Recently added articles from Winnipeg Free Press:
Madness rules as Pyongyang celebrates
Jun 21, 2009; ... 55 In preparation for this watershed event, Pyongyang has accelerated certain programs demonstrating the great successes of Kim's Juche theory, the official ideology of the country, which is based on Marxism, self-isolation and national narcissism. Recently, North Korea's ruling ...
'Canada lurking over hill' in unusual hybrid of a story
Jun 21, 2009; ... Border Songs By Jim Lynch Random House, 320 pages, $30 It's an odd shock to read an American novel in which a character looks north across the 49th parallel and sees "the rest of Canada lurking over the hill." Canada? Lurking? But it does, in this unusual ...
Get the lead out... don't strip paint indoors
Jun 21, 2009; ... QUESTION: I've been contemplating a large project and I thought you would be the best person to ask. I live in a 1920s home. The baseboards and trim have been painted over the years. I'm contemplating removing the paint, starting with the doors because they can be removed from the ...
Exciting account of famous Manitoba explorer Kelsey
Jun 21, 2009; ... CAN you imagine being the first white man to see the acres of rolling prairie fields and wild flowers of Saskatchewan? That's just one of the images in a new young-adult novel by Nova Scotia-based author Alfred Silver, The Boy Kelsey (Great Plains, 192 pages, $15 paperback). Set ...
It's a '79 and looking fine
Jun 21, 2009; ... âñº Garden City home features ideal design and 'a backyard paradise' Think of a home built in 1979, and it's all too easy to write it off for any number of reasons. You know -- it's easy to dismiss it as just plain old (hey, did you feel ancient at 30?), or without even laying ...
Ex-worker wins rights fight
Jun 21, 2009; ... Commission discriminated against him, probe finds The Manitoba Human Rights Commission has been found to have discriminated against one of its former employees. A seven-month investigation by the Ontario Human Rights Commission concluded that the Manitoba Human Rights Commission ...
It's not all about curb appeal
Jun 21, 2009; ... Higher assessment doesn't necessarily mean you'll pay higher property taxes 44On average, the assessed value of residential properties in Winnipeg shot up 78 per cent from the last assessment period, according to the city's assessment and taxation department. While the increase ...
Serve Sinclair family's needs, not wants
Jun 21, 2009; ... The squabble over legal fees for representing the family of the late Brian Sinclair caused me to consider what is taking place with what used to be called coroner's inquests, and now known as inquiries under the Fatal Inquiries Act. As a young lawyer I attended numerous inquests, usually ...
Congressman's tribulations, and his trial
Jun 21, 2009; ... ALEXANDRIA, Virginia -- We are following a paper trail of comic-opera bribery from America to Africa and back. The setting is a marble and mahogany federal courtroom in this old Virginia city, just across the Potomac River from Washington, yet far enough removed in its soul that the Civil War ...
Prayers on the pavement
Jun 21, 2009; ... Drive-thru serves Portage Avenue commuters Would you like prayers with that? Winnipeg's latest drive-thru option offers commuters along Portage Avenue a new convenience: rush-hour prayers. Before and after work every Tuesday this summer, members of Portage Avenue Church, ...
Keeping the lid on
Jun 21, 2009; ... More guns, more drugs, more work for the tactical support team 11"It's getting nasty out here," said Sgt. Brooker, as he rolled through the North End in an SUV. "It's going to be an awful day." Brooker is no psychic. He didn't have to be. It's pretty well always going to ...
'Distraught' man steals car, leads police on lengthy chase
Jun 21, 2009; ... A man police say was "distraught" led them on a race halfway around the city, talking to his pursuers on a cellphone until he pulled over and surrendered in St. Vital just before noon Saturday. The chase started in Transcona and went around the west Perimeter Highway to St. Mary's Road, ...
The big guns hang out at museum in Shilo
Jun 21, 2009; ... Award-winning showcase a slice of history SHILO -- The two small cannons at the entrance to the Royal Canadian Artillery Museum--one points directly at the ticket-taker's cubicle--look like derringers of the mounted artillery world. Not only are the cannons small, weighing just ...
Old? Who you calling old?
Jun 21, 2009; ... Bomber linemen Brown and Williams don't take kindly to reports they're over the hill Most of the 60 or so still in camp with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers had already left the field for the comforts of the locker-room, but there was all-star defensive tackle Doug Brown running wind sprints ...
Tuesday night OK for fighting
Jun 21, 2009; ... Game in Montreal last chance for Blue hopefuls to snarl and snort They used to have Friday night fights on TV and Elton John sings Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting but for those wanting work with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, this Tuesday will be the evening to mix it ...
Show bits
Jun 21, 2009; ... W Expert Challenge With expertise in everything from food and style to gardening and finances, seven hopefuls from across Canada compete to become the next TV expert in this premiere. W, 6 p.m. Merlin Set in the mythical kingdom of Camelot, this new drama series updates ...
LOTTERIES
Jun 21, 2009; ... LOTTERIES In the event of a discrepancy between this list and the official winning numbers, the latter shall prevail. PICK 3 Winning number Saturday was 866. EXTRA Winning number Saturday for the main prize of $250,000 was 5837068. LOTTO ...
Mammoth work details Manitoba's Jews
Jun 21, 2009; ... Book itself indication community has come of age Coming of Age A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba By Allan Levine Heartland Associates, 511 pages, $43 Coming of Age is a remarkable work. It is a mammoth book, filled with riveting stories, striking ...
Snakes will make bad cats scat
Jun 21, 2009; ... QUESTION: I sure hope you can help me. I am having an awful problem with cats in my flower bed. I have tried everything: pepper, mothballs, shaved soap, cayenne pepper, egg shells, fine chicken wire under the earth, rhubarb leaves boiled in water and put around the flowers, pellets, which are ...
As the WORMS turn
Jun 21, 2009; ... Big-scale composting spares the landfill 111While city officials toss around the notion of collecting kitchen scraps along with blue-box items, thousands of Winnipeggers lined up to buy compost bins at a city sale last weekend. When the bins sold out, nearly 700 people took rain checks ...