At a recent WinnipegREALTORS® forecast breakfast, Ron Hambley, the head of the Winnipeg Construction Association, said he was amazed by the increases in building permit activity in 2012. He commented that well over $2 billion in permit ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
Prairie farmers may have harvested a bumper wheat crop in 1887, but when the year 1888 began, they were unable to ship their grain to eastern markets due to what they termed the Canadian Pacific Railwa...
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Sixteen years ago, Canada won the World Junior Hockey Championship by beating the U.S. 2-0, Jean Chrétien was Canada’s prime minister and Gary Filmon was the premier of Manitoba.
And it was 16 years ago that the mo...
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Technically, February is the shortest month. But, realistically, it always seems like the longest. It drags on and on and on. February, and its equally slow-moving neighbour, March, just crawl along as we count the day...
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“Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven.” These words are from a song written 77 years ago by Americans Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston. Then, 35 years ago, the BBC ran a sit-com called, Pennies From ...
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I’ve often wondered why the TV program Ancient Aliens is being shown on the History Channel. What do such tall tales of extraterrestrials allegedly visiting earth and giving the Egyptians and Mayans the technological k...
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WinnipegREALTORS® Commercial Division chair Ken Jones, an independent broker affiliated with Shindico and a past-chair of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, made a presentation at the association’s annual breakfast ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
John M. Egan, the general superintendent for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in Winnipeg, wrote the membership of the Manitoba Farmers’ Union on August 29, 1884, explaining the...
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Education Minister Nancy Allen’s comment that she knows that Manitoba school divisions will sharpen their pencils in order to prevent significant property tax increases this year doesn’t carry much weight...
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Our language is full of words and phrases that we use all the time without giving any thought to their origin. Maybe you’ve wondered from time to time exactly how and why they came to have their own special meaning and significa...
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