Tagged Manitoba

Pallister’s COVID response a mortal sacrifice on the altar of profit

Across the world, the impact of COVID-19 continues to reveal deepening inequality. Throughout the developed capitalist countries, free market ideologues have escalated a foreseeable second wave in pursuit of profit, creating the perfect conditions [...]

Red River and white supremacy on the prairies

July 15 marked the 150th anniversary of Manitoba’s entry into Confederation as the fifth province of Canada, part of a sordid exercise in white supremacist control and violent ethnic cleansing. Manitoba is not unique in this regard – the [...]

Under cover of COVID, Pallister serves an environmental privatization bonanza

Manitoba’s Conservative government has used the coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic crisis as an opportunity to ram through legislation aimed at privatizing the province’s forests, parks, water infrastructure and flood control. A [...]

Demand accountability for the ethnic cleansing of Manitoba

150 years of the Red River Resistance As we watch protests across the US against the racist cop murder of George Floyd, it's important to remember that racist repression is not "an American thing." It is true that the US had a much longer history [...]

Pallister intensifies neoliberal attack

Stronger province-wide fightback needed to resist cuts, privatization Robert Crooks On March 3 Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister released his ministerial mandate letters, which pledge to reduce “dependency on government” by cutting services, [...]

Pallister Shoots First

The NDP in opposition is as tepid as it was in government, facing the Manitoba government of Pallister.

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