Roblin Records Snowmobile Ride Hints and Local Notes
Manitoba community notes span Jan 17 to 22 with events in Roblin. Snowmobilers plan a Roblin stop on Jan 22 for the MS Ride for Hope. Local RM payouts are scarce due to forage yields. Mark Valley Ski Area opens after weather-related closures. The piece covers prices at Sam's Restaurant, hospital donations, environmental protests, and a range of civic and business items across decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roblin
Manitoba
Mark Valley
Parasitic Pressure in Farming and Society
The speaker discusses numerous farm parasites such as Bertha army worms grain beetles aphids and fusarium and argues that lack of control threatens farming viability. He then broadens the critique to claim there are too many human parasites in society who produce no goods and provide no services.
Opinion letters critique of capitalism and parasitic gain
A reader argues that capitalism enables parasites to exploit cheap labor with little regulation, harming workers who lose jobs savings pensions or homes. The letter notes taxpayers bailout of the wealthy when problems arise, keeping their lavish lifestyle and prompts backlash from Martha and Henry as unfair.
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Martha
Henry
Surprising memory terms clash trilobites with terabytes
In Peg Hasein’s Neighbourly News column from January 13, the memory scale moves from megabytes to gigabytes to trilobytes, a mix up with trilobites. The writer jokes that terabytes will be common long before trilobytes fossilize, joking about brain storage and rocks.
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Peg Hasein
Peg
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