Right in the centre - Cooperation is the key-part two
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- Published on Wednesday, November 9, 2016
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
Last week I wrote in general terms about the Neepawa Area Planning District. Whether it be the NAPD or any other multi-municipal discussion, it doesn’t take long until people are talking about costs and how to share them. More likely, it’s a discussion about how to avoid sharing the costs or at least minimizing the cost.
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Observation Nov. 4
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- Published on Sunday, November 6, 2016
By Addy Oberlin
Neepawa Banner
According to my calendar we will change our clocks this weekend. We ‘fall’ back an hour. Clocks have always intrigued me. When I sat in a doctor’s office I counted the seconds on the clock and counted exactly till 60 when the minute changed.
Homebodies - Chance of showers...
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- Published on Saturday, November 5, 2016
By Rita Friesen
Neepawa Banner
Rain, rain, go away… note the absence of the invitation to ‘come back another day’. Cool and cloudy, wet and windy, the forecast for yesterday and tomorrow. I recognize that I have little right to complain. I have no crops lying in the mud, I have no resort that has been affected by the surplus of moisture. A weather watcher and a tree hugger, that’s what I am.
Faithfully yours - The personal side of war: part one
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- Published on Saturday, November 5, 2016
By Neil Strohschein
Neepawa Banner
As I write these words, I am putting the finishing touches on my remarks for the Remembrance Day service in Kelwood. Part of my preparation time has been spent reading two books: Winston Churchill’s The Gathering Storm and William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
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My perspective - Copyright or copy-wrong?
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- Published on Friday, November 4, 2016
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner/Neepawa Press
This week, an 86-year-old woman became the face of Canada’s new copyright infringement legislation. Christine McMillan is being told she has to pay up for a pirated version of Metro 2033, a first-person shooter game in which survivors of nuclear war must kill mutants, that was downloaded from her IP address. She is one of an unknown number of Canadians who have received threatening letters on behalf of copyright holders, known as the Notice and Notice regime, following changes to Canada’s copyright laws.
