A Financial Times article concluded that the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland, spreading clouds of ash toward Britain and the Netherlands, grounding aircraft in Europe and cancelling flights from other continents, is Iceland’...
View Article
Using a $75,000 grant from American industrialist and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, Winnipeg built its first public library building on William Avenue, which was officially opened on October 11,1905, by Canadian Governor General Earl Gre...
View Article
by Todd Lewys
As a REALTOR® who specializes in Winnipeg’s West End, Frank Zappia knows the area intimately.
So when a landlord (one of the good ones in the area) told him he was tired of looking at a derelict ancient...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
Provincial Police Magistrate Alexander McMicken admitted to the Free Press that he had sworn-in the “special constables” at the request of the Winnipeg Electric Railway Company and not civic auth...
View Article
The latest Royal LePage House Price Survey shows strong price appreciation across all housing types in Winnipeg for both the first quarter of 2010 and year-over-year.
Winnipeg’s real estate market continues to prosper in 2010 d...
View Article
Ultimately, glacial Lake Agassiz was a blessing for Manitoba, providing today’s province with thousands of kilometres of beachfront on which to erect cottages as well as numerous lakes that are a resource for commercial fishing and re...
View Article
As with other professionals, a REALTOR® is as good as the information at his or her disposal. As a REALTOR® member of WinnipegREALTORS®, a salesperson is required to be a full-time professional, which entails keeping up on all t...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney
The mob’s anger had been approaching the boiling point for hours and then went beyond when they saw the source of their malice coming down the streetcar rails. Shortly after 8 o’clock in the evening on Ma...
View Article
Home buyers rushing into the market to take advantage of historically-low mortgage rates are driving MLS® sales and dollar volume upward, according to WinnipegREALTORS® president Claude Davis.
“More urgency has crept in...
View Article
It was another third and goal, but another deal was struck and the proposed new stadium for the Blue Bombers
requires another kick-off date.
Premier Greg Selinger told CJOB last Wednesday morning the province...
View Article