http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/t_oleson Most recent (7 days) columns en-gb Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:25:18 CDT An old Slovenian proverb proclaims a good fart is worth nine doctors. And that may be true. But even if it is true, no matter how beneficial it might be, health-wise, we don't rip one in the office or anywhere else in polite society. It's our wives and our children who have to endure our... Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:54:25 CDT There are many different reasons for mourning. The British writer of nonsense verse, Harry Graham, defined one of them: Poor Uncle Joe has gone, you know, To rest beyond the stars. I miss him, oh! I miss him so,-- He had such good cigars. I suppose that's as good a reason as any for Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:32:38 CDT THE only good thing about having a cellphone is that you can turn it off. When whomever is tugging on that electronic leash asks you, "Why didn't you answer when I called?" you can always say "I was at a meeting," or (my favourite) "I was at church" or explain the Inkster Industrial Park where Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:09:05 CDT I finally got to see a Jets game at the MTS Centre recently. The tickets came courtesy of my niece Susan and her husband Kevin -- the Free Press has never invited me to sit in its box -- and before that gift I didn't think I would get a chance to see a game during the first year of the Return of Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:11:10 CDT Brian Pallister THE Manitoba Progressive Conservatives have effectively been without a leader for more than six months, ever since Hugh McFadyen's disappointing performance in the Oct. 4 provincial election. Now, all of a sudden, we have Brian Pallister making a big splashy announcement at The Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:12:03 CDT I am part of the "lump of labour" that critics say would be created if the eligibility for the old age pension is raised from 65 years old to 67. I know this is true because I saw it on the CBC this week, where one of the "Bottom-Liners" on The National spelled it out in some detail. It seems Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:06:19 CST My daughters bought me a pair of sweatpants this week, which reminded me of just how tricky a thing time is. Time is almost beyond normal human comprehension, regardless of how many watches and clocks and cellphone alarms we may be surrounded by in the course of a day. Even Free Press editorial Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:26:42 CST In Western cultures, in most Eastern cultures -- in fact in almost all cultures -- family lineage is traced through the male line of descent. The father's ancestors, the father's descendants, form a continuous stream of DNA that proclaims the family's presence in the world today, in history and Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:26:21 CST According to social media reporter Lindsey Wiebe, who knows a lot of things about electricity and websites and stuff, a news story about a Catholic school, an enthusiastic principal and an anti-abortion vigil late last year elicited more comments from readers than any other story in the history Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:27:28 CST According to a recent poll, of all the people in the world, Icelanders are about the most contented with the quality of their lives. There might be an island in Polynesia where people are happier -- and who would not be happier on some warm Pacific atoll than on a wind-swept piece of rock in the Mon, 9 Jan 2012 08:40:10 CST