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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Painting the outside of your home is an important maintenance investment.
A good paint job protects wood siding and trim from water damage and rot and guards metal gutters, down spouts and railings from rust and corrosion...
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Winnipeg Real Estate Board commercial division member Wes Schollenberg was recently presented the 2006 National Commercial Council Merit Award for 2006. The award was presented by Mark Thiessen, a former WREB commercial division chair who i...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
The long-standing dispute over Metis land claims is now being heard at the Manitoba Law Courts Building before Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Alan MacInnes.
If successful, the c...
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A number of years ago, I was engaged in some research and by chance came across a newspaper article dating from the mid-1920s which said radio was going to doom newspapers.
The article predicted that the newest technological wo...
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