Overheard in the coffee shop: God talk
Another churchgoer walked in. I buried my head in my hands, laughed out loud, and left. I may be petty and easily pigeonholed as bitter.… Read More
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Will Ferrell challenges lookalike Chad Smith to drum vs. cowbell showdown the greatest the world has ever seen, and four other briefs. Read More
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Kim Dotcom releases debut album Good Times, the cold, Syria, Neil Young, and the Wellcome Library. Read More
Madness to the abstinent: Sandinistas and Nicaraguan rum
It’s dynasties, dictatorships, uprisings and Nicaraguan history peppered on a real-time account of a 13-shot rum challenge. Flor de Cana distills a great rum, the five and all years higher. Read More
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Reporter sues Rob Ford, Kim Jong-un executes uncle, CPP invests in farmland, Home Alone star waxes pizza, and Fox News wants you to know Jesus was white, and Santa is white. Read More
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Brian Pallister’s Christmas-greeting shenanigans He apologized. But to whom? Infidel atheists weren’t offended. Believers, if these are the stark lines we’re drawing, weren’t offended, either.… Read More
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Winnipeg academy gets human rights award Winnipeg’s Gray Academy of Jewish Education has won a 2013 Human Rights Award for the presence and success of… Read More
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Brandon-Souris remains conservative Conservative Larry Maguire beat out Liberal Rolf Dinsdale in the Brandon-Souris byelection Monday by a paltry 391 votes: 12,205 to 11,814. The… Read More
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'Selfie' is word of the year, Rob Ford has Jesus moment, dinosaur-era water found, and, wait for it, Monty Python returns. Read More
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Left-wing presidential candidate makes second round in Chile Michelle Bachelet is one vote away from becoming Chile’s next president. She got 46 per cent of… Read More
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Unprecedented bend by China’s Communist Party China’s decades-old, one-child policy is set to be amended, according to Xinhua news. The country’s Communist Party convened to… Read More
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Iran nuclear deal expected A deal surrounding the fate of Iran’s nuclear program is expected to be reached Friday, BBC reports. The U.S., U.K., France… Read More
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Twitter goes public Twitter, Inc., is now a publicly traded company. The stock market was tripping over itself with excitement over the biggest IPO since… Read More
Alberta’s gaping wound
An aerial tour of the oil sands. Read More
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It’s noon somewhere Manitobans like beer, according to nearly everyone, and according to a newly-released report from the Conference Board of Canada: From Farm to… Read More
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Remember, remember the fifth of November The Anonymous group hacked 115 government websites across the Philippines and Singapore Tuesday. The cyber attacks took place shortly… Read More