Trib Exclusive: Spending Promises Cornerstone of Pre-Election Jockeying
Friday, August 25, 2023 – As the finishing touches get put on the pre-election preparation by the political parties, the massive amounts of spending by the PC’s, particularly in healthcare, appear to have taken the stick out of the NDP’s hands. The settling of the MLCC strike also takes away a valued weapon to try […]
Trib Exclusive: How to Lose an Election 101
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 – Egged on by fringe radical environmentalists and their allies in MSM touting “climate change,” the Manitoba NDP has announced they would subsidize the purchase of electric vehicles by the well-to-do of up to $4000. Marty Gold suggests that considering how Wab Kinew has opposed carbon tax rebates and other cost-of-living […]
Trib Exclusive: Sheriff Wab?
With public safety emerging as a primary concern of voters heading into the election, NDP leader Wab Kinew told a crowd on Wednesday that despite his previous charges/ allegations and convictions, he’s ready to take on crime and especially drug dealers.
Trib Exclusive: Union Members Not Returning The NDP Love
Monday, August 14, 2023 by Marty Gold With the Manitoba NDP steadily sinking in the polls and losing a long-standing lead over the Progressive Conservative government, they’ve been counting on rallying their bedrock support from unions with multiple announcements supporting workers. While union leaders may be on board with Wab Kinew, one of the NDPs […]
Trib Exclusive: Kinew Between A Landfill And A Hard Place
Friday, August 11, 2023 With his lead in the polls having evaporated, Manitoba NDP leader Wab Kinew had to reset his campaign message on Wednesday to being fiscally responsible. However, while the potential political gains from that shift are unclear, Marty Gold says the political risks from the other gambit Kinew announced, that he’d authorize […]
Trib Exclusive: Did Some Media Fall For Kinew’s Spin on Hydro
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 by Marty Gold Last Friday, CTV Winnipeg covered an announcement by Manitoba Hydro, claiming that the public utility was “looking for ways to encourage people to shift electricity use away from peak hours (including) using smart meters to charge people higher rates at peak times.” But while CTV parroted Wab Kinew’s […]
TGCTS Video: Free Press Scrapped Headline Smearing Manitoba Premier – The Great Canadian Talk Show – March 12 2023
Provincial budget coverage ain’t what it used to be: Tom Brodbeck’s column in the Free Press was full of funny backtracks compared to his pre-budget burial of the ‘Hail Mary’ playbook of the PC government. Is he a comedian? “It’s unlikely she’ll find a receptive audience” for “a decent budget” that increases key spending -and […]
TGCTS Video: PC Nominations Analysis – excerpt from TGCTS podcast February 12, 2023
Welcome to our new listeners! We appreciate the enthusiastic response for last week’s interview with sportscasting legend Peter Young about the life and times of the Golden Jet, Bobby Hull. Back to our political coverage: A recent Manitoba election poll showed an 11 seat swing between Wab Kinew’s NDP and the reigning Tories – but […]
TGCTS Flashback – September 8, 2019 – Third NDP Candidate Added To “Wage Garnisheed To Pay Overdue Court Fine” List
Based on what we know thus far from the public record, either; A) Highway Traffic Act tickets and penalties are priced too high, orB) NDP candidates aren’t diligent about obligations to the courts. Considering the combined wage of the first two NDP candidates identified in last week’s story were earning over $100,000 at the University of Winnipeg […]
TGCTS Flashback – September 6, 2019 – Wab Kinew 2019 NDP Election Strategy Included Boycott Of Two Women Journalists
, Kinew had already greased the skids underneath his party with his not-an-ultimatum to a town hall on environmental issues scheduled for the evening. And the target of his ire, Winnipeg Free Press columnist Shannon Sampert made sure everyone knew the score.
“Wab Kinew won’t participate on tonight panel on the environment if I am a moderator so I got asked to step down” she told everyone on Twitter at noon. “I guess he didn’t like my columns.”
Sampert, a retired political science professor at the University of Winnipeg, was one of 3 moderators for the Hotel Fort Garry event and was replaced by Molly McCracken of the “non-partisan” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The west end activist has held many NDP-connected jobs this century, including with the Selinger government as a Health Policy analyst.
It quicky emerged that Sampert wasn’t the first woman that Kinew refused to be questioned by.