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City
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Dan Lett
Cost of crime is high -- and so is the price of prisons
Perhaps it's time for the get-tough-on-crime advocates to put their money where their mouths are.
View Full Column | 02/8/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Gordon Sinclair Jr.
The Con Don's back, but I made him scram
BEWARE, WINNIPEG -- HE'S BACK... It looks as if the Winnipeg downtown bars and restaurants aren't the only businesses enjoying the improved traffic since the Jets returned.
View Full Column | 02/7/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Mia Rabson
What are immigrants supposed to think?
OTTAWA — When Citizenship and Immigration Canada couldn’t pull together a citizenship ceremony for Sun TV last year, they opted to have bureaucrats pose as new Canadians instead.
View Full Column | 02/6/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Doug Speirs
I'm voting with Stoffer for tax-deductible golf
Just when you are starting to lose hope for the future, just when you think federal politicians have completely lost touch with the needs of the average Canadian, along comes someone like NDP MP Peter Stoffer.
View Full Column | 02/6/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Bartley Kives
What do we want? Everything!
In the classic Simpsons episode The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show, desperate TV producers enlist the children of Springfield to help fix a long-running but ailing cartoon.
View Full Column | 02/5/2012 3:18 AM | 0
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Bill Redekop
Ministry washed out in fallout from flood
Did the 2011 flood have anything to do with last month's gutting of Manitoba Water Stewardship?
View Full Column | 02/4/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Lindor Reynolds
Mom waits for a new heart
Sherene Wright has already experienced a couple of miracles. Now she, her family and friends are praying for a third.
View Full Column | 02/1/2012 1:00 AM | 0
Sports
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Gary Lawless
Kane needs to avoid smoke, start creating fire on ice
Evander Kane has made a lot of noise since arriving in Winnipeg. Some good and some bad. It's time for him to roar again now that he's back in action but there's no more room for the chatter that seems to follow his every off-ice move.
View Full Column | 02/8/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Paul Wiecek
Stoughton still formidable foe
DAUPHIN -- Jeff Stoughton is the defending world men's curling champion and a record nine-time Manitoba men's champion.
View Full Column | 02/8/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Doug Brown
Playbooks missing giving-up-points section
It's not a play I have ever seen in any of the defensive playbooks handed out to me by any of the 10 defensive co-ordinators I have had over the years, nor does it have its own section that you can easily reference in any offensive handbook.
View Full Column | 02/7/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Jerrad Peters
Copper Bullets would love to honour victims
Kalusha Bwalya had a cannon of a left foot.
View Full Column | 02/4/2012 1:00 AM | 0
Entertainment
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Alison Gillmor
Easy, economical, healthy soup
THIS week we have more soup, and I have to say, whenever I make soup I wonder why I don't make it all the time. It's easy, economical, healthy and there's such a range of flavours. This week we have a hearty beef and lentil soup from Helen Pitura and a creamy broccoli soup from Beausejour's Edna Mroz.
View Full Column | 02/8/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Brad Oswald
Paranormal series puts us up spook creek without a paddle
There's a scare-seeking segment of the TV audience that has been feeling a bit lost since Lost.
View Full Column | 02/7/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Carolin Vesely
Time for a two-nup?
It's almost Valentine's Day and time for your annual checkup.
View Full Column | 02/7/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Chris Smith
Pianist's experimental side visiting city
There are (at least) two musical sides to Robert Glasper, but it's not hard to jump back and forth, the pianist says.
View Full Column | 02/6/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Kevin Prokosh
Puppet play clearly has its felt fingers on the pulse of a generation
Sesame Street's Cookie Monster, Big Bird and The Count were created to teach kids what they needed to get them ready for preschool.
View Full Column | 02/4/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Alison Mayes
He can sing women's roles, but he's all man
The adjectives "ravishing" and "ethereal" often arise when critics try to capture the beauty and purity of Daniel Taylor's voice.
View Full Column | 02/4/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Randall King
From wizard to whiz kid
4The whole world watched Radcliffe grow up in eight consecutive Harry Potter movies from 2001 to 2011. The attention and pressure of all that responsibility has wrecked the lives of many a child star, but the London-born Radclife emerged from the concluding Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II (the highest-grossing film of 2011) to jump into a pair of challenging followups, playing the lead in the Broadway revival How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and starring as a widowed lawyer facing a vicious spectre in the gothic horror film The Woman in Black.
View Full Column | 02/2/2012 12:09 PM | 0
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Rob Williams
C'mon, Pip Skid, tell us how you really feel
Pat Skene has never shied away from telling it like it is.
The rapper known as Pip Skid has always been up front about his life and views, whether he is talking about personal issues or focusing on broader social topics. There is no subject he won't examine, whether it's the state of his own life or politics. To Skene, who can be honest to a fault, it's all fair game.
View Full Column | 02/2/2012 1:00 AM | 0
Life
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Miss Lonelyhearts
You are not powerless to help your daughter
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I'm terribly worried about my daughter of 17. She confided in me that her boyfriend of two months has a drinking problem, and has choked and hit her, while drunk. She still lives at home, but spends all her time at his house. When she does come home, he hounds her with phone calls and texts accusing her of cheating on him, until she goes back. She says she "loves" him and believes all his excuses. I've tried suggesting she go for counselling, but she's refused. I feel completely powerless and am desperate for her to get out of this relationship. I just don't know how to help her. What can a parent do when their child is in an abusive relationship? -- Powerless, Winnipeg
View Full Column | 02/8/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Marco Carreira
The way to make 'em pay
The only poker show I really liked watching was High Stakes Poker, unfortunately it was cancelled after Norm Macdonald took over as host. In fairness to the show, he was absolutely terrible.
View Full Column | 02/5/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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David Bell
Wired
Are you an e-reader?
View Full Column | 02/5/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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John Longhurst
Being liberal, or Liberal
Last month, as I followed the Liberal party convention, I took note of the challenges facing that party -- things like declining membership, lack of funds, the need to attract more youth, how to reach out to new followers. At some point in the proceedings, it suddenly occurred to me: I've heard all this before.
View Full Column | 02/4/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson
Chardonnay on a diet
Lots of people tell me they flat-out won't drink California Chardonnay: it's too buttery, too fat, too oaky or too flabby. One thing I learned from my recent California trip is that this style of wine still exists, but that it's quickly going by the wayside.
View Full Column | 02/4/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Marion Warhaft
Ethnic gems sweeten pot in suburban locations
Little ethnic gems are common enough in the North End; in River Heights, not so much. But there it is, on the corner of Corydon and Waterloo -- a pint-sized room at the edge of a wee strip mall, dishing up savoury Polish comfort foods and some fabulous pastries.
View Full Column | 02/3/2012 9:43 AM | 0
Editorial
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Frances Russell
Harper driven by libertarian ideology, not reality
Prime Minister Stephen Harper was quoted in the Globe and Mail on July 10, 2009, as saying, "You know, there's two schools in economics on this. One is that there are some good taxes and the other is that there are no good taxes. I'm in the latter category. I don't believe that any taxes are good taxes."
View Full Column | 02/8/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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David O’Brien
No good idea goes unpunished
Someone said recently the American Declaration of Independence would never have been approved if it had been subject to the scrutiny of modern media.
View Full Column | 02/8/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Samuel Segev
Obama torn by conflicting allies
TEL AVIV -- U.S. President Barack Obama has shown once again how difficult it is for him to navigate among four of his closest allies regarding Syria and Iran.
View Full Column | 02/7/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Tom Ford
What about my budget?
Every year about this time, some of the world's wealthiest business people and their political chums go to Davos in the Swiss Alps to look down on the rest of us.
View Full Column | 02/6/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Allen Abel
Rooms of dead men's things
WASHINGTON -- The honoured living photographer poses in a suite of dead things. Behind her, we see pressed yellow flowers, the bones and skull of a pigeon, steamer trunks, riding boots, a man's high hat.
View Full Column | 02/4/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Colleen Simard
A diet that mimics traditional ways
A few weeks ago I found out about the Dukan diet. I decided I was going to give it a test run.
View Full Column | 02/4/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Michael Madigan
Bikes versus cars -- a battle fought with hand signals
BRISBANE -- It's been a cold war simmering for years across the developed world, but now the bicycle-versus-car clash appears headed for open conflict in the form of a celebrity courtroom confrontation.
View Full Column | 02/3/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Naomi Lakritz
Boomers not likely to lead the cheers
CALGARY -- Wow. Barely had Prime Minister Stephen Harper stepped away from the microphone in Davos, Switzerland, last week after announcing Ottawa's pension-reform ideas than the cheerleaders were tumbling across the gym floor, mercilessly shaking their pompoms in our faces.
View Full Column | 02/2/2012 1:00 AM | 0
Business
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Barbara Bowes
Align in time Make sure staff know role in making business a success
We've all heard the word alignment. It's a concept that is quite common we think about sports or dance. In this case, alignment refers to the synchronized movement of our body so that we are fast or graceful. If there is misalignment, people will try new strategies and practise, practise, practise. On the other hand, if the concept of alignment is applied to a car, it generally refers to the importance of the wheels and the suspension angles. If this is out of alignment it creates a safety issue that needs to be rectified right away.
View Full Column | 02/4/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Laura Rance
Farmers have too little land and food in crowded Ethiopia
WOLAYTA-SODDO, Ethiopia -- When you write a column called Rural Revival, it's a rare opportunity to be able to write it occasionally from the perspective of another country.
View Full Column | 02/4/2012 1:00 AM | 0
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Joel Schlesinger
Anti-pep talk
With a nickname like Dr. Doom, it's not hard to figure Marc Faber might have a pessimistic take on investing, the economy and the state of the world.
View Full Column | 02/4/2012 1:00 AM | 0
