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The View from the West

The German Question answered

THE fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago is frequently regarded as one of those rare watershed moments in history that mark the end of one era and the beginning of another. In this case, the new era was popularly regarded as superior to the previous one, even if it was beset with uncertainty over the future of Russia. Winnipeg Free PressPRINT | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  1. Acts of Orwellian feminism

    11For her, at the time, the emphasis was first on taste. At home on Thanksgiving she gets turkey, mashed potatoes, a vegetable, and, if she's been good, which is not often, a piece of pie with, perhaps, some ice cream. Winnipeg Free PressPRINT | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  2. The Fall(out) of the Wall

    Like you, or the vast majority of you old enough to remember, I watched the Fall of the Wall on television 20 years ago -- on Nov. 9, 1989. Winnipeg Free PressPRINT | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  3. Whenever I hear women complaining about the rat race, I think about the Career I didn't have

    111 Winnipeg Free PressPRINT | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  4. The circle closes with tears, and wailing Bob Marley

    Last week, Colleen Simard took readers on a road trip to meet a long lost uncle. Winnipeg Free PressPRINT | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  5. A price tag at last

    The David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute recently released an analysis of the economic impact of greenhouse gas targets on economic growth in Canada. The report advocates the adoption of a punishing price on carbon, which would act as a tax on virtually everything, along with several other expensive policies designed to reduce emissions. Winnipeg Free PressPRINT | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  6. By the unelected, unchosen, unfree

    11Our battle plan was ambush. About 40 of us set ourselves up in the hallway between the elevator and the private dining room and accosted them as they tried to muscle by. Whenever a member of the ruling caste said anything of interest, one of us hurried to relay this to another of the sachems and provoke a reaction. This sort of schoolyard tattle-telling is how reporters like me cover the United States Senate. Winnipeg Free PressPRINT | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  7. Lotteries levy the tax when we buy a dream

    WE buy lottery tickets only partly because we are duped by government advertising into thinking that we might actually win. Mostly, we buy them because we are slothful, greedy daydreamers. No one knows this better than I. Winnipeg Free PressPRINT | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  8. A song in my heart and better it stays there

    SOME people might find the idea of a 92-year-old man singing karaoke at the McPhillips Street Station casino to be quaint to the point of patronization. Others might think it to be an admirable lesson in the unlimited opportunities of life. Personally, I find it enviable to the degree that I fear I am on or over the verge of committing one of the ugliest of the seven deadly sins -- why should Fred Harwood, whose story Carolin Vesely told in this week's paper, be able to sing karaoke when I cannot? Winnipeg Free PressPRINT | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  9. Should Clinton become a 'RELIABLE VICAR?'

    111Historically, our best secretaries of state have been those who think creatively and move assertively. Likewise, our most effective foreign policies have come under strong and secure secretaries of state. Winnipeg Free PressPRINT | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

  10. A history of remembrance

    In 1923, a temporary war memorial that stood at Portage and Main in front of the Bank of Montreal was torn down. The makeshift cenotaph had been erected soon after the Great War in an outburst of emotion for the literally thousands of Winnipeg boys killed or injured in the war. Winnipeg Free PressPRINT | 7/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

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