Whenever I find my Christmas spirit beginning to falter, I think back to a time years ago and a good deed on a blustery winter day in December.
The road I was travelling was awash in swirling snow, whipped into a frenzy by a gust...
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WinnipegREALTORS® president Deborah Goodfellow is passionate about her community.
“REALTORS® do more than just sell real estate,” she explained. “We help to build strong and vibrant communities. We...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
When the ballots for mayor were tallied on January 5, 1874, lawyer Francis Evans Cornish held a 383-179 margin of victory over W.F. Luxton, the publisher of the Manitoba Free Press. But there were obvio...
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Canada is being branded by the international community as the big bad wolf of climate change, who huffs and puffs and blows the climate-change house down. The Harper government is receiving a great deal of heat from other nations at the UN ...
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In 2008, WinnipegREALTORS® heard Klaus Lahr, general manager of the Winnipeg Convention Centre, explain the detailed consultant study outlining a need to expand the centre that will be 35 years old in 2010.
Over the years, ...
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It was a November to remember,
according to WinnipegREALTORS® president Deborah Goodfellow, due to a 28 per cent jump in MLS® sales and a dollar volume sales increase of 42 per cent.
By the end of November last y...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
For years, according to a Manitoba Historical Society 1969 article, it was believed the inaugural meeting of Winnipeg’s first city council was held on January 19, 1874, in a store at the corner of Port...
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The original implementation of a quota system in the Canadian Football League, which the CFL brass is apparently considering for yet another revision, can be blamed on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers — not today’s Big Blue, but the Bo...
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Forecasters are dusting off their crystal balls to chart what they expect will happen in 2010. WinnipegREALTORS® is planning a review in January of what happened in 2009 and to look ahead to 2010.
With just a month to go in...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
Symptomatic of the sentiment that saw protest against Emanuel Hahn’s winning design for the cenotaph was the suppression of Ukrainian and German language newspapers, as well as political and social org...
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