by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
The age-old argument that politics would corrupt women was contemptuously scoffed at by Nellie McClung, one of the most renowned suffragettes at the turn of the 20th century in Canada. She countered th...
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The number of homes sold last year in Winnipeg for over $500,000 increased by 26 per cent over the previous year and 189 per cent above 2009 levels, according to a new report.
In 2013, the RE/MAX Upper End Report indicated that...
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Here’s another opportunity for you to demonstrate your tremendous trivia knowledge. Try this quiz on a potpourri of trivia and then dazzle all you friends with your unbelievable grasp of mundane information. Just inser...
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Onomastics (Onomotology), the science that studies names, has a geographic branch called “Toponomy.”
Toponomy is important since place-names supply information regarding a society’s history, cu...
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When the weather outside is frightful, Canadians look wistfully south and plan vacations in countries free of snow, ice and cold and blessed with bountiful heat. This winter has been particularly bad weather-wise in Manitoba...
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by Jim Adair
When Canadians visit the U.S., or Americans come to Canada, everything looks familiar but feels somehow different. It’s the same in the two countries’ housing markets — there are e...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
The politics of suffrage were discussed outside Winnipeg in rural women’s clubs and home economics societies. In Manitoba elections of the era, the rural vote carried substantiall...
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by Todd Lewys
It’s no secret that in the past year or two that condominium sales city-wide have been strong.
That’s not surprising, as condos — about one-fifth of all home sales in...
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The recently-released Royal LePage House Price Survey and Market Survey Forecast showed mixed year-over-year results for the different housing types surveyed in Winnipeg.
The average price for standard two-store...
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If you’re a lover of music, you probably tune into the Grammy Awards show every year. And if you’re not a music lover, you probably still tune in just to see the spectacle of the event. It's like the Os...
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