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City
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Doug Speirs
Your weekend weather
ATTENTION MARRIED WOMEN: We interrupt today's regularly scheduled weekend weather forecast for the following urgent and completely true medical announcement...
View Full Column | 7/11/2009 8:03 AM | 1
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Gordon Sinclair Jr.
His turn to confront mortality
You'd think Neil Bardal would be prepared for death.
View Full Column | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Lindor Reynolds
Tears and fears
PINE FALLS -- It's been 68 days since the paper mill in this close-knit town locked its doors and shut out 270 workers. In many ways, Tembec is Pine Falls. It's the life blood of the small community, a place where generations of men and women have spent their working lives.
View Full Column | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Dan Lett
McFadyen grabs his party by the ear
And thus begin the two most important years in Hugh McFadyen's political life.
View Full Column | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 1
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Mia Rabson
Protesting one way to get attention
OTTAWA — An otherwise unremarkable question period last Monday took on a whole new dimension when it turned into a melee.
View Full Column | 2/11/2009 7:13 AM | 0
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Bartley Kives
Park your expectations
As much as I love every idiosyncratic individual who lives in this weird little, weather-beaten town, I have to wonder where Winnipeggers get their bizarre ideas about parking.
View Full Column | 2/11/2009 7:06 AM | 7
Sports
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Randy Turner
Big prize or bust for Blue and Kelly
Clearly, what the Winnipeg Blue Bombers have got themselves on Sunday is a Glengarry Glen Ross football game.
View Full Column | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 1
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Jerrad Peters
Rodallega took time to develop into superstar
The 2005 FIFA Youth Championship will forever be remembered as Lionel Messi's coming-out party. And for good reason. Over those three weeks in June, the frail 17-year-old scored six goals and led Argentina to its fifth title.
View Full Column | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Gary Lawless
Saints, Colts in a league of their own
The NFL season is approaching the midway point and five teams have stepped forward as the league's elite: the New Orleans Saints, Indianapolis Colts, Minnesota Vikings, Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots.
View Full Column | 5/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Ed Tait
First & Goal
Five storylines that jumped out while observing the past week of Canadian Football League action:
View Full Column | 4/11/2009 1:00 AM | 8
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Doug Brown
For some players, more than a playoff spot on the line
Five days from now, your Winnipeg Blue Bombers will either begin the process of hosting the first round of the Eastern division playoffs, or they will be handing out Glad garbage bags to one another as they clean out their lockers to signify the end of the 2009 season.
View Full Column | 3/11/2009 1:00 AM | 7
Entertainment
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Alison Gillmor
Architects get bad rap; they can do comfy
Architects have an image problem. There's an obstinate notion in mass media and pop culture that they're all cruel design dictators who want to force average people into cold, angular, uncomfortable houses.
View Full Column | 7/11/2009 3:21 AM | 0
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Morley Walker
Viewers finding an appetite for local docs
Here's an interesting tidbit in the context of the battle between Canada's cable companies and TV stations.
View Full Column | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Randall King
We're done for! We're done for!
JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING -- The world is ending in 2012.
View Full Column | 6/11/2009 1:00 AM | 1
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Kevin Prokosh
Bullying pays off for local theatre company
There are many reasons why plays have been written for Theatre Projects Manitoba over its 20 years, and a threat of physical violence is one of them.
View Full Column | 5/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Brad Oswald
Grisly murder tale better told without embellishment
What defines a documentary as a documentary? What makes a horror movie horrific?
View Full Column | 5/11/2009 1:00 AM | 1
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Gwenda Nemerofsky
Organ, saxophone blending unexpectedly workable
Salt and pepper, Mutt and Jeff, needle and thread -- familiar pairs that just seem to fit together. But how about organ and saxophone?
View Full Column | 5/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
Life
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W. Gifford-Jones MD.
Bathroom handwashing can save lives
Have you heard of the Golden Poo Award? It's not as prestigious as a Nobel Prize. But now that the virus season is here, it's time to think about influenza and the H1N1 virus. And remember there's more to infection than these two diseases. That's why the Golden Poo Award was recently presented to contestants who made outstanding contributions to hygiene and sanitation. But can you guess what winners of this peculiar contest won?
View Full Column | 6/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Marion Warhaft
Who says brunch is a Sunday-only thing?
I love brunch, but I also love long, leisurely Sunday mornings at home, when I can indulge in my personal addiction, i.e. a bunch of crossword puzzles, especially the big New York Times puzzle, which I now save from Saturday's Free Press to do on Sunday.
View Full Column | 6/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Darlene Henderson
Diving deep into pizza
Today's column is deep into pizza.
View Full Column | 4/11/2009 7:30 AM | 0
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Wendy Burke
Love hurts, baking helps
Maybe a black cat crossed your path over the weekend and (in spite of the hefty investment in the French maid costume) you got dumped after the Halloween party. Breaking up is hard to do, but makeup artist Erin Bolger will tell you that "baking up" afterwards will make you feel better.
View Full Column | 4/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Miss Lonelyhearts
Roses are red, you're feeling blue; hot politician will be afraid of you
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I've been in love with a certain handsome local politician for many years now and I finally got my chance to let him know at a party. He responded politely and told me he was married. I smiled and said, "I don't care," and he said that he did care about hurting his wife. That made me love him all the more! I was thinking of sending him some dark red roses as a kind of a good-bye gesture to my five-year crush on him. Should I sign my name or not? -- Hopelessly In Love, Same Building Downtown
View Full Column | 3/11/2009 1:00 AM | 7
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Charlene Adam
Horse sense
A horse's grace is only exceeded by its strength. I love these beasts. Unfortunately, the only experience I have with horses stems from a few trail rides taken as a kid. It quickly became apparent that I wasn't going to be breaking any of Ian Millar and Big Ben's records.
View Full Column | 3/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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John Longhurst
Free Press continues to keep the Faith
We're back!
View Full Column | 31/10/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson
Grave expectations
HALLOWEEN is one of my favourite nights of the year, especially now that I’ve got a couple of kids of my own to take trick-ortreating (well, maybe the four-month-old will stay home, but I digress). I also love buying the big bags of candy. Heck, sometimes I even give some out to kids!
View Full Column | 31/10/2009 1:00 AM | 0
Editorial
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David O’Brien
A history of remembrance
In 1923, a temporary war memorial that stood at Portage and Main in front of the Bank of Montreal was torn down. The makeshift cenotaph had been erected soon after the Great War in an outburst of emotion for the literally thousands of Winnipeg boys killed or injured in the war.
View Full Column | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Tom Oleson
Acts of Orwellian feminism
11For her, at the time, the emphasis was first on taste. At home on Thanksgiving she gets turkey, mashed potatoes, a vegetable, and, if she's been good, which is not often, a piece of pie with, perhaps, some ice cream.
View Full Column | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Catherine Mitchell
Long buried truths emerging
Among the many euphemisms we have constructed to describe dying is the idea that in death we lose a loved one or a part of ourselves. It is an apt description of the pain that takes hold -- a life is "lost" to us.
View Full Column | 6/11/2009 1:00 AM | 2
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Nicholas Hirst
Age may sway voters post-Doer
Premier Greg Selinger may have the most difficult job in politics: taking over from a revered and accomplished leader. It's a position fraught with problems. He needs to both give the idea of renewal and at the same time, be seen to be building on the successes of his predecessor.
View Full Column | 5/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Livio di Matteo
Ontario: after the orgy
ONTARIO’S economy has been struck hard by the recession leading to a collapse in provincial revenue that combined with a massive increase in expenditure has helped raise its deficit to a historical high of $24.7 billion.
View Full Column | 4/11/2009 7:30 AM | 1
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Samuel Segev
Clinton trying to plug holes in Obama's credibility
TEL-AVIV -- Israel is awaiting with great interest the results of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's discussions Monday with Arab foreign ministers in Marrakech, Morocco.
View Full Column | 3/11/2009 1:00 AM | 5
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Gerald Flood
Life of the party
Premier Greg Selinger.
View Full Column | 31/10/2009 1:00 AM | 2
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Robert Marshall
Another only-in-Canada cops and robbers tale
IF Rip Van Winkle woke up today from his decades of sleep, he would encounter a world so topsy-turvy, where the line between good and bad, winners and losers is so blurred he’d think he was still dreaming.
View Full Column | 31/10/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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Allen Abel
Hummer: the pride of China
WASHINGTON -- An American flag the size of Labrador flaps defiantly and loudly in the breeze.
View Full Column | 31/10/2009 1:00 AM | 0
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