Heading into the final two months of the year, WinnipegREALTORS® has reported a market recovery.
In the first half of the year, MLS® sales were down over 10 per cent, but are now down just six per cent over the pace set...
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The accompanying photographs are from the book, All Our Changes: Images from the Sixties Generation, by Gerry Kopelow, which was recently-released by the University of Manitoba Press.
In his book, Kopelow has document ed, through 152...
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Three million-dollar-plus home sales in October have helped push sales closer to the all-time record of $2.42 billion in MLS® transactions registered in 2008, according to WinnipegREALTORS®.
One of the homes sold for $1.2 mil...
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The first Armistice Day in Winnipeg, following what was then known as the Great War, had an immediacy to it, as there were many wounded soldiers who had returned home. They were a visible reminder of the horrors of war and the price that ha...
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At a Downtown Winnipeg BIZ-sponsored session attended by WinnipegREALTORS® representatives, Mayor Sam Katz strongly expressed his desire to tackle more downtown issues.
The mayor’s comments and response to queries fro...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
On December 14, 1906, Manitoba Court of King’s Bench Justice Daniel Alexander Macdonald issued his ruling on what had become known to the public as the Free Press Ghost Case.
“This is an a...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
On December 14, 1906, Manitoba Court of King’s Bench Justice Daniel Alexander Macdonald issued his ruling on what had become known to the public as the Free Press Ghost Case.
“This is an a...
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Overall, Canadian executives' sentiment on the real estate market has moved up meaningfully over the past quarter, more so than in the U.S, according to a new survey.
The Canadian Real Estate Sentiment Survey, recently released...
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I am quite willing to challenge the doomsayers and bravely predict the world will not end on December 21, 2010. I also predict that some people will become wealthy writing books and producing movies that convince the gullible their time on ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
In the realm of spooky, it’s really a ghost of a tale. But in this case, it wasn’t the presence of a spectre — real or imagined — that provided plenty of copy for the print media, but...
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