Right in the Centre - Distracted driving, distracted living
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- Published on Friday, April 20, 2018
By Eoin Devereux
Neepawa Banner & Press
In today's world, we have many more distractions than we used to have, whether it is on the highway or life itself.The change is two-fold. Fifty, or even 20 years ago, we were not flooded with all the information we have today. There may well have been as much going in the world but we didn’t know about it. We certainly didn’t hear about it instantly like we do today. If there was an outbreak of war, a disaster or a tragedy, we might not even hear about it, let alone view it over and over again on our TV, computer or phone. Our lives are one big distraction, played out in our heads and fed by both organized media and by social media.
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My perspective - A tale of two papers
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- Published on Friday, April 20, 2018
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
The newspaper industry has a problem, but it’s not what most people think. More than anything else, the newspaper industry in North America has an ownership problem. Long known by those in the industry, the public watched this story explode a little over a week ago. The spark? A series of editorials in the Denver Post blasting their owners, a hedge-fund called Alden Global Capital.
Letters - Gun control bill targets lawful owners and not the criminal
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- Published on Monday, April 16, 2018
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Neepawa Banner & Press
Justin Trudeau promised he would fix the crime problem during the election campaign of 2015. Unfortunately lawful gun owners of Canada make easy targets for an easy Liberal crime control fix. C-71 targets the lawful firearm owner, leaving out the criminal use of firearms. Not a single line in the Act refers to violent criminals or their illegal misuse of firearms. The $2 billion dollar Liberal gun registry has taught the Liberal Party absolutely nothing.
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Homebodies - Every minus is half of a plus
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- Published on Saturday, April 14, 2018
Rita Friesen
Neepawa Banner & Press
“Every minus is half of a plus, waiting for a stroke of vertical awareness.” Alan Cohen (author of 14 popular inspirational books, contributing writer for ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’, columnist and seminar leader on spiritual awakening and visionary living.) There are days when I need this simple reminder, every minus is half a plus. Sometimes I need it for myself and sometimes I need to share it with others. Most of us take a set back seriously. That’s okay as long as it challenges us to think further, and not crumple in defeat.
My perspective - Fact or fiction?
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- Published on Thursday, April 12, 2018
Kate Jackman - Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
In the past few months, I’ve had a couple of people send me news articles they’ve found online and ask me if I thought they were true. In each case, some investigation revealed that they were in fact completely fabricated. The whole phenomenon of “fake news” is recent and while slants and biases have probably existed since the first newspapers, today we find ourselves in uncharted waters. On the internet today, you don’t have to look hard to find “news” that is completely made up, but packaged to make readers believe that it is real.
