Right in the Centre - It should never happen again!
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- Published on Friday, July 14, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
COVID-19 was among the worst diseases to hit Canada in the past 100 years or more. In my opinion, it was handled worse than any previous disease. I won’t argue that vaccines were wrong, although there is a lot of evidence that the benefits of vaccines were highly over-promoted. I would daresay that vaccines should not have been compulsory and there are those who will vehemently disagree with me. It’s just that, in general terms, I am very wary of anything being compulsory. There were people who didn’t get vaccinated who died from C-19 but there were a lot of people who didn’t get vaccinated who didn’t even get sick. There were people who had two, three or four vaccine shots and they got C-19 and some of them died.
All that said, my biggest complaint is the absurd way sick people were handled, especially those in hospitals and care homes.
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Right in the Centre - Gotta have a meal
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- Published on Friday, July 7, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Our slightly changing work and life patterns have taken us on many road trips this year. We travel every week to Rivers to deliver papers and we have had several trips to follow our great grandsons’ very young sports careers. All our trips have been day trips and that means eating on the road. If I don’t mention a particular food establishment in this column, it’s not meant as a slight, it just means we haven’t been there yet.
Right in the Centre - A message for every community
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- Published on Friday, June 30, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
As summer holidays emerge on the scene, I have a favour to ask of every reader. I am especially asking that over the summer, people aged 25-45 years of age contemplate the future of their respective communities.
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Right in the Centre - Historical Foundations (Republication)
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- Published on Friday, June 23, 2023
By Ken Waddel
Neepawa Banner & Press
When we look back through the archived pages of our newspapers, we get a bird’s eye view of how things were done over 100 years ago. Some things really stand out.
Perhaps the first thing that jumps off the pages is the lack of what would today we call “political correctness”. Opinions and humour back in the day were pretty much unbridled. There was no filter on the editors’ typewriters 100 or more years ago.They said whatever was on their minds and sometimes their comments very bluntly called out politicians and citizens alike.
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Right in the centre - Thoughts, lots of thoughts
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- Published on Friday, June 16, 2023
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
Sometimes columns come to mind based around one theme. Sometimes, like this week, many thoughts come to mind.
The first one is that a person can think or believe whatever we want but with one exception. That exception is we can’t make someone else believe or think what we want. That said, what we want or think should be expressed openly and gently. There’s a lot of non-gentle stuff going on these days so gentle and informed discussion is very important.
