Winnipeg Free Press back issues from October 2008:
Continuing Education
Oct 01, 2008; ... Web Only Employment Assistance Resources Services assists unemployed individuals in creating resumes that get results and preparing for interviews. Free. Call 338-3899 to register. Hospitality Industry Training Program offers a free job training and job placement program for ...
Sports Bulletin
Oct 01, 2008; ... Web Only The Sports Bulletin is a free public service provided by the Winnipeg Free Press and Winnipeg Neighbours for the benefit of readers and the amateur sports community. Non-profit groups such as community centres and sports teams can publicize their events, advertise openings on ...
Playwrights provoke with political work
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Wrecking Ball is swinging through Winnipeg next Monday in an attempt to poke a hole in the notion that political theatre is dead in Canada. Wrecking Ball is a four-year-old Toronto theatre movement that seeks to address the annoying reality that there's too much theatre in our ...
Growing Older
Oct 01, 2008; ... Web Only Articles for Growing Older from non-profit organizations need to be in our office 14 days prior to the intended date of publication. E-mail to diane.pratt@freepress.mb.ca. ( no attachments please) Active Living Coalition for Older Adults of MB presents Active Aging Week, ...
Billboard
Oct 01, 2008; ... Web Only Articles for Billboard from non-profit organizations need to be in our office 14 days prior to the intended date of publication. E-mail to diane.pratt@freepress.mb.ca. ( no attachments please) Fax, 697-7412. Canada Hungary Educational Foundation (CHEF) is holding an ...
What to watch for during the election debates
Oct 01, 2008; ... The leaders debate in French begins tonight at 7 p.m. CDT. The English debate Thursday begins at 8 p.m. CDT, as does the U.S. vice-presidential debate. Today's politicians are fully aware of (and heavily coached on) the impact of non-verbal cues. Still, a debate is never as scripted nor ...
Showbits
Oct 01, 2008; ... Today in music history In 1992, Michael Jackson performed before about 70,000 people at the National Stadium in Bucharest, Romania. Authorities in the former Communist dictatorship treated the concert like a military operation, mobilizing 22,000 officers -- --a quarter of the capital's ...
A Harper majority would have minority support
Oct 01, 2008; ... Five political parties and an archaic and politically toxic first-past-the-post electoral system have long turned Canadian federal elections into a crapshoot. The Oct. 14 election promises to be the wildest crapshoot of them all. The Harper Conservatives, with little more than the same ...
Treats for readers who love their chocolate
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Parents making cake from childhood for own kidsface=-Bold; Today's column features chocolate treats as requested by readers. Lorraine Janssens was looking for a recipe for a scrumptious chocolate puffed wheat square. Several readers mentioned this classic was a ...
A honey of a show
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Manitoba beekeepers expect to create sweet buzz at The Forks on the weekendface=-Bold; Honey lovers are going to have a good time at the annual Manitoba Honey Show this weekend. That's the buzz according to local honey producer John Russell. Russell (39 years and ...
Life as a writer has been a blast
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Stint as a columnist shows the importance of loving what you doface=-Bold; All good things must come to an end. No, I'm not talking about the PGA Tour season. I'm talking about my Free Press column. This will be my last instalment of the year. Dry your eyes. Hopefully I will ...
The second time as farce
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Bailout will pass after U.S. politicians safely re-electedface=-Bold; This is not the Crash of 1929 revisited, and we are not heading into a second Great Depression. No developed country this time around is going to face the 25-per-cent unemployment rate that the United ...
Suspensions follow hazing incident
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; 6 Steinbach seniors accused of paddling 3 Grade 10 studentsface=-Bold; Six Grade 12 students have been suspended at Steinbach Regional Secondary School after they allegedly assaulted three Grade 10 students with paddles at a welcoming barbecue for new students. The ...
Voters bring up Toews scandal
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Rival candidates stick to policy questionsface=-Bold; IT'S an issue unique to this south-eastern Manitoba riding, but not one likely to be debated between the incumbent and the four challengers who want his job. Earlier this year, Conservative MP Vic Toews found ...
Have Your Say
Oct 01, 2008; ... Lesley Hughes responds Six years ago, I wrote a column which examined evidence that the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan may have been motivated by the drive for oil and drug profits. As background, I reported that the intelligence agencies of Germany, Israel and Russia all warned the ...
Today's Horoscope
Oct 01, 2008; ... MOON ALERT: We have the all-clear today to shop and make important decisions. The moon is in Scorpio. ARIES (March 21-April 19) You're full of feisty energy today! You feel you can do and accomplish anything -- and you're right. However, don't direct this energy into making over ...
Suspected stalker is back in remand centre
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Charged with disobeying court orderface=-Bold; A 54-year-old Winnipeg man who police believe has stalked a young Winnipeg couple repeatedly is now back in custody after he allegedly peeked in their windows looking for a woman he thinks the couple is hiding from ...
Vets boost Bison ice crew
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Women's squad solid with five returning fifth-year playersface=-Bold; It's going to be a season like no other for the University of Manitoba Bisons women's hockey team. For the first time in head coach Jon Rempel's five years leading the program, the team has five ...
Vigil shines spotlight on medical errors
Oct 01, 2008; ... FRIENDS and family members of those who've died from medical errors are gathering at the Manitoba legislature tonight to mark Canadian Patient Safety Week. The idea for the vigil came after the death of Brian Sinclair, who died Sept. 21 after waiting 34 hours in the Health Sciences ...
Swing on your own limb
Oct 01, 2008; ... DEAR RHONA, I have a girlfriend. I think I love her. In just a year, I can say that I could see myself married to her. She's the only girl I've ever been with sexually. I'm fairly gregarious with the ladies so having experience with only one woman my whole life is not what I expected. And I ...
THE HUDDLE RANKINGS
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE HUDDLE RANKINGS Here's how we rank the eight CFL teams after Week 14 of the season: 1. (1) CALGARY STAMPEDERS (9-4) -- A little sloppy around the edges and still punted the Argos all over the park. 2. (3) MONTREAL ALOUETTES (9-4) -- A well-coached, very ...
Today ONTV
Oct 01, 2008; ... Mansions McMansions? Pah! What Toronto's super-rich want is a Mik mansion -- a creation of Paul Miklas, whose own home recently went up for sale with a $15-million price tag. This new series follows Miklas for a year as he designs, builds and sells palatial digs for the rich and famous ....
Tories avoid public debates
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Organizers forced to cancel some forumsface=-Bold; After weeks of phone tag and buck-passing, a Winnipeg women's business group was forced to cancel a long-planned, all-candidates forum slated for Friday because no Tory was willing to attend. "It was very ...
This Week On The Web
Oct 01, 2008; ... Our city may be the Heart of the Continent, but this week on the web we were the centre of the big-story universe. Fallout from a health-care scandal and a political firing dominated the page views on our site. The story that horrified North America was the sad death of Brian ...
Leger earns judo bronze at international event
Oct 01, 2008; ... MICHAEL Leger of West Kildonan Judo Club earned a bronze medal at the U.S. Open Senior Judo International Championships at Colorado Springs, Colo. Leger competed in the 90-kilogram class and defeated Emil Edmar from Great Britain in the bronze-medal match. "A result like this really ...
Editorial - City fit for a museum
Oct 01, 2008; ... City fit for a museum 111In a few years, Winnipeg will take its place on the world stage when the Canadian Museum for Human Rights opens. Guests from around the world may be invited, possibly including living giants such as Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel, and the relatives of ...
ER death iceberg's tip: health workers
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Inner-city needs often go unmetface=-Bold; Lester Traicheff needed to be rushed to the Health Sciences Centre for emergency surgery on an ulcer he didn't know he had. Lambert, 39, needed someone to talk to -- he's dogged by loneliness and depression, and his illness ...
Double-winner Allen, Thiessen cream of crop
Oct 01, 2008; ... BEN ALLEN, Grade 11 quarterback with the Kelvin Clippers of the Winnipeg High School Football League, is a double winner in individual accolades this week. Allen, named the WHSFL's Potter division's Week 3 offensive player of the week earlier this week, has been selected as the Manitoba ...
Editorial - Quick fix at the ER
Oct 01, 2008; ... Quick fix at the ER THE Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has found what it thinks is a fix for the glaring flaw in its emergency room intake system at the Health Sciences Centre -- greeters at the door, something like Wal-Mart. All who enter will get a green wristband, indicating they ...
LASIK surgery is popular -- not perfect
Oct 01, 2008; ... Would you take the risk of jumping out of a plane with a parachute? I asked a patient. She had just asked me if she should toss away her eyeglasses and have her vision corrected by LASIK surgery. Millions of North Americans have had this procedure done and are happy with the result. But ...
Judge worried about chat over Golden case
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Remarks may be seen as bias: Champagneface=-Bold; Some lighthearted small talk between a Winnipeg defence lawyer and a judge has thrown a high-profile criminal case into disarray amid fears of a perceived conflict of interest. Provincial court Judge Ken Champagne is ...
High school hockey continues to show strength
Oct 01, 2008; ... A High of 33 teams for the second straight year highlights the Winnipeg High School Hockey League which has faced off for its 24th season. Mike Wake, president of the WHSHL, said every team is back from last year when the league opened play this week in all A, B, and C ...
Blue player rep Brown in an awkward position
Oct 01, 2008; ... IT felt strangely Tuesday as if 6-foot-8, 300-pound Doug Brown was the scrambling 5-foot-10, vulnerable quarterback trying to elude an all-out blitz rather than the relentless guy who's out to seek and destroy for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. As the club's resident rep on the CFL Players' ...
Analysts' views differ on deadly beach crash
Oct 01, 2008; ... THERE were only two witnesses to a single-vehicle crash near Winnipeg Beach in 2002. One of them is dead, the other is now on trial. Now a judge will be forced to weigh vastly different opinions from traffic crash analysts to decide whether the six-year-old tragedy was a criminal ...
Candidates:
Oct 01, 2008; ... Candidates: Vic Toews (Conservative) Shirley Hiebert (Liberal) Ross Martin (NDP) Janine Gibson (Green) David Reimer (Christian Heritage ...
FIRST AND GOAL
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Wishy-washy response to late hit on Glenn not impressiveface=-Bold; Five storylines that jumped out while observing the last week of Canadian Football League action: 1Let's cut to the meat here: No matter how hard the league tries to spin it, they royally botched the ...
The good, bad, ugly
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; How the market meltdown could affect the economy here at homeface=-Bold; The markets bounced back on Tuesday but that will provide little solace for North American businesses. Most indicators show that the North American economy has been slowing down for months and ...
A letter to the people of Winnipeg,
Oct 01, 2008; ... A letter to the people of Winnipeg, I work in the Health Sciences Centre Emergency department. People need to know how devastated everyone in the HSC emergency family is by the death of Brian Sinclair. We knew Brian well and cared for him on many occasions. We are still trying to ...
City gas prices are slow to fall Toronto pumps drop to $1.11 a litre
Oct 01, 2008; ... Gas prices are falling all across the country but Winnipeggers are still feeling the pain at the pump. According to WinnipegGasPrices.com late Tuesday evening, a litre of gas in the Manitoba capital will set you back a minimum of $1.21.9, nearly 13 cents more than some retailers in ...
Glenn OK to play; mum on head hit
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Blue won't comment on Esk's $1,000 fineface=-Bold; QUARTERBACK Kevin Glenn's mouth -- sore jaw and all -- finally moved for the masses on Tuesday. But as with almost all of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the message was let's stay mum on the helmet-to-helmet hit by ...
Violence reaching alarming new levels, police say
Oct 01, 2008; ... POLICE confirm violence in the city is reaching alarming new levels in the wake of two vicious assaults on the same day last weekend. Two people remain in hospital after suffering serious injuries last Saturday. A 22-year-old man was brutally beaten by three men about 4 a.m. after an ...
Privacy matters to most customers
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Staff should be able to handle concernsface=-Bold; Have you ever experienced the following situation? You are making a purchase at a retail store when the sales clerk asks you for personal information such as your name, home address or telephone number. Concerned ...
Five youths face charges after Portage jail escape
Oct 01, 2008; ... TWO inmates escaped and three others orchestrated an apparent hostage situation Tuesday at a Portage la Prairie jail for young offenders. RCMP were called to the Agassiz Youth Centre at about 7:30 a.m. after several youths being held there were fighting, damaging property and unlawfully ...
Martin lends his support to Keeper in tight race
Oct 01, 2008; ... THOMPSON -- She started her first run for power almost three years ago, when Paul Martin was still prime minister and the Liberal Party still clung to power. Things change, though, and Tuesday the man who once ran the country flew coach to Thompson to cheer on the actress-turned-MP who's ...
Winnipeg Free Press Poll
Oct 01, 2008; ... Today's Question: Which debate, if any ,do you plan to watch Thursday night? Previous ...
Do-not-call list not a silver bullet
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Some organizations can still contact youface=-Bold; JUST because you sign up for the national do-not-call list doesn't mean your phone is going to stop ringing. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, which operates the list and began signing ...
Bisons winless in season but victorious vs. AHL prospects
Oct 01, 2008; ... Bisons winless in season but victorious vs. AHL prospects The University of Manitoba Bisons are winless this season in Canada West action but picked up a 6-2 win and a charge of confidence at the expense of the Manitoba Moose. The Moose iced a lineup of mostly prospects but still ...
Moose prep for season with tilt in Steinbach His patience paying off
Oct 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Eizenman not regretting turning down offer from NHL's Rangersface=-Bold; STEINBACH -- After attending the New York Rangers' midsummer prospects training camp, forward Oren Eizenman had a contract offer on the table. The undrafted 23-year-old from Toronto surprised ...
Deaths
Oct 01, 2008; ... ALVAREZ, Roberta Casingal. BRUEDERLIN, Irma. CLARKE, Elvire Augusta. DYCK (nee DUQUETTE), Phyllis. ERIKSON, Victor E.S. GAUTHIER, Edmond Joseph. GIBBINGS, Jean. GONZALES, Maria Luisa Milarion. GOUGLAS, Agnes Jessie. HAIGHT, ...
LOTTERIES
Oct 01, 2008; ... In the event of a discrepancy between this list and the official winning numbers, the latter shall prevail. PICK ...
Former Jet Neufeld now Bisons volunteer coach
Oct 01, 2008; ... Former Jet Neufeld now Bisons volunteer coach RAY NEUFELD, the Winkler native and former Winnipeg Jets player, has joined the University of Manitoba Bisons men's hockey team as a volunteer coach for this season. Neufeld, 48, most recently has coached in the Manitoba Junior Hockey ...
Paparazzi
Oct 02, 2008; ... Mommy Spears wants equal treatment LYNNE Spears has a bee in her bonnet. While she feels she was vilified for being mother to a pregnant teenager, she told Newsweek recently that she feels Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin has been celebrated. "Every woman in the world ...
Gwyneth's Goop website is all wet
Oct 02, 2008; ... Gwyneth Paltrow's new lifestyle/advice website, Goop.com, went up this week in preview form, but the backlash is well under way. The site will be a collection of recommendations and musings from Gwyneth about things that make her life special -- but the road ahead looks bumpy for this ...
Mixtube www.mixtube.org
Oct 02, 2008; ... IF you've spent any time surfing YouTube, you already know that it's a music lover's paradise. If you were a fan of the late lamented playlist-sharing tool Muxtape, you'll feel right at home on the recently launched Mixtube. Pulling content from YouTube, Mixtube lets you customize your ...
Period, please
Oct 02, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Keira Knightley laces up the corset once again as a scandal-plagued 18th-century duchessface=-Bold; 5555 "And I thought: I don't care what it is, that's fantastic," she says. The packaging was richly appropriate to the material. The Duc hess is the story ...
Theatre/arts
Oct 02, 2008; ... Theatre Frog in the Clouds Manitoba Theatre for Young People welcomes Amsterdam's puppet masters, Canwest Performing Arts Centre, opens 7 p.m. tomorrow, 1 p.m. Saturday, 1 & 4 p.m. Sunday, continues to Oct. 12; $13.25 at 942-8898, or online at www.mtyp.ca. FEMFEST ...
Battle sees MCs putting their mouths where the money is
Oct 02, 2008; ... 1111 But let's put aside the world-famous club stars for a minute, and talk about local talent. This weekend, hip-hop fans have a rare opportunity to see some of the best MCs in the city together onstage -- and fighting for their musical lives. It's called Battle of the Boroughs, ...
ROCK
Oct 02, 2008; ... ALIVE (140 Bannatyne, 989-8080): Exchange District dance club. Friday and Saturday: Atomic Candy. CAVERN (112 Osborne, downstairs): Basement rock room at Toad In The Hole. Friday: Kram Ran, The Ripperz. Saturday: The Awkward Stage, All of Your Friends and The ...
15 Seconds with Joe Satriani
Oct 02, 2008; ... The gig: Joe Satriani, Monday at the Burton Cummings Theatre, 7 p.m. The goods: The guitar god, 52, is bringing his five axes and estimated 700 guitar strings per tour leg to Winnipeg, accompanied by openers Mountain. We caught up with the former guitar teacher to chat about how to get ...
'Revitalized' Radio 2 thumbs its nose at us
Oct 02, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Classical fans feeling a voidface=-Bold; THERE'S been a rumbling sound within music circles the past few weeks, and it's getting louder and grumpier every day. We miss our music -- the classical music no longer being played on the "New Radio 2." Liken it to a ...
May's race not just against MacKay
Oct 02, 2008; ... HALIFAX -- When Green Party Leader Elizabeth May bounced off the train at the Halifax station after her cross-country rail odyssey, she was greeted on the platform by over 100 Green Party enthusiasts waving signs expressing the hope she will defeat Defence Minister Peter MacKay here in Nova ...
DVD
Oct 02, 2008; ... Iron Man AFTER the inexplicable failure of the movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, it was starting to look as if its post-addiction star Robert Downey Jr. was going to be a best-kept-secret kind of movie star. Luckily, Jon Favreau had the brass to cast him in a big-budget superhero movie ...
Today's Horoscope
Oct 02, 2008; ... MOON ALERT: We have the all-clear today to shop and make important decisions until 7:31 p.m. today. The moon is in Scorpio. ARIES (March 21-April 19) This is a tricky day. Unexpected gifts and goodies might come your way; alternatively, you might lose them. There's definitely ...
Frog players find Iran tough acting gig
Oct 02, 2008; ... Members of Theater Terra, the much-travelled Dutch children's troupe, were wary about attending the Tehran International Puppet Festival in August and living for a week under Islamic law. But since the event had been operating for 12 years, Terra actor Dick Feld thought: How bad could it ...
Bruckschwaiger, Christie earn nods
Oct 02, 2008; ... CROSS-country runner Katrina Bruckschwaiger has been named the Smitty's University of Manitoba Bisons female athlete of the week after the second-year runner was the Bisons' top runner in the Roy Griak Invitational in Minneapolis last Saturday. Bruckschwaiger, a London, Ont., native, ...