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• How long should police officers abstain from pot? Depends whom you ask

  12-10-2018 23:15 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - Twenty-eight days. That's how long members of the RCMP and Toronto police have been ordered to abstain from smoking or vaping recreational pot before reporting for duty. Calgary ......
  
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• Island paradises, Indian caves and Interrail: the best destinations for new solo travellers

  12-10-2018 19:18
  With solo travel up by a third since 2011, we are warming to the idea of a trip away without compromise or arguments. Here are some places that guarantee a good welcomeThe first time I travelled alone was to Amsterdam in my teens. It was a formative experience. I found myself exploring a city in a way I had never done before; without compromise. This, it turns out, is one of the reasons why a growing number of people are opting for a holiday alone. According to the Association of British Travel
  
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• What Classifies a House Style: What Makes a Cape Cod Home?

  12-10-2018 19:00
  Cape Cod homes have been around for centuries, yet they continue to enchant us. This type of home, which is now synonymous with beachy style and weekends away, comes from very humble beginnings but still remains popular. That popularity led us to a question. What exactly is it that makes a Cape Cod-style home so unique?We’ve laid out the answer below. Keep reading to learn more about the long history of this quaint architectural style, what it is that sets the different types of Cape Cod h
  
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• Deciem CEO removed after successful intervention by investor Estee Lauder

  12-10-2018 18:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - The founder of Deciem, the self-professed "Abnormal Beauty Company," saw his reign at the Toronto cosmetics brand come to an unusual end on Friday.Brandon Truaxe was ousted from ...
  
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• Maryse Conde wins alternative literature prize in absence of Nobel

  12-10-2018 18:42
  Maryse Conde from the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe was awarded the New Academy Prize in Literature, created after the Swedish Academy postponed this year's literary Nobel as it sought to...
  
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• Hugh Hefner's trademark black pajamas to hit auction block

  12-10-2018 18:39
  Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's trademark black silk pajamas and red smoking jacket are going up for sale as part of an auction of his belongings, including his complete set of Playboy magazines.
  
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• Juicy returns: Florida orange harvest up after long decline

  12-10-2018 18:07 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LAKELAND, Fla. - Florida's orange crop is expected to increase for the first time in seven years.The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday that 79 million boxes of oranges are ......
  
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• Buyer goes ahead with purchase of shredded Banksy painting

  12-10-2018 17:54
  The woman who bid more than 1 million pounds for a painting by the mysterious British artist Banksy which shred itself into pieces at the moment of the sale has gone ahead with the purchase, auction...
  
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• Superstar power

  12-10-2018 17:03 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Pop superstar Taylor Swift has covered a lot of topics in her career — but politics hasn’t been one of them.That changed on Sunday as Swift triggered a social-media firestorm ...
  
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• Tortilla town sides with underdog no-onionists in recipe rivalry

  12-10-2018 16:37
  Organisers of annual contest in Betanzos decree Spanish omelettes should be onion-freeOne of Spain’s bitterest battles, a long-festering confrontation that predates the ugly international skirmishes over paella and even the rivalry between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, could finally be reaching its endgame.The town council of Betanzos, the Galician municipality whose tortillas de patatas, or Spanish omelettes, are regularly hailed as the finest in the land, has spoken. And the message to t
  
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• Singer Jessie Ware: my life in food

  12-10-2018 16:27
  Singer and podcaster Jessie Ware’s favourite recipes were learned watching her mum – and she can’t wait to share a similar bond with her own daughter Cooking is something I became aware of at a very young age. My mother was quite adventurous in the kitchen. In the 1980s, it felt pretty exotic to get a chicken kiev, and she was always trying things with spices when most people weren’t. She did a chicken casserole with lots of paprika and peppers and this rice with onions a
  
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• Cocktail of the week: Bramble

  12-10-2018 16:00
  Inspired by the British pastime of brambling, this is a legacy of that legend of the bar scene, Dick BradsellA truly British cocktail and, unusually, one with an undisputed inventor: Dick Bradsell, who died in 2016, was a legend of the British bar scene. It was inspired by the British pastime of brambling, when the blackberry bushes that grow in hedgerows and wasteland come into fruit, before the season ends with the first hard frost. Continue reading...
  
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• Princess Eugenie shows off back scar in Peter Pilotto wedding dress

  12-10-2018 15:20
  Britain's Princess Eugenie wore an elegant voluminous dress by London-based label Peter Pilotto for her wedding to Jack Brooksbank on Friday, with the bride picking a low back to reveal scars she got...
  
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• Liv Tyler, Robbie Williams among royal wedding celebrity guests

  12-10-2018 15:20
  Hollywood stars Liv Tyler and Demi Moore and singer Robbie Williams were among the first celebrity guests to arrive at Britain's second royal wedding of the year on Friday to see Queen Elizabeth's...
  
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• Great Gatsby makes an appearance at a British royal wedding

  12-10-2018 15:20
  Jay Gatsby, the tragic hero of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous work, made an appearance at the wedding of Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Princess Eugenie on Friday.
  
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• Factbox: Britain's second royal wedding of the year

  12-10-2018 15:20
  Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Princess Eugenie married her fiance Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on Friday, the second British royal wedding at the monarch's home this year.
  
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• Drink young and beautiful: wines that needn’t wait

  12-10-2018 15:00
  Received wisdom says good wines improve with age, yet some are so delicious right now, there’s little point in waitingA conventional wisdom that is imparted when you begin to learn about wine is that serious wines benefit from age. But I reckon that’s a tenet that needs re-examining.The other week, for example, I went to a vertical tasting of wines by Felton Road, a New Zealand producer I love and whose products I (very occasionally) buy when I’m feeling particularly extravagan
  
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• The East London Hotel: ‘Rooms from £85 a short walk from the tube’ – review

  12-10-2018 14:04
  ‘Throw a stone in any direction from this hotel and it’s likely to land in someone’s negroni’ ... a great new base for exploring Bethnal GreenMother Kelly would be surprised at what’s been happening on her famous doorstep. The Georgian terraced houses of Paradise Row are still there but the railway arches at its northern end – once workshops and mechanics’ garages – have been taken over by chic restaurants and cool bars, one of them named after the
  
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• How to wear: tartan

  12-10-2018 14:00
  The dominance of the tartan army shows how versatile the look has becomeAt one point a few years ago, every shirt I owned was tartan. The lumberjack shirt was the urban, metrosexual version of the polo shirt, and I owned about 20 of them. It’s the kind of garment that says, “Hey guys, at the weekends I like to whittle and play the lute.” Unlike a real fashion-fashion trend, what it doesn’t semaphore is: “I will probably dump you as soon as we get to the party or at
  
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• My girlfriend is still in contact with a guy she used to hook up with

  12-10-2018 13:56
  She says they were friends before they became ‘friends with benefits’, but she has been lying to me about how often they used to see each otherI am going through a rough patch with my girlfriend of five months. She attends university 90 miles away, but we see each other most weekends. Our relationship was great until she told me that, before we got together, she had hooked up with one of the most popular guys at my university. She has kept in contact with him, because, she says, &ldq
  
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• Retailers up their game after Toys R Us closures

  12-10-2018 13:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - When Toys R Us closed its doors, customers mourned the loss of a beloved brand that conjured memories of their own childhood.Retailers, on the other hand, saw ......
  
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• How high fashion hit the high street in a forgotten decade

  12-10-2018 13:26
  Exhibition reveals how catwalk designs affected the everyday style of working women
  • Night and Day: 1930s Fashion and Photographs - in picturesSandwiched by the iconic flapper dresses of the 1920s and the New Look of the 40s, the 1930s is a decade often eclipsed in fashion terms, but a London exhibition celebrating its rich archive is set to put it right back on the agenda.Opening this weekend at the Fashion and Textiles Museum in Bermondsey, 1930s: Day and Night explores the period that w
  
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• Canada's Bob Knuckey aims to push world Ironman envelope at age 70

  12-10-2018 13:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Bob Knuckey wants to be the fastest man at the world Ironman championship among men in their seventh decades.The 70-year-old retired teacher from Caledon, Ont., has pulled out all the ...
  
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• Past the Pumpkin: 5 Ways to Decorate with Produce This Fall

  12-10-2018 13:00
  One of the best things about the fall season is gathering with loved ones as the weather cools. You share stories, glasses of wine and mugs of cider. It’s a cozy time of camaraderie. At least, that’s the idea. If you’re the one hosting, fall get-togethers can be a little stressful. The daunting task of decorating for the holidays is just around the corner. Are you supposed to double your work (and storage needs) by having a full lineup of fall decor, too? Fortunately, you can d
  
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• ‘Joyce Molyneux grabbed macho chef culture by the scruff of the neck’ – Rosemary Shrager | The cook’s cook

  12-10-2018 13:00
  Of the many influences on celebrity chef Rosemary Shrager’s cooking – Julia Child, a long list of French masters – Joyce Molyneux stands out as the leading figureA passion for cooking is in my genes, which has been passed on to my children, too. My grandmother was a wonderful cook, as was my mother, but my first great cookbook influence came in the form of Julia Child. Mastering the Art of French Cooking is my cooking down to a T – classically French and simply communicat
  
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• Anna Jones’ savoury grape recipes

  12-10-2018 13:00
  Serve them with tarragon or roast them with goat’s cheeseThere is a vine growing outside our front window, and by now it is heavy with dusky little wine grapes. We have spent a morning snipping two big baskets of small, tart bunches from it, some of which I have used to make a sort of grape paste to eat with cheese. The rest we’ve eaten roasted with fennel seeds to top soft cheese on toast, or in this salad inspired by one I ate at a dinner cooked in celebration of my friend Anja Dun
  
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• Princess Eugenie, granddaughter of Britain's queen, is married

  12-10-2018 12:23
  Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Princess Eugenie married Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on Friday in front of celebrities and Britain's senior royals including Prince Harry and wife Meghan who wed...
  
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• The Pointer, Brill, Buck: 'If this is the future of hospitality, count me out’ – restaurant review

  12-10-2018 11:00
  A beautifully restored country pub is spoiled by underwhelming service and food to forgetUntil recently, a “mini-break” spent in a “hotel” was the answer to many of life’s woes: exhaustion, ennui, existential dismay. Nowadays, modern types favour the “restaurant with rooms” – the new buzz term for dinner with an overnight stay. Plain, snoozy, old, functional hotels, with an abundance of staff, room service, reception desk, trouser presses, tear-sta
  
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• My life in sex: ‘He rarely lasts a whole minute’

  12-10-2018 11:00
  The woman whose husband ejaculates prematurelyAs women, we are taught that men are ruled by sex, and that our power lies in our attractiveness. But whenever I attempt to seduce my husband of three years, I am met with rejection, excuses (“But I have to do the bins” was a particular low point), exasperation, or annoyance. My husband suffers from premature ejaculation, a problem that arose three months into our relationship.He rarely lasts a whole minute, but, for me, the issue is not
  
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• High romance: Cannabis compatibility looks to reshape dating scene, experts say

  12-10-2018 10:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  For Steven Bisson, an ideal date night consists of a quiet night at home, a bag of Doritos and some cannabis to set the mood.Bisson, a 50-year-old medical marijuana user ......
  
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• Autumn trends decoded: how to work the cowboy, explorer or lumberjack look

  12-10-2018 10:00
  The autumn catwalk took notes from Silicon Valley and Scott of the AntarcticTech workerAnyone who has watched Mr Robot will have a head start this season, because the corporate drones who work at the drama’s fictional E Corp got an unlikely outing on the catwalk, namely for Off-White and Prada. There were lanyards and “unfashion” cagoules familiar to any office worker on a rainy commute. To take it beyond the 9-5, add pops of colour and hope no one asks you to reset their passw
  
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• A stitch in time: 70s-style jumpers (plus knit one yourself)

  12-10-2018 08:00
  Take inspiration for your winter knit from the 1970s• Knit the Stevie sweater shown below with this free pattern Continue reading...
  
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• Paltrow defends Goop wellness brand

  12-10-2018 07:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness brand Goop has promoted “energy stickers” made from “the same conductive carbon material NASA uses to line space suits” — even though the stickers had nothing to ...
  
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• Tigers forever: a wildlife hike in north-east Laos

  12-10-2018 07:30
  A guided trek on Mount Forever helps protect endangered tigers and reveals an exotic array of other, less elusive, wildlifeThe camp was dark save for the fire and the more muted glow from a tablet about to reveal the secrets of the forest. We crowded over images – covertly captured on camera traps in jungle barely trampled on by human feet. On the screen, the mammals and birds of this remote Laos forest flickered into life: stump-tailed macaques, a silver pheasant, a snuffling sun bear, an
  
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• Ronald Reagan hologram greets visitors at ex-president's library

  12-10-2018 02:08
  Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is making a comeback as a hologram at his official library in California.
  
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• Sudoku 4,189 hard

  12-10-2018 01:02
  Click here to access the print version.Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 15,111

  12-10-2018 01:00
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,638

  12-10-2018 01:00
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