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Archive : 2014
Some things that really drive you crazy
Day in and day out, life has its aggravations. Some are big, some are small. But even the small ones can drive you crazy!
A poem for Remembrance Day
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. Ironically, it was then referred to as “the war to end all wars.”
Sadly, it was not to be.
Remembrance Day, November 11, marks the end...
Poppies still bloom in Flanders fields
Long before the First World War and the poem, In Flanders Fields, British historian, Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), wrote about the poppies of Flanders. “The soil fertilized by twenty thousand corpses, broke forth into millio...
Remembering the fallen
Nearly a century has passed since the first Armistice Day, following what was then known as the Great War, but which we today call the First World War. That first commemoration had an immediancy to it, as there were many wounded soldiers presen...
Bank of Canada’s interest rate unchanged
The Bank of Canada announced on October 22 that it was holding its trend-setting overnight lending rate at one per cent.
Its most recent rate announcement and Monetary Policy Report suggest a number of reasons why interest rates aren&rsqu...
Charlie Chaplin — Groucho Marx told his brothers that he saw a great comedian perform at the Empress
by Bruce Cherney (part 4 of 4)
In August 1913, Groucho Marx left Winnipeg’s Empress Theatre to rejoin his brothers and told them that he had seen a great comedian perform. “I described him ...,” wrote Marx in his autobio...
Highest dollar volume on record while the market continues to offer buyers more choice
Dollar volume topped the $3 billion mark in October, the highest volume of MLS® sales reached with two months still to go in the year, according to a recently-released statistical report by WinnipegREALTORS®.
In 2013, dollar volum...
A poem for Remembrance Day
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. Ironically, it was then referred to as “the war to end all wars.”
Sadly, it was not to be.
Remembrance Day, November 11, marks the end...
Poppies still bloom in Flanders fields
Long before the First World War and the poem, In Flanders Fields, British historian, Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), wrote about the poppies of Flanders. “The soil fertilized by twenty thousand corpses, broke forth into millio...