Over to you Kerri

CTV News, with Gord Leclerc, Marilee Caruso, and Kerri Irvin-Ross…
If Healthy Living Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross took a job as a news anchor she would actually be on TV less than she is now.
Seriously, there’s 18 cabinet ministers and another 18 NDP backbenchers, but it seems KIR is the designated spokesperson for every second announcement. In [...]

Biking does a body good (if you know what I mean)

The City has officially announced its first ever Bike To Work Day, scheduled for June 20th. I think it’s a great idea, although I wish some of our local politicos would commit to commuting by bike more frequently than once a year. In the UK, Conservative leader David Cameron has received a lot of [...]

The very real issue of crown donations to the CMHR

Prairie Topiary posted recently in defence of the $1 million donations from Manitoba’s four big crown corporations (MLCC, MPI, MB Lotteries and MB Hydro) to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. He makes some great points, and even has the Hack nodding his head in agreement (I always knew that guy was a closet [...]

Whatever happened to…

I just burned the better part of an hour on one of my new favourite YouTube channels: Jim Jaworski’s collection of late-eighties/early-nineties clips from Winnipeg news broadcasts.
Some of you may know Jim as a regular commenter on this blog, as a co-author on the TRUWinnipeg site, or as curator of Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online. But [...]

Some advice for the Freep blog squad

It seems the Freep’s experiment with blogging and video isn’t going so well. In a recent survey of the Free Press Insiders panel, only 25% of respondents said they watch a Free Press video at least once a week, and only 27% read a Free Press blog at least once a week. The paper says [...]

CJOB hates the planet

CJOB launched a new feature on Monday called the “Gas Gauge.” I’ll let traffic hound Brian Barkley explain it in his own words:
It’s called the Gas Gauge, and we’re getting traffic watchers give us the lowest gas price they see or the lowest gas price they pay…It will be interesting if we can drive prices [...]

Doer and Schwarzenegger: not “Twins” after all?

So, tell me if this sounds familiar: regional political leader who is acclaimed for his efforts to fight global warming faces tough decision — and potential criticism from environmentalists — over where to build a major new transmission line carrying sustainable power.
Manitoba? No, it’s California, where Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is supporting a proposal from a [...]

Quick thoughts for 05-01-08

I called him a dictator the other day, but I will give Gary Doer some credit for his proposed changes to the elections act. On the whole, I think they’ll go a long way toward democratizing the election process in Manitoba.
Yes, the Tories and Libs have been nitpicking about certain changes, but did you really [...]

Gary Doer is a dictator

Not content with simply being the Premier of Manitoba, Gary Doer has also decided he wants to be:

The Mayor of Winnipeg — by doling out funding to the City in drips and drabs targeted toward provincial government priorities. Also by doing an end-run around City process and committing funding to projects like the expansion of [...]

Doer’s slush drink fund

How is the MLCC donating $1 million to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights really any different than MPI’s failed and much-criticized attempt to donate $20 million to the U of W, BU and CUSB a few years back?
Isn’t this just a back-door way for the Doer government to provide more funding for the Museum?
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