The economy and who can be trusted to manage it when faced with financial difficulties was the dominant theme at the federal election forum last Tuesday evening.
The four party candidates managed to link Canada’s economy to wha...
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The Morden and District Marine Museum is about to add another giant to its fossil collection. It already possesses a 43-foot-long reproduction of Manitoba’s most famous reptile of the deep nicknamed “Bruce,” whose fossil r...
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The discovery of ancient human skeletal remains, protruding from a bank of the Red River near Lockport, serves as a reminder of the importance of the river systems of Manitoba throughout the ages.
One skeleton does not tell the compl...
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A new report by RBC Economics says housing affordability in Manitoba has not been significantly eroded by higher home prices and mortgage rates.
The bank’s Housing Affordability Index released this week reported that higher bor...
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In just over a month, the prospect of owning a cottage lot on provincially-owned or Crown land has lost its lustre for a significant number of people who took part in a draw for 375 lots along 13 Manitoba lakes and rivers.
In mid-Jun...
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The Winnipeg Real Estate Board’s commercial division teamed up with the Urban Development Institute to become directly involved in the city’s proposed amendments to Bylaw 6400 dealing with industrial zoning.
All of ...
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by Lorne Shropshire
In March 1919, the city of Winnipeg witnessed one of the largest engineering tasks ever undertaken in North America with the completion of a subterranean aqueduct, 156 kilometres in length. It allowed the pristine...
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Yvette Tretiak had absolutely no idea why people were calling her and telling her to show up for Take Pride’s Winnipeg in Bloom awards ceremony last Tuesday night at Pantages Theatre.
“What’s going on?” she as...
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Thanks to numerous news stories and a Heritage Minute airing on television, many Canadians are familiar with the story of Pine Street being renamed Valour Road.
Through the years, a memorial plaque has been erected, a plaza was...
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Canada’s mortgage market is not like the U.S. The bottom line is that we do believe there to be considerable downsides to the Canadian housing market, but that comparisons of Canadian mortgage market prospects to the U.S. experience a...
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