Right in the centre - Expediency won out over excellence

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Published on Friday, November 5, 2021

By Ken Waddell

Neepawa Banner & Press

It’s always amazing how willing people are to ignore known history and available experience when their main goal is expediency rather than excellence. That pretty much sums up the Progressive Conservative Manitoba party leadership race debacle that came to a vote on Oct. 30. The PC MB leadership could have been both successful and excellent, but it fell far short.

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Right in the centre - Is complacency the goal?

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Published on Friday, October 29, 2021

By Ken Waddell

Neepawa Banner & Press

In recent years, a trend has developed among the so-called mainstream media. They have taken up two aims. One is to lull people into complacency and the other is to drive people into panic mode. One would think those two goals would be in opposition to one another, but they are, in fact, quite complementary.

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Right in the centre - More history lessons

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Published on Friday, October 22, 2021

By Ken Waddell

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I have said many times that history, or the past, is a great place to visit, but a poor place to live.

Our problem today is that our history is hardly ever visited and examined and yet we let the dark shadows of history affect us and we don’t even know why.

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Right in the centre - Learning from past mistakes

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Published on Friday, October 15, 2021

By Ken Waddell

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In John 8:31-33 in the New International Version (NIV), it is written, “To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, ‘If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.’”

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