Archive : December 2009

Christmas spirit

Whenever I find my Christmas spirit beginning to falter, I think back to a time years ago and a good deed on a blustery winter day in December. The road I was travelling was awash in swirling snow, whipped into a frenzy by a gust...

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A “thuggish petro-state”?

Canada is being branded by the international community as the big bad wolf of climate change, who huffs and puffs and blows the climate-change house down. The Harper government is receiving a great deal of heat from other nations at the UN ...

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Expansion of the convention centre

In 2008, WinnipegREALTORS® heard Klaus Lahr, general manager of the Winnipeg Convention Centre, explain the detailed consultant study outlining a need to expand the centre that will be 35 years old in 2010.  Over the years, ...

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Keep the “C” in the CFL

The original implementation of a quota system in the Canadian Football League, which the CFL brass is apparently considering for yet another revision, can be blamed on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers — not today’s Big Blue, but the Bo...

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