Few tears shed for Merchants
Premier Greg Selinger told CJOB Radio talkshow host Richard Cloutier it was a “plight on the neighbourhood” that “depressed housing prices” and was a source of “neighbourhood safety issues...
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Locusts — swarms appeared in Manitoba in 1874 and completely enveloped settlers’ fields
by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
During 1874, the “year of the locusts,” millions, if not billions, of individual insects, acting as groups of giant super-organisms, descended on settlers’ fields acro...
Strategies to pay down a mortgage more quickly also involve some sacrifices
Kevin and Stella, both 30 years of age, have purchased their first home. After a 20-per-cent down payment, they have a $330,000 mortgage, which they plan to pay down over 25 years.
Since it’s their first home, they...