My perspective - More important than ever
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- Published on Friday, November 1, 2019
By Kate-Jackman Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
This week, the Neepawa Banner & Press is publishing our annual Remembrance Day feature. While we’re still about 10 days away from Nov. 11, since the feature includes information about area services, we wanted to make sure readers had plenty of time to make their plans.
Right in the centre - Western separation unlikely to happen, but...
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- Published on Friday, November 1, 2019
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
In the days following the Oct. 21 federal election, the results graphically showed that the Liberal Party did very poorly west of the Ontario-Manitoba border. In fact, they didn’t do all that great in Quebec either. For a federal party to be shut out of Saskatchewan and Alberta states loudly that their message is not going over well in those two provinces. The Liberals also lost seats in Manitoba and B.C. The cries of western separation came out loud and clear. There are rallies and conferences planned all over Alberta to discuss the steps toward separation.
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My perspective - Urban versus rural
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- Published on Friday, October 25, 2019
We hear a lot about the east-west divide in federal politics, but that might not be the whole story. I read a column in a recent edition of the Moosomin World-Spectator about the urban-rural divide in Canadian politics and it got me thinking– what if that’s the cause of much of the divisiveness we see today?
Right in the centre - Canada at the crossroads
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- Published on Friday, October 25, 2019
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
This little list shows a fatal flaw in the Canadian tapestry. It shows the 2018-19 equalization payments that provinces receive, a long standing system that aims to bind Canada together. It’s tearing us apart!
My perspective - Small price, big payoff
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- Published on Friday, October 18, 2019
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
My dad was born in 1931 and as a child, he never learned to swim, his mother wouldn’t let him. She wasn’t afraid he’d drown, she was afraid he’d contract polio. The fearful disease could be spread by infected water and left tens of thousands of Canadians with some degree of paralysis.
