WinnipegREALTORS® is a member of a coalition headed by the Manitoba Real Estate Association calling for education finance reform.
One of the concerns expessed by the coalition is the inequity existing in the assessment basi...
View Article
A new city and province three-year program will provide up to $20 million in incentives to spur further downtown residential development and affordable urban lifestyles to more Winnipeggers.
The program is being hailed as a sig...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
A July 28, 1884, site diagram in the Winnipeg Daily Sun shows the 2-1/2-storey brick Canadian Pacific Railway passenger station and office building opened a year earlier as a long and narrow r...
View Article
Manitobans woke up last Wednesday morning to the news that provincial budgets will be awash in a sea of red ink for at least the next five years. It’s a novelty in Manitoba as successive governments — Conservative and NDP &mdash...
View Article
WinnipegREALTORS® noticed a soft first-time buyers market last year in comparison to other Canadian major markets. Its documentation showed how local sales in the under $300,000 market fared poorer than in other markets such a...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
After the first Canadian Pacific Railway train crossed the newly-built Louise Bridge into Winnipeg on July 26, 1881, its destination was an “unassuming” 1-1/2-storey wood-frame depot at the corne...
View Article
By failing to change the way the land transfer tax (LTT) is collected in its March 23 budget, the provincial government missed an excellent opportunity to level the playing field with other provinces and keep young people in Manitoba, accor...
View Article
For one day a year, Manitobans of all backgrounds can attire themselves in green and proclaim they are “friends of the Irish.” At the same time, many in this province can claim direct descent from Emerald Isle immigrants. ...
View Article
A sign that spring has arrived is the annual Manitoba Home Builders’ Home Expressions Show, running this year until Sunday, March 21.
Each year over 20,000 people visit Home Expressions. All three floors of the Conv...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
Captain William “Fighting Bill” Code of the North Fire Hall, corner of Higgins Avenue and Maple Street, said the first alarm for the Manitoba Hotel fire was heard at the Central Fire Hall at...
View Article
