After almost a year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is hope for a safe reopening of our province that can last. With each passing day, more and more Manitobans are getting vaccinated, and one million doses have already been administered.
We need your help, Manitoba. We need to stop the spread of COVID-19 to save the lives of Manitobans, save our health care system and save our summer.
The platforming of our lives on social media apps — like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter — is usually met with criticism.
Imagine you want to go to the movies with your friends, but you can’t, because all the theatres are closed. Everything is closed. This could have been written about today, but it wasn’t.
This week will be one of the most important in Canada’s battle against COVID-19, it’s when we will find out just how successful our efforts to get out in front of the virus have been.
Usually, I like to write my columns on the weekend. It’s a lot easier to organize my thoughts outside the bustle of the office, but it’s a risky strategy this week.
Last week, the provincial government announced a new tax, a $25 per tonne Green Levy. They also announced some tax relief in the form of a one percent reduction in the PST.
In the more than 13 years I’ve been covering the news in the Neepawa area, one of the handfuls of stories that have really stuck with me took place in the summer of 2011.
Communities are more than just the sum of the people who live there. Within each community, there is the infrastructure that is vital to creating a sense of community, a sense of home. In almost all cases, it comes down to public facilities.
The value of farmland in Manitoba has been rising and it’s creating a challenge when it comes to succession within the industry.
For a quarter of Canadians, low literacy skills are holding them back and most of them don’t even realize they need help.
There’s no problem that can’t be solved through increased regulation. At least that was the takeaway from a panel tasked with updating Canada’s telecom and broadcast laws.
