by Bruce Cherney (part 4 of 4)
William Fisher Luxton said the Manitoba Free Press (now Winnipeg Free Press) had shown a healthy $15,990.60 profit in 1892, but that wasn’t enough for the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Do...
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by Todd Lewys
It’s amazing what a little bit of good weather can do for people’s spirits — not to mention the local real estate market.
Whereas sales figures were at best middling even two w...
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Setting dead-level posts to support a deck or stairway railing is easy if you know one simple trick. Before I was taught how to do the job correctly, I wasted a lot of time fiddling with posts until I was satisfied they were level. My...
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I’m not surprised that a new survey conducted by Ipsos for the Vimy Foundation has found that less than half (47 per cent) of Canadians knew that the Battle of Vimy Ridge was fought during the First World War, while two-in-five ...
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I’m not surprised that a new survey conducted by Ipsos for the Vimy Foundation has found that less than half (47 per cent) of Canadians knew that the Battle of Vimy Ridge was fought during the First World War, while two-in-five ...
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Peruse this little list of the mundane and the unusual and see how many of these revelations you already knew:
• Did you know that Niagara Falls was formed 10,000 years ago? (There were only two motels there at the time.) ...
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When Flight M370 was first reported missing, we heard several theories regarding its fate. Whenever hijacking was mentioned as a possibility, journalists pointed out that no one had taken credit.
Here’s an example f...
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There’s nothing like getting the spring market going with a mortgage rate reduction under the three-per-cent threshold. Newspaper headlines a few weeks ago announced BMO is offering a five-year, fixed-rate mortgage of 2.99 per cent. A...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
It was on Saturday, September 25, that the news of Frederick Edward Molyneux St. John’s appointment to replace William Fisher Luxton as editor of the Manitoba Free Press finally became public kno...
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A new survey showed strong year-over-year growth for standard condominiums and standard two-storey homes in Winnipeg with a 5.3 per cent increase to $203,118 and 5.1 per cent increase to $325,072, respectively.
Meanwhile,...
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