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As the Minister of Health, Seniors and Active Living I am pleased to announce that as of January 1st, 2017 the Manitoba government will be reducing ambulance fees.

I moved into my small house at the end of September so I am experiencing each season for the first time.

When using high-quality ingredients, you create a more flavorful and nutritious product that will satisfy cravings and meet dietary requirements with smaller portions!

When Dominion surveyor Thomas Cheesman was laying out Township 7-6E in 1872, he found three cabins already there on uncharted bushland.

Let heaven fill your thoughts: Sounds kind of pleasurable. It has that calming affect about it, not at all like the hurried stuff we see in the world today.

2016 has been a milestone year in my life and has seen an unprecedented amount of change brought to Manitoba.

My friends and family from Alberta periodically post some version of the line “if you’re against pipelines, go turn off your natural gas and see if you miss it.” or “if you’re against oil, better tune up your bike.”

The first gift you unwrap this Christmas season is one you should give yourself – a realistic Christmas budget that will keep you from overspending and getting hit with an avalanche of hard-to-pay bills long after the ‘spirit of the season’ has worn off and fiscal realities have returned.

This is my 15th Christmas article. For fear of being a total bore I went back over the articles since 2001 and read over them, hoping that I hadn’t been boorishly repetitive – thankfully, I wasn’t.

Regular readers of this blog will recall that I spent the first 20 years of my life in the Burwalde School District between Winkler and Morden.