Tom Brodbeck

It should come as no surprise that Wolseley School is changing its name. In fact, it’s surprising it took this long.

The NDP government’s new Path to Net Zero plan has all the right buzzwords — sustainability, electrification, resilience — and plenty of good ideas in broad strokes. But for a government that has made...

Manitobans should be deeply troubled by the escalating pattern of violence, vandalism, and arson directed at the constituency offices of two provincial cabinet ministers, Nahanni Fontaine and Bernadette Smith.

Premier Wab Kinew says he wants Manitoba to become a “have” province by 2040. It’s a bold pledge, a catchy soundbite and it no doubt plays well politically. But the reality is, it’s more fantasy than...

Premier Wab Kinew’s government is running out of fiscal runway. A recent report from Moody’s delivered a wake-up call last week about Manitoba’s deteriorating finances. The bond rating agency predicte...

When governments announce a major hospital expansion, it’s usually billed as a silver bullet solution to long wait times and overcrowding. The latest example is St. Boniface Hospital’s newly expanded...

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...

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.