Wab Kinew is officially sworn in as Manitoba’s first First Nations premier on October 18, 2023 at a ceremony at The Leaf in Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park. Photo courtesy Wab Kinew/X. Wab Kinew’s victory over Heather Stefanson in the recent Manitoba provincial election is a moment of progressive hope in what
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Canadian Dimension: Poilievre’s working class pitch needs to hit an NDP wall
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to supporters at a rally in Alberta. Photo from Facebook. “Dog bites man isn’t news,” the old adage goes. “But man bites dog sure is.” The rare, unusual, freakish and shake-your-head unbelievable is newsworthy. And so it has been well reported that new Conservative
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: What I learned about managing media in the 2022 ONDP campaign
Former Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath mingles with local residents at a campaign stop in Belleville. Photo by Nicole Kleinsteuber/InQuinte.ca. Back on January 13, then-leader of the Ontario NDP, Andrea Horwath, teamed up with Ontario Nurses Association President Catheryn Hoy to warn Ontarians that 20,000 more nurses must be hired
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Is Canada’s governor general just a rubber stamp for the PM?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and newly appointed Governor General Mary Simon. Photo from Twitter. Only 26 percent of Canadians would be happy with an election this fall, according to a recent Nanos poll. But at the end of the first week of August, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may visit Governor
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Liberals could have worked with the NDP to ban conversion therapy—instead, they chose to play games with the Tories
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during an event before raising a pride flag on Parliament Hill to mark the start of Pride month, June 1, 2016. Photo from Twitter. Conversion therapy is premised on the noxious idea that gay people are broken. These pseudoscientific “therapies” can be extremely harmful, and
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