Archive : 2006

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...

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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...

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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 ...

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Tips for exterior house painting

 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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Commercial division accepts award

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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Newspapers live on

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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