Gordon Sinclair Jr.
Winnipeg Free Press
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Christmas bonus
It’s not the kind of Christmas gift one ever expects to find under the family tree.... - Columnists - Winnipeg Free Press. → Read More
Enduring friendship was in the card
If you’ve been waiting for a Christmas story that might lift your spirits and offer a chance to reflect on a kind of joy the season can bring — no matter what our faith, or lack thereof — here it is.This month, two women who have been best friends since they were teenagers in St. James, will exchange a Christmas card for the 57th consecutive year.That’s heartwarming and special in itself. → Read More
Who gets a badge?
It has almost become a mantra of the times.Job-hunting sons and daughters of baby boomers have it tougher than their parents, who can remember being able to launch a lifelong career with only a high school diploma. → Read More
The crime: lack of transparency
For what it's worth, veteran police officer Danny Smyth was my choice for new police chief before he was appointed by the Winnipeg Police Board last year. Our professional relationship, such as it is, goes back nearly 30 years, and I've liked and admired him that long. → Read More
The silent witnesses
IT didn’t occur to me until a week or so after off-duty city police officer Justin Holz was charged with impaired driving causing death and failure to remain at the Main Street scene where 23-year Cody Severight was struck. Maybe my mind just didn’t want to go there again. → Read More
Travel writers heaping praise on our fair city
As winter starts to breathe down our scarf-bundled necks, this story about Winnipeg becoming a newly discovered jewel of a destination for jaded travel writers may feel, well, a bit out of season. But I’ve got news for you. → Read More
A different story unfolds
Despite his landslide NDP leadership victory last Saturday, it hasn’t been a good week for Wab Kinew and his credibility as a man or a politician. And it wasn’t going to get any better when I tried to reach him at week’s end. → Read More
Kinew 'reckless' in relationship
If Wab Kinew feels like he’s been under siege since being elected as the controversial new leader of the New Democratic Party, he’s not the only one.So is Tara Hart, the woman whose allegations of long-ago domestic abuse have made her a target, too. → Read More
Indigenous MLA's attempt at damage control too little, too late
I hadn’t expected the message Tara Hart’s older sister and mother had waiting for me when I called Sunday afternoon to see how they were doing after they had finally shared their feelings about Wab Kinew in that morning’s Free Press. But then neither Melanie Hart, nor her mother, Wendy Bird, had expected to get the message they got earlier in the day, either. → Read More
Family of Kinew's accuser wants their story heard
The call from Tara Hart’s mother came at the 11th hour Saturday. At 10 a.m., to be exact. Coincidentally, I was having a latte a block away from the RBC Convention Centre, where in a few hours delegates would elect Wab Kinew as the new leader of the provincial New Democratic Party. → Read More
Take your foot off the gas and save cash
It was this time last year when a driver of my acquaintance — who was unaware the school zone speed limit was in effect even though students weren’t back in class — got tagged with a pricey photo-radar ticket.And beat it.The enforcement of school-zone limits on the 2016 Labour Day weekend can be described only as a blitz. → Read More
Life's not fare
Last week’s column about the female Winnipeg Transit driver who used a broom to prod awake a sleeping indigenous passenger included another controversial element that almost got lost in the telling, if not the title.Free ride, rude awakening, the headline read. → Read More
Her lifelong quest: for someone to listen
‘The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question’ — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Over the decades the now-elderly, Polish-born woman had written in search of an answer from a pope, a prime minister and a famous piano player. → Read More
Remembering a concert master
Iwent searching for Bones in the place on Earth where people can live forever: cyberspace. It was on his Facebook home page where Carol Barbeau, a sister of Bruce (Bones) Rathbone, had left a message after her brother was found dead Sunday from an apparent heart attack. → Read More
Eight-year-old's extraordinary final gift to her community
NORWAY HOUSE CREE NATION — Jordin Bailey was an eight-year-old girl with the soul of a wise elder. But last summer, a doctor told her mother, Lisa Kematch, that Jordin probably wouldn’t live to be nine years old. → Read More
Reaping fear at Harvest
If there were ever a time when Winnipeg Harvest needs our help, it’s now.That’s because the food bank needs to heal as it faces an uncertain, perhaps even dire future. → Read More
Infuriated by taxi runaround
The email from the highly agitated gentleman arrived in the wee hours of the last weekend in April. At 3:31 a.m., to be precise. The hour suggests just how angry Sheldon Garrioch was about what he and his pal, Gary Hearnden, had just experienced with a couple of Winnipeg’s leading taxi companies. → Read More
One tow over the line
Marie Nault had waited two weeks before finally, late on a mid-April Sunday night, she pressed “send” on an email with an intriguing subject line: illegal towing. Her account of what happened was attached. → Read More
Beggars at the door
If you’re fed up with the never-ending glut of unsolicited envelopes with prepaid return addre... - Columnists - Winnipeg Free Press. → Read More
Treasured memories of Mr. Larsen, a valued mentor
I don’t know how many of you had a favourite high school teacher, but you might want to reflect on that while I pay tribute to mine.Why now?Because Norm Larsen will celebrate his 82nd birthday on Tuesday. → Read More