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    10 Tips for Backcountry Camping—The Lake Friendly Way
    Lake Friendly
    • Jul 24, 2020
    • 4 min

    10 Tips for Backcountry Camping—The Lake Friendly Way

    Backcountry camping (also known as wilderness camping) requires people to hike, bike, or paddle to get to the campsites. In the winter,...
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    Explore Manitoba's Provincial Parks This Weekend
    Lake Friendly
    • Jul 17, 2020
    • 3 min

    Explore Manitoba's Provincial Parks This Weekend

    Explore Manitoba’s beautiful provincial parks for free this weekend.
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    Nine tips for frontcountry camping — the Lake Friendly way
    Lake Friendly
    • Jul 10, 2020
    • 2 min

    Nine tips for frontcountry camping — the Lake Friendly way

    Lake friendly camping means leaving no trace and making choices that do not add anything potentially harmful to our lakes.
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    Prohibiting Single-Use Plastic
    Lake Friendly
    • Jul 3, 2020
    • 2 min

    Prohibiting Single-Use Plastic

    Let's celebrate another win for waste reduction. All countries in the European Union are prohibiting single-use plastic in exactly one year
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    Let's Go to The Beach
    Lake Friendly
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 2 min

    Let's Go to The Beach

    This week is National Clean Beaches Week, and it's going to be a hot one, folks!
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    National Hydration Day
    Lake Friendly
    • Jun 23, 2020
    • 2 min

    National Hydration Day

    Raise a glass to clean drinking water. Many Manitobans rely on water from the Lake Winnipeg Watershed for clean water.
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    Get Ready to Reel 'Em In! The Lake Friendly Way...
    Lake Friendly
    • Dec 18, 2019
    • 2 min

    Get Ready to Reel 'Em In! The Lake Friendly Way...

    As the snow falls and the lakes and rivers freeze, many Manitobans are excited to get outdoors. Ice fishing is just one of the many...
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    World Water Week opens with calls for action on water equality
    Lake Friendly
    • Aug 27, 2019
    • 1 min

    World Water Week opens with calls for action on water equality

    Stockholm (26 August 2019) – Humanity can only tackle today’s major challenges if access to water is distributed more fairly. When World...
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    Mayors & Reeves Challenge Manitoba Business To Do Their Part
    Lake Friendly
    • Jul 26, 2019
    • 1 min

    Mayors & Reeves Challenge Manitoba Business To Do Their Part

    The South Basin Mayors and Reeves, leaders from nine communities on the shores of Lake Winnipeg are challenging the business community to...
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    Grand Beach Awarded Prestigious Blue Flag
    Lake Friendly
    • Jun 26, 2019
    • 2 min

    Grand Beach Awarded Prestigious Blue Flag

    The Blue Flag program, a world-renowned eco-label trusted by millions around the globe, was awarded to West Grand Beach this year....
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    Lake Friendly Easy Action Checklist
    Lake Friendly
    • May 22, 2019
    • 0 min

    Lake Friendly Easy Action Checklist

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    Every Day is Earth Day
    Lake Friendly
    • Apr 18, 2019
    • 2 min

    Every Day is Earth Day

    According to earthday.org, on April 22, 1970, 20 million North Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to support the call...
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    Manitoba Businesses Leading With Water
    Lake Friendly
    • Mar 27, 2019
    • 2 min

    Manitoba Businesses Leading With Water

    Businesses vary in the way they use and impact water, therefore there is no “one size fits all”, action to be conducted by businesses to...
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    Walking for Water
    Lake Friendly
    • Mar 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Walking for Water

    As a child, I remember growing up and spending my weekends at my Grandparents farm just north of Tuelon on Highway 229 in Komarno,...
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    World Water Day - March 22, 2019
    Lake Friendly
    • Mar 13, 2019
    • 2 min

    World Water Day - March 22, 2019

    World Water Day is Friday March 22, 2019 and the theme this year is leaving no one behind. This is an adaptation of the central promise...
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    From Linear to Circular - Changing the Game of Our Economy
    Lake Friendly
    • Feb 22, 2019
    • 2 min

    From Linear to Circular - Changing the Game of Our Economy

    We have a tremendous opportunity in Manitoba to adopt models that can preserve and protect our resources while still maintain and build a...
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    Leave Nothing but Love Behind for Our Lake
    Lake Friendly
    • Feb 9, 2019
    • 2 min

    Leave Nothing but Love Behind for Our Lake

    With over 110,000 lakes and over 101,000 square kilometres of water covering Manitoba, it’s no wonder that we choose to include this...
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