by Bruce Cherney
On display in the Western Canada Aviation Museum, 958 Ferry Rd., is a Fokker Super Universal monoplane with a storied career in Canadian aviation history that spans the decades from the 1920s to...
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The only thing that goes faster than the month of December is your summer vacation. Let’s ponder a few December dates, but we’d better hurry, before the month of January arrives.
December 2, 1927 &md...
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Did you hear the theory that the world will end next month, on December 21, 2012? Scary thought, eh? But wait a minute. Haven’t we been down this “impending disaster” road before? If, like me, you&rsq...
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Both print and electronic media have devoted time and space to the recent turmoil within the BBC.
London correspondent, Eric Reguly, writing on November 12, told Globe and Mail readers, “Mr. Entwistle, who...
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Nineteen eighty-four was a watershed year for the Grey Cup. It was then that the Calgary Stampeders and their fans invaded Toronto. After this invasion, it was no longer just a Grey Cup game, it was Grey Cup Week, and ...
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In April 1999, WinnipegREALTORS® established a task force to look at the issue of mixed-use development in the downtown. The task force strongly encouraged CentreVenture, the city’s downtown development agency, to ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
The aviators searching for the eight missing members of the Colonel Cyril D.H. MacAlpine expedition had their base at Baker Lake, Nunavut. By the end of their effort, the would-be ...
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A new report indicates that new mortgage rules instituted by the federal government have the potential to create a detrimental effect on the housing market and national economy, even as Canadians show prudence in fast-tracki...
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The majority of Canadians, at 77 per cent, indicated their home is an investment rather than an expense, according to a new Scotiabank poll conducted by Harris/Decima.
And residents of Manitoba and Saskatc...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
The perils of early aviation in Canada’s Far North was made abundantly clear just two days after two
airplanes lifted off from Winnipeg on
August 24, 192...
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