This is a follow-up to a column in August on the Winnipeg Real Estate Board Commercial Division’s very active role and participation in the city’s proposed amendments to industrial zoning under Bylaw 6400.
Last fall, the ...
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But for an imaginary line drawn by two governments who knew little about the West, today’s St. Boniface could very well have been in Pembina, North Dakota. The drawing of a boundary line, however — along with the wishes of Hudso...
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How much power does a mayor have?
Consider the case of Bus Rapid Transit. Many of the councillors who voted in favour of BRT under Mayor Glen Murray have voted against it since Sam Katz became mayor, including the chair and two of th...
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Since mid-2001, the value of household real estate assets has increased a stellar 27 per cent nationally, roughly double the 13 per cent rise in the value of household financial assets, according to the latest Real Estate Trends, released b...
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Well, fall is upon us and now is the time we should start preparing for winter.
While some can get away from it all and bask on a sunny beach, most of us have to stay at home and suffer through another cold winter.
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by Bruce Cherney
Thomas Spence was a man whose pursuit of the “big idea” would bring him notoriety rather than the fame he cherished. His attempts at seizing the reins of power bordered on the side of comic opera, especia...
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When Scrooge was asked for a donation for the poor in Charles’s Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, he querried whether the prisons and poor laws had been abandoned. After being told they had not, he replied that was a good thing becaus...
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by Peter Squire
Winnipeg Real Estate Board president Cliff King said the new round of property reassessments in Winnipeg should accurately reflect true market value.
“From the examples of different properties the (assess...
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After 34 years of being continually stationed in Winnipeg, the Second Battalion of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry has departed.
The majority of the soldiers who had called Kapyong Barracks at the corner of Ke...
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A new study on home buying and the Internet shows over half of Canadian adults have used the Web as part of their home buying experience, up from 27 per cent in 2000 and 53 per cent in 2001.
Banking, real estate and job searche...
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