This April potpourri ranges from warmer weather, gardening and golf to dreaded thoughts of annual income-tax-stress.
A great weather sage summed it up nicely, when he said, “Occasionally a spring day...
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What with Vickileaks, robocalls, Bill C-10, and the usual Ottawa shenanigans, the Tories have been much in the news of late.
I thought of all this when a Conservative friend complained that the current governmen...
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It was a brief, but greatly anticipated, message received in Winnipeg: “Mother and three girls are well, Charlie and father missing — signed Ethel Fortune.”
Unfortunately, the only two males of...
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While the six-part Professionally Speaking series in the Winnipeg Real Estate News on the new OurWinnipeg blueprint has concluded, it is only the beginning in terms of actually implementing the new plan to shape Winnipeg&rsq...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
According to the Fargo Forum and Daily Republican, an “Old Settler” claimed that the spring 1897 inundation would become the greatest flood in the history of the valley...
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A new CIBC poll conducted by Harris/Decima reveals that half of all Canadians said they would choose a fixed-rate mortgage if they had to decide today, a notable increase over last year.
Canadians al...
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In the endless list of things in life that drive you crazy, grocery shopping should near the top.
Why?
There’s quite a few reasons, such as ...
The aggravation of ads,...
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Readers may have been surprised when last week’s column failed to deal with slang usage of “dickens.”
But dickens as found in exclamations like, “What the dickens?” has nothing to d...
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Officially, winter ended on March 20, but the so-called cold-weather season never really began in earnest. In fact, with the exception of a few days when the thermometer hit around -20°C, temperatures were well above nor...
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Sheldon Zamick’s overriding desire is to “help others help themselves, so they can then do wonderful things.”
The recipient of this year’s Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)...
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