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• Nick Martin: Telling Tales out of School

  Free advice for the new minister

  I’m sitting by the phone eagerly awaiting a return call from the spin doctors on my request for an initial sitdown with Education Minister Nancy Allan.

  View Full Post | 5/11/2009 12:25 PM | 5

• Mary Agnes Welch's Gripe Juice

  Tiny defence of the WRHA

  I can’t argue with a single word Policy Frog says about the confused way the WRHA has communicated and delivered its H1N1 vaccination program.

  View Full Post | 5/11/2009 12:19 PM | 2

• 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

  Clearly Canadian

  Winnipeggers might notice some slightly different signage in Liquor Marts by week's end. Marketing Manager Steve McConnell let me know that they're changing the way some products from Canadian wineries are categorized at the retail level.

  View Full Post | 3/11/2009 1:25 PM | 0

• Paul Wiecek: The Hotline

  Moose sign forward McCutcheon

  The decimated Manitoba Moose roster got a reinforcement this morning in advance of their rematch tonight with the Norfolk Admirals at MTS Centre.

  View Full Post | 3/11/2009 11:43 AM | 0

• Random Acts of Kindness

  Flu-shot kindess

  We are the parents of an autistic, non-verbal 17-year-old girl with asthma. Melanie would not understand the importance of waiting for the flu shot.

  View Full Post | 3/11/2009 11:22 AM | 1

• Dan Lett: The Sausage Factory

  Our capacity for absurdity

  Why is it that society’s most absurd qualities come to the fore at those times when we can least afford to be absurd?

  View Full Post | 30/10/2009 10:58 AM | 6

• Gabrielle Giroday: The Back Story

  Zombies attack?

  Let’s be frank – is there anyone who didn’t chuckle a bit at the insane 500 person turn-out for Winnipeg’s growing Zombiewalk?

  View Full Post | 29/10/2009 2:31 PM | 0

• Mia Rabson: The Capital Chronicles

  Paging Dr. Google

  The Canadian Institute for Health Information today released a new report looking at the changes in Canada’s health care system over the last decade.

  View Full Post | 29/10/2009 2:28 PM | 0

• Ed Tait: The Bomber Insiders

  Notes from the press box:

  Bombers and Als about to get under way.

  View Full Post | 24/10/2009 1:46 PM | 0

• David Richert: On Track

  2010 Volkswagen Golf Media Introduction

  Over the last few years I have had the opportunity to experience things which many can only dream of doing. Though the path has been filled with many risks, trials and a lot of hard work, it’s moments like these when I realize how incredibly fortunate I am.

  View Full Post | 14/10/2009 4:44 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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