Last week’s column referred to REALTOR® political action activity in the country. This was timely, since the Manitoba Political Action Committee had their first opportunity to see our new prime minister who spoke in Winnipeg last ...
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Jane Jacobs, the icon for making cities more people friendly, passed away at age 89 on April 25.
In her books, the American turned Canadian claimed North American cities had lost their heart by building to accommodate vehicles rather...
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The public now has the opportunity to decide whom they believe has made a significant contribution to Winnipeg’s quality of life.
The Winnipeg Real Estate Board has announced it is now accepting nominations for the Citizens Hal...
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Most Canadian poured concrete basements have at least some hairline cracks with the exception of those installed on pile footings.
The system that has been traditionally used to seal the cracks is simply a sprayed-on coat of t...
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by Bruce Cherney
Provincial Trunk Highway 75, Manitoba’s main access to and from the United States, was closed at PTH 14 south of Morris, 60 kilometres south of Winnipeg at the time of publication. PTH 23 just west of Morris wa...
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Housing starts came in like a lion in March, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
There were 261 housing starts of all types in Winnipeg and the neighbouring municipalities in March, 18 per cent more than the n...
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Supply and demand, even if we didn’t take the university course Economics 101, it’s simple.
If you had a six-year-old lemonade stand, you would know that just having a sign on your stand isn’t as good a marketing to...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
Given a free hand, the Canadian militia that had arrived with British Col. Garnet Wolseley from the East, commenced to hunt out suspected supporters of Riel and members of the provisional governme...
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This is one for the realm of ironic. During the same week that world-wide attention was drawn to an extraordinary fossil discovery in Canada’s Arctic, heralded as a transitional species on the evolutionary ladder, a McGill University ...
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Winnipeg’s MLS® market has seen a steady rise in prices and dollar volume since 2002.
This year the trend is continuing with first-quarter dollar volume up 18.4 per cent and the average house price up 5.5 per cent fro...
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