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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Irish writer Elaine Crowley (1927-2011) wrote well-rounded stories with involved plots and wonderful characterization. As well, she carried us back into Ireland’s tumultuous history.
In Dreams of Other Days, we meet patri...
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A vital link is missing from the extensive retail corridor stretching from Polo Park down Kenaston Boulevard to Sterling Park Driveway. Kapyong Barracks remains the unknown in the extensive retail corridor since it is still being dealt with...
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WinnipegREALTORS® held its seventh annual forecast breakfast on January 16 in anticipation of the season most critical in meeting projected sales, which is the spring. Despite real estate sales activity now being more spread out over 12...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
Patricia Vervoort, a professor of art history at Lakehead University, wrote in Towers of Silence: The Rise and Fall of the Grain Elevator, that the CPR didn’t consider elevators important enough ...
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by Todd Lewys
For years, Manitoba’s residential and commercial real estate markets lagged behind most other markets in the country.
That’s no longer the case. For the past seven or eight years, the prov...
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You can tell it’s January because:
• Most of us are way behind on our bills and way ahead on our calories.
• You're still writing 2012 on your cheques instead of 2013.
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We regularly see stories about literary theft. Nearly always, the thief is someone who knows better, perhaps is a well-respected scholar or professional writer. The crime is called plagiarism. The most recent news about plag...
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Oh my! How bad can it get! Lake Winnipeg is in the running for Threatened Lake of the Year, 2013. Global Nature Fund, the organization that created the International Living Lakes network and annually chooses the most-threate...
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“Forecasting is the process of making statements about events whose actual outcomes (typically) have not yet been observed. A commonplace example might be estimation of some variable of interest at some specified futur...
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