Soaring gas prices and a faltering United States economy have put a damper on Henry Ford’s original dream to “build a car for the great multitude.”
While the Ford Model T, which revolutionized the car-making industr...
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Winnipeg has been on a roll with significant capital projects such as the Winnipeg Floodway expansion, the new James Armstrong Richardson International Airport redevelopment and the soon-to-be-completed downtown Manitoba Hydro office tower....
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
Just one of the six “Galicians” from Immigration Hall understood some English and he believed the only explanation for why the two men had hired them to dig in a field two ki...
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For the fifth year in a row, more than a quarter of a million units were sold in Canada through the Multiple Listings Service® during the first six months of the year.
The report from the Canadian Real Estate Association al...
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I just didn’t believe what I was being told. Twenty-five years ago I was thoroughly enjoying a high school reunion when a frantic reporter on the staff of the same newspaper I worked for located me among of a throng of partygoers, sho...
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On June 23, new federal money laundering and anti-terrorist financing regulations came into effect that require real estate agents and brokers to collect personal identification information from buyers and sellers.
Your REALTOR® ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
In the 1891 Canadian Census, Alfred Perry Stewart declared he “employed” two people — Tommy and Hilda Blake, who were listed as “Dom.” (Domestics) with their professi...
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In Winnipeg, limited new and resale housing inventory continued to tighten the city’s real estate market, and will do so for the remainder of 2008, according to a new report from Royal LePage Real Estate Services.
Th...
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Two recent articles from the Canadian Real Estate Association relate measures being taken to ensure the housing market remains economically sound.
The measures have been undertaken as a result of economic conditions on both sid...
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Winnipeg dealers all agree that the replica medals aren’t worth a heck of a lot, but that didn’t stop someone from chiseling the medals out of a granite memorial dedicated to one of Canada’s most decorated aboriginal war h...
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