http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/carl en-gb Sat, 25 May 2013 16:27:30 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/carl/No-one-called-me-maam-111294579.html I went clubbing. Oh, there I go again, burying my lede. What I meant to say was: I went clubbing, and no one called me ma'am. That was the highlight of my night along with being ID-ed and having my purse rifled through. Odd to consider it a compliment that I might be packing heat, but there you... Fri, 3 Dec 2010 17:55:45 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/carl/Love-and-art-at-the-Bow-Wow-Ball-110665414.html I was happily bidding on a very large oil painting of geese in flight at the Humane Society Bow Wow Ball on the weekend, almost cocky in the knowledge that even if I didn’t win the painting, at least I was driving the price up to help a good cause. But then, as too often happens, the Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:47:40 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/carl/Painting-108014384.html Someone put a painting in a tree in a park by my house this week. It's attached by wire to a branch that's quite high, at least in line with the third storey of my building. The painting's not signed, or at least not signed in a scrawl large enough to be seen even with a zoom lens. So about all Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:57:56 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/carl/Making-a-fortune-in-livers-96301569.html I really should pay more attention to what Doug Speirs is doing. Recently, our funny man was a judge at the Great Manitoba Food Fight: Forks Edition, an event at which local entrepreneurs battled to see who offered the tastiest, most marketable new food product. Not only would keeping up with Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:55:21 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/carl/Hero-teaches-good-lesson-44457582.html Journalists get to meet heroes all the time: People who race into burning buildings, drag injured people from car wrecks, dive into icy water. Sometimes that’s their job, making them no less brave; sometimes they just happened to be in the right place at the right time to save a Wed, 6 May 2009 09:57:44 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/carl/Making-a-fortune-in-livers-42053772.html I really should pay more attention to what Doug Speirs is doing. Recently, our funny man was a judge at the Great Manitoba Food Fight: Forks Edition, an event at which local entrepreneurs battled to see who offered the tastiest, most marketable new food product. Not only would keeping up with Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:52:53 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/carl/Steady-Eddy-41564177.html The headlines were blaring bad news of the economy earlier this week when I was visiting my home province of Ontario. Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:35:36 CDT