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Dorothy Dobbie
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Why should I Get My Pet Dog and Cat Fixed
WINNIPEG - By spaying or neutering your pet, you’ll help control the pet homelessness crisis, which results in millions of healthy dogs and cats being euthanized in Canada each year simply because there aren’t enough homes to go around. There are also medical and behavioral benefits to spaying (female pets) and neutering (male pets) your…
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Walking with the Bear Clan
WINNIPEG - The phone rang one dreary Tuesday afternoon last month. It was one of those days when the whole world seemed to be in some a state of anger, disillusionment, and hopelessness. I looked at the number with an 819 prefix wondering if I should answer it—probably a telemarketer, I thought. But I did…
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Oil to Tidewater Through Manitoba
If you saw an opportunity to solve our fiscal problems, help our indigenous and northern communities find a future economy, and cement our alliance with the west by fully utilizing our northern coast and our hydro resources, would you take it? We can build a pipeline from Manitoba’s oil patch, following the railroad right of…
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Does the Province Owe the City $40 million?
WINNIPEG - I believe in our City councillors. I believe in Mayor Bowman. I believe in our premier. But it seems that there is a major miscommunication about road construction funding that is hard to understand when you look at the facts. The mayor is loudly complaining that he has been short changed $40 million…
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Virtue Signalling
WINNIPEG - Driving from the Airport down the Kingsway with my daughter Shauna, we were doing a little political jousting as we often do. Shauna is not, as they say, of a like mind with me about Tories – although she does admit to like John Tory, Toronto’s mayor. Shauna has a Masters in Theatre…
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136 Years of Winnipeg Firefighters
WINNIPEG - There’s a hidden two-and-a-half story brick building located in downtown Winnipeg which has played a big part in the history of the city. The Winnipeg Firefighters Museum, a 115-year-old work of art located at 56 Maple Street, was built 22 years after the creation of the Winnipeg Fire Department, and remained an active…
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Dinner with Frank
WINNIPEG - I had the privilege recently of enjoying a dinner with Frank Mahovlich, the former hockey player and senator, who regaled us with stories of his past. One of them was about his recent trip (2017) to Moscow to have dinner with Putin – the occasion was a celebration of the 45th anniversary of…
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Time To Clean Up The Swamp At City Hall
It is time for city councillors to step up to the plate and change the corporate culture that is killing our city. Every time I speak with an individual, a business or an organization about their dealings with the city, I hear very concerning stories of obstruction, intimidation, even coercion. Why aren’t there stories about…
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Falling Off The Cliff: The High Personal Cost of Public Service
There is an election later this year and, inevitably, a number of current members of Parliament will not return, most involuntarily and some through choice. Regardless how the separation occurs, there is a serious transition from public to private life facing each of those who will not return, but especially the one-term members who cannot…
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Dealing With Deer in the Garden
What is more beautiful and fascinating than a tawny, white-tailed deer, seen grazing along a woodland margin while her two spotted fawns graze nearby? Clearly wildlife of a higher order, they attract admiring glances from passers-by and when the magnificently antlered buck enters the picture, admiration changes to awe. Deer deterrents So how do you…