My Perspective - Searching for optimism
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- Published on Thursday, April 16, 2015
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
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Next week, the federal government will unveil the 2015 budget. New finance minister Joe Oliver is expected to release a balanced budget that also includes tax breaks, particularly ones for families, and no cuts to the services currently used by Canadians. For many Canadians, there is lots to be optimistic about in the coming months.
But that doesn't seem to be the case for Manitoba's businesses owners.
Right in the centre - You don't have to do that
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- Published on Thursday, April 16, 2015
By Ken Waddell
The Neepawa Banner
If individuals and governments at all levels would adopt the title of this column as a one of their pillars of life, the world would be a better place. Individuals and governments at all levels are continually saying they are short of money. In many cases, they aren’t short of money, they are long on spending.
Homebodies - Things I hold dear that I may have to rethink
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- Published on Sunday, April 12, 2015
By Rita Friesen
When our first family was young the writings of Corrie Ten Boom were popular. “The Hiding Place”, the story of a young woman and her family aiding people of the Jewish faith during the Nazi regime, was made into a movie. “God does not have problems. Only plans,” proclaimed Corrie Ten Boom when a clerical error allowed her to be released from a Nazi concentration camp one week before all women prisoners her age were executed. Amid the horrors of the time, faith shone.
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Faithfully Yours - Close encounters of the natural kind
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- Published on Saturday, April 11, 2015
By Neil Strohscein
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Shortly after my arrival in Neepawa, I boarded a Greyhound bus heading west. My destination was Cariboo School of the Bible in Quesnel, BC; where I was invited to be a guest lecturer.
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My perspective - On the road again
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- Published on Friday, April 10, 2015
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
Across south-western Manitoba, rural medicine is changing. Most communities are desperately short of family physicians and many people have to travel out of town to see a doctor. Some communities are seeing temporary or permanent closures of their emergency rooms because there aren’t enough staff to operate them. Rural medicine in changing and for many Manitobans, one thing is clear, we will be travelling further for health services.
