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City
Doug Speirs

No need to text and drink!

Just when you're starting to think there's no light at the end of the tunnel; just when you're afraid the younger generation will never amount to anything because they're shiftless, video-game-obsessed nerds; just when you're losing all hope for the future, along comes a young person who convinces you, against all odds, things are even worse than you thought.

View Full Column | 27/01/2010 1:00 AM | 7
Bill Redekop

A new anti-flood hero?

GIMLI -- A lot of things don't cut ice with fishing folk up here but local inventor Mike Olyarnick isn't one of them.

View Full Column | 26/01/2010 7:02 AM | 0
Bartley Kives

Monopoly and more

Last week, I received a couple of emails from the City of Winnipeg urging me to do good things on behalf of humankind.

View Full Column | 24/01/2010 1:00 AM | 6
Dan Lett

Once the smoke cleared

OVER the past five years, there’s been good news and bad news for Robert Jenkinson.

View Full Column | 23/01/2010 1:00 AM | 43
Lindor Reynolds

Stupid deeds work better with an excuse

I'm sorry if this column stinks. It's not my fault.

View Full Column | 23/01/2010 1:00 AM | 6
Sports
Gary Lawless

I'm going to Miami, and so is Jim Nantz

My inbox had two unusual emails waiting for me when I powered up Wednesday morning, and it struck me: It's almost Super Bowl. And we're gonna be there.

View Full Column | 28/01/2010 1:00 AM | 1
Paul Wiecek

Moose noose tightens

WORCESTER, Mass. -- It was a month or so ago and Manitoba Moose head coach Scott Arniel was musing one morning how it was that his team had a winning record despite a myriad of problems: a revolving infirmary door, an unheard of number of call-ups and an offence that was -- and is -- quite frankly, offensive.

View Full Column | 26/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Doug Brown

Peyton's an average athlete, but he's an A-plus student

Peyton Manning is an interesting case study because he is currently the best player in the NFL but far from the best athlete. Looking just at the quarterback position I would dare say others in the NFL can throw farther, throw harder, maybe more accurately, and can certainly evade and scramble better. It is Peyton's intelligence, methodology, and work ethic that has many already saying he is the best to ever play his position.

View Full Column | 26/01/2010 1:00 AM | 2
Randy Turner

New GM not a Mack-iavellian guy

Perhaps, on some level, Joe Mack might find it humorous that in a modest city on the Canadian Prairies, he's a bit of a mystery.

View Full Column | 23/01/2010 1:00 AM | 3
Jerrad Peters

Ronaldinho da Milan aging very gracefully

The best artists age gracefully. Leonardo da Vinci is a perfect example. For the final three years of his life, the painter, sculptor and architect lived and worked in the private service of French king Francis I.

View Full Column | 23/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Ed Tait

Mack in the saddle again

Quick story about Joe Mack -- the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' new vice- president of football operations -- that may reveal a little about the man now charged with helping restore the franchise's image from circus-like to respectable...

View Full Column | 23/01/2010 1:00 AM | 5
Entertainment
Kevin Prokosh

Director finds Harold Pinter's Betrayal a play for our time

Has there ever been a better time to present a play called Betrayal?

View Full Column | 28/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Morley Walker

Contentious 15-minute play draws applause, thoughtful discussion

A smart production of a controversial short play received a thoughtful and restrained reaction Sunday evening from a packed house at the Gas Station Theatre.

View Full Column | 25/01/2010 1:00 AM | 2
Chris Smith

Cold U.S. pianist warms to U of M teaching role

Pianist George Colligan seems to have seamlessly made the transition from New York to Winnipeg: In a blog on his website he talks about the cold and uses the quintessential Canadianism, eh!

View Full Column | 25/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Alison Gillmor

Charity shouldn't begin on red carpet

111Below this terse, terrible information, in another round of Haiti-related news, was an account of even more pain: "Brad and Angie 'devastated' by earthquake," the headline read. This reference to Hollywood's best-looking power couple seemed sincere, but the wording was unfortunate.

View Full Column | 23/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Gwenda Nemerofsky

WinterFête recreates village musical fare

Oh Canada! With the Vancouver Olympics just a few weeks away and Festival du Voyageur also on the horizon, the Musical Offering music series has concocted a uniquely patriotic program to tempt our red and white musical palettes.

View Full Column | 21/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Life
Miss Lonelyhearts

For starters, decline any more dessert with the casserole ladies

DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: Two months ago my wife ran off and left me with the kids. She never liked having children anyway because they tied her down. Her "boyfriend" is younger and he makes a terrible stepfather because he's only in love with his hair, his motorcycle and having sex with her. The kids hate him. I'm making it day-to-day with anger as fuel, but here's the embarrassing problem which has arisen. There are several women clucking over me like mother hens and I can't stand it. They bring casseroles like someone is dead. They phone and offer to "help any way they can." This includes sexual solace when the kids are at school. I must admit I've been weak and submitted, as I work out of my home and they can see when my truck is in the driveway. This week the two I had sex with found out about each other. One is angry and the other told me last night she is "disappointed that I would use her that way." Yeah? Who's using who? I need to make a move to get out of this, but it will not be moving my kids who are upset enough.-- Caught, North End

View Full Column | 28/01/2010 1:00 AM | 8
Wendy Burke

Food for healthy thought

Many of us take our health for granted. We're able to carry on as we please without a hitch -- until the day we discover our health has been compromised in some way. And once that happens, it can be difficult to track down answers, especially where diet and nutrition are concerned.

View Full Column | 27/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Charlene Adam

Help now, or horror later

When you hear stories of animal abuse, images of adults breeding pets in inhumane conditions spring quickly to mind. But the tale I'm about to share with you is different. It's even more worrisome because it involves kids.

View Full Column | 26/01/2010 1:00 AM | 1
Marion Warhaft

Right proper caff has Brit treasures, packed spot serves Greek pleasures

Say the word ethnic, and most people will think of bargains, and will assume you mean the foods of Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia -- anywhere in the world but Britain. For me, though, ethnic food is whatever I didn't grow up on, and although it may not seem so to many, haggis, toad in the hole or steak and kidney pie are exotica to me. I love them, and one of their few local sources is The Brit Cafe, a bright and cheerful little place, with oilcloth on the tables and a map of Britain on one wall. It could pass for your typical British caff, although probably with significantly lower prices than you might have to pay in today's Britain.

View Full Column | 22/01/2010 1:00 AM | 2
Editorial
David O’Brien

A rebel with too many causes

It was sometime in 1971 that I met my first radical. The details are hazy today, but it happened in a lecture hall at the University of Winnipeg, where someone was speaking to a large group of students about something that must have seemed interesting at the time.

View Full Column | 28/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Nicholas Hirst

Don't let the 'hits' keep happening

the National Film Board has decimated its Winnipeg office, leaving only one staffer standing. The executive producer, Derek Mazur, is gone.

View Full Column | 28/01/2010 1:00 AM | 1
Frances Russell

The problem with Ignatieff

Liberal fortunes rise only when Conservative fortunes fall. That won't change unless and until the Liberals stand for something. And that something has to be more than "me too" to Conservative initiatives, or silence.

View Full Column | 27/01/2010 1:00 AM | 10
Gwynne Dyer

'Glaciergate' may be deal-breaker

LAST November we had "Climategate," in which somebody hacked into the emails at the University of East Anglia and discovered that Prof. Phil Jones, head of the university's Climate Research Unit, had been trying to exclude scientific papers he regarded as flawed from being considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

View Full Column | 26/01/2010 7:03 AM | 1
Samuel Segev

Lots of peace plans, a little progress

TEL AVIV -- Israel and the Arab world on Wednesday will be watching with great interest United States President Barack Obama's State of the Union address to Congress.

View Full Column | 26/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Tom Ford

A GPS is handy, if you speak the language

I had been driving on a windy, prairie highway for half an hour before I suddenly realized I was talking to a machine.

View Full Column | 25/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Colleen Simard

An 11th, aboriginal province?

This Magazine recently published an article by Bruce Hicks called A modest proposal: turn all Aboriginal lands into the 11th province.

View Full Column | 23/01/2010 1:00 AM | 23
Michael Madigan

Prince charms Oz republicans

Never has the changing face of the British monarchy been on better display than when Prince William this week strolled onto The Block in Sydney.

View Full Column | 22/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Catherine Mitchell

Sudanese sharing the 'wealth'

For most of us our names are what they are. They might honour a relative or maybe reflect the whim of our parents influenced by delusion, or something less ethereal and of the moment.

View Full Column | 21/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Business
Murray McNeill

New highrise not in the cards

Don't hold your breath waiting for a new multi-tenant office tower to be built downtown, even though one industry analyst says the Class A vacancy rate is at its lowest level in a decade.

View Full Column | 25/01/2010 1:00 AM | 1
Joel Schlesinger

Tax master

Evelyn Jacks is arguably one of Winnipeg's most prolific authors. Having penned more than 40 books, she should be a household name. But many of her books aren't the type of page-turners a lot of people are going to curl up with at night.

View Full Column | 23/01/2010 1:00 AM | 1
John McFerran

Seek feedback if you don't get job

You walk out of the interviewer's office feeling confident and energized. You had great rapport and offered thoughtful responses to all of the questions. All in all, you believe you made a good impression and feel assured that you've got the job in the bag.

View Full Column | 23/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Laura Rance

Provincial livestock capacity a stinky question

Ask a simple question, like how much livestock Manitoba can handle -- and you might get a simple answer.

View Full Column | 23/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Barbara Bowes

Dealing with DISASTER

It's been a troubling and startling start to 2010 as death and destruction just weren't written into our anticipated calendar of events.

View Full Column | 23/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
David Christianson

Is the RRSP best tax shelter for retirement?

The deadline for RRSP contributions that are deductible on your 2009 income tax return is March 1, 2010. A lot of people are now faced with a decision about whether to make a contribution.

View Full Column | 22/01/2010 1:00 AM | 0
Martin Cash

Standard wins Hercules work

In two weeks, barring some unforeseen calamity, it will be officially announced that Standard Aero has won the engine-maintenance contract for the Canadian Forces' newly purchased fleet of 17 Hercules cargo planes.

View Full Column | 21/01/2010 1:00 AM | 1