When the sun is shining brightly, the kids are playing at the beach, games are underway, golfers are burning up the fairways and long-awaited summer vacations finally arrive. It’s hard to believe that there ever was a “winter”...
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The Bastille was an infamous French prison in Paris, built about 1370 by Charles V. Its prisoners were mainly victims of intrigue — often of court intrigue. It became known as a symbol of oppression. It was a nearly impregnable fortress w...
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With the exception of a extremely brief period, The Forks has been a “people place” for 6,000 years. This fact was acknowledged by the Standing Policy Committee on Downtown Development, Heritage and Riverbank Management. On July 7, ...
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June MLS® sales ranked third highest on record for the month and were only eclipsed by three per cent in June 2007 and June 2008. As a result, year-to-date sales for the first half of 2014 show a slight edge over 2013 at close to 6,500 sale...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Prior to 1904, Broadway didn’t abruptly end at Main Street, but continued down to the west bank of the Red River. It was a natural place for Broadway to end, since it was the link on the Winnipeg side of th...
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by Todd Lewys
While it’s no surprise that sales of residential-detached homes and condominiums remain strong, another lesser-known market segment is showing surprising strength.
“Sales of single-attached properties have ...
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As you're working on your summer tan, enjoying your well-earned vacation; and trying to think of reasons why you shouldn’t have to get out of that hammock swinging gently in the breeze, let's fill a couple of idle moments with som...
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Apparently, politicians master gobbledygook immediately upon being elected. But even gobbledygook has rules, rules that include knowing plural words from singular ones.
Recently, Justice Minister Peter MacKay, landed on the hot seat both ...
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, may have been the spark that ignited the First World War — the “damned silly thing in the Balkans,” predi...
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Homeowners are “happy with the decision to buy their home,” feel confident they can weather a downturn in the housing market and they consider mortgage debt to be “good debt.”
Their attitudes are the same whe...
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