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About Me
- John Dobbin
- Just the casual observer of things around me with a focus on Winnipeg.
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My Blog List
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67 cent mcdonalds hamburgers - I haven't had a McDonald's hamburger for 15 years, got a few today, I think I'm good for another 15. At least there's no signs of food poisoning this tim...2 days ago
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About death by wedgie in the CFL…the Rodney Dangerfield Blue Bombers…diversity on the gridiron…nonsense on Sportsnet…boffo stuff from Ed Tait…dump the ump…hockey pride at Pride…and hot dogs for Phil Kessel - I cannot survive in a 140-character world, so here are more tweets that grew up to be too big for Twitter… Randy Ambrosie wants to talk. That’s a good thin...2 days ago
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Remembering Erinside School No. 1682 - © 2017, Christian Cassidy Erinside School was built on this five acre site in 1914 after a railway spur line was brought through the area. The adjacent te...
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Job Posting-Coordinator Position - Coordinator Position Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba (in Winnipeg) Full time (35 hours/week) September 2017 – April 30, 2018 The Canadian ...4 days ago
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Designs on Design - Its official, I've resurrected my Dove Grace Design project. It's languished for several years now, put on hold because of marriage, parenthood, work, home...6 days ago
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Manitoba Hydro is on its deathbed. There, we said it. - Manitoba Hydro is on its deathbed. Oh, you won't find anyone official to say it. *Yet*. Like relatives trying to appear cheery and optimistic around a lov...1 week ago
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724 Wellington Avenue - Tavistock Apartments - *Place:* Tavistock Apartments *Address: *724 Wellington Avenue (Map) *Built: *1912 - 13 *Architect: *Unknown The Tavistock Apartments were built in 1912 -...
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Canada Day – places to go and Winnipeg tunes for the ride - Canada Day has been an important date on my calendar for a long long time. Ever since 1983, when I hosted one of the earliest versions of a street festival...1 month ago
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CONs going for sticker nationalism under Scheer - I am greatly amused to find out that the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Andrew Scheer, is saying he wants the country of origin of oil lab...1 month ago
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On Fatherhood - Apparently, it *isn't* all about the bass, or I'd have finished the series by now! I've put the series on hold for the time being (Happy 2017 by the way), ...2 months ago
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Is Downtown Winnipeg Safe? - It’s a question that comes up repeatedly in Winnipeg, and I suspect many other cities: Is downtown safe? If it’s NOT safe, then what can we do to make it s...
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Getting to know you….by bus and by foot - Last year our ’99 Ford Escort finally kicked the bucket. Yep, we’d been happily driving a practically vintage vehicle, maintaining it diligently so as to s...5 months ago
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Relatively Unknown U.S. Intelligence Agency with 16,000 Employees - The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is both a combat support agency, under the United States Department of Defense, and an intelligence agenc...7 months ago
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Books, Lectures, Longreads & Zines I Read in 2016 - As has become a sort of tradition, I've taken the time on this lazy New Year's day to catalog the stuff I've read, or perhaps listened to, over the cours...7 months ago
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Chief of Police or Chief Apologist - The situations they face afford public figures the opportunity to define themselves. The Situation Part I the Media Release It started innocent...8 months ago
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Marketing done right! - Well, I cringe a little at the fact that a chain establishment is what is making me write my first post in a very long time, but so be it. I am a fan of re...
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The crippling burden of taxes on low income earners - The Manitoba PC party introduced their Alternative Throne speech on Friday. There was one promise in there that really got me thinking. They promise to inc...1 year ago
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twister - *For a seed to achieve it's greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, it's insides come out, and everything changes. To some...1 year ago
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Roulette’s legal chips dwindle - It had all the usual signs of many riveting, yet unbelievably tragic, premeditated murder cases. Two young, gang-linked men, Jesse Henderson and Dennis Bap...
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All Grown Up – My Final Post - SarahZaharia.com started in 2011 with the goal of sharing the Winnipeg I knew and loved. The fun, busy, sexy side of a city that can’t shake its lingerin...2 years ago
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2013 at the Peanut - Well, it's been a year, hasn't it? One of the big goings-on around here was that this blog became mostly-dead. We had a pretty good run, but the defection ...
3 years ago
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There's a great local Winnipeg band called The Unbelievable Bargains. They are a cross btwn They Might Be Giants meets The Presidents Of The United States Of America. I figured you might dig 'em!
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