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3 Help us keep our local


performance Arts They are vital to our future


See pages 5-8 for further coverage. Dorothy Dobbie nesses. T


he COVID-19 forced shut down has displaced many fine people from their livelihoods and threatened, even ended, some of our small but important busi-


No sector has been more affected than our entertainment businesses and that includes our own performance arts: the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Manitoba The- ater Centre, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Manitoba Opera, and our increasingly important film and music company, On Screen Manitoba. These businesses, plus many of smaller performance or- ganizations, regularly employ thousands of Manitobans, not just on stage as performers, but behind the scenes in


The performance arts are critical to our success as a city and as a province.


a myriad of jobs from carpenters making sets to dressmak- ers creating costumes to specialists in musical instrument repair and others doing lighting, electrical work, computer programming, and all the many administrative tasks that are a vital part of any business.


u 5 ‘Local Performance Art’


Rogernomics in 2020: Caring for people by funding individuals instead of the state


Peter Holle


rant Hermano’s is closing. It is just one of thousands of busi- nesses which will not survive the federal government’s dras- tically overwrought and badly informed decision to shut down the economy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. History


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any Winnipeggers are disappointed that Ex- change District restau-


will show how wildly inaccurate computer models grossly exag- gerated fatality projections. Un- fortunately, too many folks still think holding the economy un- derwater will end the virus’s pro- gression. Sadly, it is just delaying the virus; we can expect COVID -19 to return after the summer. But hold the panic. A May 21 National Post commentary by four infectious disease doc- tors discussed their study which showed that, in Canada, the indi- vidual rate of death from COV-


ID-19 for people under 65 years of age is just six per one million people, or 0.0006 per cent. This is roughly equivalent to the risk of dying from a motor vehicle accident within the same time period.


So next time, having blown their budgets and economies out of the water, our governments will finally do what Sweden has done – protect the vulnerable (seniors with chronic conditions) and advise


the population to u 4 ‘Rogernomics in 2020' Jim Ingebrigtsen


off the ship in Quebec City in 1926. He had seen an ad in the local newspaper in the small town near the farm he grew up on. The ad extolled the virtues of lots of land and lots of hope for the future. He purchased a one-way ticket and bought the dream that took him from the old world to the new one. He didn’t know it at the time but, he would spend the rest of his life chasing that dream. He climbed aboard a train with nothing


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more than an old small suitcase and the clothes on his back. His destination was a small town in the heart of Saskatchewan where he was met by an old farmer on a horse-drawn wagon. For the next year and a half when he wasn’t working long hard hours, he taught himself to read, write and speak English. He became a skilled carpenter and went


wherever there was work. Often there wasn’t much of that during the dirty ‘30s. Still, he waded through mud in lumber and construc-


u 15 ‘Remembering my Dad' ello” and “Coca-Cola” were


the only two words he knew in English when he stepped


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Remembering my dad


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