You could be forgiven for not even knowing it was happening. As the federal NDP gathered in Winnipeg for a leadership convention that could define its future—or confirm its decline—the city felt… quiet. No buzz. No urgency. No sense that a national political moment was unfolding. That silence set the tone for a fiery episode of Inside Politics , where host Kevin Klein and panelists Royce Koop, Lawrence Pinsky, and Robert-Falcon Ouellette pulled no punches in dissecting what t

Manitobans are paying more than half a million dollars for a trade envoy in Washington while the premier responsible for the hire publicly mocks the administration that the envoy is supposed to work with. That contradiction alone should raise serious questions about whether this expensive arrangement has any chance of delivering real results. Documents obtained through freedom of information legislation show Manitoba’s trade envoy to the United States, former CBC and CTV repo

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s much-hyped pipeline breakthrough and the embarrassing behaviour of Manitoba MLAs shared the spotlight on the latest episode of Inside Politics with Kevin Klein—and neither came out looking good. Klein, joined by Winnipeg Sun columnists Lawrence Pinsky, KC and Royce Koop, opened by giving Carney rare credit for his recent moves on the steel sector and a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on a proposed pipeline