Members of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party will be selecting their new leader on April 26th.
At about midnight July 31, 1874, in what would be the first large bloc settlement of Europeans in the new province of Manitoba, the first boatload of 332 Kleine Gemeinde Mennonites aboard the paddle-wheeler International of the Kittson line passed the confluence of the Red and Rat Rivers and continued to Winnipeg.
The story that Christianity must tell sounds at times as being foolish to those who are perishing. Human perception and insight are certain to fail when one tries to explain spiritual issues – subjects – matters.
Likely many Manitobans were not aware that Saturday, February 1st in our province was Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Day.
The relief felt by the first Mennonites upon arrival at the immigration sheds in August 1874 morphed into disappointment when they realized there was no reliable water supply.
Mass migration across about 20,000 kilometres of land and sea was, until the 1870s, a daunting proposition, given the time, expense and logistics involved.
Maybe it has happened before, but it is not something I remember seeing. Watching on television Saturday night as Canadian hockey fans booed the playing of the United States national anthem was both surreal and sad.
I would like to discuss our health-care system and how it’s taken a turn for the worse since the NDP were elected.
In the Manitoba Legislative Assembly, the Speaker of the House often refers to elected MLA’s as “Honourable Members”.
The lands on which the Mennonites settled were the ancestral lands of First Nations peoples.
