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Sewer capacity to increase in Steinbach

Greg Vandermeulen 2 minute read Yesterday at 5:51 PM CST

A project that could cost up to $6.6 million was approved by Steinbach council on Tuesday.

A bylaw to approve the borrowing of funds to install just over three kilometres of new force main along Park Road West from the lift station to the lagoon as well as a lift station upgrade was approved unanimously by council.

City manager Troy Warkentin told council the project would increase the sewer system capacity in the area and add redundancy to the city’s sewer system.

The total project cost is estimated at $6.56 million of which as much as $2.75 million will come from borrowing.

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COLUMN: Don’t Mind the Mess – The champion of the deck

Lori Penner 4 minute read Yesterday at 2:57 PM CST

It was minus 30, with a windchill that made it feel closer to minus 40 – frigid but not unusual for January in Canada.

I was about as bundled up as I could be, with only my eyes showing, as I shoveled through the three-foot-high snow drift on my deck. Let me point out, this was not normal winter behavior for a summer lover like me, who would far rather have been inside, snuggled under a quilt, sipping wine, and losing myself in some sappy romance on Netflix.

My fingers were freezing, my head was sweating, and I really didn’t want to be out there.

But it was an act of love for the furry creature who watched me from the warm side of the living room window. That was Mozart, who drove me berserk for 15 years. The terror of the neighborhood who silenced the birds as he sauntered by, made squirrels flee to the treetops, and sharpened his claws on every new piece of furniture I owned.

Carillon Sports 2nd Shots: Feb. 6th edition

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Carillon Sports 2nd Shots: Feb. 6th edition

Cassidy Dankochik 1 minute read Yesterday at 12:00 PM CST

Featuring photos from the MJHL/SJHL showcase, a Springfield Sabres Winnipeg High School Hockey League game Jan. 31, SEMHL match-up between Red River and Ste Anne later that night, a couple Providence Pilots basketball games, a Steinbach Pistons match-up against Portage Feb. 2 and an SRSS girls varsity basketball game Feb. 10.

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Ste Anne is locked into first place in the SEMHL, defeating Red River Jan. 31. (Cassidy Dankochik The Carillon)

Ste Anne is locked into first place in the SEMHL, defeating Red River Jan. 31. (Cassidy Dankochik The Carillon)

COLUMN: Think Again – Serial killers belong in jail for life

Michael Zwaagstra 4 minute read Yesterday at 11:21 AM CST

Anyone convicted of first-degree murder in Canada receives an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. At least that’s how it used to be.

Last week, the B.C. Supreme Court struck down that section of the Criminal Code. The reason? It’s unconstitutional for everyone who commits first-degree murder to receive the same sentence regardless of how many people they kill.

In other words, the court ruled that it’s unfair for someone who kills one person to have the same parole ineligibility period as someone who kills four people. On that point, I agree with the court. While both acts are horrendous, it is objectively worse to kill four people than it is to kill one person.

However, the court went astray when it struck down the minimum 25-year period of parole ineligibility. There’s a reason why first-degree murder is considered the most horrific crime—it’s the only category of murder that involves premeditation. Someone who plans to murder another person and then carries it out deserves a very long prison sentence indeed.

COLUMN: Carillon Flashback October 22, 2015 – Falk wins but Harper loses as Trudeau sweeps to power

Wes Keating 3 minute read Preview

COLUMN: Carillon Flashback October 22, 2015 – Falk wins but Harper loses as Trudeau sweeps to power

Wes Keating 3 minute read Yesterday at 8:02 AM CST

As his supporters began filing out of his election night party, Provencher’s returning Member of Parliament Ted Falk admitted he heard the anti-Harper sentiment reverberating throughout the country, and on local doorsteps, too.

“During the campaign, I didn’t talk about it too much, but it was a bit of a theme; either you loved Stephen Harper or you thought it was time for change. We were feeling that at the door,” admitted Falk. “We had people saying they wanted change, but not in the Conservative policies, not in the Conservative Party, but a change in leadership.”

Falk would still win this riding, his first bid for re-election, with a convincing 55.8 percent of the electorate.

His total, however, was a dip from the 58 percent of the vote he secured in the 2013 by-election that ushered him to into office.

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Yesterday at 8:02 AM CST

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Conservative MP Ted Falk holds grandson Lincoln Martens during a victory speech at his Steinbach office after being re-elected in Provencher in the 2015 federal election, which saw Justin Trudeau sweep into power, forming a majority government.

CARILLON ARCHIVES 

Conservative MP Ted Falk holds grandson Lincoln Martens during a victory speech at his Steinbach office after being re-elected in Provencher in the 2015 federal election, which saw Justin Trudeau sweep into power, forming a majority government.

Southeast Event Centre to form legacy team

Greg Vandermeulen 2 minute read Preview

Southeast Event Centre to form legacy team

Greg Vandermeulen 2 minute read Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025

As the countdown to occupancy of the Southeast Event Centre continues, volunteers are being recruited prior to the March opening date.

The volunteer initiative launched Thursday will result in a “dynamic and passionate group” that will play a pivotal role “in building a vibrant and inclusive community while creating a lasting legacy in our city” according to the SEC press release.

Those who answer the call will be part of the first group to contribute to the new facility.

Jolene Kornelsen, events and operations manager, heads up the team, a task she’s familiar with since she also heads up the volunteer team at Princess Auto Stadium.

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Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025

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Jolene Kornelsen, SEC events and operations manager is excited to assemble the SEC Legacy Team, a group of volunteers for local events.

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Jolene Kornelsen, SEC events and operations manager is excited to assemble the SEC Legacy Team, a group of volunteers for local events.

Providence ready to welcome the rest of Canada

Cassidy Dankochik 3 minute read Preview

Providence ready to welcome the rest of Canada

Cassidy Dankochik 3 minute read Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025

The countdown is officially on for Providence College and the Niverville Resource and Recreation Centre, as the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association men’s volleyball national championship is only weeks away.

Action kicks off March 5.

Providence athletic director Joel Coursey said the planning process has been smooth so far, despite the chaos of replacing previous athletic director Russell Willms this summer.

“All the big pieces are coming together nicely,” Coursey said, underneath a banner proclaiming Niverville as the home of the 2025 CCAA nationals during a volleyball match Jan. 24.

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Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025

Otto the otter made his Providence debut during Junior Pilots night Jan. 25. (Cassidy Dankochik The Carillon)

Otto the otter made his Providence debut during Junior Pilots night Jan. 25. (Cassidy Dankochik The Carillon)

Bilingual municipalities share concerns with minister

Svjetlana Mlinarevic 5 minute read Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025

The Association of Manitoba Bilingual Municipalities hosted the minister for municipal and northern affairs on Jan. 30 where they shared issues that are important to them and their constituents, ranging from public safety to personal care homes to Manitoba Hydro.

Justin Johnson, CEO of AMBM, said the Southeast is growing at an unprecedented rate and with that growth comes opportunities and challenges surrounding wastewater, housing, availability of essential services in health care, and transportation to name a few.

“Our objective is to ensure that the province is well aware of our members’ issues and challenges. And if the AMBM is able to bring together both the municipal and provincial representatives together to discuss and tackle the issues and challenges ahead of us, that’s a win for us,” he said.

There are 15 members in the AMBM, which was formally created in 1989.

PowerSchool to provide identity protection, credit monitoring services

Svjetlana Mlinarevic 2 minute read Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025

It’s been a little more than a month since the PowerSchool system was hacked by a third party and the matter is still under investigation, but PowerSchool is offering identity protection and credit monitoring services to those who have been affected.

PowerSchool has hired Experian, a data and analytics company, to offer two years of free identity protection services for all students and teachers who had their information stolen. PowerSchool has also hired TransUnion to give two years of free credit monitoring services for all who have reached the age of majority.

“Based on our own investigation to date of the information stored in our Student Information System (SIS), we can advise that no parent/guardian, staff, or student Social Insurance Number, banking, or credit card information has been identified as stored in our SIS,” read a statement from Hanover School Division superintendent Joe Thiessen.

“We await additional details from PowerSchool about the findings of its investigations, the information involved in this incident, and the timing of the notices it will send. We will provide you with a further update on this when available.”

COLUMN: View from the Legislature – U.S. tariffs increase prices, hurt relations

Kelvin Goertzen, MLA for Steinbach 4 minute read Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025

Maybe it has happened before, but it is not something I remember seeing. Watching on television Saturday night as Canadian hockey fans booed the playing of the United States national anthem was both surreal and sad. The relationship between Canada and the United States has not been without its challenges over the past 150 years, but it has always remained one of the most cooperative and enduring nation to nation friendships in the world.

But this weekend, for most Canadians, what they felt was a mixture of frustration, confusion, and judging by the hockey game in Ottawa, anger. All this in response to the official announcement by President Donald Trump that a 25 percent tariff would be applied to almost all Canadian exports to the U.S. For most Canadians and many Americans, the tariffs don’t make much sense. The White House itself confirmed on the weekend that they would almost certainly increase the price Americans pay for food, cars and gas, just to name a few.

President Trump initially indicated he was concerned about fentanyl (a deadly drug we should all be concerned about) crossing the Canadian border into the United States. The fact is that less than one percent of fentanyl in the U.S. comes over the Canadian border. Regardless, over the weekend the president stated nothing could be done to stop the tariffs and then later he restated that if Canada were to join the United States the tariffs would end. By Monday he was suggesting there needed to be more access for American banks and agriculture into Canada. For Canadians, and probably Americans, it was all a bit confusing.

Regardless, what is clear is that any tariffs would increase prices in the U.S. even as they are designed to make Canadian products less competitive. In Canada, both Prime Minister Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre supported retaliatory tariffs had the U.S. tariffs come into effect Tuesday. These were to be applied to targeted U.S. products coming into Canada as a means of applying pressure on the American government to reconsider the tariffs. And perhaps that had some effect.

RM of Hanover increases library rebate, cancels grant to library

Svjetlana Mlinarevic 2 minute read Preview

RM of Hanover increases library rebate, cancels grant to library

Svjetlana Mlinarevic 2 minute read Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

The RM of Hanover will be giving a greater rebate to people who get a library membership with the Jake Epp Library but it will also discontinue funding to the library.

The RM will now give a $55 rebate to rural residents on their property taxes or a cheque if they are renting. Prior to this the RM was reimbursing $30 to residents. The cost for a library card is $110 for residents who live outside of Steinbach.

“For 2024, the total sent to the library was $14,410. In the last few years, the City of Steinbach and the Jake Epp Library have been pressuring Hanover to contribute significantly more in the form of an annual per-capita grant,” stated chief financial officer Derek Decru in an email. “Late in December, the library communicated to us that they would no longer be administering the rebate.”

To provide the rebate, residents will be taxed but the increase is unknown at this time as the RM is currently working on its budget.

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Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

SVJETLANA MLINAREVIC CARILLON ARCHIVES

The Jake Epp Library will no longer receive a grant from the RM of Hanover, which has increased the value of it’s library membership rebate to $55, up from $30.

SVJETLANA MLINAREVIC CARILLON ARCHIVES 

The Jake Epp Library will no longer receive a grant from the RM of Hanover, which has increased the value of it’s library membership rebate to $55, up from $30.

COLUMN: Viewpoint – The benefits and richness of diversity

MaryLou Driedger 4 minute read Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

Last month I attended a performance of the musical Waitress at the Manitoba Theatre Centre. It was a wonderfully entertaining show and starred talented Canadian actress Stephanie Sy. Born in Winnipeg to Asian parents Stephanie has had a long and successful career in film and television. During a post-performance interview Stephanie was asked what pivotal experience as a child had made her think an acting career was a future possibility for her. She said it was attending a musical at Winnipeg’s Rainbow Stage and seeing a Filipino woman in a starring role. “That’s when I knew I could do that too!”

Diversity is so important because it provides kids with inspirational role models. During the decade I was on staff at the University of Winnipeg as a mentor for students in the Faculty of Education I noticed the cohort of young people I worked with become increasingly diverse. More Indigenous, Asian, Black, and 2SLGBTQI+ students were working towards becoming teachers. Some were receiving additional support with their university program. I observed the benefits of this assistance. It helped aspiring teachers overcome barriers that might have stood in the way of them becoming successful educators. The schools in inner city Winnipeg where my mentees did their practical training had incredibly diverse student populations. I could see how the kids benefitted from having teachers who they could identify with, who understood their culture, who made them think that regardless of their racial, religious and ethnic background or their sexual orientation they too could become teachers.

When I worked as a guide at the Winnipeg Art Gallery I was often surprised to see the current cultural, ethnic and racial diversity of the Steinbach school groups who came for tours. Thinking back to my years at the Kornelson, Woodlawn, Southwood and Central schools and the Steinbach Collegiate virtually all the children in my classes were relatively homogenous culturally, racially and religiously. The same thing is true of many of the groups of students I taught during the nearly 30 years I was employed by the Hanover School Division. Now classrooms in the Southeast are much more diverse in all kinds of ways. It just makes sense their cadre of teachers become more diverse too.

Only a few decades ago kids who identified as 2SLGBTQI+ had no visible role models of varying sexual orientations to look up to, people who had successful careers, committed relationships or meaningful social networks. How fortunate Manitoba young people are to see someone like Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara play an important role in our provincial government. Asagwara was a successful university athlete and qualified psychiatric nurse before becoming involved in politics. There are more than 140,000 businesses in Canada owned or led by 2SLGBTQI+ people and they generate some 200 billion dollars in economic impact. What an inspiration for 2SLGBTQI+ teens hoping to excel in business. As more major religious dominations ordain 2SLGBTQI+ clergy, young people of varying sexual orientations who aspire to a career in the church are being affirmed.

U18 shootout victories help MJHL to showcase win

Cassidy Dankochik 2 minute read Preview

U18 shootout victories help MJHL to showcase win

Cassidy Dankochik 2 minute read Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

Talking to Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL) commissioner Kevin Saurette after two games were played at the league’s showcase event alongside their Saskatchewan counterparts, it was clear league brass care about the results on the ice.

While Saurette wasn’t thrilled to see the first two games go the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League’s way Jan. 28, he must have been delighted to see the Manitobans storm back to win four straight to close out the showcase.

That flip was powered by the league’s U18 team, which managed to win back-to-back shootouts to sweep the SJHL in their two games. The SJHL’s U18 had a chance to tie the overall showcase score, but the Norman Blizzard’s Taye Timmerman would stand tall, ensuring an incredible 15th round goal from Winkler’s Maxime Lavoie would stand up as the showcase deciding goal.

The U18 team featured Steinbach’s Reece Gault, Luke Bogart and Mathis Laplante alongside Niverville’s Avery Laliberte. Laliberte is from Lorette, while Gault hails from Oakbank.

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Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

New curbside waste collection fees approved

Greg Vandermeulen 1 minute read Preview

New curbside waste collection fees approved

Greg Vandermeulen 1 minute read Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

The cost of curbside waste collection is rising in Steinbach after council approved new rates for 2025, 2026 and 2027.

The last time the special levy was set was in 2022, when rates for that year and the two following years were approved.

The current rate of $155 per home, which pays for garbage and recycling pick-up, will rise 4.5 percent for 2025 to $162. The following year will see an increase of 3.7 percent to $168 and rates for 2027 will increase 3.6 percent to $174.

With weekly pickups scheduled, that results in a change of $2.98 per pickup in 2024 to $3.35 per pickup in 2027.

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Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

CHRIS GAREAU THE CARILLON

Rate increases have been approved.

CHRIS GAREAU THE CARILLON 

Rate increases have been approved.

Original Nighthawk announces college commitment

Cassidy Dankochik 1 minute read Preview

Original Nighthawk announces college commitment

Cassidy Dankochik 1 minute read Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

Ty Kennett has been a mainstay on the ice for the Niverville Nighthawks since they first played in 2022. Now, the native of Red Lake Falls has committed to play NCAA Division 3 hockey back in his home state.

The 2004-born forward will be playing at the College of St Scholastica, a Duluth, Minnesota-based post-secondary school.

Kennett joined the Nighthawks for their first season after a prolific high school career. He scored an incredible 93 points in 26 games for Red Lake Falls High School in his final year.

Kennett is on track to play over 150 games in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League and currently has 30 goals and 55 points in his career.

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Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

Ty Kennett has committed to play NCAA hockey with the Division 3 St Scholastica College Saints in division 3. (Cassidy Dankochik Carillon Archives)

Ty Kennett has committed to play NCAA hockey with the Division 3 St Scholastica College Saints in division 3. (Cassidy Dankochik Carillon Archives)

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The pain of general tariffs

David Kauenhowen, Mitchell, MB 2 minute read Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

We are entering into a new era of trade war. The American empire is in decline without a doubt and the world knows it. Part of the strong denial is a bully attitude, trying to throw your weight around by hurting your friendly neighbours in an attempt extract financial gain to help the rich buddies {the one percent} to fill their pockets as the general public sinks into deeper poverty.

America cannot bully its way back to the top to be the big brother of the world. The sooner we can grasp that reality the better chance we have to find our footing in a changed world. No matter how often and how loud the Americans call upon (God to bless America) it will not change the course of the decline. A bunch of other historical empires have proven this to be true.

We only have to look at G7 nations and their populations and compare it to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), nations and their partners who keep growing at a high speed. Very unlikely that America could ever bring them to their knees. Plundering Canada and Mexico is not going to help either. It is very foolish to alienate friends and partners when you are already on a losing streak. You are not just losing your good neighbours but a big portion of the good American people who understand what it means to love your neighbour in a broader sense. All that we can do, is to encourage Americans to face that reality of decline and brace themselves for a future America that will have to deal with a corrupted capitalist system where the rich get richer and the middle class slowly disappears, and the poor get poorer. I am certain the super rich billionaires do not want the general public to know any thing about the French Revolution. To prevent that from happening, the system will have to be revised to bring more equality into the mix.

We as Canadians are not totally helpless either. We will feel the pain that comes along with this battle.

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