Right in the centre - Ask the questions
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- Published on Friday, May 31, 2024
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Many decades of reading, observing and writing has caused me to be very interested in many topics. It has also taught me to question just about everything and I don’t mean in a cynical or nasty way. I just think it’s good to question just about everything you see, read or hear.
Right in the centre - Things my home town taught me
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- Published on Friday, May 24, 2024
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
I was born at Holland, Manitoba in 1948 in the Holland Nursing Home. In today’s environment, that will sound strange but in that era, the Holland Nursing Home was a house with three or four beds and Dr. Ostapovich and his nurse wife lived right across the street. While I am sure that the privately owned nursing home dealt with many different cases, it was where expectant mothers went to await the birth of their babies when home birthing wasn’t available.
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Right in the centre - Swatting flies with a sledge hammer
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- Published on Friday, May 17, 2024
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
My first encounter with a government edict to eradicate something was in 1971 in my first year as an Ag-rep with the Manitoba Department of Agriculture (MDA). The enemy to be eradicated in 1971 was an old one, Leafy Spurge. I say an old one because, Leafy Spurge was introduced to Canada in the early 1800s coming into the country as a contaminant in imported seed.
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Right in the centre - Let's save some and lives
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- Published on Friday, May 10, 2024
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
I was talking to a couple of business people and we were chatting about ways we could save money, time and effort, especially in terms of policing and bureaucracy costs. The topic of the day was gun ownership. The federal government has been throwing money down the sewer pipe for decades now pretending that Canada needs gun control. We don’t need gun control, we need criminal control.
Right in the centre - File your taxes and watch them be wasted
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- Published on Friday, May 3, 2024
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Just about everybody has filed their tax returns by now and people should be disappointed. Whether your income tax bill was a few hundred, a few thousand or many thousands of dollars, you have good reason to be disappointed. The federal government is wasting tax dollars, yours and mine.
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