by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
Mounted on a Red River pony Colonel Garnet Wolseley, on August 24, 1870, led his advance force of green-coated British regulars from Point Douglas toward the village of Winnipeg. Although the marchers w...
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Compared to the United States, Canada has healthier housing markets, labour markets and government finances, according to a recent report from the Conference Board of Canada.
The Conference Board forecasts real gross domestic product...
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Getting into the real estate market is like entering uncharted waters for many people. Location, price and size of home, type of mortgage, interest rates, monthly payments and many other things must be decided upon before you can make the r...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
In the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, The Pirates of Penzance, one of its most memorable songs contains the lyric, “I am the very model of a modern Major-General.”
When they wrote the oper...
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For decades, the residents of Fargo have known that “Duff’s Ditch” has spared Winnipeg from numerous floods, saving billions of dollars in damages and the evacuation of tens of thousands of citizens. And for decades,...
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The worst is over and the nation is on the road to recovery, according to the Bank of Canada.
The central bank said it expects Canada’s economy will contract 2.3 per cent this year, which is significantly better than the ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
It was reported that William Whyte had gone to the Canadian Pacific Railway shops in Winnipeg to recruit the special constables, and that anyone who refused had been told they would be fired. About 250 ...
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Knowing that we owe our very existence as a species to an event that happened 540 million years ago is quite fascinating and also rather humbling. Without the Cambrian Explosion, life on planet Earth may have been stuck in the simple organi...
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One of the main points made in last week’s release of WinnipegREALTORS® MLS® results was the welcome return of more buyers to the real estate market. There were close to 1,500 sales and the average days on the market before a ...
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National resale housing market activity bounced back strongly in the second quarter of 2009 above levels reported for the same period last year, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association.
Demand continues to rebound sha...
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