In 1812, Miles Macdonnell settled a site where the Selkirk Settlers would begin a new life in a new land. Thirty-six Scottish and Irish labourers travelled to the site from York Factory to begin preparing the site for the arrival of the set...
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Last week, the Professionally Speaking column looked at some of the global reasons that the U.S. housing market is different from the Canadian market and that the big-city Canadian market is different from our local market.
In ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
On November 10, the high ground at Passchendaele was captured, and British Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig finally felt he could call the operation a success and end the Third Battle of Ypres.
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While the U.S. real estate market is bottoming out, according to the annual Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2009 report released by Pricewaterhouse-Coopers (PwC) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI), commercial and housing developers and inves...
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I do not know of a single Second World War veteran who glorifies war. In fact, it is more likely that any veteran will say there is no glory in war — only misery and death.
The same veterans may have enlisted
in th...
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David Wolf of Merrill Lynch — the investment firm that lost 70 per cent of its stock value in the last two months and was taken over — is now pontificating on the real estate market. The company couldn’t get the securities...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
Director, screenwriter and actor Paul Gross has brought the bloody Battle of Passchendaele to the silver screen. The Passchendaele screenplay written by Gross is based on an extraordinary period in Cana...
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New home construction across Canada will moderate from historically high levels, to reach just under 178,000 units in 2009, a level that is consistent with demographic fundamentals, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation&rsquo...
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The Cornish or West Country Litany, asked to be delivered “From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties/And things that go bump in the night.”
Hallowe’en may now be associated with “things that go bump...
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Five aboriginal families have been selected as the first recipients of funding assistance to purchase their own home under the Manitoba Tipi Mitawa program initiated by the Manitoba Real Estate Association.
“This is a unique ex...
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