About Gordon Sinclair Jr.:

Gordon Sinclair Jr. is a Free Press columnist.

• She supported her sister -- and saved her own life

  It's not by chance that there's a wellness expo in town this weekend, not when you hear the life story of the woman behind it. Particularly the chapter about Ida Albo's surprise breast cancer diagnosis 31/2 years ago.

  View Full Column | 20/03/2010 1:00 AM | 1

• The bad, badder and just plain ugly

  TWO DOGS, THREE CHICKS AND THE EAGLES... A trilogy of tales starting with an open letter to a cab driver who, according to a witness, treated a “beautiful golden retriever” like a Safeway bag or empty Slurpee cup.” * * * 
  DEAD DOG RUNNING... She’ll never forget the sickening sound.

  View Full Column | 18/03/2010 5:02 PM | 2

• Freedom for Li expected

  If you thought the horrific Greyhound bus murder of Tim McLean was shocking, please prepare yourself for another jolt. The mentally ill man who murdered him in July 2008 and was judged not criminally responsible is recovering more rapidly than most would expect.

  View Full Column | 16/03/2010 10:27 AM | 152

• Lack of honesty more bothersome than ticket prices

  "Fools," said I, "You do not know;

  Silence like a cancer grows."

  View Full Column | 13/03/2010 1:00 AM | 8

• Simon & Garfunkel prices breaking your heart?

  THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE GO CHI-CHING!... I remember my initial reaction when news broke about the top ticket price to Simon & Garfunkel's first appearance in Winnipeg since they were little more than kids.

  Yikes!

  View Full Column | 11/03/2010 1:00 AM | 16

• If people want to rise, leaders must help lift

  I felt sad this weekend when I heard yet another aboriginal man had been shot and killed by police.

  Deeply sad.

  View Full Column | 9/03/2010 1:00 AM | 15

• On second thought, some mistakes are beyond stupid

  For a change I think there’s one thing we can all agree on. We’ve all made stupid mistakes.

  View Full Column | 5/03/2010 4:53 PM | 15

• He wants to heal where pain took place

  It's been 10 years since I finished a book that took me the previous 10 years to finish.

  It was only after publishing Cowboys and Indians: The Shooting of J.J. Harper, that I asked myself why.

  View Full Column | 4/03/2010 1:00 AM | 21

• Toews literally born to be great

  Jonathan Toews' father tells a story about something that happened when his son was a little boy that suggests why he, unlike thousands of other Winnipeg kids, went on to play professional hockey. Jonathan was on a team of seven-year-olds who lost a tournament game to a team of eight-year-olds.

  View Full Column | 2/03/2010 1:00 AM | 8

• Lifetime of kindness returned when most needed

  This is a story about the wheel of life. About how what went around for one man, came around for him in the most important and telling of ways. The man's name is Telly Mercury.

  View Full Column | 27/02/2010 1:00 AM | 2

• The loss of a snow fort in the cold light of day

  Telling a story is like taking a photo. You can come at it from so many different angles, so many different perspectives. The one I chose in Tuesday's column (Snow fort defenceless against a callous heart) came in the form of an email from a Linden Woods mother.

  View Full Column | 25/02/2010 1:00 AM | 9

• Snow fort defenceless against a callous heart

  The synchronicity seemed obvious in the letter from the Linden Woods mother.

  It arrived via email on Louis Riel Day, just before I returned home from a Heritage Winnipeg event that celebrated how the public rallied to save Upper Fort Garry from a city-approved apartment development that would have literally cast a giant shadow across the province's birthplace.

  View Full Column | 23/02/2010 1:00 AM | 46

• More ominous issue underlies Youth for Christ flap

  I was taking my daughter to lunch at the Fort Garry Hotel Tuesday when we ran into a frantic-looking Justin Swandel who was going as we were coming. Suddenly, the chairman of city council's downtown development committee began spewing angst, like The Little Engine That Could, steaming up a hill.

  View Full Column | 20/02/2010 1:00 AM | 110

• Tell the truth -- the whole truth -- about Prince

  Maybe it's not for me to say because I don't belong to a First Nation, but then neither does the producer of the feature film that was announced last week. So I'll go ahead and say it.

  View Full Column | 18/02/2010 1:00 AM | 12

• Top colonel's story could heat up some cold cases

  It's been about six months since then-justice minister Dave Chomiak finally persuaded the long-resistant Winnipeg Police Service and RCMP to do something they should have done years ago: to strike a task force, and thaw out a deplorably long list of cold cases involving missing and murdered local women.

  Recently, the task force reported it had found similarities in some files, although without releasing names or even offering a number.

  View Full Column | 13/02/2010 1:00 AM | 4

• Finding dry land for a man nearly drowned by life

  When you're a newspaper columnist who writes mostly about people -- in a city with no degrees of separation -- the border between the professional and the personal can blur.

  How do you keep a professional distance when the person you're writing about becomes more than a subject?

  View Full Column | 11/02/2010 1:00 AM | 23

• Catchment opinions sought

  BY ALLISON DOWD Catchment changes related to the implementation of a single-track French immersion program in Brandon have been put on hold until the public can be consulted.

  View Full Column | 10/02/2010 1:10 PM | 0

• Reno tale likened to Faron Hall case

  Marion Willis predicted what nearly happened to Faron Hall last weekend.

  "Now he's dancing with death," she grimly told me in late December.

  View Full Column | 9/02/2010 1:00 AM | 25

• Fame for hero no easy thing

  I have some unfinished business from last year. Too much to fit in one column.

  View Full Column | 2/01/2010 1:00 AM | 19

• Airport measures just an exercise in false security

  2-- Robert Redford as Joe Turner in Three Days of the Condor. It was book-inspired movie fiction from 1975, but it seems probable there are actual CIA employees on bookworm detail, searching for plots and methods of attacking the West that are still only the stuff of imagination.

  View Full Column | 31/12/2009 1:00 AM | 6

• Your home is where you find happiness

  During the days leading up to Christmas, I conducted a survey of sorts. There was only one question: Where do you find home?

  View Full Column | 26/12/2009 1:00 AM | 3

• School can teach us all a lesson about caring spirit

  It's the morning before Christmas, and the last-minute-shopping creatures are frantically heading for the mall, but I'm happy to say I've already found a gift for you.

  A re-gifted one, actually.

  View Full Column | 24/12/2009 1:00 AM | 11

• Words of wisdom... and holiday wiseguys

  STOCKING STUFFERS: A grab bag of “stuff” on these, the frantic few days before Christmas. ❚ ❚ ❚

  View Full Column | 22/12/2009 7:12 AM | 9

• Words of wisdom... and holiday wiseguys

  STOCKING STUFFERS: A grab bag of "stuff" on these, the frantic few days before Christmas.

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  View Full Column | 22/12/2009 1:00 AM | 0

• Diapers piling up, and mom grateful

  Some random acts of kindness take longer to happen and need more space to tell. More space than what's allocated for Random Acts of Kindness in the Free Press online or The Social Page print-edition space.

  View Full Column | 17/12/2009 1:00 AM | 8

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