No matter how you look at it, Manitoba’s Oct. 3 election will be historic. Either Heather Stefanson — the first woman to serve as Manitoba premier — will be re-elected, or NDP leader Wab Kinew will become the first premier of First Nations descent and the first premier with Indigenous heritage in almost 150 years..
Disability made Wendy Horton’s life hard, despite my mother’s decades of pleading to get Manitoba politicians to act. I have a bag of old documents – and magazine clippings of the Latimer case – to remind me of their struggle