When zebra mussels were first found in North America 25 years ago, it was already too late, since no one at the time really knew the threat posed to the ecosystem by the tiny alien invader. While it is too late to remove the mussels from th...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
It was an inauspicious start to what was to be a new venture in the Red River Settlement, which was later explained at a dinner meeting of the Manitoba Press Club by William Coldwell, who, along with W...
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Twisty Tongue recently told readers that “smog” is a portmanteau word.
Portmanteau word is a term coined by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) in, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). In that book, Humpty Dumpty explains that &...
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It is always nice to be recognized, especially when they want you to share your success with counterparts across the country. This happened last week in Edmonton when Winnipeg’s Housing Opportunity Partnership (HOP) was invited to spe...
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In what has been anything but a normal year weather-wise, April MLS® sales actually held their own, falling just shy of last year’s total.
Sale numbers are exactly at the 10-year average performance level for this mon...
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Mothers are a good thing. As a youngster once said, “If it weren’t for mothers, things would sure be in a heck of a mess!”
Hard to argue with that thinking, right?
Through a mother’s u...
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There’s great anticipation in the air as the “not sure if it's winter or spring” month of April finally fades away. We suddenly realize that unless Mother Nature gets really cruel, we’ve finally made it thr...
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To illustrate bad usage, I recently quoted a Sun headline: “A Crackdown is Harshing Head Shop Owners” (February 8, 2014).
I took issue with the word, “harshing,” and went on to say, “Harsh and its ...
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What did the prime minister expect? An end-run around the Constitution was never going to work. That was the message behind the recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling that any reform of the appointed body requires the consent of the province...
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When Cliff King, former president of WinnipegREALTORS® and the Manitoba Real Estate Association, recently spoke out publicly about the negative impact of Manitoba’s land transfer tax, it was not part of the campaign both of these ...
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