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This Tuesday: Running for Office, Real Preparation, and a WMR Reality Check

This Tuesday, Manitoba Stronger Together invites you to a triple-feature Zoom call designed to help Manitobans get ready for the October 28, 2026 municipal election — with real-world campaign insight, practical tools, and an important update on the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region (WMR).

kenrdrysdale

Jan 261 min read

Thinking of Running for Council? Two Springfield Councillors Tell You What It’s Really Like

This Tuesday, Manitoba Stronger Together is pleased to welcome Councillor Andy Kuczynski (Ward 2) and Councillor Mark Miller (Ward 3) from the Rural Municipality of Springfield for an educational, behind-the-scenes conversation about what it means to serve as a municipal councillor — and what it takes to run a successful campaign.

kenrdrysdale

Jan 191 min read

Reclaiming Education from the Ground UpHow One Manitoba Teacher Built a Values-Based Program for Children

This week, Manitoba Stronger Together is honoured to welcome Sandra Saint-Cyr — a veteran Manitoba educator with a 40-year career in public education — for an inspiring and practical conversation about parental involvement, traditional values, and grassroots solutions in our school system.

kenrdrysdale

Jan 121 min read

Who Really Runs Your Town?”A Live Conversation with ‘The Model’ Ahead of the 2026 Municipal Elections

Tomorrow night we’re trying something new — and we think you’ll find it both fascinating and practical. Ken will host a live, unscripted interview with an artificial intelligence language model, commonly known as ChatGPT. For the conversation, we’ll simply refer to it as “the Model.” The focus is municipal power — where it actually sits, why citizens often feel ignored, and what you can do now to be ready for the October 2026 municipal elections.

kenrdrysdale

Jan 51 min read

Voices From the Inside: What Alberta’s Corrections Staff Want You to Know

This week’s Manitoba Stronger Together Zoom call brings you a powerful double feature designed to inform, inspire, and equip you for the civic challenges ahead. We are pleased to welcome Brad Williams from the Saskatchewan Prosperity Project, and we will also be reviewing the newly released Winnipeg Metropolitan Region (WMR) Survey together with Ken Drysdale.

kenrdrysdale

Dec 1, 20251 min read

THE CHARTER’S BLIND SPOT Part 3 of 3

Welcome to the third and final post in our three-part, 12-section series The Charter’s Blind Spot. In this installment, we bring together everything uncovered in the first two posts — the legal, structural, and moral failures that allowed governments, institutions, and courts to evade Charter accountability during one of the most consequential periods in modern Canadian history.

kenrdrysdale

Nov 25, 202513 min read

Westward Rising: Building Prairie Sovereignty & Your Voice in the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region

Jason will guide us through a timely and provocative conversation on “Alberta’s Next Chapter: Sovereignty, Self-Determination & the Road Ahead.” We’ll explore the motivations behind Alberta’s Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act, what it represents for provincial autonomy, and how it challenges long-standing assumptions about the balance of power between Ottawa and the provinces.

kenrdrysdale

Nov 24, 20251 min read

THE CHARTER’S BLIND SPOT Part 2 of 3

Section 5: Delegated Coercion — How Governmental Policy Captured the Medical Profession 5.1 The Mechanism of Delegation Throughout the COVID-19 period, Canadian governments achieved unprecedented control over the practice of medicine without the need for new constitutional powers. The mechanism was deceptively simple: policy by delegation . Federal and provincial executives issued public-health directives; regulatory colleges converted those directives into binding profession

kenrdrysdale

Nov 18, 202513 min read

Alberta’s Next Chapter? Sovereignty, Self-Determination & the Road Ahead

kenrdrysdale

Nov 17, 20251 min read

THE CHARTER’S BLIND SPOT

In early 2023, a Canadian woman named Sheila Lewis died — not because a medical treatment failed, but because she was denied access to that treatment under the authority of a government-designed, government-funded, and government-controlled health system. Days later, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to even hear her case. Around the same time, an Ontario man named Garnet Harper died after being refused a kidney transplant for similar reasons.

kenrdrysdale

Nov 13, 202513 min read

Citizens Stand Strong in St. Clements: Public Voices Prevail Against High-Density Development

On Tuesday evening, October 28, 2025, more than 150 residents crowded into the RM of St. Clements council chambers (with many more online) for the public hearing on an 80-unit, 200–250 resident low income multi-family development proposed by Schinkel Properties, immediately north of the Narol Fire Hall on Henderson Highway. The hearing began shortly after 7:30 p.m. and concluded after 11:00 p.m. — four hours of prepared, professional public participation.

kenrdrysdale

Oct 29, 20250 min read