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Article content Barry Bence began his email to me on Wednesday this way, “Hal, do you hear all the muffled screams across the city today?” The retired Lutheran pastor, who’s in his late 70s, was referring to Day 1 of the return of remote learning in Winnipeg and Brandon. He found out late Tuesday night he would be helping out the next morning. Barry’s daughter is a teacher in a rural division so she was needed at her school. His blood pressure is back down where it belongs now and Barry says after a somewhat messy day one due to technical difficulties, homeschooling has be...

Winnipeg has a sweet candy history. Clodhoppers might be the most famous example but I don’t want to dwell too much on the past because there’s a new candy kid…

Article content I’ve always felt humour can be very helpful in getting through life’s toughest challenges. But never before has a smile or chuckle been so difficult. Still, I think it’s important to at least try and laughologist Albert Nerenberg agrees. He says there’s a very interesting and specific reason why the pandemic makes us cranky. The human brain has a design flaw, it holds on to bad things. We’re just not good at letting stuff go. It’s a defence mechanism that goes way back to when we lived in caves. Nerenberg says going for a walk or drive once in a w...

Article content I celebrated my birthday this week with some of the finest food Winnipeg has to offer. My wife Jackie and I began celebrating on Sunday night. We ordered some of our favourite dishes from Vientiane Restaurant on Marion (their spring rolls are the best!) which I brought home so we could watch the Oscars. We were apparently the only ones watching. Jackie had already picked up a Banana Split cake from Chocolate Zen on South Osborne so we enjoyed a piece of that too. Then on Monday, my actual birthday, my friend Jim Willox delivered lunch for me…maybe one of the best beef sat...

Article content Have you noticed how the price of just about everything at the grocery store is going up? The arrival of new discount grocery stores in Winnipeg is helping keep prices a bit lower but as expected, we’re paying significantly more to put food on the table. Back in December, Dalhousie University’s Sylvain Charlebois predicted this would happen. Groceries will cost up to 5% more this year which works out to about $700 for the average family. The man they call the Food Professor says agricultural commodities have really jumped in price. Corn is up 84% and soy is more than...