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Right in the centre - Ask the questions

By Ken Waddell

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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鈥檛 mean in a cynical or nasty way. I just think it鈥檚 good to question just about everything you see, read or hear.

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Right in the centre - Things my home town taught me

By Ken Waddell

Neepawa Banner & Press

I was born at Holland, 水果视频 in 1948 in the Holland Nursing 水果视频. In today鈥檚 environment, that will sound strange but in that era, the Holland Nursing 水果视频 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鈥檛 available.

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Right in the centre - Swatting flies with a sledge hammer

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 水果视频 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

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鈥檛 need gun control, we need criminal control.

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Right in the centre - File your taxes and watch them be wasted

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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