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August 1, at 2:04 p.m., Rivers/Daly Fire ByDepartment Sheila Runionswas dispatched to a grass/machinery fire, in the RM of Riverdale. The cause was from a controlled burn earlier in the day, that re ignited on Banner the owner.

Staff Crews worked hard during the heat to extinguish the blaze. Rivers/Daly Fire Department says, there is currently no burn ban, however the conditions dry.tion Please avoid any burning youthecan, orfoyer exercise extreme caution youput must burn. to the schools. cansiffrom school into and Chimo Beach areas for if conaway in the proper place on s r e pare or t e dvery i n t he

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Pupils co-ordinated the entire the church basement the after- tributions from the community. the shelving units. They were March 9 edition, the Grade 12 Interdisci- month-long promotion, which noon of March 21, where the When all was said and done, fantastic! We are very, very plinary Studies in Science class culminated in a ceremonious food was weighed and sorted. the scales at Riverdale Harvest pleased.”

Elementary school staff memat Rivers Collegiate planned a presentation on March 20 to Although the project was a sen- noted a total of 434 pounds, “a project for Riverdale Harvest. Riverdale Harvest president ior students brainstorm, the en- fabulous amount,” says Heather. ber/Harvest volunteer Yvonne tire high school was encouraged “We are so pleased they decided Crouch initiated a similar camDubbed the Boat Load of Food, Heather Gray and Liliane.

Because the snow had melted to participate. The collegiate to help those we serve. A lot paign in her school. That threestudents secured a canoe from canoe Rolling River School A uDivision g u s t 2so, much, a t the 7: 2 2 could not hosted a poor boy floor hockey of times kids don’t get enough week effort simply encouraged with an intent to f ill it with be portaged across the street to tournament in which to play, credit but this group of students students to leave product in p.m., Rivers/Daly Fire non-perishables. Although the Zion Church (home of River- athletes had to pay with food for certainly deserves some praise. the canoe; 87 pounds of food Department, with Harvest).

Rather, the teens the canoe. Some students also All students stayed behind to was collected from the younger campaign was fully organized dalealong Riversidea Police vice, carriedSer bags, boxes and garbage canvassed Rivers, Oak River help check expiry dates, sort and group on Thursday, March 22. by that class, the original came from a suggestion R i v e rmade s EMS, and MB by harvest volunteer Liliane Hydro were dispatched Dupuis. t o a f ully involved “I heard the idea at a meetgarage on fire, in the RM ing in Brandon. St. Augustine The cause School had tried of Fill Riverdale. a Canoe in conjunction with 10-day ofthe the fire is unknown.

Festival du Voyaguer in Winnipeg in February. It was very successful and whenever I hear food bank, my ears always perk up!”

She then brought the sugThe canoe at Rivers gestion to Riverdale Harvest, 3 at, 12:38 p.m., Rivers Fire was dispatched to a fire at the landfill site, that Elementary School August was which supported the idea and adequately filled. jumped into some grass. The cause is believed to be from a spark from the burn Photo by Heather Gray asked her to present the promo-

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t long last, Manitoba has opened up a lot as we hopefully skid to the end of COVID-19. On Tuesday, Premier Pallister and Dr. Roussin announced the long awaited changes to public health orders. The changes are covered elsewhere in the paper and do represent some long awaited relief for Manitobans’ lifestyle.

The biggest visible change will be that masks, as of Saturday. Aug. 7, will be “recommended” for non-vaccinated people in indoor public places. No one will be required to wear a mask but nonvaccinated people are being encouraged to do so indoors.

Manitoba has taken a long time to get to this point and a sense of relief has come to the province. There remains some questions. As of print deadline, regulations for weddings, funerals and other public gatherings both indoors and outdoors including larger capacity limits for worship and cultural events like pow wows were yet to be announced.

The bigger question is, “How did Manitoba do throughout COVID-19?

“Overall; pretty good in comparison with other countries and other provinces.

Many would debate that, especially the opposition parties and many in the media.

As an aside, I strongly feel that many

media outlets did a terrible job of covering C-19. They asked some of the dumbest questions and, often as not, the questions at the press conferences had nothing to do with C-19. But the media’s greatest failure was to research solutions. There were very few scouted out and brought to light. The public still doesn’t know what treatments are being used for people who are really sick with C-19. Neither Manitoba Health nor the media have really let that be known.

The place that we really fell down is care of the elderly. While many care homes did a fantastic job of combining diligence and good luck to keep C-19 at bay, some care homes were a never ending death sentence. Every care home that had larger numbers or larger percentages of deaths should be subject to a public inquiry.

It is well documented that care homes in Manitoba have been under funded, many have been under staffed and most have been under trained. That said, we all need to acknowledge that for the most part, day in, day out, care home staff perform great service to our seniors.

In preparation for the next pandemic, and there will be another one, we need to have clear guidelines for care homes and hospitals. We have to figure out how

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Ken Waddell to keep families and volunteers coming in on a regular basis to provide the extra care and comfort that staff cannot fulfil.

Families and volunteers should never have been subject to long term lockouts.

It caused great anxiety and deaths in many cases.

Care homes need more equipment and better guidelines and as usual, more money. Care home funding shortages crosses all levels of government and all political parties.We must never repeat the mistakes that were made with C-19.

When I says care home funding shortages crosses all levels of government and all political parties, it’s a lot like the lack of clean water in communities. Everybody says it’s important to have clean drinking water but at all levels of government, all levels of citizenry and all levels of media, we are lying to ourselves until it really

happens. People of the older generation used to say, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” The theology might be little sketchy on that statement but we get the point. We don’t need more speeches, promises or press releases. We need action on both clean water and better senior care. I challenged governments at the highest levels, both in written word, in speeches and private conversations to quit spending billions of dollars on useless efforts (such as the Manitoba Museum of Human Rights) and look after the drinking water, health care and elderly housing.

It’s time to pave the road, away from Hell and towards proper care, with actions and not just hollow intentions.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this column are the writer’s personal views and are not to be taken as being the view of the Banner staff.

Climate Clip #9 the Great Barrier Reef

This week I was going to discuss how forest fires have been exacerbated by forestry mismanagement but a statement made in last Friday’s Banner has changed my mind. Instead the reader needs to know the truth about the Great Barrier Reef, not the talking points and fear mongering of the climate alarmists.

Back in September 2019 some scientists announced that the Great Barrier Reef was “officially announced dead”.

Apparently the largest organism on the earth was murdered by humans over time. The supposed causes were the spike in global warming caused by C02 emissions, micro plastic pollution, the release of industrial waste into the oceans and the acidification of the waters around the reef.

All of the above is not true. There was no such announcement in 2019; it was a rumour spread on Facebook. If there is anybody that will know the condition of the reef it is the Australian Institute of Marine Science which monitors the reef very carefully. Despite their detailed reports the Media are silent about the reef’s ability to recover from stressing events such as bleaching.

So here are some facts about this largest living body on the earth.

Corals on the GBR have significantly expanded in number despite bleaching events in the past decade.

There have been only a few such events and they occurred in different regions in each year; one event in the past five years and one in 2002.

There was “minimal impact” from these events and the hard coral has significantly expanded yearly over 85% of the reefs.

So what is coral bleaching? It is the off loading of the algae that gives coral its colour and that lives in a symbiotic relationship with the reef. These tiny plants thrive within the soft tissues of the coral. They are photosynthetic.

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Photosynthesis is the process whereby plants and organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. During the day the algae photosynthesize their needs which benefits the coral. In turn the algae benefit from the nitrogen, phosphorus and C02 waste produced by the coral. At night the coral feeds on plankton by capturing it with their tentacles. If the algae’s work is too much for the coral, the coral can then expel the algae from its tissues.

If there is a lot of this offloading the white skeleton of the coral will be revealed. This causes the reef some stress.

Factors that can lead to this over dismissal of the algae can be the effects of El Nino and La Nina events, changes in ocean currents, increase/decrease of water temperatures, increase/decrease of salt in the water, a build-up of methane gas, increased ultraviolet radiation from the sun, high water turbulence, and decreased levels of light.

Some experts believe that coral bleaching is a new phenomena that began in the 1970’s – right about the time that environmentalists starting crying “save the planet”.

But there is photographic evidence that this isn’t true either.

In 1862 Eugen von Ransonnet took a lithograph of the GBR from his diving bell which shows coral bleaching.

In 1929 Sir Maurice Yonge observed bleaching during his major scientific expedition to the reef.

With the advent of aerial surveying of the reef in the late 1990’s “mass” bleaching events began to be observed from the air. The only problem with this analysis is that the majority of the reef cannot be seen from the air; one has to get down under the water and examine the reef’s totality to know whether or not the reef is suffering a mass event.

According to Peter Ridd, an Australian scientist who has worked on reef research for 35 years and lives in North Queensland adjacent to the reef, the water around the reef is “iridescent clear blue and totally unpolluted. The

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60 years ago little was know about the life and death cycles of the GBR and perhaps that gave the International Union for Conservation of Nature some food for their fear about the reef’s death. More recent understanding of how the coral recovers has been ignored by the IUCN. They also have used false information for their climate activism.

Dr. Ridd gives the example that in one of their reports they claimed that coal dust blowing from ship-loading facilities was a risk to the reef. That is not likely since these ports are 100 to 1000 kilometres from the GBR. The statement about the coal dust damage was discredited by Dr. Simon Apte and others from the CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization which is an Australian governmental agency responsible for scientific research). When Dr. Apte tried to get the IUCN report to correct their mistake, they refused.

It is obvious that many of these so-called scientific organizations, journals and reporters are content to allow outright lies to remain in the public eye and have become blatantly political in promoting a climate change/global warming agenda.

“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” - Mark Twain “and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” - Jesus Christ ( John 8:32)

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the wrist. Hot, hot, hot! Within minutes the old site was bubbling, hives appeared on various areas of my pained body, and the inside of my ears and the palms of my hands itched to distraction. I took an antihistamine and watched my arm swell, and felt the throb.

This time the swelling extends from my knuckles to just a tad past the elbow- the site of bite one. This time I went to the walk in at the hospital. A steroid tablet, endless ice packs, and a sling to prevent me from ever dropping the arm below waist level, and I am surviving. The left hand looks like a movie prop for a nasty movie! Did not need this experience to round out my resume.

Seriously though, this aging takes unexpected twists and turns, some predictable and others appear random. There was a time when five gallon pails of water or chop wearing carried with ease, from respectable distances. Bales were tossed- not dragged or rolled.

Paving tiles and cement blocks were no threat to my abilities. Now I prefer a garden hose for watering rather than carrying any water, anywhere. My walking has slowed but its not bad for a woman my age. Takes markedly longer to perform many a task!

The upside of aging? We live in a great area, and many of the youth in our community are active in their grandparents lives and know that there is a real person inside an aged body. With this knowledge comes respect for the elderly. I appreciate the respect and considerate the young staff members at our local businesses grant me with every interaction. Love it when they comfortable using my given name when serving me. Not all discomfort with getting older!

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have done a great deal of thinking, contemplating and ref lecting on this aging thing. Some of it has produced positive emotions and some of it has produced frustration and some has plainly produced negative emotions. About par for the course charted for my journey. And sometimes laughter is still the best medicine.

For the first time in my life I have suffered dramatic reactions to wasp stings. Never have been fond of the potent poison they can inject. I am not a proficient thrower of balls, not got a pitchers arm. One fall day, years ago, I picked an apple from the tree not knowing it harboured a wasp. With the piercing of the stingers penetration into the palm of my hand, I f lung the apple a record setting toss- if there be such a competition.

I have not been subjected to many stings in my life, and it is as if the ticking of my aging clock is calling for new adventures- I have been stung twice in the last month. The first was just above my elbow on my left arm. Within a day that portion of my anatomy was a hard, red, hot, painful site. It took days for the swelling to dissipate and the area appeared as a nasty bruise when the tale was told. That site was nicely healed when a yellowjacket took a bite. On the left arm, on

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his summer we will all look back on the different experiences we are having. We are now able to travel all over the prairies and enjoy the beauty of the fields that survived the heat. My daughter showed me a picture how hail had shredded the rhubarb leaves. Other family members are being choked by the smoke of the forest fires. My son and grandson and their families are still living out of a suitcase because of evacuation alerts. We have now water restrictions here, because the water in the reservoir is very low. It all claims our physical but also our mental health. Our Bible camp is in full swing. The junior campers are learning that God exists and will exist eternally. “The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms” Deuteronomy 33:27. What a beautiful promise to lean on. And I know that “my God will meet all your (and my) needs, according to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus” Philippians 4:19.

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The Manitoba Government has decided to move ahead with new public health orders and guidance for COVID-19 a full month earlier than originally expected.

Premier Brian Pallister and Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief provincial public health officer made the announcement on Tuesday, Aug. 3.

“Thanks to the remarkable efforts of Manitobans, we are now in a position to reopen more, sooner, as we have achieved our highest vaccination rates yet,” said Pallister.

“This means Manitobans will enjoy the least restrictive public health orders since the start of the pandemic last year.”

The new public health orders will allow the following sectors to open without restrictions: • Indoor and outdoor gatherings at private residences; • Gyms and fitness centres; libraries; • Personal services such as hair and nail salons; • Day camps; • Retail businesses, markets, garden centres and malls.

Other sectors will open with limited restrictions including: • Expanded capacity limits will remain in place for weddings, funerals and other public gatherings both indoors and outdoors including larger capacity limits for worship and cultural events like pow wows; • Restaurants and bars will no longer need to restrict the size or space between tables and dining will not be restricted to households or vaccinated individuals. Patrons, however, will still be expected to avoid congregating or socializing between tables;

• Museums, galleries and movie theatres will remain limited to 50 per cent capacity but will no longer be restricted to vaccinated individuals; • Casinos and bingo halls, professional sporting events, horse and auto racing, and concert halls will continue to be limited to vaccinated individuals; however, all these facilities may now open to 100 per cent capacity; • Indoor and outdoor sports and recreation will fully reopen with limits only on spectator capacity; • Overnight camps will be per-

mitted with limits on camper cohorts; • Workplaces must continue to report cases to government for followup and public healthconfirmed transmission of COVID-19 in the workplace may result in workplaces being ordered to close for a minimum of 10 days; and • Remote working will no longer be required or recommended by public health and workplaces will be encouraged to transition from COVID-19 safety plans to a general communicable disease prevention plan.

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8 Rivers Banner August 8, 2021

The lockdowns used as a response to the coronavirus epidemic show little sign of letting up. “Two weeks to slow the spread” and “15 days to flatten the curve” were lies when they were spoken. They quickly morphed into months, then into years.

A dishonest media, which functions as the propaganda wing of the governing liberals, bears the brunt of the blame for the devastation caused by a destructive overreaction to COVID. Through its fear-mongering, the media has transformed a relatively normal influenza epidemic into an all-purpose bogeyman to instill terror into those willing to trade everything that makes us joyfully human for the imaginary security of a slave’s chains.

The current virus death count, generously defined as the death of anyone who dies having tested positive before death, stands at roughly 26,550, or 0.07% of our population. Using “cases” (the new benchmark), there have been 1,430.300 cases in Canada or 3.7% of our population. Of that number, 1.8% died. The media ignores the 1,397,400 people who have recovered.

Music, art, dance, theatre, and motion pictures are closer to death than the elderly with comorbidities who make up a significant share of deaths attributed to COVID. Public gatherings are forbidden except for minority group protests.

Other victims are the hospitality sector, hotels, restaurants, and bars, which have long been the targets of climate change lunatics. Our churches and synagogues, which

militant atheists have long wished to shutter, are closed.

Our entire public life, the things that make life worth living, has been shut down, ruined, or put out of business.

If everything reopens, it will be under the conditions of the “new normal,” which means that governments will never allow us to regain full freedoms and rights again unless we demand our freedoms.

The notion of “social distancing,” which has cruelly separated individuals and generations, affects our humanity’s essence. For centuries we have regarded the forced separation of families with horror. Instructing people to consider their fellow human beings as virus-infected nightmares who can kill them is reprehensible. Hollywood could not script a better horror movie.

Children have learned the most helpful lesson the ruling class behind these monstrous policies could hope for: fear, obedience, and submission. Has it been worth it? By any unemotional and rational consideration, the answer is no.

This seems a cruel question, to which a cruel tradeoff must be the answer. Societies have been making that choice since the beginning of history. After a year and a half of COVID, during which we have surrendered our freedoms, rights and way of life to a handful of intellectually mediocre and morally bereft bureaucrats, primarily unelected, what have we got to show for it?

We lived under house arrest while COVID case counts continued to rise without pause. Governments are making it up as they go. When governments seek refuge through

the arrival of COVID vaccines to save their political careers, we know their virus containment efforts failed.

Governments must demonstrate why they must continue suppressing our constitutional freedoms and rights.

They have not contained COVID. Their warnings that lifting restrictions will result in massive increases in infections are not credible. Governments spent a year and a half lying to us, suppressing information and fearmongering. They have lost our trust.

We need to find out what happened to this: CANADIAN PANDEMIC INFLUENZA PREPAREDNESS: Planning Guidance for the Health Sector https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/ migration/phac-aspc/cpip-pclcpi/assets/pdf/reportrapport-02-2018-eng.pdf There is little need for a Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Department if we are caught flat-footed, unprepared and gaping like guppies when a virus epidemic occurs. The purpose of the above plan was: First, to minimize serious illness and overall deaths; and Second, to minimize societal disruption among Canadians as a result of an influenza pandemic.

We had elaborate plans in place and tossed them in the waste bin to try untested lockdowns and social isolation.

We must know why.

John Feldsted Political commentator, consultant & strategist Winnipeg, Manitoba

Why was I terminated?

Long term employee plans to fight decision

Banner Staff Rivers Banner The headline sums up the whole story.

Richie Hardinge invested over 17 years of his working life into the health care system.

Serving mainly with Brandon Regional Health then Prairie Mountain Regional Health and lately with Manitoba Shared Health. He was expecting to retire in a few years. He was not expecting to be terminated. In fact, he had not had any items of correction on his file. He said, “I didn’t even have a performance review in about 10 Years.:” Hardinge explains that, “On the fifteenth of April I was to enter into a meeting with past director, Trevor Bartlett who is a manager for Digital Health, Shared Health Manitoba which is the arm of provincial health care responsible for all the information and communication systems of most of the healthcare sectors in the province. This meeting, I was told by my immediate manager, was to address concerns about a particular job that I had done with which they had concerns.

I assumed that this would be under the framework of the Shared Health policy 320.100.135 called Discipline and Discharge and that there would be the expected process of consultation in fairness. The meeting was to address one particular concern on a job.

I was ushered in and the teleconfer-

ence system immediately lit up and a woman, Barbara Weselak, appeared on the screen. She greeted us cordially. Very shortly afterwards the screen changed and an older man, Ron Klowak, joined via teleconference and greeted us more stoically. He immediately proceeded to sever my employment contract and to describe the terms of the severance. Upon closing his reading of his prepared statement for which I was simultaneously given a written copy, he left the meeting and I was now speaking with Ms Weselak who, smiling constantly, asked me if I had any questions. I asked her if there was a reason why they were firing me. I told her that I was expecting to talk about my work and that this was what I understood the meeting to have been about. She refused to answer my only question on the grounds that I was already too stressed and instead promised to have a conversation about it with me later on after the severance business was done with.”

Hardinge says the termination has been devastating. He’s lost his livelihood, his pension has been crushed and he feels that many co-workers have been treated badly or will be in the near future.

Hardinge says that the IT group is overloaded with work assignment. He feels that mis-management and malevolence have been the main reason for the frustrated resignations of several colleagues and that his efforts and sacrifices to make a success

out of the work have been made in vain.

He feels he was always on the shortlist of people who are to be removed.

The work history with Trevor Bartlett goes back a number of years. Bartlett and Hardinge both applied a number of years ago for an entry level tech job. In fact, the original job interview was conducted

by Trevor Bartlett’s father, Ted, so that has always created a bit of a concern in Hardinge’s mind Hardinge says that Trevor Bartlett, in his later managerial role, ”Started by overworking his staff until some of us quit to pursue more equitable work. Now he is managing to successfully convince the executives that my character is so odious that I should be dismissed with a meagre pension and severance package. I will not ignore Trevor Bartlett’s actions or stand by idly while his attention turns towards my colleagues.”

“I have invested heavily in my career of 17+ years. I have worked countless hours of overtime by arriving early(regularly at 6:00am) and working late (often leaving at 9:00pm) something that was unnecessary before the creation of PMH and the reductions in resources became an issue.

I have stepped up rather than out. Many of my colleagues have had to do the same.

When disasters strike I have always been one of the willing to step up and lend my time and skills to the recovery. I have earned the respect of my colleagues and

I have worked tirelessly to maintain and build on that foundation.

A human manager, rightly oriented, would have been inclined to defend me and any other person being considered for dismissal. A human manager would be forthright and honest with staff when setting up a meeting. Instead I was blindsided having prepared for a meeting on the false and misleading information of the very person that I should have been able to count on in the hierarchy. I have been sold down the river without a say in the transaction. My family suffers to this day.

My wife goes to work on the very same campus as I once did. She feels every bit of the uncertainty of the situation from staffers who have no idea why I am no longer working. The pressure on her and the effect on her mental health has been profound. I have been a well known and reliable source of IT support throughout Prairie Mountain Health and particularly on campus. My sudden absence has generated personal calls to me that often start with, I wonder if you can help me with… and end with their shock when I explain that I am not employed in healthcare any longer.”

Hardinge says he has not been offered any where near the normal severance package accorded to long term employees. He plans to fight Manitoba Shared Health, not just for himself but for others in his now former work place.