Archive : April 2006

From politics to MLS® statistics

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 ...

View Article

Urban prophet

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...

View Article

Need two outstanding people for Hall of Fame

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...

View Article

Product prevents basement leaks

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...

View Article

CMHC reports three solid months of new home gains

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...

View Article

It’s all lemonade stand economics

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...

View Article

Transitional “fishapod”

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 ...

View Article