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Sign Up Now For A Tour

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Freelance contributor For a fascinating day next year, sign up for one of two Whitewater Prisoner of War Camp Horse-Drawn Wagon Tours organized by Friends of Riding Mountain National Park. To begin, each participant is arm banded with a strip of red cloth, denoting that they have become German prisoners of war. An appropriately costumed
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Golden Carrot Awards

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Brandonites who planted small-plot gardens around their city this summer probably didn t expect to reap a golden carrot for their efforts. That s the award presented to their umbrella organization, the Brandon Community Garden Network, representing more than 500 community gardeners in the wheat city, Oct. 14 at the Manitoba legislature. The Golden Carrot
Opinion

Inglis Grain Elevator Row nationally recognized

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The Inglis Grain Elevator Row is Canada s best surviving collection of early 20th century grain storage and shipping facilities competitively aligned side by side at a rural railway loading point. This site is especially valued for the largely unaltered layout of its various components and for the intact architectural and mechanical features of its
Opinion

Lake Manitoba Flood Puts Life On Hold

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co-operator contributor It s October, surely the water is gone by now, isn t it? Unfortunately, no. For people who live near and around Lake Manitoba, the flood continues. In all likelihood it will become the Flood of 2011-12. No one wants to talk about it. Some people are tired of hearing about it. But
Opinion

What Do We Expect?

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While many in rural areas expressed dismay at Manitoba s most recent election results, no one should be surprised. The results underscore the deepening urban-rural split in this province, a polarization that is both political and geographical. It s a polarity that is gradually disenfranchising rural Manitoba, as it reinforces the reality that any party
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Oct. 13, 2011

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More information needed The CWB single-desk collective selling western Canadian wheat and malt barley for farmers represents, by the most conservative and neutral studies, a minimum of $500 million in their pockets annually. But what is $500 million anyway? Is it really that much? And what about the annual tenfold spinoff value as it cycles
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Fourth Straight Majority

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NDP Wins Manitoba s incumbent Ag Minister Stan Struthers is among provincial lawmakers headed back to their seats in the legislature in Winnipeg in the wake of a fourth majority government in a row for the New Democrats. Struthers, a school teacher and high school principal before entering politics, was named ag minister in 2009
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Oct. 6, 2011

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We welcome readers comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator.In most cases we cannot accept open letters or copies of letters which have been sent to several publications. Letters are subject to editing for length or taste. We suggest a maximum of about 300 words. Please forward letters to ManitobaCo-operator, 1666DublinAve.,Winnipeg,
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Business Students Took Candidates To Task Over Rural Issues

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CO-OPERATOR STAFF /OTTERBURNE Business students at Providence University College received a firsthand look at politics in the lead-up to the provincial election with an on-campus debate broadcast live on Goldenwest Radio. All in all I think it was really good, it was great to see everyone come out to take part, said 22-year-old Andrew Friesen.
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Flooding Continues To Bog Down Producers

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On a quiet stretch of road by North Shoal Lake, Howard Hilstrom pulls over to talk flooding with a group of neighbours. The flood isn t over for us, it s just as bad as it was this spring, said the cattle producer and former member of parliament. He noted three provincial roads in the

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