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TOKYO - Here are some notable quotes from Canadians at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Aug. 5, 2021.

"It's really special. It's one of those things where when you're younger, you set little dreams and goals. I just remember watching guys like Donovan Bailey and Catriona Le May Doan when I was a kid, celebrating and winning gold medals, and sitting on the couch watching it with my mom, telling her, 'I want to do that one day.' It's really cool coming out here and finally live that dream."

--Canadian Damian Warner, who won gold and set an Olympic record in the decathlon. Warner finished the 10-discipline event with 9,018 points, bettering the previous Olympic record of 8,893 points.

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Computer technology has become the dominant force in the modern world. New technology subsuming older technology is the raison d’être of modern capitalism.

Pioneers of this new digital age took advantage of the profound difference between what they were building and what came before, advancing their influence and predominance. Little by little, the advantages ate away at the influence of non-digital technology, until the snake consumed most of modern information technology.

And now it is eating itself.

The beginning of the modern era of computing began with the Graphical User Interface (GUI, pronounced “gooey”). Back in the ’80s this was a new commercial technology exclusive to Apple’s Lisa computer and, later, the MacIntosh.

The times, they aren’t a-changin’

I would like to ask Premier Wab Kinew a very simple question: Why in the world would you want to leave the clocks on permanent daylight time rather than continue changing them twice a year, as Manitobans have been accustomed to doing for decades?

Manitoba is in the geographical middle of Canada. Our time zone should reflect our location and our relationship with the rest of Western Canada.

I simply cannot understand the reasoning behind keeping Manitoba on permanent daylight time. Changing our clocks twice a year has been part of our lives since 1963. Why fix something that has worked for generations?

Transit riders have a love-hate relationship with our “people’s limousine.” For many, it’s their only means of mobility. Others ride because they believe urban life is better when people use public transit rather than choking the roads with single-occupancy cars.

At the same time, one of life’s mid-sized stressors is peering into the distance on a cold, snowy Winnipeg morning to see whether your late bus is yet on the horizon and, when it appears, whether it’s full to capacity and going to roll past. It’s the kind of thing that pushes you back into the car, if you have access to one.

We could make a big dent in this daily anxiety, help pay transit workers fairly and do our part to stave off climate disaster by restoring a tried-and-true funding scheme: the 50-50 model. This shared-cost model, in which the provincial government pays half of transit operating costs over and above service revenues, was brought in when I was a kid waiting to board the bus with my parents in the 1970s.

The Progressive Conservative government of Gary Filmon initially ditched it in 1993. New Democrats reinstalled it in 2007, with then-Lt.-Gov. John Harvard announcing in the 2006 throne speech: “Manitoba is committed to increased provincial funding for transit operating costs in Thompson, Flin Flon, Brandon and Winnipeg, restoring the 50-50 funding partnership that was in place prior to the cutbacks of the 1990s.”