Right in the centre - Good intentions or actions, it's time to choose
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- Published on Thursday, August 5, 2021
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
At long last, Manitoba has opened up a lot as we hopefully skid to the end of COVID-19. On Tuesday, Premier Pallister and Dr. Roussin announced the long awaited changes to public health orders. The changes are covered elsewhere in the paper and do represent some long awaited relief for Manitobans’ lifestyle.
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Right in the centre - I think I have had enough!
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- Published on Friday, July 30, 2021
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Nearly everyone has had enough of COVID-19, or C-19, as I call it. It has been nearly 18 months and hopefully we are past this horrible experience. With only 11 cases reported in Manitoba on Monday of this week, it would “appear” that we are through this pandemic.
I say “appear” because it could flare up again and I have no doubt there will be another disease that will attack our world. We should have learned that already.
Right in the centre - Something will turn up!
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- Published on Friday, July 23, 2021
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
My father used the expression “Something will turn up!” many times. He did so with good reason, because in his 80 years on this earth from 1907 to 1987, he had many occasions to despair but he usually chose not to do so.
Right in the centre - Some reasons for high hydro rates
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- Published on Friday, July 16, 2021
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
The Manitoba NDP issued this statement last week:
“This will be third time in just over a year that the PCs have hiked hydro rates for First Nations communities living on reserve. Once this latest rate hike goes through, the PCs will have increased hydro rates by nearly 12 per cent during a pandemic. This kind of rate shock is damaging to our communities and our economy and will make it harder for First Nations to recover from the pandemic. If the PCs want to work towards advancing reconciliation, they need to listen to our First Nations communities and work towards making life affordable for Indigenous peoples living on reserve. Hiking hydro rates on reserve contradicts any type of reconciliation.”
While that statement is likely true, it is also ironic.
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Right in the centre - The past: a good place to visit, poor place to live
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- Published on Friday, July 9, 2021
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Our knowledge of history, or more precisely, our lack of knowledge, has come around to bite us big time.
Take Bishop Grandin Boulevard in Winnipeg. I have studied a lot of history, ever since my school days in the 1950s and ‘60s. I can actually remember well over 60 years of history. That’s what happens when you get older. That said, I hardly knew Bishop Grandin existed before the south Winnipeg highway was named after him.
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