Something is happening---and we don't know what it is, yet. It's like a change in the weather; your knees ache, the temperature drops suddenly, or the wind picks up and you don't know what's happening, but you know something is. There's been a change in the political weather in Manitoba. For the past two-and-a-half weeks the NDP's biggest allies at the Winnipeg Free Press have pumped out a barrage of commentary attacking the government, which individually and collectively are so flimsy they only indicate that the writers are grasping at straws. Columnist Niigaanwewidam Sinclair went full Tasmanian Devil on Education Minister Wayne Ewasko for calling Opposition leader Wab Kinew a ham. In the Legislature Ewasko said that Kinew "seems to stand in this house on a day-to-day basis pretending to be some kind of actor. He's no Adam Beach, Madam Speaker." Sinclair, who belongs to the Aboriginal Church of Perpetural Outrage, thundered that "Minister
The Black Rod has seen exclusive video of Turban Day at the Manitoba Legislature including the tense handshake confrontation between NDP leader Wab Kinew and Government Culture and Heritage Minister Obby Khan. Supplemented by unbroadcast video of media scrums with the two men it’s not hard to determine who is telling the truth and who is lying about the incident. You won't get this information anywhere else because the local news has been running interference for Kinew from the day he announced he was running for leader of the Manitoba NDP. http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2017/09/wab-kinews-accuser-finally-gets-to.html Khan was among a number of people called up to address the crowd in the rotunda of the Manitoba Legislature regarding the province's first-ever Turban Day event. His entire comments were caught on videotape so there's no misundertanding of what he said and what Wab Kinew says he said. Khan stood at the podium, which was 6 feet in front of an NDP banner set