The election is over so I guess the FreeP won't be publishing my letter. I always hang on to them for a week after submitting just in case. Dear Winnipeg Free Press All the big cities have fallen to Post Media, but Winnipeg proudly continues to have an independent daily newspaper. So it’s all the more disappointing that our scrappy Winnipeg independent is bowing to power instead of honouring our democratic ideals. The CBC managed to find a rubric to exclude most of the mayoral slate from the televised debate, including only the three front-runners incapable of producing a single progressive policy proposal between them. The FreeP has been giving disproportionate ink to the same three, despite a field 12 candidates wide and a largely undecided electorate. This purportedly unengaged and uninspired electorate rose up 1300 strong to appeal for another candidate – a fresh face, a young voice, a progressive thinker – to be included in CBC’s one-hour (with c...
Shift Action is helpfully equipping Canadians to petition the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board not to destroy our future with its investments in fossil fuels. Of course, they are completely ignoring us, but one tries anyway. They've just completed their biennial cross country tour where they fly 4 or 5 executives to almost a dozen different cities to hold a public meeting of exactly one hour in duration. A good half of the meeting is spent on them self congratulating on what a good job they are doing. Then they turn it over to open mic where they do their best to avoid giving straight answers to any questions. They cut off the meeting precisely on the hour regardless of how many people are still standing in line for the mic. Given how much expense and effort goes into setting up these meetings (they pay for downtown parking for attendees with a generous hour or more margin on either side of the meeting!), one would think they could maybe be available for a larger window ...