by Bruce Cherney (part 4 pf 4)
Anyone travelling across the plains during the years of mass destruction would come across a landscape littered with rotting buffalo flesh, as most commercial hunters only took the hides and tongues f...
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Consumer confidence has created a momentum in the local real estate market that hadn’t been expected at the start of the year, according to WinnipegREALTORS® president Ralph Fyfe.
“With sales up six per cent ...
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Here’s a test of your nostalgic memory. Do you remember any of these historical events from Septembers past?
September 1, 1939 — Germany launched its Polish campaign, attacking from the west, south and north. The invasi...
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Barely a day goes by without some journalist mentioning “baby boomer.” Following is an example from the August 24 edition of the Free Press. Lifted from the Los Angeles Times and entitled, Baby Boomers Dooming Stocks, the st...
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Its an anniversary often fraught with visions of terror and memories of a world plunged into darkness for the approximately 120,000 surviving veterans of the Second World War. The September 11, 1939, headline in the Winnipeg Free Press procla...
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The lawn sign “I Want School Tax Off My Property” campaign is attracting public attention. One homeowner called WinnipegREALTORS® asking for signs not only for his property, but also some for his neighbours. His street now ha...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
Archaeological evidence shows that aboriginal hunters were driving buffalo over steep riverbanks in the Hartney, Lauder and Melita areas along the Souris River in Manitoba. But by the 1860s, only scattered...
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“All we’re asking is that the government fund education more fairly,” was Lorne Weiss’ message at a press conference held on Monday morning in a farmyard near East Selkirk.
The letspayfair.com 2011 campaign,...
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The twisted logic of golf:
• You hit down to make the ball go up. You swing left and the ball goes right. The lowest score wins.
• Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by ...
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The Sun has acquired a sometime columnist named Christina Blizzard. With a name like Blizzard, you’d think she must be Canadian-born. Not so. She comes from England.
Interestingly, the surname Blizzard pre-dates the moniker f...
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