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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Veneering is an excellent way for DIYers to work with highly-figured domestic and exotic woods that are too expensive for most of us to purchase as solid boards.
Windsor Plywood, for example, has a selection of hardwood lumber that ...
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A new month is upon us. And so another page of the calendar gets torn off and thrown away and now there is a whole new month laid out before us. Let’s have a look at November down through the years.
• Do you remember anything s...
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Often, our most careful English-users claim English as their second language.
Horst, who gave no surname, is an example. In July, he wrote: “German was my first language. I took it upon myself to try to master English the best...
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There are two theories associated with stock markets at this time of year — the October Effect and the Halloween Effect. According to the first theory, stocks tend to decline in October, while the second theory postulates a rise in stocks...
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When WinnipegREALTORS® asked its members at the association’s annual October technology conference and trade show whether a buyers’ market now existed (e.g., over 4.5 months of inventory), a small majority said that was th...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
In other segments of his famous role as the “Inebriate,” Charlie Chaplin chases an awful singer off the stage, groans at a ham actor, imagines a pretty soubrette is singing directly to him, and finall...
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