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2014
by Bruce Cherney
After conquering British music halls, he was poised to lay siege to the theatres of the New World and claim his share of vaudeville fame. At the time, vaudeville was the popular entertainment medium, and Winnipeg played a...
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It was an event that had all the makings of an auspicious, informative evening.
On October 9, WinnipegREALTORS® and Shaw TV Channel 9 joined forces to put on the 2014 Mayoral Forum, live from the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre. With...
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by Todd Lewys
As most everyone knows, the mantra in real estate is, “location, location, location.”
In today’s increasingly balanced real estate market, that age-old saying is now being followed closely by another:...
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If you’re having turkey as the main course of your Thanksgiving Day meal, you’re gobbling down a dinosaur; that is, a descendant of the dinosaurs that supposedly vanished from the earth 65 million years ago. Today, it’s unders...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 6 of 6)
The “Roaring Twenties” was a period when the automobile was coming into vogue as a means of personal transportation — vehicles, such as the Model-T, were becoming more affordable to many wo...
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Buyers took advantage of the over 5,000 MLS® listings available at the beginning of September. As a result, sales were less than three per cent off the best September recorded in 2011. The 2,364 new listings entered on MLS® during the m...
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And so, suddenly, it’s Thanksgiving time again. Did we somehow miss a month since May or is this how time flies? It’s amazing how the calendar manages to zip around through another summer season and land on the middle of Octob...
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Despite all that U.S. propaganda, Thanksgiving did not originate with the Pilgrim Fathers in 1621.
Shakespeare makes reference to just such a festival in both Henry IV, Part I (1597) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602).
But Shakes...
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The annual spectacle of that month before winter has arrived, featuring the colours of fall and a supporting cast of a million falling leaves.
October is usually highlighted by the brief but welcome joy of Indian Summer. As a...
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Many readers will have been taught that “loan” is a noun and only a noun. The verb form then is, “to lend” not, “to loan.”
That’s the way I still use these two words. That is, “I lend money,...
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