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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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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The Multiple Listing Service® is off to a great start in 2006, according to statistics released by the Winnipeg Real Estate Board.
The real estate market in January outperformed the same month last year, recording an eight per ce...
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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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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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New Winnipeg Real Estate Board president Walter Boni is “cautiously optimistic” about the prospects for the local housing market in 2006.
And, no one should be fearful that the housing market’s bubble is about to bu...
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