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There but for a roll of the dice

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Sheldon Birnie
Yesterday I saw sure-fire evidence that winter has passed, and summer is on its way. Out front of the Osborne LC I saw a pair of drifter-types. Two mean looking customers in filthy coveralls,...
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Dog turds, piss puddles and thawing puke

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Sheldon Birnie
Snow is melting, ice thawing. The whole city is covered in mud and filth. Canada geese are returning. The other day, I caught a couple squirrels fucking at the base of an elm tree....
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A long, cold road to justice

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Sheldon Birnie
Fourteen leaders from Manitoba’s Sayisi Dene First Nation made headlines in Ottawa last week. The elders, along with MP Niki Ashton from Churchill and the group’s lawyer Arne Peltz, staged a sit-in at the...
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Concentration of print media in Canada

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Sheldon Birnie
W hat do you get when a country of over 30 million people get their news from a handful of corporate news providers? The short answer is media concentration, where popular opinion and easy...
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Won’t somebody think of the children?

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Sheldon Birnie
People are up in arms about a little known hallucinogenic herb called salvia divinorum. Local MP Shelly Glover recently made the announcement that the federal government will soon be listing salvia under the Controlled...
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What’s my excuse?

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Sheldon Birnie
We were born here, what’s your excuse? having moved to Winnipeg almost five years ago from my hometown of Dawson Creek, B.C., this is a question I am often asked to answer. This slogan greets...
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Leave the lettuce alone!

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Sheldon Birnie
“Please tell the man I didn’t kill anyone, I’m just tryin’ to have me some fun.” — John Prine As you read this, our federal government is pushing for House approval Bill S-10, a bill...
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