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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 11, 2007, Winnipeg, Manitoba A2 Winnipeg free press tuesday december 11, 2007 from every Quarter at the in climate Manitoba talks monday As the Summit Host and Canadian provincial ministers joined can of Worms opened environmentalists foreign negotiators and scientists in a chorus of condemn provincial courts May have opened Tion. / a9 the door for municipalities to expropriate residents land for business ventures like tourism a Winnipeg lawyer said sense of euphoria monday. / a6 thousands of pro Independence demonstrators marched through Koso Canada Vos capital monday As a sense of euphoria swept the breakaway province verdict disappoints preparing to gain statehood Early in 2008. / a9 the Man who led the ramp task Force that investigated missing women on Van Couver a downtown Eastside expressed City his disappointment monday about the verdict in the Robert Willie Pickton calling All bus stops murder trial. / a7 bus rides in Winnipeg Are going to get a lot noisier in the new year when Drivers no gifts for soldiers Start announcing each Stop along their routes. / b1more than 1,700 care packages destined hark i hear the Plush for Canadian troops in Afghanistan have been grounded by the military. / a7 Angels at work Manitoba Moose players will join world forces with Misericordia health centres toys from hell singing Angel squad to collect donations outside Lamato 1.89 a Reg. Or spicy $2.99 a. Dill pickles 1 a asst. 2/$5.00 Mclaren Kent jars 375 my olives coca cola products gherkins 2 a asst. Sweet onions 2/$5.00 2/$3.00 stove top baked Apple stuffing or Raisin pie Kraft 120 a bakery asst. 99? counter 620 g 2/$5.00 Chris ties minute crackers Rice 250-300 a asst. Kraft 1.2-1.4 pkg 2/$5.00 $5.79ea. Campbells soups 284 ,tom.,mushroom, cd. Noodle or veg. 79? a. Puritan stews or Corn beef hash 700 a asst.$2.98 natural Maxwell bakery Rye House bread Coffee 500 g 1 pkg 99? a. $6.99ea. Old dutch Valley bakery potato bread chips White or 60% 235g 3/$6.00 600-650 g $1.09ea. Center Cut pork chops $2.88 la. Tbone or Wing Steak $5.99lb. 99?pkg Centennial a burgers $7.49ea. 20-4 of. Patties 5 la. Box Chuck Blade Steak $2.79 la. Fresh lean ground pork $1.39lb. Rib end pork chops $1.98 la. Bone in pork buttons $1.49lb. Smoked picnic hams $1.49lb. Sirloin Steak with tenderloin $3.99 la. Pork Hocks 79? la . Cooked Ham $1.99 la. Sliced or shaved Cossack pastrami $3.99 la. Sliced or shaved t Oday a seasonal gift giving topic is what to buy for the person or persons you Are trying to drive insane during the festive season. My advice is this Holiday themed electronic singing Plush toys. If you have not heard any of these singing toys yet then you Are Likely what we experienced Holiday shoppers like to Call if you have been exposed to these ubiquitous electronic creatures then i can Only Hope the people who look after you have made sure you Are not currently holding any Sharp objects. A a a of i a not joking Here. I mention this because my wife and i spent four hours ? or roughly two months in non Holiday shopping time ? in the mall on sunday. We were looking for a singing animated Holiday toy the kind which thanks to a tiny computer Chip can also wobble walk and gyrate in the sort of fashion you would find highly amusing if you had consumed Between eight and 12 Beers. Naturally we wanted to buy the most obnoxious toy available. There were plenty to choose from. As nearby shoppers cringed or ran away clutching their ears my wife and i busily pushed the buttons to activate literally dozens of electronic stuffed toys which when singing their Holiday songs in unison achieved the same Decibel level As a Large Jet aircraft thundering Down the runway. We had a system. I would turn a toy on then squint at my wife. That ones really horrible i would say. My wife would frown. Hmm she would say its horrible but not horrible i do not have data to Back it up but i suspect these toys Are behind the Sharp increase in the number of serial killings in this country every Christmas. The same thing happens at Disneyland with employees who work too Long in the its a Small world ride. You could Tell by looking in the bloodshot eyes of the clerks working in this store that they could not have been happier not even if we had been wandering around the aisles naked clutching machetes and setting fire to holi Day merchandise. These of course Are the same clerks who have been trapped in the shopping mall environment and forced to listen to Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer and frosty the snowman on a continuous Loop since roughly two weeks before halloween. If you make those toys sing one More time we will strangle you with this decorative ribbon is what the clerks were clearly thinking and no court in the land would convict us but we did not have time to worry about the clerks. We were on a Mission. In our search for just the right singing Canada condemned the Hospital this morning. Donors will get a Coffee Goodie and free press. / b3 Canada was pounded with criticism Dyck Anna. Dyck Ernest Henry. Finlayson Edgar. Gariepy Ray. Good be Beatt Enaomi Ruth. Gray Douglas Allan. Isfeld be Favel Delores Linda. Klingbeil Assar. Laurea Alejandra. Kala Warny Shirley. Martins Maria merces. Molgaard Lorne Georry. Minorca Marciano. Olafson be Svobod Acatherine Annette. Penner be Wie Beannie. 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We Are in a War. We did not fire the first shots. Our very dear friends did. What happened was a couple of years ago these friends gave us a huge electronic toy Soldier which when you push his but ton marches around swings a toy sword and plays the theme to the Nutcracker loud enough to make your ears bleed. Dum Dada Dum Dum Dum Dada Dum this toy goes Over and Over and Over and Over. If you have teenagers like ours they will want to play this toy repeat edly because it makes them Happy at this festive time of year to watch their parents slowly descend into madness. What our friends like to do is buy us one of these toys every single year leave it on our Doorstep Pound on the door push the toys on Button and then run away before we can open the door and shoot them. A a a. You probably have friends like this too. Initially we pretended that we really liked these toys. You Are sure swell friends is what we told them. But that was before they bought us the singing dogs from hell which is a toy that features three dogs in Santa Caps sitting on a Pillow and when activated the dogs shriek merry merry Christmas merry merry Christmas repeatedly in a festive tone that makes it sound As though their fur is being ripped away by packs of hungry ferrets. Finally we decided to retaliate. That a Why this weekend we bought our friends their very own animated singing Holiday pal which is a Plush hound dog wearing a Cap and Scarf that lights up throws Back his droopy jowls and howls everything from Jingle Bells to Santa Claus is com ing to town in the style of a Drunken hillbilly. Fortunately i am not ruining the Surprise Here because our friends Are in Toronto right now. But think of the look of sheer Joy on their faces when they come Home and find their new electronic singing buddy sitting on their Doorstep. 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