Measuring
There aren’t too many commentators counting on Canadian athletes to have a breakthrough Olympics at Beijing. In fact, they’re downright pessimistic.
National Post columnist Mark Spector’s recent commentary on Canadi...
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Archive : 2008
Baffling mystery of Molsons Bank robbery — only suspect a former employee of the bank
by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
According to Percy Davis, John Wesley Anderson said he had heard Galt died three weeks earlier and the secret of the $62,000 Molsons Bank robbery died with him. It was alleged by Davis that Anderson sai...
Record local MLS® sales and dollar volume reported in July
A hot month of MLS® sales activity led to new WinnipegREALTORS® sales and dollar volume records for July.
“Winnipeg’s solid economic fundamentals continue to support consumer confidence and validate our forecast f...
Ford’s "big idea"
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...
Canadian Museum for Human Rights — believe in possibility of new vision for our province
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....
Baffling mystery of Molsons Bank robbery — “solution will require some skilled detective work”
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...
National dollar volume down while local market records gain
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...
Gliding into history
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...
New rule changes for real estate transactions
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.
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Murder in Brandon — petition for death sentence to be commuted as Blake called a “moral lunatic”
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...