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Long may she reign
"If former Manitoba curling great Connie Laliberte was the Ice Queen, then (Jennifer) Jones is, unabashedly and rightly so, the Drama Queen."
-- Free Press curling writer Paul Wiecek marvels at Jones' 10th-end, last-rock tapback to the button for her fifth Manitoba women's curling championship Sunday.
Should clean up their act
"I understand that there are risks. Certainly, among nationalists, there are those I would not work with for hygienic reasons. But many are reasonable."
-- Anatoli Baranov, a longtime leftist activist, on including racist right-wing groups in the movement opposing Vladimir Putin.
No place in a civilized society
"The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your completely twisted concept of honour, a notion of honour that is founded upon the domination and control of women."
-- Justice Robert Maranger of Superior Court finds three members of the Shafia family guilty of killing four female members of their family.
Mourning a legend
"It was more than a drive he had. It was like he was possessed. He had a fire inside of him."
-- Phil Manaigre of his friend and fellow paddler Don Starkell, who died this week at the age of 79. The legendary canoeist and kayaker paddled from Winnipeg to Brazil, and 5,120 kilometres across the Canadian Arctic.
One side of the coin...
"Human beings and nations behave badly when they suddenly sink into poverty. What lies behind this last sentence? A terrible fear of what happened in Germany when austerity hit post-World War I, when destitute Germans lashed out and found themselves a Hitler."
-- Heather Mallick, Canadian commentator, weighs in on the Eurozone's troubles.
...and the other
"Then there was all that money. Funny things happen to people who get stupendously rich. Instead of dreaming night and day about the next great product, they start to dream about building the most spectacular mansion in the entire country, or buying a National Hockey League team."
-- Margaret Wente, Canadian commentator, weighs in on RIM's troubles.
That ol' Prairie perspective
"It's typical of our province. We don't see the peaks, and we don't see the valleys."
-- John Carey, past-president of the Manitoba Motor Dealers Association, sees slow but steady growth ahead for local car dealers.
I'd like to thank all the little people
"I am so honoured to be AskMen's most desired woman this year. A big thank-you to all the men who desire me."
-- Sofia Vergara of TVs Modern Family fame
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition February 4, 2012 J12
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