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204-947-1807 Manitoba's very own Summer of Love!
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Make the most of this beautiful summer!
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THOMPSON
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The first Northern Transportation Symposium will take place in Thompson on September 5 and 6, 2024, to explore the future of transportation in the north. nomic and personal connections amongst themselves and to the south. Supplying food, fuel, materials, health care, and even judi-
cial services is extremely expensive. These factors hamper development and hinder a safe and secure qualu 2 ‘Northern Manitoba’
Our own Ian Leatt lands major environmental contract
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n a presser that was released on Thursday, July 25, it was announced that BGP Environmental Group Inc. and its BioCleaner technology and products have been accepted to participate in all water quality related projects available under the proprietary RippleModelTM program of De Sousa Costa International Inc. and its partner in Ghana, EarlPark Limited. Ian Leatt is the president of BGP Environmental which he has developed in conjunction with his business partner, Brent Poole.
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Historic Mariaggi’s romance driven theme hotel remains unique
Opening up Northern Manitoba with transportation hompson, Hub of the North, is a city of 14,000 situated in the heart of northern Manitoba, an area of 440,000 sq. km, almost the size of Germany, yet with only .001% of its population. It’s a big, open space! Most northern communities are Indigenous based with a few urban communities separated by large distances of remote, untouched boreal forest. Many communities have no all-weather roads and are only accessible by airplanes or ice roads in winter. Transportation is a critical element to link First Nations communities together and to provide eco-
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The RippleModelTM program offers governments the ability to fund “major infrastructure development and capacity building greenfield and upgrade projects’’ that meet the strictest environmental requirements de-
manded by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, other UN Environmental Agencies. Robert Pappa Cudjoe, the managing director of EarlPark Limited in Accra, stated, “We are delighted that the Ghana Water Company Limited and the Community Water and Sanitation Agency have embraced BGPs BioCleaner technology and products to bring about lasting change to the multiple water quality challenges faced in u 2 ‘Environmental contract’
Bedroom Buddha.
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ariaggi’s Theme Suite Hotel and Spa in the heart of Winnipeg’s Exchange District has always been a cut above the rest. As current owner Lowell Laluk notes, when Sir James Tupper set out to build the Mariaggi in 1902, he envisaged a building consisting of steel beams and girders – at a time when everything in the city was built using heavy timber. “The beauty of building with steel rather than timbers,” Lowell says, “is that we have been able to adapt the space without having to deal with any large wooden pillars being in the way.” (He points out that Tupper was the son of Sir Charles Tupper*, a short-lived former Prime Minister of Canada and the last surviving Father of Confederation.) At first, Tupper rented the building, the Alexandra Block, at 229-235 McDermot Avenue to Corsican-born restaurateur and wellu 6 ‘Mariaggi's’
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