Winnipeg Free Press back issues from February 2009:
Check in for some fun at Fawlty Towers
Feb 01, 2009; ... If you're a fan of the '70s TV classic Fawlty Towers, which starred John Cleese as a surly, possibly unbalanced, hotel operator, you absolutely have to read Graham McCann's Fawlty Towers: The Story of the Sitcom (Hodder, 336 pages, $17). McCann, a British entertainment writer, takes us ...
Sweet things are great, just don't overplay them
Feb 01, 2009; ... Remember the Sweet Things One List, Two Lives, and Twenty Years of Marriage By Ellen Greene William Morrow, 280 pages, $21.50 AMERICAN teacher turned author Ellen Greene did not set out to write a memoir. When she first put pen to paper she did so simply ...
Deft hand captures essence of tramp freighter travel
Feb 01, 2009; ... Running Away to Sea Round the World on a Tramp Freighter By George Fetherling Dundurn Press, 236 pages, $25 IN 1997 Vancouver-based writer George Fetherling embarked on a four-month round-the-globe voyage aboard a tramp freighter. Fetherling is the author ...
Men get their day in new Otherworld offering
Feb 01, 2009; ... Men of the Otherworld By Kelley Armstrong Random House Canada, 369 pages, $30 IT'S safe to say that vampires and werewolves have taken over the commercial-fiction world. But don't go giving all the credit to the recent Twilight phenomenon. Long before ...
Enthralling depiction of vestal virgins of Rome
Feb 01, 2009; ... A Virgin's Tale By Sherri Smith Simon & Schuster UK, 432 pages, $20 An enthralling depiction of a life unknown in the modern world, A Virgin's Tale is Winnipeg writer Sherri Smith's first novel, telling the story of the vestal virgins of ancient Rome. The ...
Nuanced, engaging history of tranquilizers
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Age of Anxiety A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers By Andrea Tone Basic Books, 298 pages, $30 There is a telling anecdote at the heart of this fascinating history of tranquillizers in American society by McGill University historian ...
FaithBriefs
Feb 01, 2009; ... Healing service International Order of St. Luke healing service Feb. 1, 7 p.m., St. Aidan's Anglican Church, 274 Campbell St. There will be laying on of hands, anointing of oil, healing testimony and a free will offering. Information: 489-3390 or www.staidans.ca. Oasis worship ...
Are. You. Stuck? This. Book. Won't. Really. Help
Feb 01, 2009; ... Stuck Why We Can't (Or Won't) Move On By Anneli Rufus Tarcher/Penguin, 328 pages, $26.50 IS the following a one- or a six-sentence paragraph? "Thinking: I. Am. Not. Really. Here." In this exclamation, "Rrrrrrrrrrright now," how did writer Anneli Rufus come ...
Ohmigosh! Consumers are saving money!
Feb 01, 2009; ... While governments and their minions are busily panicking about the threat of a global credit deflation, they insist that you don't even think about it. It's not allowed. No, you are expected to do your part by continuing to borrow and spend. Don't worry, be happy, and why don't you go ...
U of M president finds inspiration in King David
Feb 01, 2009; ... When University of Manitoba president and vice-chancellor David Barnard needs a little inspiration on the subject of leadership, one of the places he turns is to another David -- to King David, the biblical king of Israel. "There's a huge amount of material about David in the Bible," ...
Google transforms way all industries function
Feb 01, 2009; ... What Would Google Do? By Jeff Jarvis HarperCollins, 240 pages, $33 Are you reading this on newsprint that someone delivered to your doorstep this morning? If so, American new media expert Jeff Jarvis thinks you should get ready for a change. Jarvis, a journalism ...
What if Quakers ran things?
Feb 01, 2009; ... In 18th century, sect ran banks, businesses you could trust Is there a comment from the Christian community to this week's federal budget? A statement from Cardus, a think-tank that originated with the Christian Labour Association of Canada, argues that many aspects about the current ...
If you're an optimist, there is a brighter side
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Optimist One Man's Search for the Brighter Side of Life By Laurence Shorter Doubleday, 325 pages, $30 One of the main points in this goofy comic memoir is how you feel about things depends a good deal on attitude. With that in mind: The Optimist's ...
Uncouth college coach deserved harsher punishment
Feb 01, 2009; ... Last week's visit to the University of North Dakota had no shortage of fascinating developments, many of which weren't included in last Saturday's feature on the men's hockey program and its long-standing Manitoba-UND connection. For instance: The Western Collegiate Hockey ...
Hockey's GOLDEN BOYS
Feb 01, 2009; ... As time thins their ranks, old-timers' autographs grow in demand 11The 82-year-old, who played 10 seasons for the Rangers in the 1940s and '50s, including two as team captain, even receives the odd jersey to sign. The man known as "Bones" -- his playing weight was 145 pounds -- signs ...
House-hunting game-changer
Feb 01, 2009; ... The troubled economic times we live in mean tighter mortgage rules Mike Keller and Janelle Pinette don't have the look of your typical homebuyers. Keller, 32, is an assisted-living support worker by day and lives the rock 'n' roll lifestyle by night. A member of local band Jet ...
Today's Horoscope
Feb 01, 2009; ... MOON ALERT Avoid shopping or making important decisions from noon until 4:15 p.m. After that the moon moves from Aries into Taurus. ARIES (March 21-April 19) Be careful today. You're tempted to react too quickly. (You know who you are.) It's really not your fault. Your ruler Mars ...
The tale of a tiger
Feb 01, 2009; ... Kendra's family tree helps keep her species' gene pool healthy 11Her arranged marriage didn't work out because she never got pregnant. Now Kendra's being forced to hook up with a 800-pound suitor from the Maritimes with hopes that they'll have a torrid love affair resulting in ...
Gimli fish tale aims to inspire battered Iceland
Feb 01, 2009; ... GIMLI -- Last fall in Iceland, the magic money maker, Icesave, an Internet bank that helped drive Iceland's red-hot economy, plunged into receivership. Icesave had been attracting big sums of money abroad by paying up to seven per cent interest. In Britain alone, mostly small savers, ...
It's Super Sunday, so let's bet on which guys are greatest
Feb 01, 2009; ... It's Super Bowl Sunday, a sacred day in the guy calendar, a day when real men around the world, with no regard for personal safety or personal hygiene, put themselves on the line to demonstrate their total devotion to the sport of professional football by eating their own body weight in ...
Double slaying wake-up call for neighbour
Feb 01, 2009; ... Maybe it's time to move: witness Koraley Brown walked out of her Maryland Street apartment Saturday morning and found the stiff and contorted body of a stranger lying in a pool of blood. The dead man lying at the bottom of a flight of stairs was one of two men Winnipeg Police ...
Pair of kids lead rescuers to dad
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE condition of a Winnipeg man was unknown last night after he was rescued after being alone on Lake Winnipeg ice for six hours. RCMP Sgt. Line Karpish said the 51-year-old man had gone out snowmobiling Saturday afternoon with his two young children, a son, 14 and daughter, ...
Coulter's screed more heat than light
Feb 01, 2009; ... 44But 264 pages is too much of a good thing. This is U.S. polemicist (her own description), syndicated columnist and right-wing TV glamourpuss Ann Coulter's sixth book attacking American Liberals. And according to her latest lists of wrongdoings, they don't seem to be paying a blind bit ...
Bankers display moral bankruptcy, too
Feb 01, 2009; ... 2The most glaring is the sacking by Bank of America of John Thain, Merrill Lynch's former boss, after he rushed through generous bonus payments for his investment bankers despite disastrous losses, and the revelation that he spent $1.2 million refurbishing his office. Citigroup, ...
Losers descend on Washington
Feb 01, 2009; ... Republican hoopla mostly proves to be a hoot WASHINGTON -- A lobby full of losers spilled up the stairway and onto the mezzanine. This was the Republican National Committee, hundreds strong, convening at the Capital Hilton this week from all corners of the nation to select a new ...
Arranged breeding protects gene pool
Feb 01, 2009; ... 111In a book coloured yellow instead of black, and roughly the size of the local white pages, Kendra, a nine-year-old female tiger at the Assiniboine Park Zoo, is entry number 4,442. The book, given the decidedly sober name of International Tiger Studbook, is the worldwide record of ...
Klein on short list for Warwick Prize
Feb 01, 2009; ... Toronto's international star of the new left, Naomi Klein, is among three Canadians on the six-book short list for the new $85,000 Warwick Prize for Writing. The U.K. prize can go to any piece of writing published in English. The prize will be given out every two years, and selections ...
Magnificent Missionfest
Feb 01, 2009; ... Christians gather for three days of workshops, speakers and music No matter what your religious persuasion, next Sunday afternoon, Toronto-based religious broadcaster Lorna Dueck wants an hour of your time to talk about faith, "There are religious underpinnings to this country," ...
'How do we take the authority back?'
Feb 01, 2009; ... She got the phone call parents dread: Your daughter is in trouble with the law. Now mom wants to know ... HER teen daughter is one of a mob of young people who allegedly terrorized and robbed seven people at gunpoint in the St. James area early Thursday morning. But in the wake ...
Called family in tears two days before fall
Feb 01, 2009; ... The 23-year-old woman killed in a fall from an 11th-storey window Friday telephoned family two days earlier crying and saying she wanted to come home. "She said, 'Grandma, forgive me for what I did,' " said Alice Moar, the woman's grandmother who lives in Thunder Bay. "She said, 'It's no ...
Miller's drama explores ethical dilemma
Feb 01, 2009; ... The oppressive dread of secret lives capably performed by Tara Players All MY SONS was Arthur Miller's 1947 breakthrough drama notable for introducing his trademark lack of subtlety and all the major themes that would be refined for his soon-to-follow masterpiece, Death of a ...
Hooray for ignominious failure
Feb 01, 2009; ... Ineptitude of Yukon's Brier team saved skip a bundle of cash He was the darling of the 1999 Brier in Edmonton, despite the fact -- or, rather, entirely because of the fact -- he skipped his team to one of just a tiny handful of winless records in the long and glorious history of the ...
You can't keep a good man down
Feb 01, 2009; ... RADIO man Bob Picken, who retired from reporting last year, just couldn't stay away from the MCA Bonspiel. Picken's been hanging around bonspiel headquarters all week and Saturday Shane Ray, the MCA executive director, spotted Picken just when Ray needed some extra help answering the ...
Dad alone on ice for 6 hours
Feb 01, 2009; ... Dies after having medical emergency, sending kids for help A Winnipeg man who was alone on Lake Winnipeg ice for six hours was pronounced dead in Pine Falls hospital late Saturday night. RCMP Sgt. Line Karpish said the 51-year-old man had gone out snowmobiling Saturday afternoon ...
Looking for coaches who will work crazy hours
Feb 01, 2009; ... ALEX GARDINER, Athletics Canada National coach and technical director, says it is time for a changing of the guard. The Winnipeg-born coach, in town for the Manitoba Indoor Games at the Max Bell Fieldhouse, says there are pockets where athletics are thriving, but suggests that an ...
Disabled bring abilities to the job
Feb 02, 2009; ... Good for people, good for companies Darryl Muir thinks he has one of the best jobs in the world bagging groceries, wrapping flowers and helping customers load up their cars. The courtesy clerk at the Canada Safeway store on Main Street at Inkster Boulevard is one of the ...
Football code of conduct reviewed
Feb 02, 2009; ... Sparked by racial incident last fall FOOTBALL Manitoba is reviewing its code of conduct in the wake of a racially charged peewee football game last fall, but the province's best-known sports psychologist is adamant more needs to be done to prevent such incidents from happening ...
Opportunities
Feb 02, 2009; ... The following is a list of volunteer opportunities advertised in the Winnipeg area. For more information about these listings, please contact the person/organization directly. You may also call (204) 477-5180 ext. 221 to set up an appointment to see an interviewer at Volunteer Manitoba. ...
Manitoba Movers
Feb 02, 2009; ... PEOPLE Ryan Peterson has recently been appointed senior manager in the general practice and litigation support divisions of BCCA LLP, a medium-sized firm of chartered accountants who have been providing service for over 50 years. COMPANIES Picante Advertising supported by ...
Business Calendar
Feb 02, 2009; ... This morning's opening numbers: S&P/TSX 8,694.90 Dow Jones 8,000.86Nasdaq1,476.42Canadian dollar US$81.53 This week's business news: Monday -- in Washington the personal income and consumption report for December will be ...
Letter Of The Day
Feb 02, 2009; ... LETTER OF THE DAY Get trucks off Route 90 After looking at the proposals for Route 90, it appears no thought has been given to eliminating the heavy truck traffic that uses Route 90. Why not remove the transport ...
Editorial - Time to lift the last veil
Feb 02, 2009; ... Time to lift the last veil 111Until recently, if a lawyer for the accused asked for such a ban, the judge had no choice but to grant it, although the courts seem predisposed to grant such bans in any case. The reason advanced is to protect the right of the accused to a fair ...
Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum
Feb 01, 2009; ... Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum University of Manitoba medical professor and researcher "I've been trying to pick up Dan Brown's Angels and Demons because I know the new movie is coming out. Also Devil May Care ...
Playing the fool
Feb 01, 2009; ... Playing the fool Steve Martin demonstrates it takes brains to be stupid in upcoming The Pink Panther 2 By Randall King New YORK CITY -- That fictional French gendarme Inspector Jacques Clouseau may be one of the biggest dolts in western culture. So why is he ...
Arctic foxes
Feb 01, 2009; ... A pair of Assiniboine Park Zoo's Arctic foxes are on the move. The siblings -- a male and a female -- were rounded up on Friday and put on a plane to be loaned to a new home at the Cherry Brook Zoo in St. John, New Brunswick. Unlike many other animals at the zoo, the bloodlines ...
Grey gibbon
Feb 01, 2009; ... Willow -- a grey gibbon -- is destined to live out her days at the zoo childless. Assiniboine Park Zoo foreman Phil King said Willow, born June 5, 1994, and the only one of her species left at the zoo, is ailing and won't be loaned out for breeding or moved to another zoo. "She ...
Snow leopard
Feb 01, 2009; ... If you want to visit a Winnipegger in Toronto before he moves to Australia, you'd better be quick. Kota, a snow leopard born at the Assiniboine Park Zoo on April 5, 2003, will soon be moving from the Toronto Zoo to the Mota Zoo. But here in Winnipeg, you can still see Kota's mom, ...
Answer to carmaking woes fits to a Model T
Feb 01, 2009; ... Henry Ford, the pioneer genius of auto-making, wrote in his biography, My Life and Work, that "any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants, so long as it is black." It was that no-frills philosophy that made it possible for Ford to concentrate on constantly improving the ...
Public inquiries promise more than they deliver
Feb 01, 2009; ... Public inquiries are not all they're cracked up to be. They are supposed to be the transparent vehicles by which rogue situations are reined in, wrongs righted and where truth is supreme. But the sheer number of the expensive, government-sponsored navel gazings (about 450 since ...
DEATHS
Feb 01, 2009; ... DEATHS AMBROISE (nee CHARCHUK), Alice. BAKER, Larry. BRAUN, Kenneth P. BUORS, Denis Yves Joseph (Nu Num). CODE (MCPHAIL) (nee GRAHAM), Marjorie. COMPEAU, Cecile. DUTCHUK, Michael. HRAB (nee GARDNER), Marion Florence. HUOT, ...
Chicken Little would have been right at home in the downtown area late Saturday afternoon
Feb 01, 2009; ... Chicken Little would have been right at home in the downtown area late Saturday afternoon, where it did seem like the sky was falling. Gusting winds that reached speeds of 100 kilometres per hour literally brought the roof down -- and the windows too. Construction debris from the ...
No news not good news: Glenn still a Bomber
Feb 01, 2009; ... It's all quiet, perhaps too quiet, on the Kevin Glenn front. But that won't stop the rumour mill from churning. It's expected trade discussions between the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats will heat up through this weekend and into next week, especially now that some of the ...
Leafs' Kaberle out at least one month
Feb 01, 2009; ... The rumour mill might have to tone it down. The Toronto Maple Leafs will head into next month's NHL trade deadline as sellers, but one of their most prized items won't be on display for the immediate future. The Leafs' top defenceman, Tomas Kaberle, is expected to be sidelined ...
Blue give pink slip to veteran Sheridan
Feb 01, 2009; ... No clubs interested in trade for O-lineman IT'S not exactly a transaction that will send shockwaves through the Canadian Football League. In fact, most would say the marriage between Matt Sheridan and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers ended long before Saturday's official divorce. After ...
Narcissism rules after coalition's demise
Feb 02, 2009; ... When the Liberals, NDP and the Bloc Quebecois cooked up their exotic coalition plan last November, it was unclear whether it was a serious proposal to form a new government, or a ruse to embarrass and emasculate the Conservative government. The three parties seemed serious enough, and ...
Tachinski runs peewee competition into the ground
Feb 02, 2009; ... VICTORIA TACHINSKI was a quadruple winner Saturday at the Manitoba Indoor Games, held at the Max Bell Fieldhouse. Tachinski, of Stride Ahead Tough Track, competed in the peewee (age 9-10) category, winning the 60 metres and 200 metres and setting a meet record in the 600-metres with a ...
Decision time for Katz
Feb 02, 2009; ... Federal infrastructure funding Accessing Ottawa's cash puts city in tax dilemma One week after Ottawa offered to give billions to Canadian cities to help fix crumbling roads and bridges, Winnipeg still has no idea whether it'll be able to snag some of the cash. Part of the ...
Hydro vows to tackle falling foam
Feb 02, 2009; ... MANITOBA Hydro promised Sunday it will change the way foam insulation sheets are stored at the new Portage Avenue Manitoba Hydro skyscraper, after chunks of them flew off the top floors of the 22-storey building Saturday. The damage occurred on the second-windiest day in the city's ...
121 schools in spelling bee
Feb 02, 2009; ... THIS year's Winnipeg Free Press Regional Spelling Bee has 121 schools entered, equalling the highest number of entries two years ago. The fourth annual provincial spelling bee will be held March 21. Schools have until Friday to hold internal competitions to declare a school ...
Corporate honesty
Feb 02, 2009; ... Listeria report good news for food-safety system Just six months after successfully battling a major outbreak of listeria at a Toronto plant, Maple Leaf Foods says another case has been found at a wholly owned subsidiary. And that's a good thing. I would have been suspicious ...
Showbits
Feb 02, 2009; ... Today in music history In 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper made what ended up being their last public appearances at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. They died in a plane crash the next day. Born this day Tommy Smothers, 1937 Graham ...
Editorial - Hope for a thaw
Feb 02, 2009; ... Hope for a thaw AMERICAN President Barack Obama fancies himself as something of an expert on winter. Although born in Hawaii and educated in Indonesia, two places where snow rarely falls, he spent some years in Chicago as part of the infamous Illinois Democratic machine -- think Mayor ...
Updike was big frog in a small pond
Feb 02, 2009; ... John Updike, the prolific novelist and critic who died last Tuesday, once visited Moorhead, Minn., and I drove down there to meet him. It was October 1989, and the president of Moorhead State University -- an enlightened fan of contemporary literature -- had invited Updike to give a ...
Laurie at home after 100 hours in House
Feb 02, 2009; ... At first glance, it seemed to be a rather unlikely bit of casting. Seriously, Hugh Laurie, the very English actor known mainly for playing high-strung, low-IQ'd upper-class British twits in madcap comedies like Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster, playing a cranky but brilliant American ...
Meals on Wheels a good start for police hopefuls
Feb 02, 2009; ... Twenty-one-year-old Josh Robinson and Stephen Podworny, 22, often serve as a pleasant surprise to many Winnipeg seniors. Volunteers with Meals on Wheels, the two are among the organization's youngest volunteers -- a group mostly comprised of retirees. When delivering hot meals to the ...