The Festival du Voyageur has for decades been the biggest winter extravaganza in Winnipeg and Western Canada. Among the showpieces of the annual event held in February (this year’s festival ends on February 23) is a replica of Fort Gi...
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by Ross McGowan
CentreVenture Development Corporation, the city of Winnipeg’s downtown development agency, participated in the WinnipegREALTORS® eighth annual Forecast Breakfast in early January. We had the oppo...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
In the 1936 Winter Olympics, Canada finished first and second in men’s hockey. At least that was the observation of P.J. Mulqueen, the chairman of the Olympic Committee of the Amateur Athletic Un...
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by Todd Lewys
It’s amazing the difference choice — or a lack of it — can make in a real estate market.
Two or three years ago, when housing inventory was low, sellers could literally put their hom...
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Is it a love story fit for Valentine’s Day, or an act of vengeance perpetrated by a bitter lover from beyond the grave?
One of the more unusual provisions found in a will was made by Emily Margaret Waddell. When Emily die...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 5 of 5)
Manitoba women’s hopes of getting the franchise were rekindled when the Liberal Party association endorsed it as official party policy at its March 1914 convention. The only stipulation was ...
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At the recent WinnipegREALTORS® forecast breakfast, Ken Jones, chair of the association’s Commercial Division, gave a recap of the 2013 commercial real estate market and spoke briefly on his predictions for 2014.
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The following are the kind of lines that provoke the response, “I wish I’d said that!”
Often, they’re tremendously profound and we feel envious of the author’s intellect, or they may be such...
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More than 1,300 Manitoba locations carry aboriginal names. Scores of others are English or French versions of native names. This pattern exists throughout Canada with thousands of native names found from east to west.
Canada is...
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New WinnipegREALTORS® president David Powell said the housing market will “see strong growth” this year, especially condominium sales, which were on an upswing by the end of last year.
“There is a great di...
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