Setting dead-level posts to support a deck or stairway railing is easy if you know one simple trick. Before I was taught how to do the job correctly, I wasted a lot of time fiddling with posts until I was satisfied they were level. My...
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I’m not surprised that a new survey conducted by Ipsos for the Vimy Foundation has found that less than half (47 per cent) of Canadians knew that the Battle of Vimy Ridge was fought during the First World War, while two-in-five ...
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Peruse this little list of the mundane and the unusual and see how many of these revelations you already knew:
• Did you know that Niagara Falls was formed 10,000 years ago? (There were only two motels there at the time.) ...
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When Flight M370 was first reported missing, we heard several theories regarding its fate. Whenever hijacking was mentioned as a possibility, journalists pointed out that no one had taken credit.
Here’s an example f...
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There’s nothing like getting the spring market going with a mortgage rate reduction under the three-per-cent threshold. Newspaper headlines a few weeks ago announced BMO is offering a five-year, fixed-rate mortgage of 2.99 per cent. A...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
It was on Saturday, September 25, that the news of Frederick Edward Molyneux St. John’s appointment to replace William Fisher Luxton as editor of the Manitoba Free Press finally became public kno...
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A new survey showed strong year-over-year growth for standard condominiums and standard two-storey homes in Winnipeg with a 5.3 per cent increase to $203,118 and 5.1 per cent increase to $325,072, respectively.
Meanwhile,...
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by Todd Lewys
Infill development in the city’s West End is about to get a boost from an old ally, and the timing couldn’t get better.
Now that HOP, otherwise known as Housing Opportunity Partnership, ha...
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Were you a victim of a prank on April Fools’ Day?
If you weren’t don’t feel too left out. With the advent of the Internet every day is April Fools’ Day. There’s always an ongoing prank on the World...
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On October 21, 2010, Tartan Day in Canada was officially declared. The date was set for April 6. The same date is observed all over North America and in Scotland itself. Tartan Day is July 1 in Australia and New Zealand.
Signif...
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