Canada’s seven-year long housing market boom has so far generated a 40-per-cent inflation-adjusted cumulative rise in the national average home price, according to the latest Real Estate Trends, released by Scotia Economics. ...
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There are a number of points that a homeowner must understand before having a home wired. Most important is not to do your own wiring if you aren’t qualified. Having some knowledge of electrical wiring enables you to recognize the mea...
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by Bruce Cherney (Part 2 of 2)
Carbon dioxide actually helps keep the polar ice caps in check. Without the balance provided by just the right mix of greenhouse gases, the ice would inexorably spread outward to engulf the rest of the ...
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It didn’t take long for a corporation to pursue the opportunity to bask in the afterglow of Olympic champion Cindy Klassen. Manitoba Telecom Services earlier this week announced that it has signed the 26-year-old speed skater to a &ld...
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Lorne Weiss, chair of the Manitoba Real Estate Association’s political action committee, is urging school division trustees to exercise restraint when considering their 2006-07 budgets.
He said restraint in setting budgets is n...
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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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