Gary Doer, who said it was just a ploy by the Tories to get re-elected. Mr. Doer suggested the Wed, 15 May 2013 08:48:19 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/hadfields-wonderful-adventure-207330541.html Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has single-handedly reinvigorated the interest of Canadians and people around the world in the romance and importance of space exploration. It was no space oddity, either. He did it through tweets, video, photographs and song, but mostly through the force of his Tue, 14 May 2013 08:04:42 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/temporary-aint-what-it-used-to-be-207157371.html Rule No. 1 of Canada's immigration policy is: You can't come here because you might take a job from a Canadian. This is followed by a dense, scarcely penetrable jungle of rules by which you might come here and work if you are hired as a nanny or a tomato harvester or if you are a refugee from Mon, 13 May 2013 07:50:26 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/focus-on-education-no-really-207035451.html Everyone knows, and everyone has known for a very long time, that education is the key to lifting aboriginal Canadians out of poverty and into good-paying jobs. Everyone also knows, and they have known it for a very long time, that spending on aboriginal education has been inadequate, and still Sat, 11 May 2013 07:15:02 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/passenger-safety-207035511.html Via Rail officials were left to squirm as they tried to explain what they are doing -- not much -- to boost security following the arrest of several people in an alleged plot to blow up one of its trains. Testifying before the House of Commons Safety Committee Thursday, the officials couldn't Sat, 11 May 2013 05:50:15 CDT