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AMM Backs New Brandon Medical School Proposal

By Daniel Winters December 3, 2009

Aresolution calling on the provincial government to establish a rural medical school at Brandon University to churn out doctors prepared to work in rural areas got the nod from Association of Manitoba Municipalities (AMM) delegates last week. Sponsored by the R. M. s of Pipestone, Roblin and Shoal Lake, the resolution was aimed at finding

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The Proportion Of Foreign-Trained Doctors Working In Canada Is Declining

By Lorraine Stevenson September 17, 2009

“We’ve been decreasing the percentage of foreigntrained doctors in Canada, as a percentage overall, but at the same time making certification of a foreigntrained doctor contingent on working in a rural area. That means we have concentrated them in rural areas.” – JOHN DAVID STANWAY, SENIOR ANALYST, CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INFORMATION Visit a doctor

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AMM’s Leaders Want Rural Medical School

By Lorraine Stevenson June 25, 2009

Manitoba’s budget for recruiting foreign doctors would be better spent providing medical training to people from rural and remote communities, a Brandon physican who is proposing a 25-seat medical school for Brandon University says. Dr. Derry Decter gained more support for the idea at a meeting of southwestern municipal leaders last week. They gave him

Livestock, Other livestock

Bugs Free For The Picking

By Daniel Winters June 18, 2009

“If you’ve ever seen fleas on a dog, how they jump and go crazy – that’s how these things move” – Nancy Gray, Iaps Co-Ordinator For Eastern Saskatchewan The best things in life are free, they say. That includes leafy spurge beetles. A bug net, a paper bag, a cooler and some ice packs are

Hogs, Livestock, News

Environmental Regulations Squeeze Spanish Hog Farmers

By Daniel Winters May 21, 2009

“It was a successful model. It seemed like everybody was winning.” – VICTORIA SOLDEVILA Large-scale hog farming worked wonders for the Catalonian economy – for a while. Economically depressed for decades by a long civil war and later the rule of fascist dictator Francisco Franco, the Spanish autonomous territory bordered by France on one side

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4-H Reports – for Nov. 6, 2008

November 6, 2008

The Co-operator will publish 4-H reports once a month. Club reports can be submitted by the third week of the month by e-mail to [email protected],by regular mail to 4-H Reports, c/o Manitoba Co-operator, 1666 Dublin Ave., Winnipeg, Man. R3H 0H1 or by fax to 204-954-1422. 4-H Month in Manitoba Agriculture Minister Rosann Wowchuk on Oct.

Daily Network News

Large gap in canola ending stocks between AAFC, USDA

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs rally

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans hit lowest prices since October on big supplies

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AMM Backs New Brandon Medical School Proposal

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