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Gambling seniors looking for company more than big win

Arts & Entertainment, Economy & Business, Northwest, Outside WinnipegBy Bonny HillDecember 20, 2013

What compels our seniors to gamble? Is it the need to seek others for social contact? Or the need to hang around a large, noisy building? Or the chance to win the big one?

Breakfast club brings good friends together

Food, Our Neighbourhoods, Outside WinnipegBy Rose FlaigDecember 20, 2013

What started as two friends going for breakfast a few years ago has grown tenfold into a vibrant group that meets every Friday for support and networking, while sharing the most important meal of the day.

Love locks bridge in River Heights

Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Our Neighbourhoods, SouthwestBy Trevor SmithDecember 19, 2013

Several dozen padlocks are attached to steel mesh on the side of the bridge, most of them engraved with the names or initials of lovers, the keys no doubt tossed into the murky depths of the Assiniboine River fifty feet below.

Neighbourhood book store offers more than just books

Arts & Entertainment, Education, SouthwestBy Trevor SmithDecember 17, 2013

McNally Robinson, the city’s premier bookstore, is a regular host to a myriad of events, many of which are literary, and still others that are musical and educational.

Closure of Heinz plant will throw hundreds out of work

Economy & Business, FoodBy Roger CurrieDecember 17, 2013

While trying to get the ketchup out of a bottle the other day, I thought of the not-so-joyous Christmas it will be for employees of the Heinz plant in Leamington, Ontario.

Christmas concert delights, donates to worthy cause

Arts & Entertainment, Charitable Organizations, Religion & Spirituality, ReviewsBy Marie LeBlancDecember 16, 2013

Celebrating a Christmas Festival with classics, carols and cookies, the Winnipeg Pops Orchestra was a hit under the direction of Mary Ann Taylor at the Holy Redeemer Church.

Winnipeggers affirm “Human Rights and Religious Diversity for All Canadians”

Our City, Politics, Religion & SpiritualityBy Paul S. GrahamDecember 15, 2013

About 200 people gathered in Winnipeg to celebrate the UN Declaration of Human Rights and to voice objections to Quebec’s proposed Charter of Values.

Formula fundraiser on Facebook honours recently-deceased baby, brings ‘Peggers together

Economy & Business, Education, Food, Health & Safety, Local Heroes, Our City, Our Neighbourhoods, Stories of GivingBy Stacy Cardigan SmithDecember 13, 2013

A Facebook formula drive is mobilizing Winnipeggers to give big, raising $7,000 in just eight days. And things don’t seem to be slowing down.

Changes to Canada Post will hurt those most vulnerable

Economy & Business, History, Our Neighbourhoods, Science & TechnologyBy Roger CurrieDecember 12, 2013

Most of us will grumble and accept the new reality without giving it a great deal of thought, but that reality will be a hardship for a lot of people including the disabled and the elderly.

A box of food and a box of hope

Education, Food, Health & Safety, Stories of GivingBy Rebecca TrudeauDecember 11, 2013

Following an adventure in feeding the hungry when I was younger, I became inspired by altruism and selflessness, realizing that in life we must give to others without expecting anything back.

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