Manitobans have good reason to be optimistic as the New Year begins. According to the Canada West Foundation’s latest report, entitled Well-balanced: Manitoba Economic Profile and Forecast, the province is in a good position to weathe...
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In October 1995, a disheveled, scrawny and obviously abused dog was seen by Erika, an employee of WinnipegREALTORS®, outside the association’s Portage Avenue office building. He would only have been about five months old at ...
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by Jim Blanchard
Winnipeg’s stores had a wonderful Christmas season in 1912. The weather was warm and there was money in the city; most people had work all year and some had made huge profits from the boom. Extra help had been ...
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With the current real estate market retrenching as a result of economic factors, it is imperative to talk to an expert when considering a real estate transaction — a full-time professional REALTOR® provides advice on how to best m...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
On March 5, 1877, Louis Riel executed a document giving his mother, who lived in Manitoba, the right “to sell and convey all my lands of every description in the Province of Manitoba Except my M&e...
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One of the more amusing tales of partisan politics involves Newfoundland Premier Joey Smallwood and Canadian Prime Minister Mike Pearson. In his autobiography, Mike: The Memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson, the former prime mi...
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For the second consecutive year, the Multiple Listing Service® has racked up over $2 billion in sales.
“The kind of adjustment we are seeing in our MLS® market in the fourth quarter has not derailed another record-break...
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WinnipegREALTORS® embarked on a fund-raising and awareness campaign this fall to help the Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights reach their goal of raising $105 million in private capital to build the museum in Winnipeg. To da...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
The fame of Louis Riel was recently confirmed when the Manitoba Métis Federation successfully purchased four poems penned by the “Father of Manitoba.”
While Riel remains one of...
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Regardless of what tactics Prime Minister Stephen Harper uses to counter the threat of a Liberal-NDP coalition, the present crisis is of his own making.
Last Sunday afternoon, Craig Oliver of CTV’s Question Period sized u...
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