The Black Rod

New Premier Wab Kinew has condemned hundreds of Manitobans to months of agony by imposing his hard-left policy on hip and knee surgery patients, according to wait list data released last week. The explosive details have not been reported anywhere except for a single opinion piece in the Winnipeg Free Press, demonstrating how far the mainstream media will go to protect the premier from criticism. The data shows that in the first six months of the NDP in power, there were 263 fewer hip-and-knee surgeries in Manitoba compared to the last six months of the Conservative Party. And that's in addition to hundreds of hip-and-knee surgeries that could have been done if the NDP hadn't banned sending patients to private clinics in the U.S. or other provinces. To make matters worse, the median wait time for surgery in Manitoba jumped from six-and-a-half months to eight months.    The government explains that the median wait means that the half of patients on the wait list--those who have ...

It must have been as if Christmas came early. The liberal press was nearly orgasmic at the thought of witnessing their political messiah Justin Trudeau demonstrate his magnificence by casting out the conservative demons in Parliamentary byelections. Three times he had gone into the Temple of the Beast (well, Manitoba), preaching about scandal in Ottawa, and promising to cleanse the rot in a puff of (pot) smoke. Giddy with anticipation, they came  to anoint their saviour---he who would restore Liberals to their rightful place as the natural governing party once he demonstrated his miraculous powers to the voting public. They gathered to witness the rebirth of the Party--- these self-proclaimed shepherds of the ignorant masses, angels in their own minds, and a lot of asses. After all, hadn't the oracles predicted an easy and crushing victory?  'Liberals 29 points ahead in Brandon-Souris' declared the Forum Research sages. And it didn't...

Pass the hammer. We've got to knock some noses back into joint. UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar wasn't trashing Manitoba when he talked about receiving third-world health care in a Brandon hospital. He was holding up a mirror. Don't like what you see? Stomping your feet and making chauvinist squeals won't change the picture. Lesnar is a professional athlete; he knows pain. He's a professional mixed martial arts fighter; he knows extreme pain . So when he doubled over with pain while hunting with his brother in southwestern Manitoba last November, he knew it was something unusual and very serious. He was admitted to Brandon General Hospital on or about Nov. 7 only to find the CT scanner was out of commission and had been for four days. A CT scan is the most common test for a potentially life-threatening abdominal disorder like diverticulitis, which was what Lesnar had. So what's the problem, asks Carmel Olson, CEO of the Brandon regional health...