If you look out your window, you’ll soon notice that it promises to be a ‘White Christmas’ in Manitoba with rooftops, evergreen trees and prairie fields glistening under a blanket of snow. Typically, a Canadian Christmas is filled with warm memories of family,...
Which Christmas character are you most like? Are you like Buddy the Elf, played by Will Ferrell in a popular holiday comedy, whose infectious joy and boundless energy for ‘all things Christmas' spills into the lives of others? Or are you more like Dr. Seuss’ Grinch, a...
For many of us, Christmas can be an anxious time. We have full family calendars. There’s always another holiday party to attend and another kids’ Christmas program to endure. The house needs to be cleaned and decorated. The in-laws are coming. On top of that, you’ve...
This December, leading up to Christmas, we want to help you pause to find hope, love, joy and peace even amidst all the pressures and expectations of the holiday. Around this busy time of year, we may find ourselves studying for exams, researching gift ideas and...
The Pilots Men’s Soccer Team recently traveled to Florida to play the NCCAA National Championship. Sadly, on Saturday (Nov 23rd), they lost the Final with a score of 1-0 in overtime. The Athletics department reported that the game was back and forth with both...
On November 21st, Providence hosted the sixth annual Provf Talks. The audience gathered in the lecture hall for a day of presentations delivered by 10 of our faculty. Cameron McKenzie, Provost and VP Academic, hosted the event. The sessions highlighted speakers from...
The Providence library recently acquired a large donation of books, DVDs and CDs from the estate of the late Dr. Wendy Beauchemin Peterson. Wendy had always made it clear to Terry Kennedy, Director of Library Services, that her collection would someday make its way to...
Impact 2020: The Campaign for Providence, was set into motion in early 2015 with high wishes and fundraising initiatives that seemed, at the time, a stretch. The first of its kind for Providence, Impact 2020 began with an original goal aspiring to achieve $12.5M by...
Providence is saying goodbye to three of their faithful board members this fall. Lorn Bergstresser from Morris, MB has served on the Board for 24 years; Harold Barg from Lorette, MB has served for 10 years; and Janine Parkinson, also from Morris, MB, has served for...
Guest Lecturer, David Kennedy, a Supportive Care Counsellor at Hospice Peterborough (ON) spoke on the topic Bringing Death Back Into Life to a lecture hall with more than 175 attendees at Providence earlier this month. Kennedy was born and raised in Peterborough, ON...
