My perspective - More imagination
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- Published on Friday, July 3, 2015
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
This week, we celebrated Canada Day. In 1867, Canada was established as a self-governing dominion, an autonomous region under the British crown, through the British North America Act. The document created the federal and provincial levels of government, as well as the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. In the subsequent years, we would see our country grow and change shape, but literally and figuratively.
Right in the centre - A clear but flawed choice
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- Published on Thursday, July 2, 2015
By Ken Waddell
The Neepawa Banner
Canada is at a crossroads with the upcoming federal election. At this point, there are only really two choices for government and for prime minister. The NDP and Thomas Mulcair and the Conservative Party of Canada and Stephen Harper.
Is there really a choice?
Work together or fight
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- Published on Thursday, July 2, 2015
By Vern May
Minnedosa & Area Community Development Corporation
What if we both want the same customers? Is it better to go to war to compete for those dollars or to collaborate in areas which best serve our clientele? It鈥檚 probably easier and more productive to work together 鈥� or we could fight.
水果视频bodies - Going to Portage for parts
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- Published on Sunday, June 28, 2015
By Rita Friesen
I deliberately chose to travel down highway 16. I wanted to note the progress on the construction and I had all the time in my world. Three pilot vehicles later. The first smile came when I started counting the blue or tan portable toilets dotted the roadside. As many as there used to be grain elevators! Not nearly as impressive but just as necessary.
Faithfully Yours - We've taken step one - now what?
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- Published on Saturday, June 27, 2015
By Neil Strohschein
As I write these words, the media frenzy concerning the brutal murder of nine members of a Charleston, South Carolina church is beginning to subside. But the question remains: 鈥淗ow could a 21 year old man become so filled with hate that he would do what he now stands accused of, and has allegedly confessed to doing?鈥�
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