Archive : July 2005

Kitchen designers emphasize efficiency

Question: We want to brighten the surroundings in our home by giving it a face-lift. We have decided to start with the kitchen. We haven’t decided whether to redo the cabinets or take everything out and start over. What are some of th...

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HOP prototype for Hamilton program

The Winnipeg Real Estate Board has always been proud of its involvement in affordable housing, which started with the sponsorship of a home in Habitat for Humanity’s Jimmy Carter Building Blitz in 1993. A few years later the WREB brou...

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Free to disagree

Despite the claims of radio talkshow hosts and opinion pieces in daily newspapers, Canadians as a whole are not anti-American.  Canadians may be a tad miffed from time to time by some of the United States’ policy decisions...

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How to hang a rec room door

When building your own rec room, hanging a door can prove to be the most difficult part of the project. Planning and the proper tools are a great help. First, make sure that the stud that the door will be hung on is straight. Even if...

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Randa was an inspired, talented artist

The Winnipeg Citizens Hall of Fame has recently lost a contributing artist who had been instrumental in ensuring the success of the program from its very beginning in 1986. Bill Burns, chair of the Citizens Hall of Fame Committee, an...

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It’s a bull!

Despite having grown up in rural Manitoba, I have never spent any great amount of time on a farm.  As a youth under the age of 10, I visited my great-uncle Steini’s farm near Ashern from time to time, doing my best to exci...

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