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• A lawyer denies a Kosovo man’s alleged ties to Mossad

  04-09-2024 15:17 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A lawyer representing the family of a man from Kosovo who was arrested in Turkey for allegedly transferring money to Mossad operatives there insisted on Wednesday […]
  
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• ‘They want us to be delivery personnel’: home-care nurse

  28-01-2025 09:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  A policy change to save on delivery charges and reduce waste is threatening nurses’ health and safety by requiring them to schlep medical supplies to home-care clients themselves, says a […]
  
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• The slide back towards war: Kagame and Trump

  28-01-2025 09:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  We seem to be drifting back into the world of “might makes right.” That would be a bad place to be. Last June, the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, said […]
  
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• Pressing rewind

  28-01-2025 09:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  On Nov. 11, 2010, Cory Wojcik went to the hospital twice. His attention was split between two rooms in two wards on opposite poles of mortality, one eye ecstatically trained […]
  
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• Local production company adds L.A. television arm

  28-01-2025 09:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Buffalo Gal Pictures has added a new TV-loving member to the herd. Last week, the Winnipeg production company announced the launch of Fiasco Global Media, an international sister enterprise devoted […]
  
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• Insulation supplier sued over Concert Hall reno

  28-01-2025 09:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The Centennial Concert Hall underwent a $12.5-million renovation that was supposed to extend the life of the iconic Main Street structure for 75 years. Instead, the project, which required the […]
  
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• Emergency room issues need more than stopgaps

  28-01-2025 09:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The Manitoba government says it has taken preliminary steps to improve services in emergency rooms after a 49-year-old patient died while waiting for care at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre earlier […]
  
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• Driver-testing backlog eases during winter

  28-01-2025 09:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Manitoba Public Insurance has eliminated a huge driver-testing backlog and is getting ready to restart its troubled technology mega-project. MPI said a months-long backlog, which became even longer because of […]
  
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• Best to find out what’s wrong with this picture

  28-01-2025 09:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I’m a retired widow in my 70s. This past Christmas, I gave my good friend a Norman Rockwell print on canvas that he’d shown an interest in. […]
  
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• Manitoba teams in same pool at Scotties

  28-01-2025 02:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  All three Manitoba-based teams will be in the same pool for round-robin play at the Canadian women’s national curling championship in Thunder Bay, Ont., next month. Kerri Einarson of Gimli […]
  
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• Manitoba vets vote to end tail docking

  28-01-2025 02:19 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The province’s veterinarians can no longer dock dog tails after the Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association voted overwhelmingly to sever the practice many call antiquated and inhumane. The association voted 125-17 […]
  
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• New scam involves texts that claim to be from RCMP

  28-01-2025 01:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is warning about a scam in which Canadians receive texts from fraudsters pretending to be the RCMP. Victims receive unsolicited RCMP “delivery notices” via text […]
  
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• Peavey Mart to shutter eastern stores, MB sites bear ‘store closing’ signs

  28-01-2025 01:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  As rumours of a chain-wide closure rippled through the smaller centres that make up Peavey Mart’s primary market, the hardware and farm goods retailer remained silent Monday on the fate […]
  
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• Standout Croes re-signs with Goldeyes

  28-01-2025 00:54 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Dayson Croes hoped he had taken his last at-bat as a member of the Winnipeg Goldeyes. That he had finally done enough to earn a chance with an organization in […]
  
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• Bridgwater rises on development boom

  28-01-2025 00:52 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  more than 60 businesses have opened in Bridgwater over the past decade and development continues to grow.
  
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• Sisler only school in Canada to participate in Holocaust project

  28-01-2025 00:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Orysya Petryshyn and her 36 Grade 11 students spent more than a month researching and putting together projects to submit to the “My Hometown” project. Launched by Collingwood Learning and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2024, the project invites schools across the globe to have students work in groups to examine their communities to find connections to the Holocaust and research the effects it had on survivors and the world.
  
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• Key witness at murder trial stole victim’s debit card: Crown

  28-01-2025 00:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The fate of the man accused of slaying a Winnipeg grandfather, and hiding his body in deep bush south of the city, will hinge on the testimony of a woman who stole the victim’s debit card.
  
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• Blue Bombers release Wolitarsky

  28-01-2025 00:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have said goodbye to another familiar face. The CFL club announced early Monday it has released popular receiver Drew Wolitarsky, in what was a bit of […]
  
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• Jets prepare for home stretch

  28-01-2025 00:20 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MONTREAL — The Winnipeg Jets are about to hit the portion of the schedule when a marathon runner would to need to separate themself from the rest of the field. […]
  
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• Dior reinvents Lewis Carroll’s Alice for the Brat era at Paris fashion week

  27-01-2025 21:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri borrows from Dorothea Tanning’s surrealist paintings for her runway showThe new year has its first new muse: “Punk Alice”. At Dior’s haute couture show in Paris, Lewis Carroll’s feisty heroine got a 21st-century makeover. Imagine Alice, she of Wonderland fame, but in her Charli xcx-inspired Brat era and with a wardrobe handmade by the finest seamstresses in Paris. There you start to get the picture.A snowy white cross-backed lace pinafor
  
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• Share a tip on less-known Italy

  27-01-2025 16:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Tell us about brilliant breaks in Italy away from tourist hotspots – whether to a city, the coast or the countryside – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucherBrimming with art and culture, world famous cuisine, soaring mountains and sun-soaked beaches and islands, no wonder Italy is one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations. We’d love to hear about your discoveries away from the crowds. Whether it’s an under-the-radar city, a hidden mountain hamlet
  
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• The kindness of strangers: I pulled over in hysterics – then a passing driver saved me from the spider

  27-01-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  After the huntsman raced across my windscreen, I had an arachnophobic meltdown on the side of the road. Then a well-coiffed vision in a Volvo rolled up her sleeves• Read more in the kindness of strangers seriesWhen I was about 19 or 20 I was driving through a genteel, leafy suburb on the north shore of Sydney when that most menacing of all Australian wildlife – a huntsman spider – raced across my windscreen. On the inside.My arachnophobia is so intense that I would have vastly p
  
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• Broccoli and cashews, aubergine with chickpeas, celeriac and sausage – Nigel Slater’s winter salad recipes

  27-01-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Hot and cold, raw and cooked, soft and crisp: these are winter salads with bitePotatoes, dressed warm from the pan, tossed with smoked fish and capers. Rainbow-stemmed chard with a sauce of coconut and spices. Crisp winter roots and hot sausages in a dressing of mustard and cream. Cabbage and fennel with apples and blue cheese, or fried aubergines tossed with rose harissa and feta. These are a few of the salads that are best suited to putting on the table when the weather is cold.I am not p
  
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• Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for roast cauliflower and paneer curry | Quick and easy

  27-01-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  One tin and half an hour is all you need for this clever week-night curryThis one-tin curry – what you’d call a “dry” curry in Indian homes, to differentiate from one with an integral sauce – is such a hit in my kitchen that leftovers frequently appear as a hot breakfast, along with an egg and flatbreads. Continue reading...
  
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• Heated throws, puffer vests and grippy running shoes: the products you loved most this month

  27-01-2025 13:05 via theguardian.com
  
  This week: hot sauce, cold weather fashion and Sali Hughes’s winter beauty essentials• Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereI’ve long been a January apologist. Few would claim it’s their favourite month, but I love the optimism of a fresh new year, offering the reset so many crave. In January, you can still believe that this is the year in which you’ll find the perfect work-life balance, become a chiselled Adonis, and finally achieve the ze
  
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• Which members of the cabinet are crossword-worthy?

  27-01-2025 12:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Among Reeves, the other Reeves, Reed and the rest, which are suitable for use in puzzles?Some cabinet members have names that offer little to the crossword setter: I’m thinking of Liz Kendall, with her paucity of vowels, her surfeit of Ls and that nice-in-Scrabble nasty-to-clue duo K and Z. Others have decent letters but fail the “Can you expect the solver to have noticed them?” test: the letters in the name Steve Reed offer EVEREST and the surname of the chancellor but the env
  
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• Rachel Roddy’s recipe for potato and tinned fish cakes | A kitchen in Rome

  27-01-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A thrifty and delicious store-cupboard mealI have known for months, maybe even a year, that a tin of tuna had fallen down the back of the cupboard. It was only when a tin of sardines followed it, and got stuck on the way, that I finally pulled everything out to save them. In return, they saved dinner.Putting fish in a tin is a sustainable act (in principle, anyway), because it gives almost everlasting life to a product with an extremely short shelf life and an extremely high risk of waste. Anoth
  
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• Confused about savings? This is the ideal time to take an interest

  27-01-2025 11:30 via theguardian.com
  
  While Rachel Reeves may be facing financial headaches, the turmoil is bringing serious good news for saversThe economic headwinds that have been buffeting the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, might be a headache for her, but they have brought positive news for some of those looking for a better deal on their savings.We have heard a lot recently about turmoil in the bond markets and higher UK government borrowing costs – but they are also pushing up the interest you can earn on some fixed-rate sa
  
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• Do you run away from feelings of emptiness? It’s time to face them head-on

  27-01-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  People try many things to fill the void, but respite is short-lived. Learning to tolerate and understand these emotions will give you a more solid sense of yourselfI just read an extraordinary article by Anna Parker for this website, and it set my mind on fire. Parker interviewed Yannick and Ben Jakober, whose daughter died at 19. In their grief, they began building a unique, 165-strong portrait collection of children from the 16th to 19th centuries, many of whom did not survive to adulthood. Th
  
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• Guirong Wei’s home-style sauces for Chinese noodles – recipes

  27-01-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The star of Netflix’s Chef’s Table reveals the secrets to two of her stellar noodle sauces: egg and tomato, and hearty pork minceMy restaurants are all about the noodles – fresh hand-pulled biang biang noodles in particular. They’re not the easiest things to make, though, and are certainly not something a novice would want to tackle for a midweek meal at home, which is where shop-bought alternatives come in so handy. If possible, buy fresh “knife-cut” noodles
  
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