My perspective - Serving up a balanced diet… of news
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- Published on Friday, April 26, 2019
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
Some weeks, I worry that we’ll scare off our readers. As we left for the holiday weekend, the list of completed or in process stories included two about Neepawa council (both about the financial plan), two about local annual general meetings, one about changes at the planning district and one about the impact on businesses of the federal and provincial budgets. I was (only sort of) joking that we’d scare our readers away from the May 2 paper; they wouldn’t yet have woken up, a week later.
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Right in the centre - Assorted topics from a rural perspective
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- Published on Friday, April 26, 2019
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Monday morning came early with the blockbuster news that HyLife was being sold. HyLife is perhaps best known locally for its hog processing plant at Neepawa, which employs over 1,300 people. A bit lesser known is that the company has barns, feed mills and other hog-related enterprises across Manitoba, as well as interests in the U.S., China, Japan and Mexico. What is even less well known is that the founding families, the Janzens and Vielefaures, started out from very humble hog farmer beginnings.
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My perspective - It’s better to give
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- Published on Thursday, April 18, 2019
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
What would our communities be like without volunteers? It’s a timely question to ask, especially since last week was National Volunteer Week. How would our lives be worse off without the 12.7 million Canadians who give their time?
Right in the centre - Excessive and useless taxes solve nothing
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- Published on Thursday, April 18, 2019
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Due to the Easter and Good Friday long weekend, this column is being written a day ahead of the Alberta election. It is bit dangerous to assume a day ahead of an election who will win, but polls show that the United Conservative Party (UCP) will win. If the UCP is victorious, it will mean that there will be conservative style governments in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. It would be nice to think that the Liberal/NDP grip on provincial parties will slip even further. Hopefully, the conservative governments across the country will unite to try and lower deficits and eliminate the very ill-thought-out carbon tax.
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My perspective - Too much power?
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- Published on Friday, April 12, 2019
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
Every four years or so, Canadians go to the polls to pick the representative they’ll send to Ottawa. Once there, voters expect their MPs will represent the constituency as part of either government or opposition. We’re usually happiest when our representative is part of government, hoping they’ll be even more effective at taking care of our needs. The problem is that’s not entirely how it works in practice.
