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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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
Reginald Robinson gained the wrath of Canadian editors, who wrote that his highly-exaggerated — if not outright fictional — dispatches to U.S. newspapers brought disrepute to the natio...
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by Todd Lewys
For home buyers, spring is one of the toughest — if not the toughest — times of the year to buy a home.
This is the time of year, when the spring market starts to heat up, that can be a pa...
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Let’s see how well you can recall these obscure and not-so-obscure memories from the world of television past (answers at the end of the column):
1. In what old western series did Clint Eastwood play the character Rowdy Y...
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“The government seems to believe, as do many critics and pundits, that the CBC must change if it is to survive. Here, here!”
The above quotation is from a Free Press editorial of April 14, 2014.
How sad...
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