by Bruce Cherney (Part 3)
William “W.H.” Carter, the first chairman of the Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission (GWTC), said that no private concern could profitably run the transit system as long as the city continued to ...
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With longer daylight hours and gardens beginning to bloom under the extended period of sunlight, Winnipeggers should take note of their opportunity to enter the annual Winnipeg in Bloom contest before the deadline of July 5.
Take Pri...
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The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) has released a new report indicating that home prices will stabilize and remain stable for some time.
According to CREA, this means that Canadian homeowners are unlikely to expe...
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What I remember most about Duff Roblin, who passed away last week at age 92, is how gracious and approachable he was when I periodically called him to discuss some historical event that occurred during his premiership for the Heritage Highl...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
By the end of 1946, when the city had a population of just 229,045 people, 105-million passengers had travelled that year on the Winnipeg Electric Company’s (WEC) streetcars, trolleys and buses. In com...
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In a recent Holmes on Holmes HGTV episode, host handyman Mike Holmes ended up tearing an entire home down in order to build from scratch a home using new technologies and features that he called environmentally conscious and energy efficien...
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