sorry this is a week late, but hey.  busy weekend, what can i say!!

yep, the manitoba NDP have done what no other party here has done before and won a fourth term in power. 

when the writ dropped, it looked like it was going to be a tough battle, with the PC's getting the upper hand.  but they collapsed like a flan in a cupboard, and the NDP swept the province. 

Over the past 12 hours I have been in phone and e-mail conversations with Del Sexsmith, the President of the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario; Faye Ford, the President of Saskatchewan Conference; and Craig Miller, who serves Oak Lake Pastoral Charge in Manitoba.

I am learning a great deal about the multiple layers of crisis people are facing in the areas affected by the flooding—flooding unlike anything seen there for over 300 years.

The water keeps rising and Fargo is under evacuation alert. Is there anyone from Manitoba who can give us a hint of what is happening there. How badly will Southern Manitoba be affected?