Right in the centre - Keep them poor and uninformed
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- Published on Friday, October 20, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Last week I wrote about the danger of the elites and allowing an elite group of people run organizations. The organization in question last week was the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba. I outlined how, over a few decades, a once vibrant, grassroots party let its organization and leadership to become, at best, mediocre. I got some definite feedback on that subject.
Another thought came to me today and that is, “Why do governments like keeping people poor and uninformed?”
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Right in the centre - Beware of the elites
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- Published on Friday, October 13, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
After the Oct. 3 Manitoba election, there were some very happy people and some not so happy. In fact, a fair amount has been reported about how the Progressive Conservative Party, how it fared so badly and why.
Right in the centre - Disappointment abounds
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- Published on Friday, October 6, 2023
Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
When the Oct. 3 Manitoba election dust settled there were some happy people but there were a lot of disappointed ones as well. Likely more disappointed people than happy ones.
The good news is there is a way to turn that disappointment around and it covers every voter and every party. The bad news, it requires more work than most people are willing to perform.
Right in the centre - Election looming
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- Published on Friday, September 29, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
October 3 is Manitoba Election Day. Most predictions are calling for a very close election. Close in that the number of seats for each party may be a lot closer than the last couple of elections but in some ridings, the results won’t be very close. In some they will be quite close. In next week’s column, I will try to bring over 60 years of experience observing elections to the column so maybe, younger people can avoid some of the mistakes I made and the others have made.
Right in the centre - Corporation, corpulent or corpse?
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- Published on Friday, September 22, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
I find it interesting how the newspaper industry has shifted over the 50 plus years I have been involved. My first experience was in 1968 and we laid out the pages with typed out, justified copy printed on strips that we ran through a waxer and laid the strips on blue-lined lay-out sheets. Labour intensive process for sure. We had to leave blanks or plugs in the places where pictures were to be placed. Then the sheets had to be driven to a printing press and you waited while the pages were finished, the negatives shots, the plates burned and placed on a press and the final product spewed out of the folder.
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