A tribute for Mother’s Day
As mother’s day approaches, I stumbled upon the following, which I thought was very appropriate. I don’t know who wrote it, but they were certainly on the right track.
A Mother’s Day
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Archive : 2012
The alluring song of the siren
Surprisingly, I recently found a letter from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, in my mail. Kyle Sobienko wrote, “When I visited Germany I took a boat trip down the Rhine, saw the Lorelei stone and statue, and heard the legend. I&...
Arriving in Canada unable to speak English
My Ukrainian-born grandmother, Mary, who died at age 95, still had difficulty speaking English, even after living in Winnipeg for decades. In her later years, she could understand what I was saying to her whenever I came to ...
QR codes installed at hall of fame site
Citizens Hall of Fame Chair Rick Preston has announced that individualized QR (quick response) codes have been installed on each pedestal of the inductees in Assiniboine Park.
There is also a bronze QR cod...
Locusts — a day of “humiliation and prayer” was proclaimed to stay the locust plague of unprecedented proportions
by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
The syndicate of proposed buyers of the bankrupt St. Paul and Pacific Railway, which would form the basis of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway line, travelled to Minnesota ...
Don’t mess with success is message to feds from provincial immigration minister
When devising a much-needed method to attract more immigrants to the province, the Manitoba government in 1997 managed to develop a “best-practices” model that has since become the envy of other provinces.
Happenings on the May calendar
Well, let’s see. May is the month when you find out that the guy with seniority picked the two vacation weeks you wanted. It’s when you hear the question, “How can a lawnmower that’s been allowed to r...
Not playing with a full deck
Everyone’s heard, “He’s not playing with a full deck,” and everyone knows it means that “he” is extremely ignorant — if not ignorant, then certainly clueless.
It’s...
Few tears shed for Merchants
Premier Greg Selinger told CJOB Radio talkshow host Richard Cloutier it was a “plight on the neighbourhood” that “depressed housing prices” and was a source of “neighbourhood safety issues...
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