Gomery talk and a Winnipeg teen's rising star
The writer riffs on the Gomery Inquiry and political blackmail rhetoric before shifting to praise Julian Prokopetz, a Winnipeg teen who won the World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships in Cyprus and will attend Yale after graduating from St John’s Ravenscourt. Beth Bowley is noted as his grandmother, with prior Winnipeg Free Press front pages on his achievements.
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Order of the Phoenix
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Yale
Highway safety urged as spring farm equipment returns
Manitoba farmers gear up for seeding as roads share space with slower farm machinery. Drivers urged to slow down and give room when overtaking large cultivators and seeders, with concerns over vision, potholes, and deteriorating roads. Keystone Agricultural Producers President David Rolfe calls for safer, better funded roadways this spring.
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David Rolfe
Prairie Provinces Debating Daylight Saving Time
An article surveys DST in Manitoba Alberta and Saskatchewan noting unity in landscape and economy but differing practices. Saskatchewan keeps year round time while Manitoba and Alberta observe spring ahead and fall back. editorials reveal support and dissent amid historical notes on railroads GMT and Willet's influence.
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William Willet
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Russell
Main Street
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