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  • City

  • 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

  • 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 | 1:00 AM | 0

  • Dan Lett

    A cordial but shallow meeting of the minds

    CONSIDERING the panel was composed of old political warriors, they were pretty well-behaved.

    View Full Column | 05/10/2013 7:49 AM | 0

  • Mia Rabson

    Census replacement costs more, gets less info

    OTTAWA -- Canadians got their first glimpse of the new National Household Survey last week.

    View Full Column | 05/13/2013 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

  • Lindor Reynolds

    Mount Carmel Clinic: An oasis of acceptance in a judgmental world

    There's a red, heart-shaped platter of condoms on the Mount Carmel Clinic receptionist's desk. That's a second clue this is no ordinary medical centre.

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

  • Gordon Sinclair Jr.

    'It's a beautiful story': There's not always a tomorrow to say you're sorry or make things right

    It takes most of us a lifetime to learn how to live our lives.

    View Full Column | 05/18/2013 10:04 AM | 0

  • Doug Speirs

    Weekend weather

    Salt and pepper. Pork and beans. Spaghetti and meatballs. Bacon and eggs. Batman and Robin. Daniel and Henrik Sedin. Guns and ammo. The Saskatchewan Roughriders and penalties for too many men on the field.

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

  • Mary Agnes Welch

    Homing in on homelessness

    More than 300 North American cities have pledged to end homelessness in 10 years. Winnipeg will soon do the same.

    View Full Column | 07/28/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Lindsey Wiebe

    Global cooling

    Just a few years ago, it seemed carbon offsetting might be one of the best responses to society's emissions-heavy habits.

    View Full Column | 12/17/2011 8:24 AM | 0

  • Sports

  • Allan Besson

    Smith, Rempel row boats to gold

    As the mother of a three-year-old son as well as a full-time employee of the University of Manitoba in the faculty of kinesiology and recreation management, 34-year-old triathlete and sculler Brandi Smith realizes that her best days as an athlete may be slipping behind her.

    View Full Column | 08/25/2011 1:00 AM | 0

  • Doug Brown

    CFL gains when draft picks go south

    The more I think about the top two picks in the CFL draft signing with NFL teams, the more I think the CFL clubs that drafted them will be all the better for it.

    View Full Column | 05/14/2013 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

  • Chris Cariou

    Once upon a time...

    AT the height of its glory, on its 100th anniversary in 1988, the historic MCA Bonspiel at­tracted 1,270 teams to cement its claim to the title of world’s largest bonspiel.

    Two decades later, as the Manitoba Curling Association gets set to unveil a drastically overhauled and shortened 121st event after years of declining entries, the number of teams has fallen to fewer than 420.

    View Full Column | 01/28/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  • Darren Hargreaves

    The golf course nobody's heard of

    A few years ago an old pal from Stonewall suggested we play Netley Creek.

    View Full Column | 05/23/2010 1:00 AM | 0

  • Gary Lawless

    Ex-Jets MacLean, Carlyle on Sochi coaching list

    There's going to be at least one opening on Team Canada's coaching staff for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and a pair of former Winnipeg Jets are legitimate candidates.

    View Full Column | 05/18/2013 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

  • Ashley Prest

    Don, it's not about nakedness

    Good grief. We're still talking about female reporters in sports locker-rooms.

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

  • Avi Saper

    Steel Curtain folds to Satin Curtain

    In the fourth quarter, the Steel Curtain was more like a Satin Curtain. The vaunted Pittsburgh Steelers defence -- which had been its usual run stuffing, bone crunching, turnover forcing self for 50 minutes -- wilted when it counted.

    View Full Column | 02/2/2009 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

  • Randy Turner

    A beautiful game... and a spoiled sport

    One story is about a collection of men making a combined $1.8 billion in salary, toiling in luxury and adulation, involved in a bitter and confounding labour dispute with their billionaire employers.

    View Full Column | 12/27/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Adam Wazny

    It's Mack's mess

    Jan. 22, 2010.

    View Full Column | 08/9/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Paul Wiecek

    Giddy-up... Downs not out

    There will be eight races and eight winners when Assiniboia Downs opens its 2013 live thoroughbred racing season with their first card of the year Sunday afternoon.

    View Full Column | 05/3/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Entertainment

  • Danishka Esterhazy

    Sharp action, dull story in Knife of Dunwall

    Dishonored was one of my favourite games of 2012. I loved the stylish Victorian setting, the gothic narrative and the gameplay's combination of stealth, supernatural powers and steampunk gadgetry. The world of Dunwall, inspired by 19th-century Edinburgh and London, was immersive and encouraged exploration and replay. Like many gamers, I wanted more Dishonored.

    View Full Column | 05/2/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Alison Gillmor

    Going gluten-free doesn't mean giving up foods you love

    'I think about what I can eat," says Jeanine Friesen. "Not what I can't eat."

    View Full Column | 05/15/2013 10:12 AM | 0

  • Randall King

    Director takes ‘Roaring ’20s’ literally with loud, garish Gatsby adaptation

    IN the first minute of this film, keep your eyes open for the logo of director Baz Luhrmann’s company Bazmark Films. It includes the excellent motto, lifted from his 1992 film Strictly Ballroom: “A life lived in fear is a life half-lived.”

    View Full Column | 05/10/2013 9:16 AM | 0

  • Steven Leyden Cochrane

    Home is where the art is

    The Winnipeg Art Gallery's 100 Masters: Only in Canada assumes the ambitious task of telling a 500-plus-year history of European and North American art with works drawn from museums across Canada (plus the honourary province of Minnesota). The exhibition highlights the strengths of those collections, but it also reflects their limitations.

    View Full Column | 05/16/2013 9:35 AM | 0

  • Alison Mayes

    Theatrical romp would shock the bloomers off a Victorian lady

    Sir Hugh John Macdonald, the Manitoba premier who owned the 1895 mansion now known as Dalnavert Museum, once attempted to sue two local theatre artists.

    View Full Column | 09/13/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Gwenda Nemerofsky

    Match made in heaven for singers, listeners

    Don't try to pigeonhole Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc. Most of us know her as the singer with the voice as clear as crystal; an expert in the interpretation of early music.

    View Full Column | 05/8/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Brad Oswald

    He's been taking funny seriously for 60 years

    There's funny, and then there's FUNNY.

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

  • Kevin Prokosh

    MTYP plays it safe

    The financially strapped Manitoba Theatre for Young People has introduced a five-show 2013-14 playbill, half the size of recent seasons.

    View Full Column | 05/2/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Chris Smith

    Alto player still wants to shake things up

    Rudresh Mahanthappa, one of his generation's best jazz musicians and the June 17 mainstage opener for this year's Winnipeg International Jazz Festival, admits to less than spiritual reasons for picking up the alto saxophone.

    View Full Column | 05/13/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Carolin Vesely

    At this community art auction (volunteer) time really is money

    After purchasing a house last year, teacher Ben Shedden and his wife, Eden, a full-time student, didn't exactly have a stash of cash with which to adorn its "drab" bare walls.

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

  • Morley Walker

    What's your type?

    The writing was on the wall in 2011, or at least on the tablet.

    View Full Column | 12/22/2011 1:00 AM | 0

  • Rob Williams

    Auto Club more at home at Bible study than cruise night

    Slim Cessna doesn't suffer from religious guilt -- it's more like religious confusion.

    View Full Column | 07/26/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Life

  • Charlene Adam

    Wildlife arriving at the cottage pose problems for both of you Unwanted guests

    If you have a cottage, you know some visitors don't get an invitation. After a few years at my lake, I've compiled a list; and this list is growing. It started with boring people, expanded to include raccoons and now includes skunks, too. Sometimes the best thing to do to prevent their return is ask an expert.

    View Full Column | 07/10/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • David Bell

    Wired

    Are you an e-reader?

    View Full Column | 02/5/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Wendy Burke

    Love is in the air, cher

    With Valentine's Day falling on a Thursday this year, it's the perfect chance to stretch out that weekend to three days' worth of romancing. Just pace yourself a little. Start out with an intimate dinner for two at home on the day, and then take it out on the town for Friday and Saturday at Winnipeg Mardi Gras.

    View Full Column | 02/13/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • 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

  • Bob Cox

    Funny thing happened on way to future

    While neighbours in Alberta and Saskatchewan enjoyed the wealth of King Oil, Manitobans sat back and waited patiently for their own days of energy prosperity.

    View Full Column | 12/17/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • W. Gifford-Jones MD.

    Got a stubborn yeast infection? Check pets

    Why did this patient and her partner repeatedly suffer yeast infection in spite of treatment?

    View Full Column | 01/27/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Shamona Harnett

    Brunch day is gone, focus on eating well

    Admit it. You enjoyed your Mother's Day brunches and dinners yesterday, but you feel stuffed.

    View Full Column | 05/13/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Wab Kinew

    Losing lives worth living

    Sean Hunte was a young man who was just starting to realize his potential: he was viewed as a youth leader, he worked at a North End drop-in centre and, even though he was only 18 years old, he had already begun helping people.

    View Full Column | 05/9/2013 9:13 AM | 0

  • Miss Lonelyhearts

    Tell husband you're not talking to her... maybe tell him why

    DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I'm afraid to go back to our lake. Last year I had an affair with a woman close by. We were crazy for each other and our clueless husbands, who drank down on the pier every night, had no idea. We never got caught -- not even a suspicion -- and we could sometimes sneak to my boat house when they were out fishing in the afternoon. In the fall, she asked me for an "important lunch" at her house, and said she was IN LOVE with me and asked me to leave my husband. I laughed out loud, out of nervousness. For me, this had just been a lot of fun and experimentation, but my "real life" is with my husband, and I said so. My laughter made her start yelling horrible things at me! Neither of us can ask our husbands to get other cottages for no reason. And, our front and back yards are visible to each other. We live mostly outside in the summer weather. So far, I have begged off going down to open the cottage but how much longer can I do that? How on earth do I handle seeing her again? -- Mean Mouthed Woman, Winnipeg

    View Full Column | 1:00 AM | 0

  • John Longhurst

    The emergence of 'Emergents'

    When she was in Winnipeg in 2009, Phyllis Tickle talked about the Great Emergence, a "monumental" shift in Christianity that is changing the church in Europe and North America.

    View Full Column | 04/13/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • 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

  • Linda Stilkowski

    PRAIRIE GARDENER: Don't fall behind now

    Thank goodness we got to revel in the past four weeks of summer weather during September when the tomatoes seemed to ripen all at once and that last little bit of enjoyment could be squeezed from the garden. But, the party is over now that fall has arrived and winter is on its way.

    View Full Column | 10/4/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  • Marion Warhaft

    Don't want to cook? Give these a look

    HARD to believe, but this endlessly cool spring will end, and there will probably be dog days when you won’t want to cook, or go out to eat, either. The following three may have the answer. All were reviewed as restaurants within the past few years, but their food is also available for delivery or takeout, and not least among their attractions is the fact that some of their dishes are among the city’s rarest and most interesting. Coincidentally, all three owner-cooks are women, and all are warm, friendly and accommodating.

    View Full Column | 05/9/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Editorial

  • 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

  • Robert Alison

    The many human benefits of stress

    Stress boosts brainpower. It enhances memory and makes people more alert. Accumulating research confirms the beneficial effects stemming from confronting stressful circumstances. It seems that dealing with stress makes the human brain stronger. By contrast, cognitive sharpness wanes in those whose lives are comparatively stress-free.

    View Full Column | 05/4/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Chantal Allan

    Canadian election? Pass the poutine

    Los ANGELES -- The night air was cool, the breeze salty. It was the sign that gave it away. "Deli Montreal Smoked Meat" it read and here at the Redondo Beach Cafe, hundreds of metres from California surf and thousands of kilometres away from Canada, I'd found the regional hangout for Canadian expatriates.

    View Full Column | 10/4/2008 5:50 AM | 0

  • Christie Blatchford

    Judicial panel abandons notion of fairness

     

    View Full Column | 07/26/2012 12:37 PM | 0

  • Curtis Brown

    Doer dynasty, or aberration?

    ON the morning after the 2007 provincial election, the dawn of the "Doer Dynasty" was proclaimed in this newspaper.

    View Full Column | 10/16/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  • Marlo Campbell

    Not black and white, nor pink and blue

    Caster Semenya burst onto the international stage two months ago with a track-and-field victory that should have been an inspirational success story. Instead, the 18-year-old phenom from rural South Africa has become the subject of a public debacle -- and the target of crude jokes, misinformed speculation and downright cruel personal attacks -- all because she is a woman who doesn't measure up to some people's definition of what it means to be female.

    View Full Column | 09/28/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  • Livio di Matteo

    Ottawa must get the deficit under control

    MARCH is often the cruellest month on the Canadian weather calendar and this March also promises a shift in fiscal climate as Ottawa moves to bring a $56-billion deficit under control.

    View Full Column | 02/6/2010 1:35 PM | 0

  • Gwynne Dyer

    Glimmers of hope for Pakistan

    The first time Nawaz Sharif became prime minister of Pakistan was almost a quarter-century ago. His second term was ended 14 years ago by a military coup that drove him into exile. Now he's back, a good deal older -- but is he any wiser?

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

  • Elizabeth Fleming

    Don't rush to demolish heritage

    As the Winnipeg Airports Authority rolls out its communications strategy leading up to the opening of the new airport terminal at the end of October, the dark side of the story is the fate of the 1964 terminal.

    View Full Column | 10/13/2011 1:00 AM | 0

  • Gerald Flood

    West-side farmers to carry can for Gary Doer's folly

    BRUNKILD -- There were 28 pickups, nine cars and a few vans parked outside the Brunkild Community Hall when I pulled up a few minutes late on Wednesday afternoon.

    View Full Column | 02/9/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • 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

  • Robert Galston

    Lessons from the Exchange District

    The revamping of The Bay's downtown store is only one of a number of new developments coming to Portage Avenue. Long-vacant properties will be renewed, new buildings will rise, and a new plan put forth by CentreVenture that seems to settle the problem of downtown's sprawling geographic size. It all might sound good, but is not entirely new.

    View Full Column | 07/15/2010 1:00 AM | 0

  • Roger Gibbins

    Asia won't wait for us

    Western Canadians increasingly see the almost explosive growth of Asian economies as the solution to waning export prospects in our traditional North American market.

    View Full Column | 11/17/2011 1:00 AM | 0

  • Sid Green

    NDP's spending chickens coming home to roost

    Brian Pallister and his provincial Tories are half-right. They are making a legitimate case against the NDP government move to increase the sales tax by one percentage point, an increase that is required simply because government spending has spun out of control.

    View Full Column | 05/3/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Nicholas Hirst

    To dream the 'American Dream'

    U.S. President Barack Obama wasn't even born when the Soviet Union sent the infamous Sputnik rudimentary satellite into Earth's orbit in 1957 and he isn't old enough to remember President John F. Kennedy. But it is Kennedy he was using as a model in his state of the union address this week and his comparison between the challenges the United States faces today and those they faced more than half a century ago is apposite.

    View Full Column | 01/27/2011 1:00 AM | 0

  • Peter Holle

    The problem with 'free' parks

    The onset of a global recession has been met by a flourish of creative politics and policy from the bizarre (a wax museum to be built in California as part of the Obama stimulus package) to the verbose (Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 7,000-word essay on economics), to the whimsical.

    View Full Column | 05/29/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  • Charles Huband

    PTE an institution in best meaning of the word

    Prairie Theatre Exchange has become an institution in Winnipeg. It did not start out that way 40 years ago. But it has happened almost despite itself.

    View Full Column | 09/12/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Naomi Lakritz

    Abortion law rests on archaic definition

    CALGARY -- Every so often, we all have a good laugh at a story about some archaic law that's still on the books -- laws like the Cobourg, Ont., regulation that says if you have a watering trough in your yard, it must be filled by 5 a.m., or the Dallas, Texas, law that stated if you had a cold, there was a $50 fine for returning your library book to anyone but a city health officer.

    View Full Column | 02/11/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Trevor Lautens

    Times taxing poor Scrooge

    VANCOUVER -- Finance Minister Ebenezer Scrooge VI stared from his office window at the unpopulated square below. The building was empty, silent. His face was a study. Reflective? Troubled? Conflicted? Perhaps all.

    View Full Column | 12/22/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Allan Levine

    Blasphemy's long, sordid history

    The last time parts of the Islamic world were as angry as they are now about the amateur film Innocence of the Muslims, which insults the Prophet Muhammad, was nearly 25 years ago after Salman Rushdie had published his controversial novel The Satanic Verses.

    View Full Column | 09/28/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Shauna MacKinnon

    Playing politics with poverty in Manitoba

    It was a bad week for advocates working to improve the lives of people living in poverty.

    View Full Column | 11/26/2012 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

  • Don Marks

    Why tell bullied kid to do what we did not?

    I'm no expert on bullying, but I can tell you some of the advice we're giving kids doesn't make sense. Such as, I just saw this anti-bullying public service announcement about "Billy the Bully," which shows this kid shadowboxing in the middle of a playground while taunting and teasing imaginary opponents. The catch is that Billy is all alone. An announcer's voice tells kids to "just walk away," and bullies like Billy will look silly dancing around all by themselves.

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

  • Robert Marshall

    Gladue slope remains slippery

    The Supreme Court's Gladue decision is 13 years old and is as wrong today as it was then. Rendered by the best of Canadian legal minds, the decision is not only wrong-headed, it's been ineffective.

    View Full Column | 01/14/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Penni Mitchell

    Alberta oilsands ironies

    Peter Lougheed and David Suzuki are not two names you would normally expect to find in the same sentence, let alone on the same side of an issue. But when it comes to the Alberta oilsands, these bedfellows aren't so strange when you consider what's at stake.

    View Full Column | 05/13/2008 3:55 AM | 0

  • Catherine Mitchell

    Can Canadians reconcile the truth?

    Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission says it is going to be much more than a dollar short and a day late. After years of foot-dragging, the federal government has just now been forced to find and turn over millions of documents relating to the shameful period of Canada's history when First Nations children as young as six were taken from their homes and put into the hands of strangers, in a stranger land.

    View Full Column | 05/4/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Terrance Nelson

    Don't try to kill someone in my yard

    At 5 a.m. on Saturday, May 15, I was awoken by nine youth fighting in my yard. Six youth chased three others half a mile and the fight ended up in my yard. I went out and broke them up. I was armed with a shotgun.

    View Full Column | 05/26/2010 1:00 AM | 0

  • William Neville

    From Dief the Chief to Trudeau II

    The time comes to us all when we come to understand today's events in the wider context of the times through which we ourselves have lived. On the verge of the Liberal leadership decision, I find myself reflecting on an earlier chain of events which, for me, mark the trail to present ones.

    View Full Column | 04/13/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Tom Oleson

    Abortion should be debated continuously

    An old Slovenian proverb proclaims a good fart is worth nine doctors. And that may be true. But even if it is true, no matter how beneficial it might be, health-wise, we don't rip one in the office or anywhere else in polite society.

    View Full Column | 04/28/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • David O’Brien

    The German question -- be it unresolved

    I wrote here four years ago that the German Question, which refers to the strategic issues related to Germany's relative strength and weakness during the last 1,000 years, had been resolved. A European Germany, as opposed to a German Europe, had put to rest the old anxieties, or so I thought.

    View Full Column | 05/4/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Patricia Robertson

    Lipstick mafia flees

    Even though I'm a stalwart Liberal party supporter, I just can't bring myself to vote for Stéphane Dion. I really don't want a Conservative majority, but I can't support the current Liberal leader. A new Harris/Decima poll says that although female support for the Tories has slipped to 34 per cent from 40 per cent, Dion's numbers remain at 27. The lipstick mafia has fled to the Greens, the NDP and the Bloc. Here's why I'm just not that into Dion:

    View Full Column | 09/26/2008 5:50 AM | 0

  • Laura Robinson

    Hockey's subculture deeply disturbing

    The hazing of rookie players has been banned by Hockey Canada and its provincial affiliates for years, but that has not stopped senior players and even coaches and administration staff from continuing this extraordinarily sick ritual.

    View Full Column | 10/29/2011 3:24 AM | 0

  • Trudy Rubin

    Frustration over inaction on Syria grows

    BRUSSELS, Belgium -- France and Britain are pressing the European Union to end its embargo on arms for the Syrian opposition in the hope they can encourage President Barack Obama to follow their lead.

    View Full Column | 03/23/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Frances Russell

    Pallister and balanced-budget law go back to 1993

    Provincial Conservative Leader Brian Pallister and Manitoba's balanced-budget law -- the law that requires a provincial referendum to raise taxes -- go back a long way, to 1993.

    View Full Column | 04/26/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Shannon Sampert

    Women settling into politics

    When's the last time someone asked Premier Gary Doer what he's done for men lately?

    View Full Column | 07/13/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  • Samuel Segev

    Moment of truth 'maybe'

    TEL AVIV -- Is Israel approaching its moment of truth with Iran? The official and public position is "no." But behind the scenes diplomatic activity that suggests "maybe."

    View Full Column | 07/17/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Colleen Simard

    Unravelling a distrust of cops

    I used to be scared of cops. It goes back to when I was about 11 years old.

    View Full Column | 12/29/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Libby Simon

    Daycare revisited: Non-maternal care linked to behavioural problems in children

    A researcher in Sweden has found that "two generations of universal daycare have left their children less educated, and more distant from parents." Jonas Himmelstrand, at a conference held in Ottawa on May 5, 2011, said Sweden has had a universally accessible, government-funded daycare system since 1975 and that, while there are no babies in daycare, 92 per cent of all children aged 18 months to five years are in daycare.

    View Full Column | 10/22/2011 1:00 AM | 0

  • Paula Simons

    Albertans have reason to feel they are being used

    The Sunday morning that Stephen Harper called this election, CBC Newsworld called me up. The nice Newsworld folk were asking pundits across the country for a quick comment on the election mood in their regions. "Tell us, what are the most interesting races in Alberta?" I was asked.

    View Full Column | 09/21/2008 5:55 AM | 0

  • Fabrice Taylor

    Environmental movement is just another dirty sham

    It's hard to imagine, but some investors are swayed by what environmentalists say and do. There are people who won't invest in the oilsands because they are either persuaded mining oil and degrading the earth in the process is evil, or who worry the environmental movement can actually hurt the industry and their investment.

    View Full Column | 10/6/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Business

  • Brent Bellamy

    A vibrant vision for Chinatown

    On a late November evening in 1877, the distinctive clip-clop, clip-clop of horses' hooves would pierce through Winnipeg's cold autumn air. The setting sun outlined the silhouette of an overloaded stagecoach staggering along the sharp prairie horizon. Curious onlookers were drawn by the moan of rigid wheels struggling to navigate the city's dusty Main Street. Unfamiliar sounds of foreign voices came from within the American caravan transporting the first three Chinese settlers to the isolated town of 6,500 people.

    View Full Column | 04/29/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Colleen Coates

    Take steps to maintain boundary between work and home

    Being amped-up on technology, from smartphones to tablets, has not only changed the way we work, but the way we live. You only need to walk into a restaurant and count how many dinner patrons have their mobile devices out on the table next to the silverware to see we have difficulty disconnecting from the workday.

    View Full Column | 05/4/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • Sue Kathler

    Speaking same language

    With its agreement to purchase Viterra assets -- including grain handling, crop input and processing facilities -- Winnipeg-based Richardson International has taken its rightful place on the international stage and will soon assume the title of Canada's largest agribusiness. Richardson is a worldwide handler and merchandiser of Canadian-grown grains and oilseeds, and its wealth of expertise in agriculture, oilseed processing and food packaging has made it a global business leader and one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies.

    View Full Column | 04/27/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • John McFerran

    Challenging role: Forks North Portage staff need to be both specialists and generalists

    Jim August relishes the opportunity to promote Winnipeg whenever and wherever he can. In fact, the CEO of The Forks North Portage Partnership has been talking up his organization's mandate to "contribute to making Winnipeg's downtown a better place to live, work and play," and people around the world are taking notice.

    View Full Column | 07/14/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Murray McNeill

    Work on condo project underway

    Work will soon get underway on the next phase of an award-winning condominium development under construction in an industrial area of the West End.

    View Full Column | 04/15/2013 1:00 AM | 0

  • John Poyser

    Rules governing end-of-life care may change

    Gloria Taylor lived in British Columbia and suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease. She wanted the right to end her life on her own terms. That was going to be difficult. She did not want to end her own life while it had quality. The disease was going to rob her of that quality of life. She would be locked in her body, unable to move. That would render her unable to commit suicide if and when she wanted to. She wanted the option, and did not want the disease to strip her of it. She would need assistance if and when she chose to end her life.

    View Full Column | 04/17/2013 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

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