Mr. Hall helps again
FARON Hall has been labelled a hero for twice rescuing people from the Red River, but his most important contribution may well be the way his story has forced the community to pay closer attention to the plight of homeless people.
A friend of Mr. Hall claims the system failed to ...
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U of M feeling pinched
DAVID Barnard spoke at some length about transformation when he was installed as president at the University of Manitoba's fall convocation in 2008. The details to that vision are becoming apparent now that a business consulting firm has dropped its report on efficiency, duplication and opportunities for new revenues on the president's desk.
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Nurses' demands vex NDP
THE strike vote taken by St. Boniface hospital nurses -- the third of them, at least, who turned out for the vote on a strike mandate -- may be a sign that few are deeply engaged in the negotiations with the province and that has a certain logic to it. The NDP government has been Manitoba nurses' best friend, awarding lucrative wage increases in the last decade that made them fourth highest paid in Canada. All this in relative peace.
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THE City of Winnipeg should make a commitment to keep the city's libraries, particularly the downtown branch, open for longer hours. The initiative should be pursued, not merely because the Millennium Library is open fewer hours per week than most of its counterparts across Canada, but because libraries serve an important social, economic and intellectual purpose.
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