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Local News Briefs
Kelvin melee leaves five injured; School trustees make provincial pitch; Record-breaking weather; Red River College trains new generation of rail workers; Aboriginal leaders brace for impact of OxyContin withdrawal
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What would you do if you were the mayor of Winnipeg?
What would you do if you were the mayor of Winnipeg?
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Distant Cousins
Rose Cousins may be an award-winning singer-songwriter, but she still cleans her own bathroom.
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Filtered city
Listen up, Instagram followers. If you’ve lost all hope that this smartphone-based photo sharing app will ever be good for anything besides showing you pictures of drunk people at Jets games, your pessimism is well-founded.
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Hootin’ and hollerin’
When Danny Hacking of local rock quartet The Hoots calls me, he’s apologetic.
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Bylaws breached in UWSA election
Intense competition in this year’s University of Winnipeg Students’ Association general election brought an increase in complaints filed against candidates and an expressed need for academic amnesty during campaign season.
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John Talabot
Munich-based label Permanent Vacation is among the few bastions for small-scale, progressive music in Europe, fostering exciting young acts with uninhibited artistic flourish and impressive sonic creativity.
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What’s in your backyard?
Over the last two weeks, the world has watched the media roller coaster turned witch hunt that is Kony 2012.
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Split Crooked
The press release describes the band as though “Alicia Keys and Glenn Danzig shared vocals in a still ‘Unplugged’ Nirvana.”
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Your new fitness appointment
Chances are you’ve used the word “appointment” more than once in your vocabulary so far this year.
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Getting back on track
Is Manitoba the new Greece?
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Local sushi institution closes, building to be re-developed
Edohei Restaurant - Winnipeg’s original sushi joint - has closed the doors of its humble Ellice Avenue location for good after nearly 25 years of serving up what’s come to be regarded as some of the city’s best Japanese cuisine.
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No longer ‘waiting in the well’
Octoberman’s Marc Morrissette is back with a new album and is ready to tour.
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NDP leadership race is on as party battles over its soul
Over the last two months, I have been conducting interviews with each of the federal NDP leadership candidates in the lead-up to this weekend’s (March 23-24) historic convention, where the party will choose its new leader.
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The future of Ellice avenue
What do you think about the future of Ellice Avenue?
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International News Briefs
Foreign access to Iranian military complex denied; Surprise elections in the midst of bloodshed; Tibetan self-sacrifice in protest; No early exit from Afghanistan after violence; Tribal violence in South Sudan worsens
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Manitoba receives low grade on women’s equality
Manitoba has made little improvement in the areas of women’s equality, according to a new report.
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The F Holes
Creepy, spooky, fun and with great musicianship to spare, local five-piece the F Holes deliver 12 tracks to get you groovin’.
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The Gods must be crazy
What starts out as a comedy of manners between two couples attempting to settle a playground spat ends with the parents behaving just as badly, if not worse, than their children.
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Ad campaigns for toys accused of gender-stereotype reinforcement
Even in the enlightened age of 2012, it appears that, for the most part, G.I. Joe still gets to do all of the fun out-of-house work and bad-guy-killing while Polly Pocket stays inside and bakes cakes.
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Piping hot comedy
Brett Madill is very clever. However, his podcast name says otherwise.
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Out of the black and into the blue
If I had a time machine, the first place I’d see would be Winnipeg a hundred years ago.
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Tight competition sees Bosc re-elected president with new executive team
Cheers went up as the winning candidates of the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association general election were announced last week.
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More music this week
More music this week.
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An interesting month in Afghanistan
It has been an excellent month for the Taliban.
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Campus News Briefs
U of W introduces Youth in Care tuition waiver; Dr. James Currie named new Dean of Science; Canada awards and renews research chairs; Alumni association calls for nominations
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The dangerous world of debt
Think about how much of the money you spend every day is your own.
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Winnipeg’s Most: From the streets to the stage
Since debuting in 2010, local hip-hop trio Winnipeg’s Most has released two albums and a mixtape, earned hit singles, garnered thousands of YouTube views, was featured prominently in a Maclean’s article on hip hop in Winnipeg and won more awards than Meryl Streep has Oscars.
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