by Bruce Cherney
Businesses closed for the day, people gathered by the hundreds and then in a grand display of civic pride proceeded down Main Street to celebrate the laying of the cornerstone for Winnipeg’s first city hall and...
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by Bruce Cherney
On September 16, 2002, a mechanical failure at the North End Water Pollution Control centre caused 427,000
cubic metres of raw sewage to flow into the Red River.
Surprisingly, untreated sewa...
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by Bruce Cherney
A survey commissioned by the Dominion Institute revealed that only 41 per cent of the respondents were aware of this nation’s most important victory during the First World War — a defining moment in Canad...
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by Bruce Cherney
Federal Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl is apparently not a great fan of the Canadian Wheat Board which was established during the height of the Great Depression to assist Western Canadian grain farmers by marketi...
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by Bruce Cherney
It was the final triumph in the battle to convert Manitoba into a smaller version of Ontario.
For 26 years since Manitoba’s entry into Confederation and the arrival of an armed militia to tak...
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by Bruce Cherney
The recently-released 2006 Canadian Census showed that this nation experienced the greatest population growth among G8 countries. Canada’s population rose to 31,612,897 with a growth rate of 5.4 per cent betwee...
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by Bruce Cherney
For one day a year, Manitobans of all backgrounds can attire themselves in green and proclaim that they are “friends of the Irish.” At the same time, many in this province will be heartedly celebrating St...
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by Bruce Cherney
The Pride of the Prairies saloon boasted six billiard tables and a double 10-pin bowling alley. With its many attractions, the
saloon had become a popular haunt for home-sick members of militia units tem...
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by Bruce Cherney
In his book Red River, Joseph James Hargrave, a Hudson’s Bay Company fur trader and author born in York Factory along Hudson Bay, provides a first-hand account of what it was like to travel from Winnipeg to Por...
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by Bruce Cherney
It’s not surprising that the weather is a major topic of conversation among Manitobans. After all, this province is subject to some of the greatest extremes in temperatures experienced on the planet. For exampl...
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