Dan Lett

Hope turned to dread when Brian Flamand opened the door of his Corydon Avenue apartment on the afternoon of Feb. 4. An hour earlier, Flamand had called the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s Mobile Crisis Unit to get some help for his longtime roommate, James Stokes. Stokes — who is HIV positive and suffers from a heart condition and has a range of mental-health issues — had suffered some sort of crisis earlier in the day. He had become angry, anxious and volatile. At one point, he slammed a baseball bat down on the kitchen counter. Flamand took the bat away […]

Something’s got to give. This year has been — in my humble, anecdote-based opinion — one of the most challenging for driving in and around Winnipeg. Rush hour is more intense, starts earlier and lasts...

Exactly 364 days after a provincial election returned the NDP to power, is it finally time for Manitoba Progressive Conservatives to leave the political penalty box?

The NDP government is undertaking an extensive review of the Mental Health Act to see if there are ways to de-emphasize the role of police, and increase non-police options, when responding to mental h...

Welcome to the age of the carrot. Instead of taxing individuals in the hope they’ll give up fossil fuels, more political leaders are embracing a strategy to motivate people to embrace cleaner transportation and home heating.

Any time a government fails to deliver on a hallmark program or policy, red flags go up. When that government deliberately refuses to release basic information about its failure, the red flag quickly becomes an air raid siren.

More than 400 years ago (nobody knows exactly when), someone (nobody knows exactly who) observed that rats had an innate ability to sense when a building was going to collapse and flee before being cr...

Opinion: Immigration not to blame for Canada’s woes despite Poilievre’s claims

In a desperate bid to boost his popularity, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned to an odd strategy: he announced harsh new levies against Chinese-made electric vehicles. It might not seem obvious...

Here in Manitoba, gas taxes and solar energy are connected by current government policy and future energy needs. Dan Lett connects the dots, starting with gas taxes.