Healthy market activity in September resulted in the first month this year in which an MLS® sales record was set.
There were 1,127 MLS® sales in September, a three per cent increase over the same month in 2008, which had prev...
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After annoucing WinnipegREALTORS® had its first record sales month this year in September, a business reporter was curious enough to ask what the lowest house sale price was in September. The reporter was told it was $17,000, which is q...
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The Housing Opportunity Partnership (HOP) has lost two of its most outstanding contributors. It is with profound regret that WinnipegREALTORS® announces the passing in June of long-serving HOP president Tom Yauk and in September of HOP ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
In the courtroom, many of the witnesses refuted the Crown’s interpretation of events, saying the blood found on defendant Robert Morran’s clothing was the result of helping his father to...
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October 4 is the anniversary of the gauntlet thrown out to the United States by the former Soviet Union. The Soviet “October Surprise” in 1957 was the launching of Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth, whic...
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A new report says Winnipeg continues to have one of the strongest housing markets in Canada as a result of low unemployment and population growth.
According to the RE/MAX Bricks and Mortar Report, Winnipeg’s real estate mar...
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There is good cause to fear another threat residing south of the Canada-U.S. border. It is poised to strike Lake Winnipeg and wreak untold havoc upon the lake’s ecosystem.
Phosphorus overload creating massive algae blooms &mdas...
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by Avrom Charach
The time has come to change or abolish rent controls in Manitoba. Manitoba remains the only province or territory which has and enforces strict rent controls.
Manitoba also remains the jurisdiction...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, Dr. Mortimer told Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes he observed two sets of footprints on the pathway outside Baskerville Hall. He said one set w...
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As a youth, Sol Kanee was told by his parents, “Whatever you take from the community, you must give back twice-fold.”
As it turned out, what Kanee give back to the community far exceeded the advice given by his parents.
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