Right in the centre - Journalism needs attention from government and corporations
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- Published on Friday, April 14, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
The Toronto Star publisher and owner Jordan Bitove made an impassioned plea recently to Canadian corporations and governments to step up and support journalism. Bitove argued that journalism is essential to democracy and that smaller communities are being starved of essential information.
Bitove, speaking to a packed audience of business and community leaders at a Canadian Club luncheon in Toronto, said big tech companies including Google and Meta have drained crucial advertising revenue from media companies, endangering journalism鈥檚 business model and indirectly, democracy itself.
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Right in the centre - Those problem people
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- Published on Friday, April 7, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Easter is a wonderful time of year. Spring is coming soon. Gardens will be planted, crops seeded, cattle will soon be out on the pasture. Summer awaits us all. Easter is when we are reminded that God made us all, the world and everything in it. Easter is when we are reminded that God sent Jesus as our Saviour.
Right in the centre - New parties need to read history
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- Published on Friday, March 31, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Canadians history is well seeded with new political parties. Most haven鈥檛 gained enough traction to even be in most peoples鈥� memory banks. Occasionally, a new party emerges and gains enough support to actually elect some members.
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Right in the Centre - Bored?
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- Published on Friday, March 24, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Every parent has heard their kids state, 鈥淚鈥檓 bored!鈥�
In my parents鈥� home and in ours, young people quickly learned to not say those two words. There was always another job awaiting idle hands and minds.
Right in the centre - Waddell family history
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- Published on Friday, March 17, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
This column is a departure from the usual but hopefully readers will find it of interest. In 1987, after the death of my father, John Miller Waddell, and having lost my mother in 1986, I inherited a typical family treasure, a shoe box of pictures. For several agonizing nights I poured over the pictures. What I had to start with is about 100 years of family history. With the help of friends who worked in the local archives office, I have also been able to trace the family back to 1831 in Scotland with a fair amount of assurance of accuracy.
