Manitoba

of daily devotions as long as I can remember. In college, we studied the liturgy for healing ministry even though I had never seen it practiced in the worship life of the Church. Shortly after arriving in my first pastoral assignment in northern Manitoba, our family acquired a beautiful Elkhound dog which turned out to be a wonderful companion to me personally. In fact, he probably saved my life as together we fought off a pack of wolves that had been stalking us on a remote road late one…

Wheelchair Sports Manitoba: Basketball Practicum For my eight hours practicum, I decided participate in wheelchair basketball. The program is organized through Manitoba Wheelchair Sport Association (MWSA), every Tuesday nights from 7pm-9pm at the Duckworth Centre of the University of Winnipeg. The program welcomes a variety of athletes of different ages and abilities. Attending the University of Winnipeg as a student athlete, there have been many sessions of wheelchair basketball after our…

Introduction Community nursing is a nursing practice that utilizes the nursing theory and knowledge to improve the overall health of the community by preventing diseases and risk factors through educating, advocating and promoting health life style in the community. The community nurses put together plans that alleviate health or safety issues in a community, issues like immunizations, sexually transmitted diseases and obesity. Under the community health, registered nurses work in different…

The title of my book is Lost in the Barrens. Its a fiction book by Farley Mowat that contains 244 pages. The main characters are Awain Meewasin and Jamie MacNair. Awasin is a boy whos dad goes on a hunt every year with Jamie’s Uncle. Jamie is a boy who’s parents died when he was little so he went to a boarding school and then got transferd to is Uncle Angus MacNair. This book is about two boys who got lost in the wild for 4-5 months. They had to try and find away to survive and try to find…

success of the RCMP. To begin with, the history of the RCMP is very interesting and shows how the RCMP was established. “In May 1873, the Parliament of Canada established a central police force. One hundred and fifty recruits were sent west to Manitoba. The new police force gradually acquired the name North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) (Royal Canadian…np).” The provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan contracted the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) from 1905 – 1916. Their desire to organize their…

have had the pleasure to get involved with many community initiatives while in Winnipeg as well as after moving to Kamloops. For many years I was involved with Manitoba Theater for Young People, as well as participating in my high school’s musical theater program and Spring Production. While in Winnipeg I was a member of the social justice group Just Cause and organized many fundraisers and campaigns, such as our initiative to build a school in Kenya. Moreover, I would regularly volunteer at…

The Canadian Charter of Freedoms and Rights of 1982 clearly outlines rights of all Canadians. Part three states that every citizen of Canada has “the right to vote”. Consequently, it was evident that this was not always the case. Certain actions toward Canadian women that have labeled and at times, outwardly stated they were undeserving of certain rights were a reality. The fact that this demeaning behavior existed and was aimed at Canadian women can certainly be considered deplorable and…

A Complicated Essay An Argumentative Essay based on the use of literary devices in“A Complicated Kindness” by Mariam Toews In the novel “A Complicated Kindness” by Miriam Toews lies a story of misery and grief. In a small town in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the main character Nomi Nickel, is an excitable teenage girl living in the highly-religious Mennonite community of East Village. The town, so strict on its beliefs and limited in employment, offers little opportunity for a productive and…

tried to embark on awareness campaigns to ensure individuals understand how they might contribute to solving the issues. The general public has been encouraged to use phosphate free products in order to reduce their contribution to the problem. The Manitoba Government also acknowledged the issue with Lake Winnipeg and has begun implementing a three hundred and twenty million dollar plan over the next 5 years. The objective of the plan is to reduce and ultimately eliminate the blue green algae…

On April 2015, my volleyball team (The Pirates Volleyball Club) and I, won second place in the Manitoba Championships. We had to work really hard to get to where we were, because at the beginning of the season, our coaches put us with the age group that was one year older than us. When we started, we really struggled in tournaments. As we progressed, we worked our way up and up and got to first place, but then in our last game, against the grade eight (now grade nine) girls of Grant Park, we…