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Rock historian delivers details, but not dirt
This summer will be the 50th anniversary of the release of
So Long, Bannatyne, the 1971 Guess Who album.
That fact and countless other details of the Winnipeg group’s recording career fill the pages of
Wheatfield Empire: The Listener’s Guide to the Guess Who, written by Toronto rock historian and author Robert Lawson.
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Toronto author Robert Lawson has also penned books about Nazareth and Cheap Trick.
Lawson grew up in Winnipeg not on Bannatyne Avenue but in East Kildonan, where he delivered the
Free Press as a kid but he moved away when he was 10. His family says the first concert he attended was the Guess Who, but he was only two, tagging along with his father, who was an avid record collector.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Aaron Epp
Sean Miller, executive director of Peer Connections Manitoba, the organization formerly known as the Manitoba Schizophrenia Society.
James was experiencing severe depression, anxiety and loneliness exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic when he visited the Mental Health Crisis Response Centre on Bannatyne Avenue last fall.
James was experiencing severe depression, anxiety and loneliness exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic when he visited the Mental Health Crisis Response Centre on Bannatyne Avenue last fall.
As part of their response, health-care workers referred the 65-year-old retiree to Peer Connections Manitoba for one-on-one peer support.
Through this program, people experiencing mental illness or addiction issues are paired with a peer support worker with lived experience who listens, answers questions regarding accessing mental-health services and helps the person they are working w
Winnipeg police investigating suspicious death near HSC as a homicide
Winnipeg police are investigating a suspicious death after a man was found dead at a house near Health Sciences Centre on Saturday morning.
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Man was found unresponsive in a house on the corner of Bannatyne and Arlington on Saturday morning
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The Winnipeg Police Service s homicide unit is investigating the death.(Darin Morash/CBC)
Winnipeg police are investigating a suspicious death after a man was found dead at a house near Health Sciences Centre on Saturday morning.
Paramedics were called to a house on the corner of Bannatyne Avenue and Arlington Street at 11:36 a.m. Saturday after receiving a report that a man was unconscious and not responsive, according to a news release issued on Sunday.
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