Missing snowmobiler found dead in northern B.C. after encountering winter conditions

Responding to power concernsRe: Aren’t there other power options? (Think Tank, Aug. 26)

The op-ed by Jules Legal gets several key facts completely wrong.

First, Bipole III was not built to export electricity to the United States. It was built to make Manitoba’s power system more reliable.

Before Bipole III came into service in 2018, about 70 per cent of Manitoba’s electricity from our northern generating stations flowed through Bipole I and Bipole II. Because those lines run along the same corridor, a major outage or damage to that line could have caused widespread service disruptions. Bipole III gives Manitoba an alternate route to move electricity from our generating stations to feed into our provincial grid.

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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I recently heard the love of my life, who got sent off to her aunt’s place in B.C. after she got pregnant, came back to Winnipeg. She lost the pregnancy early on, but her parents wanted to keep us far apart, so she had to stay on with her aunt and uncle and wasn’t allowed phone calls from guys.

Now that she’s finally back in Winnipeg again, I got her new cell number and I called her right away. She said, “You never called me after I was sent away, and I waited for your call every day. How dare you call me now?”

I said, “I didn’t have your new number, and I was scared to call your family here, for it.” She said, “You could have gotten my new number from my sister or any one of my friends if you tried! They kept asking me if you’d called yet. They said it showed you didn’t really care.”

I didn’t know what to say. I was too chicken to stand up to her family. Don’t you think she should stop being cruel to me? What can I say to her?