Archive : January 2005

Records are made to be broken

The bar for baseball, football and hockey records is continually being raised.  The only possible exception this year is the NHL — league records are not about to be rewritten as long as the lock-out continues. As t...

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Noise pollution

The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States are contemplating removing the ban on cellphone use on airplanes while in-flight.  In Canada, where a similar ban is in place, Tr...

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2004 market like Team Canada at Worlds

The resale real estate market in Winnipeg in 2004 was like Team Canada at the World Junior Championships in Fargo, North Dakota. It started tentatively but with promise, steamrolled through the round-robin of spring, summer and fall, and fi...

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eBay snowball

In the odd instance, the Internet auction site eBay has become the domain of the offbeat and quirky. For example, one individual auctioned off a piece of toast purported to be in the shape of Elvis.  One of the items that recent...

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