Tomorrow, November 30, Scots celebrate their patron, St. Andrew.
Andrew, St. Peter’s brother, was the first apostle Jesus selected. Some sources say he was older than Peter. Some say he was younger.
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December goes by in a blur. It’s a month that disappears in record time. Where does December go, anyway? One minute we’re just starting to think about Christmas shopping, and the next minute it’s New Year&rsquo...
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Manitoba’s NDP government is joining the Saskatchewan Party government in calling upon Ottawa to abolish the scandal-plagued Canadian Senate. Manitoba Attorney General Andrew Swan introduced the motion in the provincial legislature ur...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Decades before the Jets returned to Winnipeg, professional hockey was played in Manitoba, although only over a brief timeframe. From the very beginning of the league in 1907, teams strove to attract hi...
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We’re now into forecast season, but that doesn’t mean we’re talking about a recent snowfall to help us get into the mood for Christmas shopping.
No, it’s the time of year when econo...
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Today’s business world is teeming with convoluted and confusing language. The world of government is even worse, suffering from a terminal case of this vocabularic obfuscation. Eh? This flood of bureaucratic &ldq...
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Adam Dodek of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, wrote about senators earning money outside their Senate jobs. Dodek commented, “Such ‘moonighting’ should either be banned outright or severely...
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Manitobans can be forgiven for being envious of our neighbours to the west. After all, Regina is not only hosting the 101st Grey Cup, but the Saskatchewan Roughriders will represent the West in the national football final ag...
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by Todd Lewys
When people think of new neighbourhoods in and around Winnipeg, they tend to think of two or three key areas.
Those areas would be Bridgwater Forest, South Pointe and Sage Creek. Each ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 6 of 6)
After lunch, the Canadian Press Association excursionists departed for the next stop of their journey at Portage la Prairie, a community with a significantly longer history than Br...
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