by Bruce Cherney (part 4 of 4)
Canadian National Railway (CNR) officials said they had made an offer that would have allowed Grand Beach cottagers to purchase the lots they were leasing from the railway in 1958 (Free Press, Aug...
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Population increases and stable unemployment numbers, coupled with low mortgage rates, will spur builders to maintain new home production at 4,250 units this year and next in Winnipeg and the surrounding municipalities,...
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Maybe you’re having one of those days. From the moment you dragged yourself out of bed, everything went wrong. No fun, eh?
Like the old adage says, “Some days are diamonds — some days are mud.&...
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On July 23, Justin Trudeau, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, provoked a media stir by saying he favours legalization, regulation and taxation of the hallucinogenic drug, marijuana. Citing crime statistics related to alcohol prohibitio...
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Churchill, Manitoba, is Canada’s only deepwater Arctic seaport. On the other hand, Russia possesses 16 such ports, making it the major northern player in the global warming sweepstakes associated with ships traversing a growing ice-fr...
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You need to be very careful when attempting to jump to conclusions about Winnipeg’s real estate market.
Why?
It will often surprise you with some rather impressive numbers after showing poor resul...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
The railway that owned and ran Grand Beach was in financial difficulty by 1918, just four years after the Canadian Northern Railway’s (CNoR) majority shareholders, William Mackenz...
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The average Canadian household has a relatively fixed income stream and works within a budget framework to manage choices related to spending and saving decisions, according to a new report by Altus Group.
The budget choi...
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Dollar volume sales broke through the $300-million barrier for the first time in July, eclipsing $350 million
in transactions, according to new
statistics released by WinnipegREALTORS®.
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“It was not one atomic bomb, or two, which brought (Japan’s) surrender; it was the experience of what an atomic bomb will actually do to a community, plus the dread of many more, that was effective,” said D...
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