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204-947-1807 The debate over electric vehicles continues
Greek salmon – a tasty twist!
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MB Opera's new season starts with Tosca
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Canola sales matter to all of us – what are we doing about this?
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Cowboys
Jeff Bereza
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anitoba farmers are facing one of the most serious market shocks in years. In just weeks, they will harvest a canola crop worth billions to our province. Canola makes up roughly 25 percent of Manitoba’s farm cash receipts, with an export value of $2.4 billion. More than 12,000 square kilometres of farmland are seeded with canola each year. The crop supports over 35,000 jobs and contributes nearly $7 billion to our economy. Now, that success is at risk. China’s new 75.8 percent tariff on Canadian canola seed threatens the 3.2 billion kilograms Manitoba normally exports. It is not just canola. Tariffs on soybeans and pork also put $1.2 billion in exports at risk. That is 85 percent of Manitoba’s total agricultural trade with China. China normally imports about six million tonnes of Canadian canola every year. If those imports fall to zero, who will fill the gap? Some expect Australia to take on more demand, but with annual production of only six to seven million tonnes, it cannot fully replace Canada. Even if Australia diverted its entire crop to China, it would leave its own domestic and international partners short.
Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels as Tonto. Photo courtesy of ABC Television.
Jim Ingebrigtsen
Harvest time is upon us. That void could be filled by Canadian production, but only if immediate action is taken. For farmers, this is the difference between making loan payments or losing the farm. Between putting seed and fertilizer in the ground this fall, or wondering if they will still be farming next year. Yet our provincial government is doing nothing. u 6 ‘Canola sales'
The Gypsumville meteorite crater Michael Issigonis
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hen travelling north along highway 6, one crosses one of the biggest craters in Canada and the 13th biggest on Earth! The scenery is not like passing Arizona’s Meteor Crater, but it used to be like that before the Ice Age covered all of Canada. Today, you only see a small bump on the highway while going over the southwestern edge of that crater, some five kilometres south of St. Martin’s Junction. It
is probably the only “bump” on Highway #6! You can see the rounded feature, on the copy of the Geological Map of Manitoba, in the illustration. Some 227 million years ago, well before the end of the dinosaurs, there was another asteroid that collided with Earth: just before it hit our planet it broke apart into several piece. The largest stone hit Manicouagan, Quebec and formed a 100-km-wide crater (the only crater visible from space!). The second biggest piece landed where tou 5 ‘Gypsumville crater'
A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty "Hi-yo Silver" – The Lone Ranger! Hi-ho, Silver, away!
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hose were the opening lines of The Lone Ranger, one of the all-time favourite heroes of the old west. Although the show started on Detroit radio in 1933, it was the television series that ran from 1949-1957 that we most remember. Clayton Moore was the masked former Texas Ranger and Ontario born Jay Silverheels was his loyal friend Tonto. Let’s saunter down that dusty old trail and catch up with just some of those favourite rootin’ tootin’, pistol-packin’ hombres who would sashay into my living room through the 1950s and 1960s. You must remember The Roy Rogers Show? Roy was the King of the Cowboys and his wife Dale was the Queen of the West. They were joined by their dog Bullet and sidekick Pat Brady who drove an old jeep Nellybelle. The Sons of the Pioneers would join Roy and the gang led by Bob Nolan who was born right here in Winnipeg. I’m not certain how many girls were fans of the dusters of the day, but I remember my mother loved Gene Autry, the Singing Cowboy. I know a couple guys who couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time. Gene could ride his horse Champion and sing Back in the Saddle Again at the same time. I was lucky enough to own a Gene Autry cap gun and holster. Speaking of guns … how about the show’s opening of The Rifleman, starring Chuck Conu 13 ‘Cowboys'