Observation July 8, 2016

By Addy Oberlin

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School is out! It is strange not to hear the children playing on the school’s playground. The parking lot at the high school is empty. Graduations have taken place.

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Faithfully yours - It takes a little sanctified blindness

By Neil Strohschein

Neepawa Banner

In the mid 19th century, philosophers like John Stuart Mill introduced the world to the concept of a just society. A just society, they argued, was a society of which three things are true.

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My Perspective - Consumer power 2.0

By Kate Jackman-Atkinson

Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press

There’s a farmer in New Jersey who posts videos to YouTube.  A hay producer, his videos usually include reviews and demos of equipment and clips of him farming or fixing things. His channel, onelonelyfarmer, has over 57,000 subscribers and over 34 million views.

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Right in the centre - Decisions, decisions

By Ken Waddell

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This quiet summer morning it’s difficult to write a column as an old saying is hanging over our heads. The saying goes something like this, “We can handle adversity, it’s uncertainty that drives us crazy.”

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Faithfully yours - An impossible dream

By Neil Strohschein

The Neepawa Banner

One of these days, I hope to visit the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.

I have driven by the museum dozens of times. It will be nice to finally go inside and spend a few hours looking at the different exhibits, gaining an appreciation for the progress Canada has made in the field of human rights and being reminded of how much work we still need to do.

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