Dan Lett

Standing in an aisle of the Grant Park liquor mart on Saturday night, I found myself in the grips of a dilemma. I took a long, hard look at a 2023 unoaked Napa Valley Chardonnay and wondered if — give...

The only certainty for die-hard federal Liberals is they will have a new leader by March 9. Beyond that, uncertainty reigns over the entirety of the Gritdom. Even with a new leader, where do the Liber...

Last year, when Manitoba Public Insurance got a new CEO and board appointed by the new NDP government, there was hope that its recent dysfunction would be in the rearview mirror. Unfortunately, this week we got a reminder that the Crown corporation is still very much stuck in a muck of its own making.

It’s not a stretch to say that Jordan Charlie, in death, exposed all of society’s greatest failings.

Premier Wab Kinew is about to get a first-hand lesson about how difficult it is to do the right thing.

David and Joyce Milgaard’s Law passed third reading in the Senate on Wednesday and is slated for royal assent within the next week or so. However, assent does not guarantee the Miscarriage of Justice Review Commission will become a reality.

If you want to know just how far we are from a solution to climate change, one need only look at Ontario.

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 […]

The NDP government has retained former federal cabinet minister Lloyd Axworthy to lead an ambitious, two-year study into the relocation of rail lines and yards that currently occupy high-value property in Winnipeg’s core, the Free Press has learned.

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...