The recently-released Royal LePage House Price Survey and Market Survey Forecast shows strong year-over-year price increases for all housing types in Winnipeg.
Standard condominiums continued to have the largest...
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I get regular updates about what the the city calls its “nuisance mosquito control program.” Well, what else can mosquitoes be called, but a nuisance? In one of the great understatements of mosquito control, a re...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
One day before his execution for the murders in Stuartburn of Wasyl Bojeczko and his four children, Wasyl Guszczak told his guards that it had never been his intention to make good his ...
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Construction of Investors Field, the new home of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 2013, has residents of Fort Garry and Fort Richmond concerned about the impact it will have on their communities.
Two burning questio...
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A veritable “feast of sport” will soon be upon us when we immerse ourselves in the fun and games of the 30th Olympiad in London, England, from July 27 to August 12.
London will become the first...
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I recently wrote about the cantankerous comic strip character, Ed Crankshaft, and of the way he invariably gets old sayings wrong by garbling the words.
Likely, most Crankshaft readers harbour the notion that no...
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Summer really is extra special in our neck of the woods. It’s an incredibly short season, so we really have a unique appreciation of all its benefits, even though it seems to come and go in a blur. I guess that’s...
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Now that we know who sits in cabinet and what a privy councillor is, it might help to know how to address such exalted persons.
When writing to a privy councillor, address the envelope to, “The Hon. Jacob ...
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The inductee for the 10th anniversary of the WinnipegREALTORS®-established Citizens Hall of Fame was Bill Norrie, the former Winnipeg mayor who passed away at age 83 on July 11.
“I heartily endorse the...
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Over the years, the provincial government’s message about the land transfer tax (LTT) has been misleading by inferring this is a tax common throughout the country and that Manitoba is in the middle of the pack when lev...
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