Archive : 2004

Tips for purchasing unfinished furniture

The reason many people buy unfinished furniture is because they want to match it to existing furniture.   You may think unfinished furniture is less expensive than finished furniture, however, a piece of quality unfinished furni...

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Holiday musings on the market’s future

In December 2002, then Winnipeg Real Estate Board president Lorne Weiss was quoted as saying that real estate had become a year-round business locally. The WREB  had just registered its first ever $1 billion in sales through the...

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Market poised for another good year

With news of interest rates remaining unchanged well into the New Year, it bodes well for continuing healthy market activity in 2005. Many economists are indicating the Bank of Canada may not raise the overnight rate until the second half o...

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Spam, spam, spam

Perhaps in the New Year someone will actually put a stop to all the phishing, ad-blasting and spam that plagues today’s computers. Anti-spam, anti-virus and other prevention paraphernalia masquerading under a plethora of names ...

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Journey into history

The Manitoba Museum, 190 Rupert Ave., is hosting special programming until the end of December which celebrates the tiny two-masted, eight-gun ketch which opened up the heart of a continent. After many delays, members of a group of B...

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The shape of things to come?

Looming large in the not too distant future is 2006 and that becomes more apparent every day as 2004 comes to an end. Before explaining the significance of 2006 to property owners, let’s step back and start with what has been going on...

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Action required

Premier Gary Doer has told city councillors annexation of other municipalities in the capital region is a non-starter. The issue of annexation started when the Rural Municipality of East St. Paul began musing about tapping into the c...

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Snow, stats, stocks, schedule

Well, it looks official. Seven straight days of cold. And, the snow doesn’t seem to be disappearing. Guess it’s time to put up the lights. We know what they say about March, “In like a lion and out like a lamb.&rdqu...

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