Needless words lifted into English
Readers know the term, “loanword” — a word lifted into English from another language. But, since we never return them, they should probably be called “usurped,” “adopted,” or, “stolen” words...
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Archive : October 2014
Go to the polls
Winnipeggers will go to the polls to elect a new mayor and city councillors on Wednesday, October 22. While the media has given credible and extensive reports of each candidate’s platforms, and groups and organizations, such as WinnipegRE...
Mayoral candidates have their say at forum
Last Thursday evening, on October 9, WinnipegREALTORS® teamed up with media partner Shaw TV and presented the first live televised debate of this year’s civic election. All seven mayoral candidates were invited and for the over two-ho...
Charlie Chaplin — vaudeville star at the Empress Theatre
by Bruce Cherney
After conquering British music halls, he was poised to lay siege to the theatres of the New World and claim his share of vaudeville fame. At the time, vaudeville was the popular entertainment medium, and Winnipeg played a...
First and only live televised mayoral forum had the occasional barb and laugh
It was an event that had all the makings of an auspicious, informative evening.
On October 9, WinnipegREALTORS® and Shaw TV Channel 9 joined forces to put on the 2014 Mayoral Forum, live from the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre. With...
Setting the right price essential to sell a house under existing market conditions
by Todd Lewys
As most everyone knows, the mantra in real estate is, “location, location, location.”
In today’s increasingly balanced real estate market, that age-old saying is now being followed closely by another:...
The Thanksgiving dinosaur feast
If you’re having turkey as the main course of your Thanksgiving Day meal, you’re gobbling down a dinosaur; that is, a descendant of the dinosaurs that supposedly vanished from the earth 65 million years ago. Today, it’s unders...
Rum-runners — the “flying bootlegger” made booze flights from Winnipeg to Minneapolis to Chicago
by Bruce Cherney (part 6 of 6)
The “Roaring Twenties” was a period when the automobile was coming into vogue as a means of personal transportation — vehicles, such as the Model-T, were becoming more affordable to many wo...
MLS® listings increased in September
Buyers took advantage of the over 5,000 MLS® listings available at the beginning of September. As a result, sales were less than three per cent off the best September recorded in 2011. The 2,364 new listings entered on MLS® during the m...
Thinking of thankful things
And so, suddenly, it’s Thanksgiving time again. Did we somehow miss a month since May or is this how time flies? It’s amazing how the calendar manages to zip around through another summer season and land on the middle of Octob...