Temporary Foreign Worker Program investigated
There are 300,000 foreign workers holding jobs in Canada. Now, some restaurant owners are accused of replacing long time employees with temporary imports.
This report card needs improvement
A report was released in March indicating the Manitoba provincial government earned a C letter grade in delivering its budget targets and providing transparent financial reports.
Climate change debate heats up
Agnostic is the term I’m choosing to describe what I believe about climate change. In other words, I don’t know. And, unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be many reliable honest brokers of the truth any more.
Heartbleed Bug tsunami?
Internet users need to be aware of potential compromises that are possible from Heartbleed Bug, the computer software vulnerability that was recently made public.
NHL playoffs with just one Canadian team
The Montreal Canadians are the only Canadian team in this year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs — the worst showing by Canadian teams in 41 years. What’s happened to our ‘national game’ at the NHL level?
Taxpayers demand transparency of politicians’ expenses
When Senators Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau got into trouble over expenses they rung up on the public purse, it seemed to have raised the stakes for what voters will put up with from their politicians.
A history many Manitobans don’t know
Justice Thomas Berger, the man who successfully showed the federal government failed to honour a promise it made to Métis people 140 years ago, was in town recently to set the historic record straight.
Housing-first best way to deal with mental health, homelessness
A groundbreaking Canadian study reveals that it is less expensive and more beneficial to find housing for people with mental illness rather than pay for the social problems that come with homelessness.
U.S., Canadian health care systems share some challenges
No matter what side of the border one examines, health care remains the single most costly budgetary item for governments in North America; and keeping those costs down is no easy task.
Good buys for goodbyes
As Manitoba artist Wendy Provins prepares to move to British Columbia, Gallery 415 on St. Anne’s Road is saying goodbye with an open house featuring many of her latest works.