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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Canada

This or That

Minnesota’s Northwest Angle: Time to give it to Canada?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 2, 2019, 10:00 AM Jan 2, 2019
56

The Angle, for those of you who’ve not studied maps of Minnesota, is a spit of land in Lake of the Woods County that is north of the line that generally defines the U.S. border and belongs to the United States. It is — other than Alaska — the only U.S. territory north of the 49th parallel — i.e. the border.
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Canada’s shame: indigenous kids stolen from families

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 12, 2018, 10:29 AM Dec 12, 2018
17

The CBC offers poignant truth today in the telling of the story of three sisters, victims of the Sixties Scoop in Canada, in which Canada’s Indigenous, Metis and Inuit children were taken, often separated, then placed in foster homes or given to white families through adoption from the late ’50s to the ’80s. Read more →

Weather

Stranded in snowstorm, a trumpeter keeps spirits up

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 3, 2018, 3:23 PM Oct 3, 2018
5

Alberta got hammered by an early-season snowstorm. Calgary is paralyzed. For over 10 hours, people were huddled in vehicles stuck in ditches and on Highway 1, impassable because of the snow.

Professional trumpeter Jens Lindemann did what he could to pass the time . Read more →

Politics

A case for a Canadian invasion

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 11, 2018, 2:10 PM Jun 11, 2018
51

It takes a lot to make Canada mad, but former diplomat Scott Gilmore has pretty much had it. Read more →

Sports

She was paralyzed. Then her husband left her. Now she’s in the Olympics

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 13, 2018, 7:00 AM Mar 13, 2018
5

Marie Wright, Canada’s lead for the women’s wheelchair curling team at the the Paralympic Games in South Korea, is ostensibly talking about curling here but is really offering a life lesson. One rock at a time. Read more →

This or That

In Canada, ‘true patriot love’ is for women now, too

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 1, 2018, 2:06 PM Feb 1, 2018
9

Canada, which has the world’s best national anthem, is tweaking the thing to get with the times.

See if you can determine the problematic line. No peeking. Read more →

People doing good · War

Canada has a lot to teach us

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 20, 2017, 10:44 AM Feb 20, 2017
15

Some people can look away from the killings and attacks on innocent people in Syria. And then there are the Canadians. Read more →

Sports

Here’s the most Canada thing ever

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 22, 2016, 11:20 AM Dec 22, 2016
9

No more entries, please. We have our champion in the contest for Most Canada Thing Ever.

How could it anything but this, eh? Read more →

War

‘A human life has value here’

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 1, 2016, 8:46 AM Jul 1, 2016
5

The New York Times today looks at the country’s welcoming tone, and its potential pitfalls, following up on how some of the refugees are doing. Read more →

People doing good

How Canada counters hate

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 14, 2016, 12:08 PM Mar 14, 2016
7

Shelley Bramhoff Sikorski didn’t have a lot of time to get a picture to go viral before Facebook removed it. It was a Valentine’s card her gay son received at the Edmonton party goods store where he worked. A new manager took over recently and his hours, were cut. Read more →

War

In welcoming refugees, Trudeau trumps U.S.

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 11, 2015, 7:50 AM Dec 11, 2015
44

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wittingly or unwittingly provided a sharp contrast between his country and the one to the south when a plane load of Syrian refugees arrived overnight in Toronto. Read more →

Canadian town brings early Christmas to dying boy

Jon Gordon October 20, 2015, 10:44 AM Oct 20, 2015
0

Evan Leversage, a 7-year-old boy with brain cancer, isn’t expected to live until Christmas. So the people of St. George, Ontario are messing with the calendar to bring in the holiday season early. Read more →

Weather

Canadian smoke grounds airplanes in Twin Cities

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 6, 2015, 4:08 PM Jul 6, 2015
10

It’s not unusual for airports to report instrument flight conditions, in which it’s legal to take off and land only if a flight is operated under instrumental flight rules. But it is unusual for the conditions to exist on an otherwise sunny day. Read more →

Economy

Initial reaction reveals Canadians’ hatred of Target

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2015, 8:22 AM Jan 15, 2015
15

Are Canadians upset that they won’t be able to shop at Target anymore? Hardly. Read more →

Economy

Hey Target, can downtown St. Paul get a store now?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2015, 8:07 AM Jan 15, 2015
5

Target is going to write off billions of dollars with the retreat, but it’s not going to be bleeding red ink anymore, either. So what will it do with its money? Read more →

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