by Bruce Cherney
Great-grandson and Winnipeg city councillor Donald Benham said Edward Lancaster (E.L.) Drewry’s first visit to Winnipeg was in 1875, when he travelled to the then two-year-old city via canoe, paddling down the ...
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The musings of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in taped conversation with author Peter C. Newman should actually come as no surprise to most Canadians.
In The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Confessions of a Prime Minister, the ex-PM bla...
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Author Gabrielle Roy and businessman, politician and philanthropist Edward Lancaster Drewry recently became the 30th and 31st inductees into the Winnipeg Real Estate Board-established Citizens Hall of Fame, which honours Winnipeggers who ha...
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by Bruce Cherney
Prime Minister Paul Martin recently announced that an agreement-in-principle had been signed with Canada’s Ukrainian community to articulate “a shared vision for the acknowledgement, commemoration and edu...
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Because of the multitude of media reports proclaiming month after month of records, it’s difficult to be oblivious to what is happening in the Winnipeg real estate market.
For example, there has been eight consecutive mon...
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“When it blows in the fall, God help us,” my mother told me over the phone on Wednesday afternoon.
A resident of Gimli for most of her life, my mother is well aware of the vagaries of Lake Winnipeg, especially in the fall...
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The Winnipeg real estate market didn’t let up in August with the Multiple Listing Service®’s year-long record-setting performance continuing.
By the first week of August, the Winnipeg Real Estate Board reported that M...
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Question: We bought an older home recently because it has character and many features that we were looking for. But, the attic needs to be insulated and we would like to do it this summer.
We had a quotation from an...
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by Bruce Cherney
In 1799, 416 of the 530 men working for the Hudson’s Bay Company came from the Orkneys, a collection of wind-swept islands forming a county of Scotland. The numbers employed by the HBC presents an extreme...
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All sorts of descriptive words have been tossed about to indicate Winnipeg has been enjoying a strong MLS® market over the past few years.
The one most often cited to the point of ad nausea is “hot.” This famili...
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