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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 12/03/2012 (4938 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Disconnected
“It’s been a terrible day, but it’s something we had to do. You have to stand up for your rights, don’t you?”
— Margaret Piszker and her husband Laszlo vow to fight a traffic ticket he received for talking on a cellphone. They say they don’t own one.
Class act
“This is Robbie’s week to shine, and a time for Manitoba to jump behind him. And I really don’t want to take anything away from Rob and the guys. The focus should really be on them.”
— Team Stoughton’s former lead man Steve Gould doesn’t want news of his firing to distract Team Manitoba at the Brier this week.
Stay snug as a bug in a rug
“I’m going to be cocooning for the foreseeable future. No cross-country skiing for me.”
— Winnipeg tough-guy cyclist Lindsay Gauld, 63, is forced to drop out of the hardest winter bike race in the world after pushing his bike through 290 kilometres of snow and ice in the Iditarod and suffering severe frostbite. He almost lost his nose and may lose his right pinky.
No top job
“I never saw myself even being what I’m here at now, let alone signing on for many more years.”
— A modest Deputy Chief Shelley Hart says she’s not going to toss her hat into the ring for the job of Winnipeg police chief.
Favourite team? No contest
“Winnipeg. And I’ve never had a favourite since I retired. But you can’t help but pull for them. Maybe because I came here at such a young age, you can’t help but pull for them… Watching that first game brought tears to my eyes.”
— Former Winnipeg Jet Dale Hawerchuk
The place to be
“Winnipeg may not be known as much as some of the other cities in Canada, but for those Filipinos looking for a good life and lots of support, this is the place to come.”
— Fred De Villa, community activist and longtime immigration advocate.
A new approach
“We tried poverty for 200 years. We decided to try something different.”
— Ray Halbritter, leader of the Oneida Indian Nation in the U.S., which is manufacturing cigarettes for sale at tribal convenience stores.
Porn-monger
“So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”
— Rush Limbaugh, radio host and presidential hopeful, lost advertisers after he called a law student a slut because she said contraception should be covered in health-care plans.
