Love of reading is in the air in Neepawa
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- Published on Friday, February 17, 2017
By Miranda Leybourne
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“I Love to Read” month is back in Manitoba, and Hazel M. Kellington (HMK) School and the Neepawa Public Library are both excited about the chance to share and encourage a love of literacy for all.
Last Train to Nibroc stopping in Neepawa
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- Published on Friday, February 17, 2017
Gwendolyn Collins (May) and Kristian Jordan (Raleigh). (photo by Leif Norman)
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Kaleidoscope Concert Series
The next performance in this year’s Kaleidoscope Concert series will be the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Last Train to Nibroc.
My perspective -Inequity needs a solution
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- Published on Thursday, February 16, 2017
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
Look down any Main Street in rural Manitoba and you’re guaranteed to see one thing— lots of small businesses. Small businesses are the backbone of the Canadian economy, but no where is this more evident than in rural communities. In Manitoba, Statistics Canada reported that in 2015, 97.6 per cent of the province’s businesses were small.
Right in the centre - Union leaders’ single-minded ways must go
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- Published on Thursday, February 16, 2017
By Ken Waddell
The Neepawa Banner
Manitoba’s unions are in a bit of a state of shock these days. One must understand the NDP organizational mechanism allows for, no insists, the party has a strange double dipping approach to their party. Like all other political parties, there are members and the members elect delegates to the policy and leadership conventions. But, the NDP also have a large percentage of delegates over and above the constituency delegates that attend the conventions who are appointed by the unions. And it has been the union delegates that have a had a huge sway on the convention outcomes. The most recent occasion was the last leadership convention, where it was the union leaders that not only rounded up their members and herded them to support the eventual winner, they also heavily influenced the delegates at large as well.
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