Why we have a leap year
The month of February is a little different this year because 2012 is a leap year.
What the heck does that mean?
Well, poetically, it means:
“Thirty days hath Septembe...
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Archive : February 2012
Amusing slips of the tongue
Chuck Ayres, the cartoonist responsible for the comic strip Crankshaft, has fun with the irascible Ed Crankshaft’s language shortcomings. Ed often joins parts of two separate sayings into one unbelievable sentence, for example, &ldquo...
Murphy’s legacy
Hundreds of jubilant Blue Bomber fans celebrated at Winnipeg’s famous corner of Portage and Main. Despite the frigid temperature, people shouted from car roof-tops, waved beer bottles and placards, and shook hands with...
Add more downtown foot patrols
by Stefano Grande
After several years of advocacy from groups such as the Downtown BIZ for a more sustained and visible presence of police foot patrols downtown, the first group of officers finally hit the streets this month.
1940 Winnipeg Brier — first time national men’s curling championship was held outside of Toronto
by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Howard “Pappy” Wood, Sr., told his fellow curlers in 1940 that he did not want to play competitive curling again, so he declined to enter the 1940 Manitoba Curling Association (MCA) Bonspie...
Report predicts modest increase in new and existing home sales
Housing markets across the nation are expected to remain steady in 2012 and 2013, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) first quarter 2012 Housing Market Outlook.
But while the national housing mar...
January sales slow but still set a dollar volume record
January is invariably a slow month for home sales, so Shirley Przybyl says WinnipegREALTORS® doesn’t tend to consider the month a true harbinger of things to come over the course of the year for the housing market....
A flag and a holiday
Flag Day passed with little fanfare, but Louis Riel Day will undoubtedly be uppermost in Manitobans’ minds. Most Manitobans will not be celebrating the contributions of the Métis leader to the province, but the ...
First provincial curling champions — Wood rink journeyed east to challenge Québec and Ontario curlers
by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
While Howard Wood, Sr., excelled in many sports, it was in curling that he attracted national attention, becoming noted for the many laurels he won on the ice, as well as his longe...
How did you say that word?
Many a word we run across in print is almost never spoken aloud. An example is “mien.”
I have never heard anyone use mien in conversation. People are far more likely to mention someone’s &ldquo...