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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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
Manitoba Premier John Norquay was roarin’ mad and he wasn’t about to let Ontario Premier Oliver Mowat get away with seizing territory claimed by his province.
Described as “300 ...
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The Canadian Real Estate Association says what is now required is a good dose of “economic reality” about the housing market in Canada.
“Analysts continue to try and suggest the Canadian housing market will follow t...
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