Tom Brodbeck

City hall’s latest motion to regulate homeless encampments is bound to spark controversy. But on this one, Winnipeg city councillors probably struck the right balance between compassion for the homele...

By now, it’s a ritual as predictable as a pothole in spring: a high-profile crime occurs, public outrage builds and politicians rush to microphones to demand “bail reform.”

It’s hard to imagine a more brazen attack on the independence of the judiciary than what unfolded in Manitoba in 2021. Two Calgary lawyers, John Carpay and Randal Jay Cameron, made the astonishing dec...

So much for the NDP’s election pledge to reduce emergency room wait times. After nearly two years in government, the NDP has not only failed to reduce historically high wait times in ERs and urgent ca...

The Manitoba NDP made a big promise during the 2023 election campaign: to open the province’s first supervised consumption site. Nearly two years later, that promise remains just that — a promise.

The City of Winnipeg’s latest public survey has delivered another dose of reality when it comes to public transit in this city. According to the 2025 Resident Satisfaction Survey, fewer than half of r...

Canadians deserve a serious conversation about how to make a federal electric vehicle mandate workable, not a political stunt that promises a return to business as usual.

As wildfire smoke drifts south across the Canada-U.S. border, turning skies orange and triggering air-quality alerts in major American cities, Republican lawmakers south of the line scramble for someone to blame.

If you want to understand how bad things have gotten at Winnipeg’s largest hospital, consider this: the Manitoba Nurses Union is asking its members whether to “grey list” Health Sciences Centre becaus...

If you believed the NDP’s promise during the 2023 provincial election that they’d balance the books by the end of their first term in office, you might want to brace yourself for some disappointment.