Murray Burt writes this Commonwealth column to lift the curtain on our understanding of a third of the population of the world. Enjoy. Burt is president of the Manitoba branch of the Royal Commonwealth Society; past president of the Commonwealth Journalists Association; secretary of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada advisory board; Hon LCol of the 78th Fraser Highlanders; a senator of the 166th Battery RCA (Kenora) and a director of both the Royal http://onhealthy.net Military Institute (Manitoba) and The Intrepid Society. He is retired from more than 50 years of journalism.
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- Southern Yarn October – December 2022 October 7, 2022The Southern Yarn is available for you to download. You can click on the image to the right or you can check out the Yarns page here: The Southern Yarn. Here’s Charlie’s editorial to get you started: It’s a beautiful Manitoba autumn – leaves changing to all shades of green, yellow and red; ...read more
- The Southern Yarn August – September 2022 August 14, 2022The latest version of The Southern Yarn is ready for you now, Check it out. And here is the editorial to get you started. As I put this issue together, Folklorama is about to begin its 2-week run here in Winnipeg. Being the first time back, after COVID*, there are only ...read more
- Yarn June-July 2022 June 8, 2022The June July issue of The Southern Yarn is available, online in glorious colour, complete with links to more reading. The cheerful yellow paper version will be making its way to postal recipients in the coming days. Here’s Charlie’s Editorial to get you started: Family issues dictated a hurried decision to visit ...read more
- Yarn for April May 2022 April 10, 2022Here is the Yarn for April and May, 2022. There is a lot here to read on the 8 pages, including the cover story about a new land acknowledgement project that has created something we’d like you to comment on. Remember that, unlike the print edition, the PDF version of our newsletter ...read more
- Southern Yarn Dec 2021 – Jan 2022 December 13, 2021It’s time for the last, AND the first Yarn of the years we are bridging with this issue. Stand by for the Dec-Jan issue of The Southern Yarn in your mailbox in glorious yellow paper and B&W print, or in modern full colour (with live hyperlinks!) via the PDF documents ...read more
- Yarn October-November 2021 October 13, 2021The October-November issue of the Southern Yarn is available for your reading online, download, printout, or you can wait for your copy in the mail, if you still get it in glorious black-and-white on our signature yellow paper stock. Noteworthy on your social calendar is the return of our ‘Not-so-formal’ dinner. ...read more
- The Southern Yarn August/September, 2021 August 15, 2021The August/September issue of The Southern Yarn is available for download. Here’s Charlie’s editorial to get you started: Well, the severe drought foreshadowed by last winter’s minimal delivery of snow is now manifesting itself big time in the form of wildfires. The inconvenience of smoke in our air is nothing compared to ...read more
- Yarn 2020 Feb-Mar February 4, 2020The Southern Yarn’s February March issue is available as a PDF for download right now! Why wait for the yellow paper version in the post, when you can get it now, in glorious colour, with live links as well! Check it out. And how about all those past issues? Get them on ...read more
- Yarn Dec 2019 – Jan 2020 December 16, 2019The December-January edition of The Southern Yarn bridges the start of a new decade as we enter 2020. We’ve got reports on the not-so-formal dinner, the AGM, the Christmas party, and other club events, Give it a read, and we look forward to seeing you all next year. And here are ...read more
- Southern Yarn August – September 2019 August 14, 2019The Southern Yarn for August – September of 2019 is released with a bit of sadness, as it marks the first issue after the passing of Gordon Keatch, the person behind the creation of the Down Under Club of Winnipeg. Lots of other news in this issue, and mark your calendars ...read more
- Yarn June July June 23, 2019Get out your summer calendars, mates, jot down a few dates, and stay tuned on things relating to your club, as well as a few news gems you might not see elsewhere. All in the June/July issue of The Southern Yarn.read more
- Yarn April – May 2019 April 10, 2019The spring edition of The Southern Yarn is now available for download, and for those favouring the fine B&W on yellow paper version, it will be in the post en route to your mailbox soon. As usual, you can catch up on back issues by visiting the Southern Yarn section of ...read more
- Yarn February – March 2019 February 13, 2019The Southern Yarn’s February – March 2019 issue is ready for your reading enjoyment again. Here’s the editorial to get you started: Thanks to Jenny Gates for typing up the Getting to Know feature for this issue – about “Two-Up” (p.6). Now, I think there needs to be some explanation for ...read more
- Yarn December 2018 – January 2019 December 12, 2018The end of the year is upon us, and the final Yarn of 2018 is upon us. Here is the message from the Editor: The month of November heralded several momentous events: the Melbourne Cup, the US mid-term elections and the DUCW’s Annual Meeting, to name a few. More seriously, of course, ...read more
- Yarn October-November October 9, 2018The Autumn (October-November) 2018 version of The Southern Yarn greets us with the arrival of chilly weather and colourful leaves, and some early snowfalls. Read it all here! All our back issues are available at the Yarns page, too, of course. Editorial: Lots of bits of news for your reading pleasure again this ...read more
- Yarn June 2018 June 8, 2018The June issue of the Yarn is available for download. You can download it here, or from the Yarn archives page. And let’s start adding in the editorial on these announcement posts… Apologies for not getting a Yarn together for May, but I was away for half the month, downunder. The primary ...read more
- Yarn April 2018 April 4, 2018The April 2018 version of The Southern Yarn is available for your reading now. Download it, and check out the other issues at theYarns page.read more
- Yarn March 2018 March 7, 2018The March 2018 edition of The Southern Yarn is ready for your downloading and reading, ahead of the printed version. You may want to note a couple of events coming up very soon: Commonwealth Day celebration Monday, March 12, 7:00 pm Cathedral Church of Saint John 135 Anderson Avenue, Winnipeg Casual get-together Saturday 17th March, 2:00 pm High ...read more
- Yarn December 2017 December 12, 2017Our final issue of The Southern Yarn for 2017 is available for download now, and will be in the post along with all the other Christmas mail. Check It out!read more
- Yarn November 2017 November 2, 2017The November 2017 issue of The Southern Yarn is in the post as you read this, and available to download here as well. Note that the online version features a seventh page containing text that did not fit on the print version full colour convenient links to websites on many of the new ...read more