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Our government is asking Manitobans for their ideas on how we can make our health-care system more efficient.

Last Friday I had the opportunity as the Minister of Health to speak to students at Shaftesbury High school in Winnipeg and Steinbach Regional Secondary School in Steinbach about fentanyl awareness.

Af-flu-en-za: 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling resulting from trying to buy all the latest stuff and keep up with the Joneses.

Have you ever felt like you wanted to be like someone else? Seen someone who appeared to have everything all together?

I have come a long way from those days in early childhood in which I was first terrorized by the certainty of hell and finally giving in to being “saved” by believing in the penal substitutionary atonement theory.

It was a pleasure to recently have lunch with a small group of volunteers at Mennonite Heritage Village. Predictably Christmas became a key part of our conversation around the table.

Vitamin D is an essential fat-soluble vitamin. It is formed naturally in the skin by exposure to sunlight, hence it’s nickname “The Sunshine Vitamin”.

Last weekend I welcomed the opportunity to join my federal, provincial and territorial counterparts, as well as public health professionals from across Canada, in Ottawa for important discussions around the opioid crisis facing our country.

It was my pleasure this week to honour in the Legislature Ten Thousand Villages through a Private Member’s Statement, as well as to recognize the community contributions of the Steinbach location, and it’s near 30 volunteers and staff.

In previous columns Gary Snyder and Pat Marten have written about why they cycle through the winter. Both of them need to get to their job every day and this needs to happen reasonably efficiently.