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  • City

  • Doug Speirs

    Your weekend weather

    As my old friend Forrest used to say, "The May long weekend is like a box of chocolates -- you never know what you're gonna get!"

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Lindor Reynolds

    For Tim's mother, the issue is safety

    Carol de Delley doesn't want Vince Li executed. She doesn't think the man who killed her son four years ago should be treated inhumanely at all. She's not part of the baying crowd who think Li should be tossed into a regular prison, into a dungeon, onto the next flight back to China.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Gordon Sinclair Jr.

    Shy, kind and soft-spoken -- with the power to infuriate

    We rarely, if ever, think of the people we work with as members of our extended family.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Dan Lett

    Lobbyists' political gifts come at a price

    Much of the shadowy business known as lobbying is conducted well away from the direct gaze of the public or media. It unfolds in out-of-the-way booths at the finest restaurants, in carts traversing the finest golf courses, or in private boxes at rock concerts and sporting events. And because of how it's offered and accepted, it's rarely subject to punishing publicity.

    View Full Column | 05/18/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Bartley Kives

    Diverse, yet peaceful

    TAGENTASSOU, Niger -- If there's a reason for hope in impoverished, environmentally challenged Niger, it's the absence of ethnic tension that has torn apart other developing countries.

    View Full Column | 05/16/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Mia Rabson

    Frost is definitely in air these days

    OTTAWA -- There's a cool wind blowing between Broadway and Parliament Hill these days.

    View Full Column | 05/14/2012 3:16 AM | 0

  • Sports

  • Jerrad Peters

    Chelsea hungrier than Bayern

    There's a lot riding on today's Champions League final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich. It sounds like an understatement, but the fact is the repercussions of the big match in Bavaria will go far beyond the act of crowning a European champion. No matter who prevails on the biggest stage in club soccer there will be a loser going into the summer with hard questions to answer. Very hard questions. In this final, the fear of losing may be the predominant theme --which isn't all that surprising when you consider what's at stake.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Gary Lawless

    Jets could be greatly affected by deal

    The last time the NHL and NHLPA slugged it out, the results made it possible for Winnipeg to return to the NHL. What happens this time could improve or damage the Jets' ability to compete in the NHL.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Doug Brown

    Best to use old stadium for entire season?

    Now that we know when the new stadium could be finished, the next question is when should it be opened?

    View Full Column | 05/15/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Entertainment

  • Randall King

    Rob Lowe shooting Casey Anthony story here

    Original Pictures is preparing to shoot a movie starring Rob Lowe in the coming weeks, and while the local production company is steadfastly secretive about the project, a Directors Guild of Canada website suggests the film will be Imperfect Justice, the story of the unsuccessful 2011 prosecution of Casey Anthony, accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee in Florida.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 11:15 AM | 0

  • Brad Oswald

    Vocal valour

    Yes, they're musicians. But most of the members of the Winnipeg-based Royal Canadian Air Force Band are neither singers nor dancers -- and that's what made taking part in Global TV's Canada Sings such an intriguing and imposing exercise.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Alison Gillmor

    A meditation on missing role models

    WHAT It Is: A photograph by Ottawa-based artist and curator Jeff Thomas, snapped in an alley off Winnipeg's Albert Street in 1990. This tough but strangely tender black-and-white image anchors Father's Day, a show of Thomas's photo-based works now on view at Urban Shaman.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Kevin Prokosh

    Move over, P.T. Barnum; see ya, Shrine

    The circus is coming! The circus is coming... along?

    View Full Column | 05/16/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Carolin Vesely

    Becoming a hairstylist today goes far beyond knowing your way around a pair of scissors

    There's a scene in the movie Grease where Frenchy, the "ne'er do well" would-be beautician, is visited by a crooning angel who tries to get her to wake up and smell the Barbicide regarding her lack of talent in her chosen field.

    View Full Column | 05/15/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Life

  • Miss Lonelyhearts

    Good things come in small packages

    Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I'm a small man with small appendages, including the one people tend to make jokes about. I have small hands, small feet and people guess the rest. Unfortunately, they are right in my case. My girlfriend is tiny and she says it works just fine for her. I love her and will probably marry her. But are we, as a couple, not just set up by our genes for making tiny children, who in turn will be teased in this country of Amazons? I suggested to her we move to her country of origin, which we visited last winter, and I just loved it. The people are smaller and I would be average in size there. My career is such that I could easily work there -- and it's warm, beautiful place. She say no. She likes it here in Canada and her parents fought to get here. -- Small Guy, Wpg

    View Full Column | 05/20/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson

    Stats tell the story of the state of wine sales in Manitoba

    Every year on the Friday morning of the Winnipeg Wine Festival, the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission (MLCC -- soon to be the MLLC once the merger with Manitoba Lotteries takes place) puts on an industry breakfast. It's an event typically attended by sales reps, agents, Liquor Mart product consultants and visiting winery principals interested in learning about the state of wine in Manitoba.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Charlene Adam

    Crucial don't-do list Protect pets from warm weather illness, injury

    Now's the time to make your list of what not to do to ensure a good summer. Pets love the warmer seasons, but spring, summer and fall pose dangers in this province that winter doesn't. You can't dodge every illness or injury, but some can be prevented.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Marion Warhaft

    A series of disappointments

    Confused about the name? Let me try to clear it up. Under the now-retired chef-owner, Gojko Bodiroga, it was Promenade Bistro, but the new owners -- formerly of Provence Bistro -- have dropped the Bistro part, and the new name is Promenade Cafe and Wine. Ironically, since it's now more of a bistro than the far more formal and upscale Provence ever was.

    View Full Column | 05/18/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Editorial

  • Fabrice Taylor

    The trouble with experts is they're not always right

    I once read a book by a high-profile media financial-planning pundit, who gave an example of a man age 65 who wondered whether he should retire or keep working.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Allen Abel

    The 'dreams of a barefoot boy' cut down to size

    WASHINGTON -- To the alabaster immortals of the American capital -- Abraham Lincoln in his armchair, Thomas Jefferson on his pedestal, Martin Luther King, Jr. emerging, stern-faced from a solid slab of stone -- the world's most famous and infamous architect proposes to add a very different sort of statue: a peach-faced prairie lad.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Colleen Simard

    Those boys can jig!

    If you're a fan of TV talent shows, then Sagkeeng's Finest have likely already danced their way into your heart.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Gwynne Dyer

    Tibetans burning for freedom

    The number of Tibetans burning themselves to death in protests against Chinese policy has grown very fast recently. The first self-immolation was in 2009, but 22 of the 30 incidents happened in the past year. Though at first it was only Buddhist monks and nuns who were setting themselves on fire, in the past month, a teenage girl and a mother of four have chosen to die in this gruesome way.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Frances Russell

    Play's the thing to catch conscience of Parliament

    It's time for opposition brinksmanship in Ottawa; time for real drama to highlight Parliament's degradation. For inspiration, the opposition could look to a seminal event in the Manitoba legislature in November 1996.

    View Full Column | 05/16/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Samuel Segev

    Political climate in Jordan boiling

    What is going on in Jordan? For some time, the political climate in the kingdom has been boiling.

    View Full Column | 05/15/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Business

  • Laura Rance

    Unique grains institute celebrates milestone

    The mouth-watering aroma of freshly baked bagels was overwhelming as a small group of visitors entered the baking technology centre at the Canadian International Grains Institute in Winnipeg this week.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Joel Schlesinger

    Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, says apostle of seasonal investing

    Like many things in life, successful investing involves recognizing patterns and acting accordingly to turn a profit. Value investors look for overlooked and underpriced companies that have sound financial numbers. Dividend investors look for firms with a track record of paying an increasing dividend.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • John McFerran

    Long haul 'family' Every employee is a spoke in the wheel at Bison Transport

    This spring, Bison Transport became a five-time grand prize winner of the National Fleet Safety Award (an unparalleled industry achievement) and was recognized as one of the Best Fleets to Drive For by the Truckload Carriers Association. Yet, as impressive as the accolades that Bison continues to amass, the company simply views it as business as usual.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Barbara Bowes

    Avoid merger mess Include HR professionals in preparing for change

    Mergers and acquisitions have always been a normal business practice as industry sectors go through economic restructuring as dictated by their growth or decline cycles. Mergers also occur in the public sector, as is the case of the recently announced mergers of the regional health boards and two Crown corporations, the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission and Manitoba Lotteries.

    View Full Column | 05/19/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • David Christianson

    Snowbirds, Americans living in Canada read on...

    This column is of special interest to snowbirds, but also to Americans who have moved to Canada. There is a positive change to Canada Revenue policy on transfers of 401K or IRA plans to Canada.

    View Full Column | 05/18/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • Martin Cash

    Ex-council candidate eyes Hecla

    Former city council candidate Ian Rabb's Two Ten Recovery Inc. is trying to buy the Hecla Resort, which has been closed and in receivership since November 2010, and turn it into a high-end treatment centre.

    View Full Column | 05/17/2012 1:00 AM | 0

  • John Poyser

    Death triggers major tax issues

    Jack normally paid approximately $40,000 a year in personal income taxes. He paid that amount, plus or minus, in 2008 and 2009. It was a little less in 2010 after he retired. In 2011, his personal income taxes jumped to $260,000, more than six times higher than in previous years.

    View Full Column | 05/16/2012 1:00 AM | 0

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