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Changing Of The Guard At Deerwood

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Local lore has it that one of the reasons Bill Turner devoted more than two decades of his life to seemingly mundane tasks such as capping off abandoned wells dates back to his childhood. As a nine-year-old, Turner was peering down an old well shaft when a mischievous older schoolboy gave him a little nudge
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Technical Signals A Warning To Investors

David drozd On Thursd a y, May 6, 2010 the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) suffered a severe 1,000-point drop that sent shock waves around the world. To this day, investors from far and wide have been trying to understand why. Ludicrous rumours surfaced – one being that someone had accidently entered an order to
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Low Donor Support For Haiti Farming Alarms UN Body

Only eight per cent of a $23 million appeal to help Haiti revive food production after a devastating earthquake has been funded, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Feb. 12. At a meeting of UN agencies in Rome also attended by Haiti’s agriculture minister one month after the earthquake, FAO director general Jacques
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Farming The Weather

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Once more, the fickle Manitoba winter unleashed its fury last week, leaving closed highways and schools in its wake. For the uninitiated, it was hell frozen over. For the hardy Manitoban, it was a good day to zip up the coat. The tractor still had to start, the chores still needed doing, and every doorway
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Canada’s Former Top General On Leadership

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“You have to respect people. If you think you’re omnipotent – if you think you’re the big cod – you’re going to be wrong. If you think you know it all, people are not going to respect you.” – GENERAL RICK HILLIER Leadership is about people and a leader’s job is to enable ordinary people
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A Holiday Wish

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One of the intense pleasures of travel is the opportunity to live amongst peoples who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in the stones polished by rain, taste it in the bitter leaves of plants. So begins the 2009 Massey Lecture series by Wade Davis,
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The Jacksons – for Nov. 19, 2009

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Rose Jackson opened her eyes and stared briefly at the ceiling above her from her position on the couch in the living room of the Jackson home. After a moment, she turned her head lazily to look out of the picture window across the room. She found herself squinting against the sunlight outside and gave
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Overnight Sensation

Brown and grey surround us – will spring ever appear? The calendar says May, but cold and dreary persevere. We long for bright-green colours, blades of grass, new leaves too. This year patience is required; nature won’t be rushed by you. Then – finally – a rain, although it feels like snow. Two days later
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The Jacksons – for May. 7, 2009

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Soft clouds hung lazily in the sky above the grey-brown landscape of early spring. A meadowlark flew from its perch on a fence post beside the old dirt road, a yellow flash in the sun that settled quickly on another post further on, and a moment later its bright song echoed across the field. The
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Christmas 50 years ago

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Every year when we toted the Christmas decorations up from the basement and started untangling the tree lights, one of our inquisitive offspring would reach down into the box and retrieve “the relic.” “You mean you actually put this thing on your tree?” He would be dumbfounded to think that a tinfoil pie plate could

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