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- WAG's 100 Masters exhibit drawing more than art aficionados
Rose Goossen stands in the Winnipeg Art Gallery, directly in front of an Italian scene painted in the 18th century.
Her arms crossed, her body shifting side to side, she is in awe. Not long ago, she was standing in that very setting in Rome.
"I'm looking at this painting and trying to position
- 'I don't think he had any enemies'
It wasn't until she saw hundreds lining up at the Manitoba legislature on Monday afternoon to pay their respects to her grandfather that the magnitude of Elijah Harper's life hit 17-year-old Anna Harper.
"I knew he was important," said the Ottawa teen, taking photos of the young and the old,...
- A new mom's booze-fuelled hell
Jowita Bydlowska gets defensive early on in our telephone interview.
"It sounds like you've already written your story," she snaps when I ask her if she feels guilty that she drank to oblivion during the first year of her son's life. You wrote a book called Drunk Mother, I reply. You opened the
- Apple trick on Ellen falls short for city woman
She put her heart -- and head -- into it, but Kirsten Kettler got beat by a girl bouncing on her butt.
The 18-year-old Winnipegger appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday as one of four finalists on the Ellen's Hidden Talent Winner contest.
There was US,000 on the line.
Kettler's
- Couple faces new charges of sexual assault
Two more women have come forward with allegations they were sexually assaulted by a Winnipeg couple already facing similar charges.
Winnipeg police said Monday they've laid additional charges against Richard Robert Charles Gordon, 46, and Jackie Erin Burgoyne, 35, after two separate complainants
- Man in custody after shots, crash in Exchange District
POLICE had one man in custody Monday after shots rang out in the Exchange District, followed by a motor-vehicle collision.
The gunplay ended in the crash just before 12:30 a.m. Monday on Princess Street at McDermot Avenue.
Investigators believe the driver of a blue Mercedes had pulled up
- Goose gets cooked in Linden Woods
Nature seemed to steal a page from the annals of Ripley's Believe It or Not when a power failure happened because a goose collided with power lines over the holiday weekend.
No doubt, there'll be jokes that the ill-fated Canada goose cooked a hydro feed.
But Sunday night, it was nothing to joke
- NDPers to mull varied slate of issues
Rank-and-file NDPers will weigh in on issues as diverse as online gambling, adopting photo-ID health cards and the introduction of compulsory voting as they gather this coming weekend in Brandon.
The New Democratic Party has ruled the roost in Manitoba since 1999, winning majorities in the last
- Li allowed trips outside Selkirk
Vince Li, who killed a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in 2008, is free to visit Lockport and Winnipeg as long as his escort can call for help quickly and there's a security officer to accompany him.
The Manitoba Review Board released its decision Friday to allow Li increased day passes from
- U of M to chop M out of 2-M budget
THE University of Manitoba is bracing for almost million in cuts.
The board of governors will consider a draft budget Tuesday calling for the university to chop .98 million from its 2013-2014 budget after the Selinger government reneged on its funding commitment in last month's provincial
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