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Mr. Potato Head comes to Canada

Game space takes issue with spoilers

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Maybe I wouldn't have cared as much normally, but for the past few weeks I was in anti-spoiler mode.

VENT! [here]

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Don't be afraid of heading to a gallery

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I used to be frightened of going to art galleries. In particular, the long steps of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery seemed to lead the way into a place where I'd surely be judged as some sort of uninformed twit.

Letter to the editor

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Laundromat hosts weekly Comix Jam for everyone

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Everyone is familiar with the concept of music jams.

Single in the City

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So being the smart single gal I am, knowing full well how much I (among others) enjoy beer and all its deliciousness, I attended this year's Atlantic Beer Festival back in May. Last year's event was a huge success and true to form, it certainly didn't disappoint this time around.

Game space columnist connects his Wii to the Net

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My Nintendo Wii is no longer lonely. After much procrastinating and sheer incompetence when it comes to computers, my Wii is now online.

Ahoy, Métis!

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Homard and da wife we took a little trip down to Monkeytown lass week for some nice crispy Deluxe French Fry fish an chip.

It's summer and the living is queasy

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I'm not particularly fond of summer. I know I should be. I should be a lot of things I'm not: Tall, handsome, athletic, rich, multilingual, an astronaut. I can't do anything about this. And I can't do anything about summer.

Dunh da dunh da dunh - dUH!

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Dunh-da-dunh-da-dunh is my cellphone ring; it's also the start of the theme to Hockey Night in Canada, and, not coincidentally, the sound of the beat of my hockey heart.

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Game space columnist connects his Wii to the Net It's summer and the living is queasy Dear Barack: Can I be your running mate? Don't y'all get too excited about delirium Free will astrology Creative writing 101: It's an American love story Free will astrology Hot tips for building your resume revealed Comedian says 50 is the new 48 St. John's, NFLD is like a whole other country

Don't y'all get too excited about delirium

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Those Mounties are some excited about delirium, so Homard is wondering if they are gonna sulk when Ottawa takes their new toys away.

Dear Barack: Can I be your running mate?

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I must confess a slightly unsettling fissure developing in my otherwise rock-solid sense of national identity. No, it's not George Clooney or Brad Pitt causing me to wonder.

Single in the City

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In the spirit of the recent release of the highly anticipated new movie Sex & The City I decided to devote this next column to one of the greatest single gals’ teaching tools ever brought to light, and as some guys don’t like to admit, a great insightful peak into women as well.

Keeping abreast of the news in Ottawa...

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They say all the labour unions in New Brunswick are dead set against something they call the 'double breasting' an' I hope to tell you Homard is shock all to hell and gone about this. Why oh why, ax a very puzzle Homard, do the union all hate poor innercent little Julie Couillard so much?

Free will astrology

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Creative writing 101: It's an American love story

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A friend writes that she bemoans the decline of English language studies across the continent. Once upon a time, she says, kids learned Shakespeare.

Overheard [here]

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We took a bit of a sabbatical, I know, but Overheard [here] is back and just a little bitchier than usual. Thanks for your submissions and keep them coming.

Free will astrology

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Hot tips for building your resume revealed

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For most of us summer means time to enjoy the long weekends, barbecuing with friends and family and enjoying the nice weather. For students, it also means summer employment.

Comedian says 50 is the new 48

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He's not even on the phone 30 seconds before he's cracking jokes; after offering sympathies for the recent flooding in New Brunswick, comedian Derek Edwards starts to imagine himself in the same situation.

St. John's, NFLD is like a whole other country

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Travelling in Newfoundland is great entertainment for oodles of reasons, not the least of which is local colour. That sounds cliché -- those quaint Newfies and all that -- but it doesn't take long here to realize this is in many respects a different country. It's not unlike travelling in Quebec, except here an Anglophone doesn't understand as much of the language.

A mighty wind: cool and strong or hot and bothered?

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For a premier who extols the virtues of self-sufficiency, New Brunswick's Shawn Graham seems oddly preoccupied with the intentions of an ambivalent moneybag.

Homard 's taking a chance on 'Moncton's Casino Hospital'

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Homard is kinda puzzled about the finance ministre wanting to waste the public's money on a 'Carbo Tax' just because his favourite hockey team suck so bad they can't even beat Philadelphie.

Free will astrology

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