Editorial calls for full economic transparency in Manitoba
The writer credits Gary Doer for avoiding the rainy day fund but urges releasing September financial statements. Manitoba lags economically versus peers, with low earnings and GDP per capita, high debt per capita, and the province accounting for a large share of Canada’s job losses. The piece criticizes the NDP for lacking a cohesive economic plan.
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Manitoba
Canada
Ottawa
Quebec
Statistics Canada
Doer
NDP
Arthur the travel hog steals the limelight
A local columnist grouses about Arthur the travel club's celebrity collie roamings. He notes arc of trips from Italy to Ukraine and Australia with various companions, photo proof on page 10, and the town’s buzz around the famed canine mascot of the little town with the Big Bull.
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Arthur
Italy
Travel Club
Tom
Jacques
Ukraine
Poland
Czech Republic
Germany
Tway
Saskatchewan
Mount Rushmore
Shen
Switzerland
England
France
Lax
Los Angeles
Australia
Vegas
Canada
Arie
Grandma's parade boys shine at Keystone Pioneer Museum show
Letter to Edi praises a Sunday show at Keystone Pioneer Museum with a large crowd enjoying activites displays and music. Hank and Betty Smith win votes with an 85 year old Model T Ford while a parade of tractors and a team and buggy closes the day. Three generations Wisemans drive tractors in the parade.
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Edi
Hank
Betty Smith
Bill
Richar
Wyatt
China: Trouble in the Colonies by Gwynne Dyer
Gwynne Dyer argues that Xinjiang and Tibet crises reflect a decolonisation struggle, with Beijing’s development policies driving Han migration and eroding Uighur and Tibetan majorities. He contends violence may rise as repression tightens control, warning of broader unrest across China’s peripheries.
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Gwynne Dyer
China
Turkey
Recep Tayyib Erdogan
Xinjiang
Erdogan
Beijing
Tibet
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