As debate continues to rage, the smoke of rhetoric begins to settle with the defeat of the Registrar General’s Cashless Society Act. With the Member from Oshawa’s passing of the Red Dress Act, the Chamber echoed with the sounds of passionate speakers. We were reminded today of the importance of silence and what Youth Parliament …
Lively debate is part of any Session and today during the Second Session of the 101st Youth Parliament of Manitoba there was no shying away. Members from all sides of the benches stood up to give their heartfelt opinions on a flurry on different topics, from the Gender Delegalization Act, the Intercity Transit Act, the …
What is normality? Basic definitions of the word define it as “a condition of being normal.” A rather basic definition of an already self-explanatory word. But for the Youth Parliament of Manitoba, while it has been normal to have Session during the week of December 26 to December 30th, this year was not normal. For …
Here closes the fifth part of a story recounting the 100th part of the story that is the Youth Parliament of Manitoba. From breakfast up until shortly after lunch, the Ninth and Tenth sittings were held. Afterwards, our traditional knowledge keeper Clayton Sandy delivered an excellent Elder Teaching. Following this was the Prorogation, which formally …
Get ready for another exhilarating account of the life and times of the 100th class of the youth parliamentarians of Manitoba. The day was kicked off by the seventh installment of the exemplary showcases of ideas and thought which we call sittings. That was followed by our luncheon with the Progressive Conservative Caucus, in which …
On the third day of Christmas came three French hens. This third day of session was accompanied by gifts no less opulent. YPM’s Senate saw three pillars of our organization inducted into its ranks. Those were Abigaïl Theano-Pudwill, Lloyd Axworthy, and Bob Kozminski. Afterwards, we had the honour of being joined by a number of …
What a day! As days are to Canadian Prime Ministers, this day was certainly The Honourable Alexander Mackenzie PC, because it was the second one. Many remarkable things took place – too many to put into words. As such, this blog will stick to the less-remarkable. We saw 8 wonderful ‘replies to the speech from …
Today marked the beginning of YPM’s 100th Winter Session! To kick off this centennial milestone, we had the honour of being joined by both Clayton Sandy – our traditional knowledge keeper, and Dr. Brent Roussin – who served the role of Lieutenant Governor and delivered the ‘Speech from the Throne’. Later, we held our first …
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