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• Random Acts of Kindness

  Unlocking a kind act

  Recently, our daughter-in-law arrived for Sunday dinner. She brought our three-year-old grandson in to the house along with all the paraphernalia that goes with little ones these days.

  View Full Post | 20/11/2009 12:18 PM | 2

• Gabrielle Giroday: The Back Story

  Surprise Canadian role in child porn

  Child porn tends to drive an extreme reaction in all of us: total disgust. The issue is supposedly coated in extremism because the thought is truly abhorrent to most.

  View Full Post | 19/11/2009 4:09 PM | 0

• Mary Agnes Welch's Gripe Juice

  Just say yes, Mr. Schroeder

  Sometimes Tory Leader Hugh McFadyen gets a little too lawyerly at committee hearings, wasting time trying to get obvious stuff on the public record, like he’s deposing someone for a civil suit.

  View Full Post | 19/11/2009 12:29 PM | 4

• Dan Lett: The Sausage Factory

  The first step is admitting you have a problem

  So there I was Wednesday morning at the Salvation Army breakfast to kick off kettle collection season and I bump into David Northcott of Winnipeg Harvest food bank and Zaz Bajon, general manager of the Manitoba Theatre Centre. The two prominent Winnipeggers are having a fascinating conversation about how both of their organizations are having trouble getting support from a constituency that was always money in the bank: seniors.

  View Full Post | 19/11/2009 11:07 AM | 8

• Nick Martin: Telling Tales out of School

  Away for a bit, and lots of other stuff

  I don’t know how you’ll ever survive, and it’s really callous to just spring this on you suddenly, but I won’t be posting for a few days — we’re off to Upper Canada to visit the kids and watch some university volleyball.

  View Full Post | 18/11/2009 4:10 PM | 0

• Mia Rabson: The Capital Chronicles

  No logo

  Policy Frog (www.policyfrog.wordpress.com) had a decent point to make about the whole Shelly Glover/water bottle issue and why it became more than a one-day story.

  View Full Post | 16/11/2009 3:35 PM | 6

• David Richert: On Track

  Leaving and returning aids view of Winnipeg

  One of the things I have had the opportunity to do over the last few years is travel. My pursuit of racing cars has given me the privilege of visiting many different places throughout North America and Europe.

  View Full Post | 16/11/2009 8:19 AM | 2

• Paul Wiecek: The Hotline

  Big crowd expected for rematch with Marlies

  It was the morning after the raucous night before and all the talk at the MTS Centre this morning was about what's to come in the much-anticipated rematch tonight.

  View Full Post | 14/11/2009 12:28 PM | 0

• Ed Tait: The Bomber Insiders

  Naughty, naughty...

  Word just came down from CFL headquarters, and the Ticat players who celebrated the two touchdowns they scored after intercepting Michael Bishop passes on Sunday by jumping into a boat in the end zone have been fined.

  View Full Post | 10/11/2009 7:01 PM | 9

• John White: The Daily Dig

  Best. Video. Ever.

  I am not overstating when I say this is the most entertaining 11:16 you will spend online this year.

  View Full Post | 5/11/2009 10:46 AM | 3

• Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson: The Grape Nut

  Home winemaking (sorta), etc.

  A couple of quick hits as the weekend approaches...

  View Full Post | 15/10/2009 3:02 PM | 0

• Mike McIntyre: Mike on Crime

  Joe Firefighter

  The reputation of Winnipeg firefighters has taken a major hit in recent weeks after news of a so-called “sex tryst” became public.

  View Full Post | 11/09/2009 9:46 AM | 16

• Brad Oswald: CouchBoy Chronicles

  TV drama writer/producers pound the Peacock

  During a panel Friday featuring the top writer/producers of several FX (cable) network series -- including Rescue Me, The Shield, Damages, Sons of Anarchy and a next-season entry, Lawman -- it became very evident, very quickly, that many folks who make their living writing and creating hour-long scripted series are NOT thrilled by NBC's decision to hand five full hours of its prime-time real estate over to The Jay Leno Show this fall.

  View Full Post | 8/08/2009 11:21 AM | 0

• Lindsey Wiebe: Greenwatching

  Who’s green now?

  If Manitobans are so lackadaisical on the green front, what are we doing setting a new record for e-waste recycling and buying up compost bins by the thousands?

  View Full Post | 8/07/2009 10:57 AM | 5

• Gary Lawless: The Bomber Insiders

  Kelly wants the ball

  Mike Kelly says he wants the ball.

  View Full Post | 30/06/2009 1:33 PM | 1

• Julie Carl: Jewels of Wisdom

  Hero teaches good lesson

  Journalists get to meet heroes all the time: People who race into burning buildings, drag injured people from car wrecks, dive into icy water.

  View Full Post | 6/05/2009 9:37 AM | 0

• Brian Huycke: Take a Huycke

  A sad loss

  Winnipeg Free Press writer Brian Huycke, whose online blog was entitled Take a Huycke, has died. He was 62.

  View Full Post | 27/03/2009 11:53 AM | 5

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