Archive : 2011

A matter of time

In 2005, then Intergovernmental Affairs and Trade Minister Scott Smith introduced legislation to extend daylight saving time (DST) in Manitoba by four weeks. The legislation was passed and came into effect in 2007, as a result, Manitobans n...

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West End groups building a community

by Fernando Velarde Trejo The West End in Winnipeg’s inner city is composed of the neighbourhoods of Central Park, Daniel McIntyre, St. Matthews, Spence, Minto, and Sargent Park. These neighbourhoods represent one of the ...

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Fun with geography trivia

  Here’s some geography trivia with which to dazzle and amaze your friends: • More than half the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska. • The Amazon rainforest produces mo...

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Making fun of English spellings

  George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was passionate about spelling reform and left a substantial legacy to this cause hoping a new phonetic alphabet would be adopted. Each letter of this “Shavian” alphabet, devised by...

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A ghost case of Hallowe’en past

  Winnipeg is noted for some of the strangest ghost tales ever to be told, and the relating of these encounters with eerie spectres is usually associated with Hallowe’en. Perhaps the strangest of the strange was the Free...

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