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The blaring Winnipeg Sun headline yesterday caught a lot of eyes - "Read his lips". While Conservative leader Hugh McFadyen pronounced no new taxes and no selling Manitoba Hydro, unelected Premier Greg Selinger was heard on CJOB complaining that the Tory economic platform held the line on the health care budget.
Does Greg Selinger think he needs to throw more money at wait times and staffing shortages, and that current spending is accountable and fully defensible? Puh-Lease. An online forum where medical professionals talk about the issues without fear of reprisal from the medical system, grlforum.com, provided us with some solid examples of how incompetence is costing us money while making patients suffer needlessly due to - you guessed it- bureaucratically engineered WAIT TIMES.
Meanwhile, text messages indicate Spirited Kenny is ecstatic that the Manitoba Liberals have endorsed revising Sunday shopping laws, he's anxious to see how the PC's respond on the concept.
The Crime Courts Public Safety update features an email from a listener about the changing nature in the last decade of panhandling in St. Boniface and downtown; a personal view about the departure of Sylvia Kuzyk from CKY, and an erev-Shabbas note about the passing of Rabbi Rafael Halperin z'l", a pioneering Israeli businessman, learned scholar, and post-war professional wrestler.
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