Over the past several months, the Village News has focused heavily on the Mennonite settlers from Imperial Russia (modern Ukraine) and their first experience of Manitoba 150 years ago.
For the past 15 years, University of Winnipeg math professor Anna Stokke has been a leading voice for improving the math outcomes for students in Manitoba.
The Mennonite village model that is represented at the Mennonite Heritage Village is a community that is interconnected, founded on mutual benefit and one where the issues facing individuals cannot go unnoticed.
With the United States presidential election now concluded, political watchers on this side of the border are looking to Ottawa as plans begin for the return of President-elect Donald Trump to the White House.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau once noted that living next to the United States is “like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”
Like most Manitobans, I look toward the inevitable coming of winter with trepidation and muted anticipation.
This coming Monday, Remembrance Day, Canadians will again have the opportunity to stop, remember and to be grateful for people they have never met, but who have sacrificed for them.
I am so pleased to share that Bill 217 has received a second reading – bringing Manitoba one step closer to establishing a Men’s Mental Health Awareness Week that would take place annually in the week leading up to Father’s Day.
The Privilegium of 1873, otherwise known as the Lowe Letter, is the reason Mennonites from Imperial Russia settled in Manitoba in significant numbers in 1874.
For those versed in the history of the East Reserve, mentioning New Bothwell along with early Mennonite settlements will raise some eyebrows, as the town wasn’t established until after the building of the public school in the 1920s.
