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YouTube laces up deal to show NHL clips:

Hockey fans will soon be able to see highlights from NHL games on the popular video-sharing website YouTube under a groundbreaking partnership between the company and the league.

The deal, announced Wednesday, marks the first time that a professional sports league has agreed to share content with YouTube, which allows users to upload, view and share video clips online.

This is interesting to me, not because the league has realized the potential of YouTube, but rather because you can already watch entire games for free on Google Video.

It's Grey Cup week here in Winnipeg, and while I've pretty much given up trying to get excited about the game itself, there are a lot of events going on around town. I'm particularly interested in the free CBC tapings (really just DNTO, Shaken Not Stirred doesn't do much for me) on Saturday at the forks.

But, even better, A&W is offering their Mama Burger for $1.50 until Sunday.

Another storyline that I had been following for the last couple of weeks has to do with shopping carts. You see, I walk over the Osborne St. bridge from time to time. For the last month, the Assiniboine River has been particularly low, exposing about 10 m of dry riverbed on either side. Along with the mud and rocks, there were some other larger pieces of debris like some steel posts, and two shopping carts.

But now the carts are gone. And while that isn't really all that surprising, it's fun for me to imagine what kind of character would scramble down the riverbank to haul out a couple of rusty, muddy shopping carts.