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...
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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...
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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...
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Despite all that U.S. propaganda, Thanksgiving did not originate with the Pilgrim Fathers in 1621.
Shakespeare makes reference to just such a festival in both Henry IV, Part I (1597) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602).
But Shakes...
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The annual spectacle of that month before winter has arrived, featuring the colours of fall and a supporting cast of a million falling leaves.
October is usually highlighted by the brief but welcome joy of Indian Summer. As a...
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Many readers will have been taught that “loan” is a noun and only a noun. The verb form then is, “to lend” not, “to loan.”
That’s the way I still use these two words. That is, “I lend money,...
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A brief mention of the average salaries of players in the CFL in a recent issue of Maclean’s magazine reminded me of conversations I had years ago with former Winnipeg Blue Bomber, Keith Pearce. In the short blurb, it was stated that the ...
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With less than a month to go before the October 22 civic election, we now know the final slate of mayoral candidates whose names will be on the ballot when Winnipeggers exercise their right to vote. They are Brian Bowman, Michel Fillion, Paula ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 5)
Poised on the car’s running board, the constable was about to jump aboard another car containing two men intent upon evading capture. Both the police car and the rum-runners’ auto swerved wildly on th...
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Demand for farmland in southwest Manitoba has risen steadily over the last five years, according to a new report.
The RE/MAX Farm Report 2014 said that the price of farmland in southwest Manitoba has risen from approximately $1,000 per ac...
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