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Editorial: Symbols part of reconciliation, but not enough - Thompson Citizen and Nickel Belt News

Land acknowledgements and symbolic gestures are undoubtedly important components of reconciliation efforts, but they are not all-important.

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Election 2022: McIvor wants to reverse Thompson's decline - Thompson Citizen and Nickel Belt News

Council candidate Joyce McIvor says she’s seen Thompson head in the wrong direction since she arrived and that the decline has accelerated in recent years.

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Editorial: Normal never felt so good

After two years when large-scale gatherings were basically unheard of, simply being able to gather with people again can feel like a breath of fresh air.

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Photos: The return of Nickel Days

The first Nickel Days since 2019 had all the familiar attractions, with the exception of the traditional rain, which held off until Sunday evening.

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Perennial contender Tyrell Hall claims first King Miner title

A new King Miner was crowned at Nickel Days on June 26 when Tyrell Hall claimed top spot in the 49th edition of the contest and first in three years.

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President's reception opens first Nickel Days in three years - Thompson Citizen and Nickel Belt News

The 2022 edition of Nickel Days began at the annual president’s reception June 22, with the naming of the honorary driller and honorary King Miner.

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Editorial: Is Canada Day as usual appropriate this year?

To others, having a big to-do about the country that forcibly removed Indigenous children from their homes and sent them away to schools that seemed to many of the students who attended them more like prisons or work camps and, for at least a few thousand, were death sentences, whether from disease, malnutrition or other causes, in the wake of these revelations, shows how important dealing with our racist, colonial past and present really is.
Are countries judged by their worst past actions, which in Canada’s case include other racist policies against people of Chinese, Indian and Japanese descent, to name a few? Or are they judged by their best actions and ideals, even if they fail to lived up to the latter many times? For individuals who have committed crimes, a category in which the number of Indigenous people far outweighs their proportion of the country’s population as a whole, it seems to be the latter.

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Select Shows Carnival midway

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Thompson Citizen photos by John Barker and Jeanette Kimball
Garson Manitoba's Select Shows has been bringing their midway to Nickel Days for years. A family-run business, it was started after Robert Mills retired from the Winnipeg Police in 1969. A few months later he met up with an old army buddy, who asked him to sell tickets for his five-ride carnival. Later in the fall of 1969, three rides were for sale for $1,600 from a fellow in Minnedosa - a 20-foot Ferris wheel, a swing ride and a car ride - as well as a small generator and a cotton candy machine. The rest is history, and today, 45 years later, Jim Mills, his youngest son, wife Michele, along with their sons, Eric and Cory, and their daughter Ashley, operate Select Shows.

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Editorial: Pandemic delivers second straight uneventful June

Last year around this time, we ran an editorial entitled “A June like no other” detailing how, in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the sixth month of the year in Thompson was gong to look. . .

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Nickel Days cancelled again

The four-day event, which includes the National King Miner Contest, dates back to 1970, the year Thompson was elevated from town to city status.
In addition to the King Miner contest, which pits competitors against each other in timed events based on traditional mining skills, the annual event also includes a Saturday night social with an out-of-town band – in 2019 it was The Watchmen – the Lions Club parade, midway rides and games, a slo-pitch tournament and many other musical performances and activities.
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