Feel it again! Posted: 12:04 AM CST Monday, Dec. 13, 2021 Last Modified: 1:47 PM CST Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023

Another October coming up, and still the Nobel Peace Prize Committee refuses to give Donald Trump his prize. They even gave one to Barak Obama, who was Black and a Democrat and had only been in office for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, they ignore a man truly worthy of the prize, a man who ended eight wars last year alone. (He said so himself.)

Unfortunately the prize committee has a long record of backing the wrong person.

They gave it to Aung Sang Suu Kyi of Myanmar, who defended the Rohingya genocide: “I don’t think there is ethnic cleansing going on,” she said.

They gave it to former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger, who ordered the secret carpet-bombing of Cambodia: “The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.”

Police are looking for suspects after a 46-year-old man was stabbed on Portage Avenue Wednesday.

Officers were called at about 5:45 p.m., and found the victim with serious upper-body injuries in the 200 block of Portage Avenue. He was sent to hospital in unstable condition but has been upgraded to stable condition.

The suspects fled before police arrived. Investigators say the victim was confronted by several people in the 300 block of Portage Avenue and was stabbed with an unknown weapon. He went to a nearby business, where police were called.

Anyone with information should contact police at 204-986-6219, or leave a tip anonymously at Crime Stoppers at 204-786-TIPS or winnipegcrimestoppers.org.

A Recent Maggie Macintosh piece (Enrolment up at alternative schools, Sept. 7) and several letters to the editor touted the benefits and values of private schooling. The executive director of the Manitoba Federation of Independent Schools, Andrew Micklefield, emphasized schools of choice and governmental cost-saving. A private, formerly public, schoolteacher emphasized finances, academics and parental support.

None are wrong in their arguments, but they are missing the main reasons for the existence of public schools, which has less to do with money and academics than with inclusion and equality. Nor do they adequately acknowledge the downsides of exclusion and elitism fostered by some aspects of choice and inequality. The increase in numbers of private schools and their attendees is a cause for some public concern.

Micklefield’s assertion is that private schools save the government money. Letter-writer Paulo Borges intimates he saves the province $52,500 ($15,000 each for three home-schooled children and $7500 for one private-school tuition), further suggesting that the savings are not used wisely by governments in supporting public schools.

In the front-page article, Micklefield and others go further to suggest that the main reason parents choose private schools is to receive an education in a Christian setting. That is a very limited rationale and certainly does not include the much larger variety of reasons why people choose private schooling or an even more restricted version of schools of choice, home schooling.

BRANDON — A number of mayors have decided not to run for re-election in western Manitoba municipalities.