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Little Canada 150 funding in Conservative ridings

Little Canada 150 funding in Conservative ridings

One of the newspaper’s rural correspondents noted recently that Canada is celebrating 150 years of confederation in 2017. She suggested we should all be thinking of ways to mark the occasion.
Vancouver's tax on vacant homes misses the point

Vancouver's tax on vacant homes misses the point

When new homes don't keep up with demand, buyers or renters bid for a dwindling pool of listings, pushing prices up and people out
End HIV stigma, wear red on World AIDS Day

End HIV stigma, wear red on World AIDS Day

Dear Editor Dec. 1 marks World AIDS Day. This day is to honour those living with HIV and those who have died as a result of having HIV, as well as to bring awareness about the HIV virus.
Guarding against income inequality in Canada

Guarding against income inequality in Canada

Does Canada need to worry about the same festering malaise that has disrupted the United States?
More trash talk than before a professional wrestling match

More trash talk than before a professional wrestling match

Ed, my old neighbour from Saskatchewan, and I had a chat about the American election. Ed phoned me two days after election day.
How to Be Assertive and Demonstrate Self-Confidence: Part four of seven

How to Be Assertive and Demonstrate Self-Confidence: Part four of seven

With a successful career of his goal setting techniques, Marvin was quite an influence to almost anyone who worked with him.
Launch Lead Live

Launch Lead Live

By Dr. Dawn-Marie Turner Published by Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing $24.95 978-1-927756-47-8 Maybe you’re an employee who’s been accused of resisting organizational change. Let’s face it, many of us have been.
Teach more than proceed with caution

Teach more than proceed with caution

I am getting old. I hear your outcries, I know I’m not that old. But I feel old when all the kids that I knew as babies are old enough to be getting their licenses. Kids I once babysat.
Dear CFL: bring the Grey Cup west more often

Dear CFL: bring the Grey Cup west more often

The Grey Cup game needs to leave Toronto. Sure Toronto is the largest city and it is relatively central to the rest of the league but they have enough going on, especially these days.
The legendary John Grieve Oliver: builder, ferryman and entrepreneur

The legendary John Grieve Oliver: builder, ferryman and entrepreneur

(First of three parts) Miss Cora Hind of the Winnipeg Free Press visited Battleford in September of 1907 and wrote of her experiences with the Battleford steam ferry: “You leave that nightmare of new towns, North Battleford, and with much jingling of
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