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  • City

  • Dan Lett

    Blame ad by mayor, deputy for jeopardizing money-saver

    A week of silliness and incompetence has a plan to lease or sell money-losing municipal golf courses teetering on the brink of defeat. Funny, but it didn't have to happen that way.

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  • Gordon Sinclair Jr.

    Buck 'goes long' for Winnipeg

    Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Buck Pierce, football in hand, was standing on the University of Winnipeg's front lawn Wednesday afternoon, appearing relaxed even without any blocking as he looked downfield and shouted out an audible of sorts.

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  • Doug Speirs

    Tick season means pets at risk of Lyme disease

    It's roughly the size of the nail on your pinky finger, but it can pose a huge threat to you and your pets.

    View Full Column | 05/21/2013 7:51 AM | 0

  • Lindor Reynolds

    A new mom's booze-fuelled hell

    Jowita Bydlowska gets defensive early on in our telephone interview.

    View Full Column | 05/21/2013 6:27 AM | 0

  • Bartley Kives

    Katz bogeys again

    In a perfect world, where land use was dictated solely on the basis of environmental principles, every city-owned golf course along a river would be shut down.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Margo Goodhand

    Can't lose when ends justify means

    We tried to avoid the scruffy-looking guy on the sidewalk as we ushered the kids and my parents in for a Mother's Day dinner. But he plunked himself in front of me before we could get the whole family by, and made his pitch.

    View Full Column | 05/18/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Bill Redekop

    Tapping sweetness from birch trees

    GRAND MARAIS -- There's the Call of the Wild in the birch syrup produced here.

    View Full Column | 05/17/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Sports

  • Gary Lawless

    Vigneault will be a man in demand

    The Vancouver Canucks are a poorer team and organization today for having fired head coach Alain Vigneault.

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  • Doug Brown

    Big Blue will have one helluva punter

    If competition brings out the best in an athlete, the one thing you can absolutely be sure of this season is the local pro football team is going to have one hell of a punter.

    View Full Column | 05/21/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Jerrad Peters

    Beckham a true pro from start to finish, detractors be danged

    "David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent, but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast majority of less-gifted players wouldn't contemplate"

    View Full Column | 05/18/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Tim Campbell

    Canadian tour can start living up to potential

    Knowing some of the history of the former Canadian Professional Golf tour, you'd say it was about due for better days.

    View Full Column | 05/18/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Ed Tait

    New Blue stadium lives up to the hype; now it's up to you

    We begin today with a confession: Yours truly is a sucker for gimmicks, easily distracted by shiny objects and often influenced by advertising hype.

    View Full Column | 05/17/2013 8:27 AM | 0

  • Entertainment

  • Brad Oswald

    Rookies grow up

    The rookie mistakes are in the distant past. The rookie jitters have long since been laid to rest.

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  • Steven Leyden Cochrane

    Pretty/ugly

    Attraction and repulsion can be powerful sensations, felt physically, bypassing critical reflection and even conscious thought. Hard-wired to some extent, these "instinctive" responses also reflect and are, in fact, inseparable from personal history and cultural conditioning. What's more, they carry over into our responses to other people, to what we find physically and morally "attractive" or "repulsive," manifesting most frequently (and most unfortunately) as a fear of and hostility toward difference.

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  • Alison Gillmor

    All hail caesar dressing as it tops off matador salad

    WE recently had a request for a recipe that replicates the matador salad from Partners Delicatessen. Thanks to Linda Snider and to Sherry Wiebe-Dembowski, who sent in an updated version of her matador salad recipe, which has appeared in the Recipe Swap column several times over the years. The dry caesar salad dressing mix that she originally used is now hard to find, so she has adjusted the recipe to reflect that. I've included a homemade version of caesar salad dressing for anyone who wants to use that as a base.

    View Full Column | 05/22/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Gwenda Nemerofsky

    Rainbow Harmony Project sings with a blast

    Every year I look forward to concerts by the Rainbow Harmony Project, Winnipeg's GLBTT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit) community choir. The reason is simple: they are a total blast. Everyone onstage seems to be having such a terrific time and the audience catches that fervour. Plus there is always a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour injected into every show. I always leave their performances with a smile on my face.

    View Full Column | 05/22/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Carolin Vesely

    Doc's memoir portrays ERs as frantic, funny, frightening ... but never dull

    Medical dramas like the classics St. Elsewhere and ER, and the more recent House and Nurse Jackie, have done a lot to de-romanticize the image of doctors as warmly pleasant, always calm and ever-composed miracle workers that was created in the 1960s by shows such as Marcus Welby, M.D.

    View Full Column | 05/21/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Life

  • Marion Warhaft

    Lots of worthwhile choices on the menu at surprising spot in Charleswood

    Grill-pressed Cuban sandwiches may be hot items in the rest of the world, but until recently I'd found only one in this city, at Corrientes. So when I spotted a Cubano on Wood's website menu (thewoodsbistro.ca) I scooted down for lunch as soon as I could and, fortunately, it lived up to my expectations -- a classic version, stacked thick with pulled pork, ham and mozzarella, and zesty with mustard, mayo and pickles ($8).

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  • Miss Lonelyhearts

    Don't wear yourself out trying to win her back

    DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I am 17. My new girlfriend and I were peacefully eating a cheeseburger outside VJ's drive-in the other day when she started going on about how this reminded her of when she was with her former boyfriend -- her first love -- and this was their favourite place. Apparently, they used to go there late at night in the spring and sit there feeding each other the burgers and fries. Yuck. I asked her why she would be telling ME this stupid stuff and she said I should be understanding of her life before she met me and how much other people have meant to her. I said that was ridiculous. "How would you like to hear about my first love?" I asked. She said she would. I was mad, so, like an idiot, I told her some sweet things we used to call each other. She said, "Take me home." Now she won't take my calls or texts. -- Is it Over? South End

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  • Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson

    Here's to Victoria

    Whether you're chilling out in your backyard/balcony or heading to the cottage this long weekend, there's no such thing as having too much wine on hand. You never know when you might get an impromptu invitation to a barbecue or have guests that pop by your place.

    View Full Column | 05/18/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Editorial

  • Don Marks

    When Harper spoke, it was wise to listen

    Former chief, MLA and MP, Elijah Harper, who died Friday at age 64, is to be buried in his home community of Red Sucker Lake today.

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  • Gwynne Dyer

    Japan's PM risks bankruptcy

    Shinzo Abe, now six months into his second try at being prime minister of Japan, is a puzzling man. In his first, spectacularly unsuccessful go in 2006-07, he was a crude nationalist and an economic ignoramus who rarely had control of his own dysfunctional cabinet. By the time he quit, after only a year in office, his popularity rating was below 30 per cent and his health was breaking down.

    View Full Column | 05/22/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Sid Green

    Political opportunity knocks to abolish Senate

    "For every thing there is a season" Ecclesiastes 3:1

    View Full Column | 05/21/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Allen Abel

    'Most hated man' in Senate

    WASHINGTON -- The shy Canadian emerges from the caucus room in a grey summer suit and blinks his basset hound eyes. Dozens of reporters are waiting for him in a hallway of the United States Capitol. We corner the Canuck against an elevator door and press him on this and that.

    View Full Column | 05/18/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Michael Madigan

    Cash for coitus scheme gets axed in Oz

    Australians cheerfully participate in a cash for coitus scheme run by a government that dangles $5,000 in front of those contemplating copulation.

    View Full Column | 05/17/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Business

  • Barbara Bowes

    More than a new boss

    WHILE it's true many baby boomers are indeed not retiring at the lightening speed first expected, for business leaders to think the issue of succession planning is a lot of ado about nothing is crazy. In my view, ignoring the broader issues related to succession planning is tantamount to burying your head in the sand.

    View Full Column | 05/18/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Laura Rance

    Feds trim the beef from research

    Beef cattle and forages have been part of the research program at Brandon's Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada farm from its beginning 127 years ago.

    View Full Column | 05/18/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Joel Schlesinger

    The ready-made solution evolution

    Canada's mutual fund universe is big enough already, but that hasn't stopped many of the largest financial institutions from squeezing in a few more funds in an effort to win over our money.

    View Full Column | 05/18/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • David Christianson

    Will, power of attorney are different documents

    "If you forget where you left your car keys, that's normal. If you forget what your keys are for, you had better pay attention."

    View Full Column | 05/17/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Martin Cash

    Late deal in workplace sex-harassment case

    A Manitoba Human Rights Commission workplace sexual-harassment case that had worked its way through the commission's vetting and investigation process was settled on Wednesday after a public hearing on the matter had already begun.

    View Full Column | 05/16/2013 1:00 AM | 0

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