Ponder this February assortment of events which perhaps you didn’t even know about or may have forgotten. Some of these are historical, some are hysterical and a couple of them are undoubtedly hypothetical.
A...
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Often, Canadian places echo Britain’s technique and describe or hint at surroundings, for example, Rocky Mountains, Lockport, Muddy Bay. Hundreds of others are direct lifts from Aboriginal languages. These include Manitoba, Saskatchew...
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Personally, I think any groundhog with an urge for self-preservation would not emerge from its burrow on February 2 in Manitoba. The only groundhog actually straying from its burrow on the day named in the furry mammal’s honour ...
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WinnipegREALTORS® just held its eighth annual forecast breakfast last week. The first year of 2007 still holds the MLS® sales record for most transactions at 13,079, while 2011 gave it a good run for its money just falling 12 sales ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
The age-old argument that politics would corrupt women was contemptuously scoffed at by Nellie McClung, one of the most renowned suffragettes at the turn of the 20th century in Canada. She countered th...
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The number of homes sold last year in Winnipeg for over $500,000 increased by 26 per cent over the previous year and 189 per cent above 2009 levels, according to a new report.
In 2013, the RE/MAX Upper End Report indicated that...
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Here’s another opportunity for you to demonstrate your tremendous trivia knowledge. Try this quiz on a potpourri of trivia and then dazzle all you friends with your unbelievable grasp of mundane information. Just inser...
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Onomastics (Onomotology), the science that studies names, has a geographic branch called “Toponomy.”
Toponomy is important since place-names supply information regarding a society’s history, cu...
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When the weather outside is frightful, Canadians look wistfully south and plan vacations in countries free of snow, ice and cold and blessed with bountiful heat. This winter has been particularly bad weather-wise in Manitoba...
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by Jim Adair
When Canadians visit the U.S., or Americans come to Canada, everything looks familiar but feels somehow different. It’s the same in the two countries’ housing markets — there are e...
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