Let us look back a little as to what we expect of our politicians and those who handle our taxes.
Re: Hydro chairman urges rate hike relief (Dec. 2)
Manitobans cannot take more huge Hydro rate increases.
We pay our fair share...
It’s amazing how the local media let politicians off the hook for the problems they helped create. For years, all we heard from former premier...
Manitoba Hydro wants a 7.9 per cent increase for five years running and 4.54 per cent increase in 2024. On top of that, they talk about the...
Re: Hydro rate hikes needed (Letters, Sept. 19.) see below.
Sanford Riley and the Manitoba Hydro board make the case for increasing...
Columnist Dan Lett offered a number of selective assertions regarding Manitoba Hydro’s current financial picture that deserve proper context for...
Thank you, NDP. The lies are over, now the truth is being told. Manitoba Hydro lawyer Patti Ramage now tells us the export revenues are down...
The Public Utilities Board is requesting proof that Manitoba Hydro needs higher rates, a 7.9 per cent increase beginning Aug. 1, followed by the...
Conservative MLA Steven Fletcher is opposing his own government’s bill to create a new Crown corporation because he thinks it will be wasteful,...
My congratulations to Gary Doer for landing this important job, and I am sure he will do admirable work for the government of Alberta.
We are now facing rate increases that will total approximately 35 to 40 per cent in five years. Former premier Greg Selinger and his gang...
Friday’s editorial used the wrong preposition in its headline. It ought to have read: "patience with Doer." Never did I think I would be...
With news of yet another price increase of $2.2 billion and years more delay for the Keeyask dam, one might well ask, "When, if ever, will...
When I first heard rumours the Bipole III west side route would continue, as if we hadn’t changed governments, I was in disbelief. The...
Before Manitobans head out to catch up to other Canadians in the amount of debt we carry individually, we would be wise to remember that the...
There has been much discussion in the Manitoba legislature about whether the NDP left Manitoba Hydro bankrupt or not. The minister responsible...
John Loxley’s recent commentary would have been powerful had it been objective. Loxley described recent comments by Manitoba Hydro’s new board...
Will Braun is incorrect in his assumption that Xcel Energy has written Manitoba Hydro off as a supplier of renewable hydroelectricity.
Mr. Pallister, please suspend construction of Keeyask and Bipole III.
These projects are not "too far along" to suspend. The Limestone...
Your editorial rails on Trump about his "poor me" routine and states "he’s suckered an entire segment of the American population." It is...
The new government has signalled its desire to pursue a "hands off" approach with Crown corporations, preferring to let them run their own...
The idea of moving the current construction in western Manitoba of the power transmission line to the east side of Lake Winnipeg continues to...
In Kristin Annable’s article (Hydro taking heat over large contract, March 2) she quotes Manitoba spokesman Bruce Owen’s justification for an...
Most people in the area will be aware of the standoff south of Landmark last weekend where a group of landowners took on Manitoba Hydro and its...
Regarding Premier Greg Selinger’s open letter to Manitobans, I hope voters will look back further than just the last year when reviewing his...
In the run-up to the April election, hopefully political parties will face up to the critical state of affairs arising from the corporate...
Re: Ratepayers on the hook for Hydro (Dec. 23). Manitoba Hydro is on a horrid downward trajectory, failed badly by its political overseers. As...
The NDP is fond of putting up "Steady Growth, Good Jobs" signs; we know from the Dec. 23 articles Sinking deeper into deficit and Ratepayers on...
Can we talk about two of the largest expenditures ever planned in Manitoba -- the $4.6-billion Bipole III transmission line and $6.5-billion...
Manitoba Hydro may never be privatized, but if the day comes when there is no choice but to do so, we can thank Premier Selinger for all his...
Hydro minister Eric Robinson’s recent letter to Manitoba editors, which appeared in the Sept. 22 issue of the Roblin Review, shows how desperate...
In his Oct. 14 article Time for a reality check on Hydro's big-project meter, former premier and minister responsible for Manitoba Hydro Ed...
As president of the Bipole III Coalition, I wholeheartedly support the position outlined in Pallister says party would re-evaluate Bipole III if...
The Manitoba NDP’s wasteful mismanagement has long threatened essential front-line services. The services cut under the NDP have now extended to...