Community Contribution shape of Manitoba health projects debated
Manitoba finance minister We Selinger defended the Community Contribution requirement for major health capital projects, setting 20 percent cash or in kind from the host community, with 10 percent if upfront. Ambulance garages escape cash needs but land must be provided, while hospital and personal care home costs loom large at 27 million for a 100 bed facility.
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Remembrance Day Ceremonies Move Indoors in Zeepawa
Zeepawa plans November 11 remembrance events at 11 a.m. in Yellowhead Hall with both cenotaph ceremony and church service indoors for the first time. The note urges citizen support for troops, discusses funding and policy debates on Afghanistan, and honors veterans and active service members.
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Homeeducation nostalgia recalls math and history basics
Riva Friesen reflects on how school children complain about homework and how era labels like BCE and CE replaced AD and BC. The piece notes long division, exponent attitudes, and a childhood without calculators, emphasizing simple arithmetic and memorized multiplication tables.
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Poems and metric memory across English learning days
The author recalls poems from classic sources and explains how poetic devices aided homework. They contrast metric systems and grandma’s familiarity with litres and Celsius to the English miles and kilometers, noting a personal shortcut of converting distances into minutes.
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