Blenkarn and the GST controversy in Ottawa
Ottawa's Tory Finance Committee chair Don Blenkarn draws fire for insensitive remarks on seniors women and Atlantic Canada as the GST debate heats up. Critics urge apology while opponents call for more respectful dialogue on the tax plan.
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Finance Committee
Don Blenkarn
Mr. Blenkarn
Blenkarn
Ottawa
Saskatchewan
Atlantic Canada
Halifax
Atlantic Region
Boonie
Compassionate Friends aids grieving Manitoba families
Article outlines Compassionate Friends relief efforts amid child death and suicides in Manitoba. It notes Winnipeg as a hub with chapters across the province, discusses rural challenges, confidentiality, and the need for support. It highlights coping steps: listening, naming children, sharing memories, and avoiding platitudes.
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Dorothy
Manitoba
Compassionate Friends
Winnipeg
Vnce
Pat
Ken Pinch
TCF
Pat Pinch
Letter on: responsibility before burning fires near farms
Gordon Mundle pleads for care as repeated out of control fires threaten farms near Bayfield. He cites wind shifts, smoldering brush, and years of damage, urging neighbors to consider others before lighting fires and risking loss of homes and sixty three years of work.
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Ome
Bayfield
Name on the tip of my tongue puzzles the author
The narrator struggles to recall a two syllable name starting with R while recounting memory lapses, a dinner with friends, and a failed search for the writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The memory block ends with the name Marquez surfacing as the solution to the writer’s identity.
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Robertson
Robinson
Elizabeth
Rogers
Malcolm Rogers
Tom and Mary
Tom
Mary
Colombia
Marquez
Garcia Gabriel Marquez
Nobel Laurete
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Balone
Ann M. Smit
Nelson Bennett
The
Grenfell Sun
Grenfell
Bennet
Russell Banner
P.O
Russell, Manitoba
Roj
Main Street
Russell
Chaloner Publishers
Clayton G. Chaloner
Canada
United States
EIOW
Isa
Peter Warren
Compassionate
Manitou
Flin Flon
Gordon Mundle
Peter
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