In baseball, all that agitated stomping around in front of the umpire is good for a laugh. But have you ever wondered if a major league manager or player has ever won an argument with the ump?
Well, it tur...
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Immediately following the column on “mic,” I heard from M.
“When we start to spell ‘enough’ the way it sounds,” M wrote, “then I’ll worry about ‘mic’ a...
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All real estate markets across Canada have their own unique attributes and characteristics. Within Winnipeg, for example, market forces come into play that affect different neighbourhoods in different ways.
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
When the St. Peter’s Reserve Act was introduced into the House of Commons on March 23, 1915, an editorial in the Manitoba Free Press proclaimed that “a nine-year-old controversy” had ...
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Capitalism as a villain, as portrayed by the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, which expanded to Canada, including Winnipeg, carries on a populist tradition in North America that occasionally arises to vent pent-up frustrat...
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When speaking before 400 real estate agents and brokers during the WinnipegREALTORS® trade and technology show, Mayor Sam Katz stressed that the city needed more infill housing.
At the Victoria Inn last week...
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Have you ever been guilty of looking at others your own age and thinking, “surely I can’t look that old?” I guess that’s human nature — and denial!
Here’s a little story...
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In the suspense novel, Charley’s Web, by Canadian writer, Joy Fielding, one of the characters says, “As far as I could see ... he got off scot-free. What does that mean — scot-free?”
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Canadians may know about Laura Secord — at least the chocolates — and Americans may know about The Battle of New Orleans, a pop hit from the 1950s by Johnny Horton, but anything else about the War of 1812 r...
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