COMMENTARY

Like all things Manitoban, there is a considerable amount of uncertainty about the coming election. Just as we often don’t buy a social ticket until the day of, we wait until the last minute to...

A force is awakening—not only in a galaxy far, far away, but in our own backyard. A new political consciousness has arrived within our youth and the First Nations, and this force has the...

Aesop is reported to have said, “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” I love this quote because it doesn’t matter whether the act is large or small, random or intended;...

Death is the enemy of all humanity. Facing the common enemy of death is grounds for uniting all humans. The death rate is the same for the human race—one death for every birth. Yet our...

I recently attended a gala evening at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. For anyone who has not yet visited the CMHR, I encour-age you to visit what is quickly becoming a showcase...

Numerous articles and studies have remarked on the incredible residential growth Niverville and the surrounding area has experienced over the past decade. We see it in our overcrowded schools, the...

The national media are positively giddy with their new-found (rediscovered?) access to our parliamentary representatives, and most notably the Prime Minister himself. Not only is the press once...

Niverville is the place I call home. I haven’t lived there in over 35 years, yet it still brings back wonderful memories of my younger years. I was born in Paraguay and moved to Canada within 6...