Archive : June 2013

Test your knowledge of Canada

  In honour of Canada Day, here’s a little quiz that will test your knowledge of our home and native land (answers at the end of the column): 1. Who was  Lawren Harris? 2. In what province ...

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Amusing signs show up everywhere

  Some years ago, this sign appeared in London: “How dare New York call itself the Big Smoke?” Such amusing signage shows up everywhere. Sometimes, as in the London example, the endeavour to provoke la...

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“We are all Canadians”

  “What place is this?” asked Jacques Cartier. “Kanata,” was the reply from two youth. Because of a mistake in translation, an Iroquoian name for village became the name of a n...

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Steps to take to fix rental shortage

  In March 2011, WinnipegREALTORS® released a discussion paper on Manitoba’s rental housing shortage. The 34-page report contained a number of recommendations to alleviate the province’s critical rental shortag...

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Wonderful world of whimsy

  Maybe you’re a little stressed out, bored, upset, downcast, frazzled, annoyed, irritated,  unhappy,  irked or otherwise perturbed.  Perhaps this little whimsical interlude will raise your sp...

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Has Pandora’s box been opened?

  The other day, some pundit on radio said, “Rathgeber’s frankness about the PMO has opened Pandora’s box.” Brent Rathgeber, MP for Edmonton-St. Albert, recently left the Conservative caucu...

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Charleswood’s 100th anniversary

  It was a brief one-paragraph official notice about the formation of Manitoba’s newest rural municipality.  Charleswood is Now in Existence was the headline 100 years ago: “The Manitoba Gazette a...

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