http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/g_sinclair Most recent columns en-gb Fri, 24 May 2013 05:07:35 CDT Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Buck Pierce, football in hand, was standing on the University of Winnipeg's front lawn Wednesday afternoon, appearing relaxed even without any blocking as he looked downfield and shouted out an audible of sorts. "Go long." Except this time, his team consisted... Thu, 23 May 2013 10:25:09 CDT It takes most of us a lifetime to learn how to live our lives. It's only taken Katie Oleson the last three of her 23 years to learn the most important of life's lessons. Katie is the younger daughter of Free Press colleague Tom Oleson, who died a year ago Friday, having waited all 66 years of Sat, 18 May 2013 10:04:38 CDT Cancer seems to be stalking me, lately, and I'm not just talking about my own. This week, two mothers who have lost children to cancer reached out for help supporting their causes and telling their stories. Judging by the impressive website I checked, Tammy McBain's cause doesn't really need my Thu, 16 May 2013 07:48:54 CDT On Sunday night, my wife finally delivered the 65th birthday present I'd been waiting three months for. As it turned out, it came with a big bonus for a bow. The present was a couple of choice fourth-row-centre tickets to the Fleetwood Mac concert at the MTS Centre. One for Athina and one for Tue, 14 May 2013 07:52:25 CDT I've never liked Mother's Day, or Father's Day, for that matter. Too corrupted by commercialism and the forced greeting-card insincerity that goes with it. But before there was a Mother's Day as we now know it, before anyone reading this was born, there was a place in Winnipeg that was the true Sat, 11 May 2013 06:47:28 CDT YOU GOTTA HAND IT TO THE FANS... It’s been six months since retired physician Tom Goodhand stood up for every Winnipeg Blue Bomber fan who wants to sit down without being frisked on their way into the team’s longawaited new stadium. The longtime Bomber season-ticket holder fired off Thu, 9 May 2013 07:44:13 CDT YOU GOTTA HAND IT TO THE FANS... It's been six months since retired physician Tom Goodhand stood up for every Winnipeg Blue Bomber fan who wants to sit down without being frisked on their way into the team's long-awaited new stadium. The longtime Bomber season-ticket holder fired off a guided Thu, 9 May 2013 09:21:46 CDT Jennifer, a woman who permitted me to use her first name only, began her email with these words. "I am crying and shaking." The 39-year-old mother of two youngsters went on to explain she had read Thursday's column. "Eight times," she would say later when I reached her at her home on the river Tue, 7 May 2013 08:54:20 CDT It was last Saturday afternoon when the warning arrived via cellphone. A fellow journalist had made the extraordinary effort of calling to caution me about the main character in my column that day. The story centred on a bun fight of sorts. Over a busy lunch hour, Ray Rybachuk, the co-owner of Sat, 4 May 2013 11:58:50 CDT It's a "sad story," or so the woman who experienced it warned me, as I'm warning you. But, in a way, it's also a story of hope. One that is reminiscent of Stand By Me, the coming-of-age film where four 12-year-old boys discover the body of another kid beside a river. Except this story is about a Fri, 3 May 2013 03:21:44 CDT