Next week, Winnipeg School Division will hold its annual public budget meeting to discuss a school tax increase. Based on projections, it will be a small increase to cover what is deemed necessary expenditure and to ensure there are no curr...
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by Bruce Cherney
The University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections has recently digitalized portions of its collection that can now be found at umanitoba.ca/libraries/ units/ archives.
On the website are photos and...
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“Young people attribute celebrity as being a contribution to society. They’re so seduced by celebrity that many don’t understand there’s a difference between celebrity and greatness.”
No, the above wasn&...
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National MLS® home sales activity will remain high this year and in 2008, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association.
In Manitoba, CREA forecasts a 0.9 per cent increase in MLS® home sales for 2007 and a slight drop by...
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Peter Norman, a housing economist with the national firm Clayton Research, appeared at a forecast breakfast hosted by the WinnipegREALTORS® Association in January. He is involved in publishing monthly Clayton Research reports that highl...
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by Bruce Cherney
In his book Red River, Joseph James Hargrave, a Hudson’s Bay Company fur trader and author born in York Factory along Hudson Bay, provides a first-hand account of what it was like to travel from Winnipeg to Por...
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My father is a retired firefighter, trained to fight structural and aircraft fires. For years, he worked for the Department of Transportation and was stationed at various Canadian Armed Forces bases. His last posting was at CFB Shilo. ...
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The Winnipeg Real Estate News has just produced the WinnipegREALTORS® Association’s first stand-alone publication dedicated to Winnipeg’s commercial real estate market.
For the February launch, 19,000 copies of ...
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Some prognosticators have been known to say that it’s a perilous journey that one embarks upon when attempting to predict the future, since there are so many things that can happen to derail what at first seemed so correct and logical...
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by Bruce Cherney
It’s not surprising that the weather is a major topic of conversation among Manitobans. After all, this province is subject to some of the greatest extremes in temperatures experienced on the planet. For exampl...
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