Archive : 2012

Happenings on the June calendar

  Summer vacation thoughts dominate the mind.  It's harder to concentrate at work or at school. Ahh, it must be June. A teacher said it best. She endured a tough day of grading tests, checking attendance ...

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Foreign borrowing never stops

  English owes its immense vocabulary to its wholesale adoption of words and phrases from other tongues, a practice reaching back into antiquity and continuing to this day. We’ve lifted Old Norse words like ...

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Fluffy the lucky

  I stood watching in utter astonishment. Flying beside me as I was about to get into my van was a crow, wings flapping wildly just a metre above the ground. But it wasn’t the crow that really caught my attention. It was...

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REALTORS® rally in support of homeownership

It was an interesting week for a group of Canadian REALTORS® and government relations staff, when they participated in back-to-back political action events in Ottawa and in Washington, D.C. Both provided an opportunity to see first-hand...

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Historically supported immigration

  It is not surprising that REALTORS® have expressed an interest in immigration matters, especially after the federal government’s announcement that it was taking over the $35-million settlement services program, whi...

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