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Winnipeg Free Press - October 05, 2007
Global Tv Pink Slips Loom, Including Some Jobs in City
Christine McGinley, senior vice-president of station operations, said, "This is all part of the evolution from analog to digital broadcasting that is happening all over the world. We are moving to a digital platform and we will be HD- (high definition) ready." "We will gather the news like we always do," he said. "We will control the content of our local news as we always have." "If they are restructuring for technical reasons it might makes sense to do that," he said. "But what we don't see ...
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Winnipeg Free Press - December 26, 2009
"[Aravind Adiga]'s slumdogs want what other slumdogs want, and he tells their stories in all their urgency. Just don't expect a Hollywood ending." "Based on personal experiences and using his extensive journals as references, [Farley Mowat] recalls the 1930s, '40s, '50s, before radical changes in the Inuit way of life -- the destruction of the vast caribou herds and the exploitation of the land." "The unauthorized [Edward M. Kennedy] tomes, such as the recent Bobby and Jackie by C. David Heym...
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Winnipeg Free Press - November 28, 2007
United Jewish People's Order and the Winnipeg Outlook Committee sponsor the annual dinner in support of Outlook, Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine, Nov. 29, 6 p.m. at Gwen Secter Creative Living Centre. The topic is Dissecting Canadian politics. Guest speakers are Frances Russell and Lesley Hughes. For reservations call Dora at 338-3448 or Bertha at 489-5891. Shoestring Players present "Dear Santas" for children 6 and up, by Norm Foster, Dec. 6, 7 & 8, 7 p.m. and Dec. 8, 1 p.m. at Fore...
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Northern Review - Nbr. 1996, December 1996
... ancestors merge with the echoing silence of this weathered and weathering land. Listen. I swore I would ...... on the same terrain, after six days, as the weather cooled to zero, walking finally out of the ...
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Accounting Historians Journal, The - Vol. 32 Nbr. 2, December 2005
The Role of Accounting Practices in the Disempowerment of the Coahuiltecan Indians
This paper argues that a complex of accounting measures - account books, inventories of accumulated wealth, and detailed instructions for production performance - were used to inculcate Western values into the native population located at five Franciscan missions along the San Antonio River in New Spain (present-day Texas) from 1718 to 1794. Bolstered by the need to alleviate communications problems caused by extreme isolation, the missionaries constructed detailed mission documents that desc...
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