Archive : June 2005

Loose or missing chimney brick mortar

Question: I have some water damage to my kitchen ceiling. I had a new roof put on two years ago. Over the winter, I started noticing my kitchen ceiling starting to look like a road map and then by January it started to get worse and the pai...

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Housing report worth examining

An excellent report on the United States Housing market, the State of the Nation’s Housing: 2005, was recently released by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.  A notable difference when comparing th...

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Eminent domain

It has long been recognized that one of the reasons nations such as Canada, Great Britain and the United States have created so much individual wealth is that they have a tradition of upholding the principle of private property ownership. I...

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Happenings in national real estate

It is quite easy to get caught up in local real estate market happenings and be oblivious to developments in other markets throughout Canada.  This is especially true this year because Winnipeg’s MLS® market is on...

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Save the trees

Written accounts by Red River settlers tell of a stark prairie landscape only interrupted by the occasional scraggly tree. And, an early photograph from the banks of the Red River looking west provides a visual example of what Win...

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Program worthy of recognition

When this newspaper is published on Friday, the forecast is for outstanding weather. Hopefully, the forecast will carry forward for the entire weekend that features Fathers Day and the Manitoba Marathon.  It is hard to believe t...

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Certain mowers able to recycle clippings

Properly recycled grass clippings from mowing will not add to thatch. There are a number of good reasons for recycling grass clippings. First, it eliminates a lot of work in bagging the grass clippings and setting out the bags on gar...

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