Ten years. A decade. It doesn’t seem so long ago, but that’s how long it’s been since Red River Valley residents on both sides of the border fought the tragic Flood of the Century. For many who endured the flood in 1997 an...
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The WinnipegREALTORS® Association’s chair of its civic and legislative committee is predicting that plenty of verbal punches will fly between the three party leaders during the Monday, May 14, Provincial Leaders Forum.
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WinnipegREALTORS® may have been disappointed that the recent provincial budget missed an
opportunity to get education funding off the backs of property owners (see letspayfair.com for more information), but the association was pl...
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by Bruce Cherney
Businesses closed for the day, people gathered by the hundreds and then in a grand display of civic pride proceeded down Main Street to celebrate the laying of the cornerstone for Winnipeg’s first city hall and...
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“Will Premier Doer call an election this Friday?”
“Of course,” was the reply from NDP MLA (Fort Rouge) Tim Sale, who is now the spokesman for the NDP election campaign.
Of course, Sale had nothing to lo...
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For the first time in Canada’s history, a national museum will be built outside the capital region of Ottawa-Hull.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
announced last week at the Fairmont Hotel in Winnipeg that the federal
...
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Members of the education finance coalition, representing some 250,000 Manitobans, were led to believe some major education property tax relief would be included in the provincial budget. But the measures announced in the April 4 budget only...
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by Bruce Cherney
On September 16, 2002, a mechanical failure at the North End Water Pollution Control centre caused 427,000
cubic metres of raw sewage to flow into the Red River.
Surprisingly, untreated sewa...
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Knut is a cuddly ball of white fur who has become a celebrity. What is remarkable about this polar bear cub, abandoned by his mother and hand-fed by a zookeeper in the Berlin Zoo, is that the world-wide attention he has earned is approachin...
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A new $188-million three-year provincial government housing program is emphasizing affordable homes for low-income Manitobans, including urban aboriginals, seniors, immigrants and the homeless.
Family Services and Housing Minister Go...
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