Tom Brodbeck is a journalist who has covered Manitoba and Canadian politics since the mid-1990s. He has written extensively about Indigenous issues, including several features on the Red River Resistance and Treaty No. 1 in the Winnipeg Free Press where he has been a columnist since 2019. Through his writing, Tom was instrumental in helping convince Manitoba MLAs to open their daily proceedings at the Manitoba Legislature with a land acknowledgement. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Manitoba. When not writing Tom spends much of his time as a working musician and plays drums for the Winnipeg-based Stephanie Westdal Band.
