Archive : March 2013

The ongoing myth of “one taxpayer”

  by Lorne Weiss The Manitoba government likes to remind us that when it comes to taxes, there is only “one taxpayer.” Actually, when it comes to education, that “one taxpayer”...

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Wonderful world of whimsy

  The following gives us a perspective on, “The other guy’s way of looking at things,” “Different strokes for different folks,” “It takes all kinds to make up the world,” and the ever ...

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More Jacks than you ever imagined

  Jack is the name of the hero in many English fairy tales, for example, Jack the Giant Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk and, How Jack Went Out to Seek His Fortune. Another one, Jack the Cunning Thief, is Irish/Scottish. And of ...

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Métis Supreme Court victory

  By a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the federal government has not lived up to its obligations to the Métis under the terms of the Manitoba Act of 1870. Specifically, the court said Ottawa fa...

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Drop off in new listings entering market

  Whether it was some rather harsh winter weather conditions or just a softening in the local marketplace, there was a real parallel in the drop off of new listings and sales at 12 per cent and 11 per cent, respectively, in Fe...

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Things that drive you crazy

  • No matter how carefully you load the groceries into the car or van, the bags inevitably fall over and spill out on the way home. • Why is it that all vitamins are found in foods like spinach and caul...

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Jacks are around every corner

Astonishingly, Jack shows up everywhere — in music, in fairy tale, in slang and even in graffiti. Edwin Radford calls Jack, “The English language’s word of all work” (To Coin a Phrase). Jack as equivalen...

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