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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Local real estate agent Dee Dee Newton correctly pointed out during a telephone conversation that it took a lot of guts for another Winnipeg agent to appear in court and face her assailant.
“She was brave,” said Newton, &...
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Viewers of the Business News Network, or BNN, are becoming more familiar with the Real Estate Investment Network (REIN), as its president, Don Campbell, is emerging as a well-informed regular commentator. Campbell has built up an organizati...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
It was a mere one-paragraph article in the Manitoba Free Press, but the small size of the item, tucked away inconspicuously near the bottom of page 5, was in stark contrast to the massive future repercussion...
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The average MLS® resale house price in Winnipeg is expected to increase by 7.1 per cent this year to $222,000, according to a new revised forecast by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Earlier in the year, the corpo...
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