Capitalism as a villain, as portrayed by the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, which expanded to Canada, including Winnipeg, carries on a populist tradition in North America that occasionally arises to vent pent-up frustrat...
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When speaking before 400 real estate agents and brokers during the WinnipegREALTORS® trade and technology show, Mayor Sam Katz stressed that the city needed more infill housing.
At the Victoria Inn last week...
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Have you ever been guilty of looking at others your own age and thinking, “surely I can’t look that old?” I guess that’s human nature — and denial!
Here’s a little story...
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In the suspense novel, Charley’s Web, by Canadian writer, Joy Fielding, one of the characters says, “As far as I could see ... he got off scot-free. What does that mean — scot-free?”
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Canadians may know about Laura Secord — at least the chocolates — and Americans may know about The Battle of New Orleans, a pop hit from the 1950s by Johnny Horton, but anything else about the War of 1812 r...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
When auctioneer James Dowswell of Emerson banged his gavel down, signalling the commencement of the bidding for Roseau River Reserve land, he opened “with the N.E. 1-4 of sec...
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There will be a softening in the Canadian housing market over the next few months, but no U.S.-style free-fall, according to a new survey from Royal LePage.
“Although some commentators are predicting that ...
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If you occasionally like to add a new word to your vocabulary, here’s one you may not have stumbled onto before — paraprosdokian.
What the heck does that mean?
A paraprosdoki...
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English, as Canadians speak it, is probably more unusual than we think. It’s true many people now use such Americanisms as gotta, vacation, and even that abomination, huh, but much vocabulary remains unique to us. Fidd...
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