Ice jams on the Red River have been a common problem for decades. Some years the ice fails to wreak havoc. While in other years, such as in 2009, the ice can pile up to cause extensive flooding and damage to homes and infrastructure along the...
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A block of land fronting onto Portage Avenue between Langside and Furby in the Spence neighbourhood is an excellent example of a transformation that just a few short years ago was not even considered until a timely opportunity arose.
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
Provisional government Adjutant-General Ambroise Lépine declared that since the majority of the “Council of War” had voted guilty, Thomas Scott’s execution would proceed at noo...
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Housing starts in Manitoba this year and next will benefit from increases in employment and earnings, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s first quarter 2011 Housing Market Outlook, Prairie Highlights.
Housi...
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Manitoba is blessed with many national historically significant sites, including Winnipeg’s Exchange District and the Inglis elevator row, but topping the list is Lower Fort Garry, according to Canada’s History magazine (formerly ...
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REALTORS® in Manitoba are understandably proud to support the Manitoba Real Estate Association Shelter Foundation. In fact, a fund raiser is being held next month in Winnipeg with all the proceeds going to the foundation.
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by Bruce Cherney (part2)
Hugh Sutherland’s parents were asked to go to Upper Fort Garry and plead with Louis Riel, the president of the provisional government, not to allow further bloodshed in Red River in the aftermath of t...
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The Canadian Real Estate Association says a 4.5 per cent rise in home sales in January over a month earlier reflects Ottawa’s announcement to change the allowed amortization period on government-insured mortgages from 35 to 30 years.
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“Good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite.” As a youth, I was baffled by this expression, having never seen a bedbug. But I ignored this fact and considered it simply as something all mothers said when they tucked...
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This year, Winnipeg has garnering some national coverage as a real estate market to watch. An article in the Globe and Mail in January pointed out that Winnipeg was set to become the hottest Canadian market in 2011.
In ...
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