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Gordon Sinclair Jr.

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Gordon Sinclair Jr. is a Free Press columnist.

  • 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 | 1

  • 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

  • Year of giving, getting for 'homeless hero'

    "No one thinks of the homeless, who don't have no one except each other" -- Faron Hall

    Faron Hall -- the man whose heroic and humble ways have done much to change our attitude toward the homeless -- did nothing special and got nothing special last Christmas.

    View Full Column | 15/12/2009 1:00 AM | 17

  • A question of transparency and trust for charity

    I dropped by Siloam Mission Thursday to ask a few question about the sudden and mysterious resignation of CEO John Mohan for unspecified "personal" reasons.

    It was a cold day to make a cold call.

    View Full Column | 12/12/2009 1:00 AM | 37

  • Calendar celebrates the naked truth

    Paintings of bare-naked ladies are a classic art form, of course. As photographs of same can be.

    View Full Column | 10/12/2009 1:00 AM | 17

  • Give firefighters a helping hand, not the finger

    NEVER MIND WHERE'S THE FIRE, WHERE ARE THE MANNERS?... There's public behaviour that's annoying: Transit riders who neglect to offer their seat on the bus to obviously pregnant women comes to mind. And then there's public behaviour that goes beyond boorish to dangerous.

    View Full Column | 8/12/2009 1:00 AM | 66

  • Suspended MD, patient speak

    Dr. George Korol wanted to tell me his side of the story. Regrettably, he didn't do himself any favours. But then how could he, when the heart of the suspended Winnipeg physician's version of events is that his being committed to a mental health facility and jailed three times over the last 14 years are all one person's fault?

    View Full Column | 5/12/2009 1:00 AM | 23

  • Letter writers seek hope -- and suggest answers

    STORIES FROM THE HEART OF THE CITY... It always happens around Christmas. Santa's mailbag gets heavier and so, coincidentally, does mine. Except the people who write to me aren't looking for gifts. They're searching for help, hope and an answer to it all. So today I bring you three letters and three stories on those themes, including an unexpected bonus.

    View Full Column | 3/12/2009 1:00 AM | 5

  • Etiquette on the bus a matter of opinion

    We are living at the dawn of the post-mannerly era.

    That seems to be the consensus, anyway. Yet among those who still care, everyone seems to have a opinion on civility, judging by the reaction to Saturday's column about Tamara Schneiderat, the eight-months pregnant bus rider who's rarely offered a seat on rush-hour buses.

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

  • Rudeness knows no bounds

    It was only by chance -- while searching back through old emails this week -- that I came upon one from last month I had neglected to open.

    "What is with our society today?" the subject line asked.

    View Full Column | 28/11/2009 1:00 AM | 26

  • The solution to homelessness? Give them a home

    "My jaw dropped reading all the academic studies"

    -- Research analyst Bri Trypuc, in Homeless in Canada study

    View Full Column | 26/11/2009 1:00 AM | 14

  • Play editor, readers: you pick top news story

    NOW YOU TELL ME... Each year around this time, the Free Press editors who get together each day to decide the top stories of the day start thinking individually about their choices for local news story and newsmaker of the year. There's still a month or so to go, of course.

    View Full Column | 24/11/2009 1:00 AM | 3

  • Jeep rollover gives teens taste of own mortality

    The structure of the human brain, neuroscientists tell us, is constantly changing.

    Then there's the teenage brain.

    View Full Column | 21/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  • 'Homeless Hero' making strides in alcohol rehab

    Faron Hall couldn't have shown up for breakfast at a more appropriate time or place. Wednesday was the Salvation Army's annual Hope in the City Breakfast at the Winnipeg Convention Centre, and if there was ever a person who is the face of hope for the homeless and addicted in this city, it's Faron Hall.

    View Full Column | 19/11/2009 1:00 AM | 30

  • How a homeless man saved Tom Jackson

    There is a place on Google where you can find a list of famous people who have been homeless for a time. People like Daniel Craig of James Bond fame, who slept on a park bench as a struggling actor; Shania Twain, who, at 13, spent time in a Toronto shelter with her family, and... well, hello.

    View Full Column | 17/11/2009 1:00 AM | 6

  • His turn to confront mortality

    You'd think Neil Bardal would be prepared for death. The third-generation funeral director has lived with death at his door every day of his life. The day he was born, his twin sister was born dead.

    View Full Column | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 10

  • Young mom gets help to head south for cancer fight

    FLYING INTO THE EYE OF HEALTH-CARE HURRICANE... Kaleena Hudon, the 25-year-old Winnipeg mother and stage-4 cancer patient whose only hope of prolonging her life lies south of the border, flew to Pittsburgh for treatment of her metastasized melanoma Wednesday. Thanks to a local guardian angel, she went a month ahead of schedule and her closest loved ones were with her.

    View Full Column | 5/11/2009 1:00 AM | 3

  • The spirit of Kid Courageous inspired many

    If he had been a boxer, instead of merely a fighter, they would have called him Kid Courageous. Not that he looked like a fighter.

    View Full Column | 3/11/2009 1:00 AM | 6

  • Some people deserve a good shot... of guilt

    "When the captain of the ship says, 'Women and children first,' they don't end off with, 'If you feel like it.' "

    -- unsolicited reader comment.

    View Full Column | 31/10/2009 1:00 AM | 49

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