United Fire Fighters Of Winnipeg
The United Fire Fighters of Winnipeg - Local 867 is a union in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Its president as of December 2008 is Alex Forrest.
The union has supported several candidates for political office. In the 2008 federal election, it joined with other Manitoba fire fighters' unions to support the candidacy of Niki Ashton over incumbent Member of Parliament Tina Keeper in Churchill.
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“I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington to mingle with you here to-day as a comrade, because every President of the United States must realize that the strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the masses of our people.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“For we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers, but children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted, and at two or three removes, when we know least about it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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Death’s a congested road for fighters now,
and hero a cheap label.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)