Any threat of major flooding in Winnipeg and Selkirk ended by Tuesday, April 22. In its flood bulletin for that day, the provincial government reported that the ice on the Red River in the city had released and continued to move through Win...
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With today’s low interest rates and wide variety of housing options and prices, buying your first home may be one of the best long-term investments that you will ever make. But before taking the big leap to homeownership, it is import...
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by Bruce Cherney (part1)
In the realm of journalistic exaggeration, few could match the tall tales told by Reginald Robinson, a Winnipeg-based correspondent for a number of U.S. newspapers. It was said of Robinson that he...
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Despite the Bank of Canada holding its key interest rate steady for the 29th consecutive time since September 2010, a recent CIBC poll conducted by Nielsen finds that nearly half of Canadians don’t think low rates will last forever an...
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Sometimes a whole lot of common sense can be compressed into a few words. I’ve been trying to remember all the short philosophies and wise sayings that society has produced down through the ages. Some of these are succinct and s...
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Easter is more important in some countries than in others. About one per cent of Japanese celebrate Easter, while almost 100 per cent of Greeks do. Naturally, many countries have developed unique Easter traditions and superstitions.
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Led by the skirl of bagpipes, a line of people began entering the banquet room in the RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg. By the time the piper had finished his tune, the queue stretched the width of the room, from one end to the other.
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Recently, Winnipeg Free Press columnist Gordon Sinclair Jr. wrote an article about a Downtown Biz sponsored Manitoba Walk of Fame (April 3, 2014, Who's Most worthy of Walk?). It appears from what he described that it would be &nbs...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4 of 4)
William Fisher Luxton said the Manitoba Free Press (now Winnipeg Free Press) had shown a healthy $15,990.60 profit in 1892, but that wasn’t enough for the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Do...
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by Todd Lewys
It’s amazing what a little bit of good weather can do for people’s spirits — not to mention the local real estate market.
Whereas sales figures were at best middling even two w...
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