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MANITOBA Lifestyles bringing us together as a province Dorothy Dobbie
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ou will see that there is a change on the masthead of this month’s Lifestyles 55. We have added the label, “Manitoba”. As most of our dedicated readers will know, we have always tried to include northern and rural Manitoba stories and features along with the Winnipeg content, but it was done in an ad hoc way without a plan. That has changed. I feel strongly that the strength of Manitoba is in its cohesion as a united province and that we need to have a strong united voice. We are not a collection of disassociated communities. “Perimeter vision”, which exists both ways, is limiting and harmful to our collective future. Every part of this province produces amazing people with incredible skills, and it is in this diversity that we find our strength. Everywhere I go in my travels, I run into Manitobans who are or who have made a mark on the wider world. Everything thing I have done on the national scene shows Manitobans pulling above our weight, coming to the front of the line, being respected and making contributions that outstrip those from other places. Manitobans shine in all communities, wherever they settle. This is recognized. When the topic arises, we laugh and say it is something in the water, but wherever it comes from, we make a difference. I believe we are shaped by our environment. In this amazing province, there is a vast diversity of conditions, both physical and psychological. In the north, we have the adventurer, the intrepid types who love to overcome the u 2 ‘Manitoba Lifestyles’
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Living the good life in Manitoba’s southwest corner How to encourage a new kind of growth to keep the region thriving Doyle Piwniuk
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he biggest issue that we face in Western and SouthCentral Manitoba is the depopulation of our rural communities. Turtle Mountain is facing a relocating of young people to larger centres such as Winnipeg, Brandon, and Morden/Winkler to attend post-secondary institutions. They go seeking training for careers but in many cases they can’t find opportunities in their home community to utilize those skills so they don’t return. Another reason for depopulation in the western region is that farms are getting bigger and bigger and there are fewer farm families to support the small communities. Growing up on a farm in rural Manitoba,
The International Peace Garden. we had many neighbours around us, and most farms had one or two sections of land that supported each farm family. Farmers would haul their grain or dairy products to the
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Segregated Funds make wealth distribution for beneficiaries a simple and painless task Tom Hyde
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n Canada there are two basic financial acts the affect us all – The Bank Act and The Insurance Companies Act. I am not a lawyer and I do not give legal advice, but we can all find this on the internet, and you will see approximately 1,000 articles in each act if you are so inclined to check them out. It is complex information, and we need our friends at the law firms and accounting firms to keep it straight. But is it always necessary to have things complicated when your partner passes away? u 5 ‘Segregated Funds’
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