It is the month of December, and yet the city is at this very moment in a sweat. License is given to the general merrymaking.
During this new legislative session, we are enacting an ambitious plan for long-term measures to fix our finances, improve our services and rebuild our economy.
When you take a boat ride on Lake of the Woods around Kenora Ontario you can watch eagles soar high above the water.
I’d like to congratulate Kelvin Goertzen, our province’s Minister of Health, Seniors and Active Living, on the passing of our Manitoba government’s Medical Assistance in Dying Act.
Once we admit that the Bible is not a perfect book, doesn’t always speak with one voice, and reflects the contexts of earlier times we can no longer expect every chapter and verse to speak directly into our lives.
Steinbach grew up along a brook, but was it stony? Answer: The streams that drain the RM of Hanover into the Manning Canal and then into the Red River are cut into a thick layer of Lake Agassiz clay, so these could hardly be considered “stony”.
A parasite is essentially an organism that lives off another organism. Those that live in the human body feed off of cells, digested food, and supplements.
Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to stand in the Manitoba legislature and honour the incredible work of two of Steinbach’s finest community initiatives; Southland Church’s annual Thanksgiving Food and Clothing Drive and Steinbach Community Outreach.
Most readers will likely have heard of the ‘carbon cycle’ from their school days. However as a refresher, for millions of years through the process of photosynthesis plants and trees have taken in carbon dioxide and given out oxygen instead.
“We have to move out. We have no place to go.” The woman from whom the statement came sat across from me. She looked scared and lost. Her 18 year old son stared blankly ahead.
