by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
Englishman Alfie Shrubb spent the day advising workmen on how to prepare the track in the Arena Rink on Bannatyne Avenue, “just west of the General Hospital,” for his race against Canadian...
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The fourth successive Provincial Leaders Forum co-sponsored by WinnipegREALTORS® and the Manitoba Real Estate Association is slated for September 14 at the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre, 340 Provencher Blvd.
To date, C...
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It’s too bad these wonderfully relaxing summer days can’t go on forever. First it’s good old June, then suddenly July makes the scene and then, shockingly, it's August. This last month of summer seems to burst up...
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Al Shaw asks, “Did I miss the announcement when actresses and stewardesses and hostesses disappeared?”
Shaw is being facetious. He knows he didn’t miss anything.
Overtly feminine nouns began receiving b...
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When the first atomic bomb was detonated in a tower above the sands of a New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, physicist and leader of the Allied team that built the device, Robert Oppenheimer, expressed the gravity of what had occurred by quot...
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by Peter Kinch
As I flipped through the business papers recently, I was struck by a sense of having seen these headlines before: Contagion Fears in Greece, Household Debts on the Rise, Brace for a Shock, No Easy Exit for U.S. Housi...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
After easily defeating J.F. Fitzgerald, Alfred “the Little Wonder” Shrubb’s next race was against 24-year-old Paul Acoose, an Ojibway runner from the Sakiway First Nation in the Qu’...
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Cottage owners, homeowners and farmers around lakes Manitoba and St. Martin will be getting relief in the fall from the high water levels that have plagued their properties since the worst spring flooding in recorded history.
The M...
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Great sport that he is, the “Answer Man” has once again agreed to field your questions about all and sundry topics. So, let’s get started.
Is there anything “good” about mosquitoes?
Well, ac...
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Reader, Elsie W., wrote: “Thanks a bunch! When you quoted from The Gambler song, you gave me an earworm. I haven’t been able to get Kenny Rogers out of my head since I read that column.”
Sorry about that Elsie, an...
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