June 2023
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Mining tops Manitoba’s economic list
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he CentrePort Canada Rail Park will be a game-changer in the transportation and logistics sector for Manitoba and Canada. With its strategic location, state-of-the-art infrastructure, and efficient connectivity, the rail park is poised to enhance Canada’s competitiveness in the global market and generate significant economic benefits for the province and the country. Focus Equities Inc. was named in March, 2022, developer of CentrePort Canada Rail Park, a 665-acre rail hub located in the heart of North America’s largest trimodal inland port and Foreign Trade Zone. The rail park, in the RM of Rosser in the Winnipeg metro region, will facilitate the movement of goods between road, rail and air to provide a range of value-added services such as warehousing, distribution and customs clearance, and with potential to attract interest from diverse sectors including manufacturing, logistics and mining. “Winnipeg offers companies engaged in global supply chain u 7 ‘CentrePort’
Tick talk time Jim Ingebrigsten
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es, it’s that time of year again. We have all complained about the winter we had. As I’ve often said, if it wasn’t for the weather, 95 percent of the people we know wouldn’t be able to start a conversation. The fact is, in this part of the world we have a lot of weather to talk about. In winter we might have snowstorms,
blizzards, icy roads, and frost bite. But summer is finally here and with it comes a list of things that can actually hurt us. Different kinds of bites. Time for a little tick talk. Did you know ticks are not in-
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CentrePort Canada Rail Park a catalyst for economic growth
CentrePort lies to the northwest of Winnipeg.
Stellar season ahead for the RWB
sects? They are members of the spider family. They need blood to survive. Any kind of blood. Some ticks love the blood of white-tailed deer. We have around 1,500 of those deer living within our city limits. The more deer, the more ticks. They will also dine on rodents (mice), small animals (your dog), birds and of course, you. Ticks have curved teeth and they love a nice moist place to sink those u 8 ‘Tick talk time’
Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian sovereign of song writing
Gordon Lightfoot.
John Einarson
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ordon Lightfoot’s music meant so much to me for so many decades, from the time I first heard “Early Morning Rain” back in 1965. In the wake of his recent tour cancellations, it was as if the media were dusting off their prepared obituaries and tributes and updating them, sensing that his time was near. He passed away on May 1, 2023. I have often said that Canada’s greatest contribution to popular music over the last 60 years or so has been singer-songwriters. While we have had significant musical contributors in a variety of music genres, beginning in the 1960s, Canadian singer-songwriters have come to define Canadian music to the world. Lightfoot was at the top of the heap, followed by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Ian Tyson, Neil Young, Robbie Robertson, Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen and more. Unlike their American counterparts, Canadian singer-songwritu 11 ‘Gordon Lightfoot’