http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/giroday en-gb Tue, 21 May 2013 19:09:43 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/giroday/177531111.html One of the beauties of the web is extended space. A story that ran yesterday on the extradition of Kevin Maryk, the father of Abby and Dominic Maryk, said it could be delayed for months. There's also a possibility that Maryk's friend Robert Groen could be deported, not extradited, said... Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:54:33 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/giroday/177530791.html I couldn't believe it when I woke up yesterday morning to a stack of emails about an alleged serial killer. For years, there has been rampant speculation about a serial killer in Winnipeg. What has been a highly sensitive issue for policing -- in the constant roller-coaster of First Tue, 6 Nov 2012 15:38:16 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/giroday/Ride-Gone-Wrong-a-taxi-story-136967968.html Sometimes, as a reporter, a story grabs you by the neck and won’t let go. A recent series I did on taxicabs weighed on me for months, after a pretty amazing woman I met came forward to tell her story. She was brave and angry and motivated, and told the story of her alleged sexual assault Mon, 9 Jan 2012 15:38:57 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/giroday/Records-checks-necessary-evil-134931578.html I received two interesting pieces of mail regarding a recent story I did on wait times for criminal record checks, based on the ones needed for those who work with especially vulnerable people like kids or disabled adults. The issue isn’t new to Winnipeg, and has popped up in other parts Fri, 2 Dec 2011 16:04:24 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/giroday/Winnipeg-revolution-Cameroon-election-133897378.html Good news for intellectuals, debaters and general rabble-rousers – dissent in Winnipeg is alive and well. I’ve always told people the reason I got involved in journalism wasn’t the writing as much as the interviewing and observing. It’s navigating those conflicts between Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:42:11 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/giroday/Theft-proof-car-Try-Phil-Collins--127310333.html One day — though not today — I will write the top ten things I've discovered covering crime. High up on the list would be the axiom you soon learn: if an object can be stolen, it will be. So, that means items you'd never, ever, ever consider vulnerable to theft will end up being Tue, 9 Aug 2011 10:57:03 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/giroday/Hidden-violence-at-work-125814533.html I recently did a series called Danger Pay for the Free Press, focussing on how violence at work impacts different professions. Figuring how to go at the story took time – reporters know from covering police press conferences and reading court dockets, as well as vetting public tips, about Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:01:01 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/giroday/On-Val-and-giving-victims-a-voice-112829844.html It’s one of the most famous lines of poetry: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” There’s been reams of insight on what that line by Yeats actually means, of course. (Heck, it`s not like I can take on Chimua Achebe . But one that I often think about when it comes Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:55:09 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/giroday/Death-on-Kennedy-and-Invisible-Jeanine-111801034.html I suspect if I ever saw 32-year-old Jeanine Allen – and odds are, I likely did, as this is Winnipeg – I wouldn’t have looked twice. Police haven’t said yet whether Allen died of foul play. She was found in her Winnipeg apartment on Kennedy Street last Thursday with Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:42:01 CST http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/giroday/Idiot-insight-from-Toronto-102637024.html Three words: judge, sex, bondage. Really, the story on Judge Lori Douglas indicates that’s there’s a never-ending public thirst for high-powered people doing smutty things, and where the debate over private life and public office begins. Anyways, I’m not paid to Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:51:50 CDT