Right in the centre - More to COVID-19 than meets the eye
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- Published on Friday, May 22, 2020
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
As 水果视频鈥檚 combination of good management, good fortune and good luck produces enviable COVID-19 results, there are some deeper lessons to be learned.
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Right in the centre - Rural people already knew this
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- Published on Friday, May 15, 2020
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
鈥淲e鈥� have been told a lot of things that rural people instinctively knew were wrong. Here鈥檚 a partial list of wrong things we have been told.
鈥ural life is not a good thing, city life should be our goal.
鈥arming is not a good career.
鈥igger is better. Bigger cities, larger apartment blocks, bigger care homes, larger buses and commuter trains, bigger airplanes and cruise ships.
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Right in the centre - Get it in writing!
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- Published on Friday, May 8, 2020
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
About the time we got started in the newspaper business in 1989, a man from Stonewall, named Merv Farmer, was building up some nice newspapers. He wisely told us, if you are going to have a newspaper, you have to spend money on news, on journalists. We have always taken that to heart.
Editorial - New gun law targets law abiding citizens
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- Published on Friday, May 8, 2020
By Micah Waddell
Rivers Banner
For many gun owners, this past week鈥檚 announcement from our 鈥済reat鈥� leader was incredibly disappointing to hear. An unbelievably loose ban on 鈥渁ssault鈥� firearms has effectively made it illegal to own any form of sporting and competition rifle. The Prime Minister was quoted, stating, 鈥淲hy do you need an AR-15 to hunt deer?鈥� A ludicrous statement, given that it has been illegal to hunt with such weapons for a long time.
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Right in the centre - CO2 levels may cause crop production cutbacks
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- Published on Friday, May 1, 2020
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
The Winnipeg Free Press ran an article on Tuesday. It was a good enough article on its own merits. It states that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) levels are up, but鈥� it鈥檚 a rather shallow article. The last year they have stats for is 2018. Results for 2019 and 2020 don鈥檛 seem to be available yet.
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