The Black Rod

It was like a blow to the solar plexus. It was the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech and the newscasts across North America were all carrying stories.  They can't broadcast the entire speech because it is copywrited, so they ran small excerpts.  We were flipping channels when we landed on this clip from the speech: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! It felt as if the air was sucked out of the room.  There was the stark realization that the NDP have taken Manitoba 50 years into the past--- to a time when racism was accepted practice by governments, when racist speech was not condemned, when racists openly held public office.  Welcome to Greg Selinger's Brave New World. Manitoba Premier Selinger let slip in the Legislature yesterday t...

Manitoba Deputy Premier Eric Robinson is hiding behind the skirts of dead women to keep his job. Ever since his racist views about white people were revealed last week, Robinson has been under pressure to resign or be removed by Premier Greg Selinger. Selinger, instead, has tried to protect his racist cabinet minister, but he only has one arrow in his bow---that Robinson has lobbied on the race-specific issue of "missing and murdered aboriginal women". Tuesday, Selinger raised the ante to claim that Robinson was nothing short of a Canadian hero, that he had single-handedly forced police across the country to start investigating the murders of aboriginal women because, he implied, the lazy, incompetent, racist fuzz hadn't been doing their job. WE'RE NOT MAKING THIS UP.  It's what he said in the Legislature. Selinger dismissed Robinson's racist remarks ("the ignorance of do good white people") as something he said ...

Idle No More has joined the fray into racist remarks made by Manitoba's Deputy Premier , and, guess what? Apparently his comment attacking the "ignorance of do good white people" is not racist, it's describing "an attitude."  Sort of like the term' drunk Indian' is a comment on sobriety and public intoxication, and not a racist slur. Tanya Kappo, one of the claimants to originating Idle No More by inventing the hashtag for the movement, couldn't help but jump into the controversy this weekend through her Twitter account. "Smarten up," she lectured Osborne House executive director Barbara Judt, the target of Robinson's racist comments.  "You're the one who is blatantly lying."  Nothing like civil discourse from a would-be lawyer ( ptui ).  " Ignorance of do good white people " is describing an attitude, not racist, declared Kappo. Uh, sweetie, once you bring somebody's ra...

The two groups that thought they had control over the content within the Canadian Museum for Human Rights have been shocked to learn that they don't.  One is fighting mad and the other is scared and confused on how to respond. You've heard how one arm of Manitoba's Indian Chiefs insists that the CMHR label Canada's treatment of its aboriginal people as "genocide."  You  haven't heard how a segment of Winnipeg's Jewish community is shaken by concerns that the Palestinian viewpoint of Israel's creation will be allowed to be advanced within the museum. The divisiveness and hatred the CMHR will stir up was evident when the first reports reached the public Monday of a letter sent to Stu Murray, CEO of the human rights museum, by perennial protester Grand Chief Murray Clearsky, of the Southern Chiefs Organization. The mainstream media has given you a sanitized synopsis of the letter. You've got to read the original to...

Do you smell another city audit coming? This bombshell has been ticking away on the Internet for more than a week. Jul 4, 2013, 3:56 AM wait until the final cost overruns become public....yowza....upwards of 20%....still dealing with screw ups like having to go back and insulate a two season mechanical system. We're not going to identify the source other than to say its A Person In A Position To Know. The official price of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers stadium is $190 million. Add a 20 percent cost overrun ($38 million) and you have a stadium that's costing almost DOUBLE what was originally proposed to city taxpayers . But, but, but...wasn't the stadium built at a fixed price, with all overruns the responsibility of the contractor?  Phil Sheegl, chairman of BBB Stadium Inc. (Blue Bombers-Bisons), the entity that built the stadium, says so. http://forums.bluebombers.com/index.php?topic=32791.0 But The Person In A Position To Know says not.  .....

Imagine this... A passenger on a Winnipeg Transit bus captures a hate crime on video with his cell phone. Local television stations get wind of what he's got and turn the video into a news story. But... Their story is all about how tough it is being Ralph Kramden in Winnipeg.  All the racism in the video is deliberately excised. Well, you don't need to imagine. That's exactly what happened, with CBC and Global News this Friday.  T hese "professional" journalists decided to whitewash the story for general consumption.   And they would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for citizen journalist Marty Gold, of The Great Canadian Talk Show, who decided to watch the video (posted on Youtube) for himself and was floored by what he saw. He started to spread the word. The video depicts the disruption caused on a Corydon bus in downtown Winnipeg in the middle of a June afternoon by two foul-mouthed men who had been harassing a girl to the po...

The CBC stumbled across a great story the other day, but didn't recognize what they found and didn't know what to do with it. A perky reporter burbled on about how some group called Economic Development Winnipeg had created a series of videos  promoting the city's advantages to entice companies to start doing business in the city. There was one problem, though, said the reporter. "The average citizen, they're not high on the city — and I have no idea why" she was told by a rep for a CEO recruitment company. Some group wants to lure businessmen to move to Winnipeg while the people who live in Winnipeg think the place is a dump.  Why, you ask? Well, why don't you start with the joy of living in the murder capital of the country, the gang capital, the province with the lowest after-tax income in the country and the highest taxes west of Quebec, a city with the most incompetent city council in the country, a downtown overrun with panhand...

With an angry mob of outraged citizens howling for her head, city manager Gail Stephens is fleeing the City of Victoria for refuge in Winnipeg. Stephens, who, funnily enough, was once Winnipeg's first chief administrative officer, will start a job with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in August. She'll be a perfect fit. Back in Victoria, she's accused of misleading Victoria city council in 2011 by deliberately lowballing the cost of a contentious bridge project --- just ahead of a civic election in which the bridge replacement was a big issue for many voters. It wasn't until March of this year that a memo produced in answer to a freedom of information request revealed that, two months before Stephens declared the project was "on budget", city officials knew the real cost of the replacement bridge would be millions of dollars higher than the $77 million budget. A citizens watchdog group has called for an independent ...

The NDP lemmings have followed their leader off the cliff.   They pinched their noses tight, swallowed their anti-emetic pills and voted for the dirtiest politician in Manitoba, and now they're paying the price. He's taken them past the point of no return and even the most stalwart supporters of the Party are wondering "why"? Greg Selinger hasn't only watched his personal popularity plummet, he's taken the NDP with him to the bottom.  A Probe Research poll shows the NDP support has collapsed to a root cellar low of 28 percent  compared to the Opposition's 46 percent; and  that's not even half the story . Outside Winnipeg,  the NDP are dead meat, garnering barely 18 percent of decided voters . Given the 3 percent margin of error in the poll, the NDP are tied with, if not below, the Liberal Party (16 percent), which hasn't been a viable political force in Manitoba since the Swinging Sixties. *  NDP support is far behind the Conservati...