by Todd Lewys
They’re something that aren’t talked about a whole lot, yet make all kinds of sense — infill housing developments.
Should you take a look around the city, you might notice that more infill projects ar...
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One hundred plaques, recalling Canada’s first national internment of “enemy aliens,” were recently unveiled from coast to coast to mark the 100th anniversary of the War Measures Act, which on August 22, 1914, was given Royal a...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
Note: The following article first appeared in the Real Estate News on November 8, 2002. Since the article was first published, new information has been obtained. With the commemoration this year of the 100th...
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The wolf cuts a wide swath throughout folk literature. Aesop’s Fables (ca. 600 BC) contains some of our earliest references to the dangerous wolf.
Everyone knows, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, but another 23 fables also...
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by Steve Brown, National Association of REALTORS® president
“Isn’t the real estate industry just like any other business? Don’t we have a product to sell? Isn’t the industry based on profit and loss and market ...
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It’s always a shock to the system when the summer evaporates, the air cools down and school resumes. Somehow, we wish we could throw a switch and cause summer to linger just a little bit longer. But, alas, Mother Nature always has her own...
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I once worked in a shop with Dennis Waring, a Winnipeg luthier who specialized in making Appalachian dulcimers. I was young and disdainful of Denny’s use of hand tools at a time when most wood-butchers, myself included, were using power m...
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It’s time for a little summer whimsy. Contemplate the following gems:
• A summer prediction: Absolutely no one will be watching when you do a perfect reverse double somersault off the pier. But everyone will be watching when yo...
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For eons, wolves have prowled the lore of mankind. They’re mentioned in Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic, Indian, and Chinese myth.
The ancient Hebrews became a society about 1200 BC, and wolves appear in their Holy Scriptures. Roman myt...
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OmniTRAX Canada has bowed to public pressure and has decided to suspend the railway company’s early plan to test the viability of sending crude oil by rail to Churchill, which is Canada’s only deep water Arctic seaport. When announc...
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