Manitoba’s economy is strengthening further in 2006, thanks to a construction boom and an expected rebound in agriculture, according to the Provincial Outlook report recently issued by the BMO Financial Group Economics Department....
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Reading about Manitoba’s low four-per-cent unemployment rate and a number of companies needing workers, it’s no wonder that the gainfully employed are feeling confident about job prospects. Not surprisingly, they are also prepar...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
Of more consequence than the liquor ban, resulting from the Cypress Hills Massacre, was the call by Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald to create a special force to bring order to the North-We...
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If you think the call for more stringent entry and immigration laws in the United States is something new, you’re quite wrong. Immigration and border security has always been a point of contention in the United States.
U....
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While he called June a “barnburner month” for real estate sales, Winnipeg Real Estate Board president Walter Boni also said home buyers may soon get a break.
He said MLS® listings have been steadily increasing which w...
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With MLS® results continuing to set new records in Winnipeg and across the country, recognition is in order for the REALTOR®, the professional who is central to a real estate transaction.
A REALTOR® has the ex...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
When Chief Justice Edmund Burke Wood of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench banned spiritous liquor in the North West Territories, from the boundaries of Manitoba to the Rocky Mountains, he was motivate...
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What’s a bear to do?
The town’s dump, which Yogi Bear would have considered a handy summertime picnic basket, has been closed.
But, the dump was located near the Northern Manitoba community of Churchill, not ...
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Canada’s housing market continued to make advances from coast to coast in the second quarter, according to a new report.
“Interest and activity in the residential real estate market continued unabated in the second ...
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The Winnipeg Real Estate Board-established Housing Opportunity Partnership has shown the positive value of injecting significant new dollars into a targeted area for housing renewal. Its central focus of homeownership in the West End has he...
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