Last week, I explored some of the weather myths that down through the years have proven to be untrue. This time, let’s consider some proverbs that are generally reliable guides to changes in the weather. These tend to ...
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It isn’t always possible to discover the origin of a common expression. Language historians do their best but sometimes best isn’t good enough. Consequently, we have hundreds of words and sayings in English that ...
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Before the land was put to the plow, large swathes of tall-grass prairie covered an area from the Gulf of Mexico north to Manitoba and east to the Appalachian Mountains. But the very existence of such an expanse of gra...
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More and more people, especially Baby Boomers, are looking at recreation property ownership as the perfect way of finding peace and tranquility.
Studies show that Boomers are the fastest-growing group of recreat...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
Canadian Press (CP) correspondent Bill Boss, who was assigned to report on the activities of the Second Battalion of the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), wrote that &...
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From high property prices to tighter lending conditions, young first-time home buyers today say that they face challenges that their parents didn’t have to worry about, according to new research from TD Canada Trust.
Gene...
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Increasing the Provincial Sales Tax (PST) by one per cent adds another layer of burden to housing affordability for first-time home buyers, according to REALTOR® Lorne Weiss.
Weiss, a former president of Win...
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The Canadian Real Estate Association likes to point out that not all housing markets are created equal. In fact, housing markets across Canada vary considerably in average price and affordability, whether by city or province...
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by Peter Squire
It’s high time to make changes to the provincial land transfer tax. Did you know that if the price of a Honda Civic had risen at the same rate as the land transfer tax since it was introduc...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
The eight-week period of training for the Second Battalion of the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) in South Korea, insisted upon by its commander, Lieutenant-Colonel J...
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