Archive : February 2006

Selkirk loses railway bridge battle

by Bruce Cherney (part 2) On September 24, 1879, Fleming wrote to Sir Charles Tupper, the minister of railways and canals, that a crossing at Winnipeg would be folly since the city was prone to annual flooding. He called to the minis...

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Expect a school tax increase

When someone hears talk of school taxes, mill rates, the education support levy, the special education levy and equalization grants most people’s eyes glaze over. Of course, this numbing effect vanishes after they receive their proper...

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Crossing the Red — railway bridge battle

by Bruce Cherney As a prelude to the proposed transcontinental railway making its crossing in Selkirk, a telegraph message was sent in May 1875 from George Black’s store, where the Selkirk Rolling Mills are now located. ...

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Perceptions count

While working for another newspaper nearly two decades ago, Charles Mayer, the then minister of state for grains and oilseeds, popped into my office to talk to me about an editorial I had written.  Mayer (MP for Portage-Marquett...

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