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Catherine Strong
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Article History:
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The Future Of Handwriting
Recently, disconcertingly, I’ve run into several individuals who can’t read anything handwritten. Taught to read from printed books, and doing school work largely on a computer, many children never read anything entirely handwritten. Not my kids, or any of my relatives; they’ve received handwritten cards and letters from me since the time they were very…
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Remembering George Floyd
This week marks one year since the death of George Floyd at the hands of a serving police officer, Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis. It’s a time to remember the death of Mr. Floyd, and to extend our thoughts and condolences to his family, who are surely marking this grim anniversary in their own way. However,…
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Long Weekend At The Lake
When I first came to Canada, I lived in Transcona, with my parents and brother. My aunts, uncles, and cousins lived on Southside, which to those in the know means, south of the CN yards, in a semi-rural area just off Dugald Road. I was graciously invited, by virtue of family ties, to the annual…
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Truth, Lies & the Idiots We Elect
On the whole, I’m a patient and sunny-natured person, but there are a few things in life that make me very angry: the waste of opportunity; the waste of resources; poor management; failure to anticipate; disrespect; and being lied to. You can imagine how much I’m enjoying The Trudeau Years 2.0. The present Government of…
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Opinion: Retrospective
Technology changes at an ever-accelerating pace, and our world changes with it. We carry on, assimilating the new tech, using it, adapting to it, and behaving as if it has always been with us. Kids have cell phones and computers. They are allowed to use calculators to do their math, and where does that end?…
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Unidentified
In his final book, “Brief Answers to the Big Questions”, Stephen Hawking said he did not believe we have been visited by aliens, since any species arriving here from elsewhere would have such superior technology that everyone would have noticed the encounter, because of its unpleasant outcome for us. His argument is probably sound, but…
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Bully Beef & Mashed Potatoes
We’ve become a nation of whiners lately. I understand Covid Fatigue, I really do. I’ve left my property maybe 24 times in the past year. I’ve had my first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, and can’t wait for this cursed plague to end, so I can resume what passes for a normal life. My sister…
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Basic And In The Black
In the last year, there has been much discussion of what some are calling a Universal Basic Income. In this conversation the divide is deep, between those who speak from experience, and those whose knowledge is theoretical. Opinion is not always split along professional or political lines. The term “universal”, used to describe health care,…
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Pure Poetry
Recently two Manitoba teens won national awards for literature, one a student from Lord Selkirk School and the other from Kildonan East Collegiate. Clearly, our educators still believe that literature is important; and in any discussion of provincial education standards, the two most divisive topics are literacy and numeracy, because in many cases, this is…
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Science For The Ages
Science has always been one of my interests. Science lifts us out of the murk of superstition and supposition, into the enlightenment of that which can be proved. It moves us from the Dark Ages of ignorance, into a place where thought and exploration are valued; where curiosity, experimentation and evidence are constantly unfolding new…