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[1ajs]

o winnipeg o winnipeg

winnipeg home to many say it so to crazy be from summers sun to winters frost
all so it be
of crazying ways it be so
pot holes bout to mount a war
to war we go
dodging ways from corner store to walmarts a flee
so we crazy be
from here to there
mosqeetos fly
to buz an eye
o my
my my my
we crazy be
from hearts content
of softnes be
o sorry to be to say
sorry sorry sorry sorrry
from a bump to say
we say it all
times it say sorry sorry sorry
we be sorry to say not sorry to be
we go bout
our crazy way
o winnipeg
o winnipeg
i see thee
thee my home
of crazy needs
we try to be
our own ways
so we try
o we try
never relize we already be
as crazy as be

[wacko]

From the Regina Construction thread:

Originally Posted by CoR East

Well, I think its official, the boom was too good to last...

Nothin' says 'oops we over-built' like a free car if you buy one of our homes before the end of May promotion...

http://www.daytonahomes.ca/regina

I guess it is Harbour Landing after all though, if you live there, you are going to need all the cars you can get.

I am actually a bit surprised at this. I'd been under the impression that local builders weren't in the habit of building on speculation (unlike many U.S. home builders at the peak of the American real estate bubble in 2005).

Supposing I didn't want a new car though? Could I just ask for a straightforward discount on the home price?

[Simplicity]

Originally Posted by wacko

From the Regina Construction thread:



I am actually a bit surprised at this. I'd been under the impression that local builders weren't in the habit of building on speculation (unlike many U.S. home builders at the peak of the American real estate bubble in 2005).

Supposing I didn't want a new car though? Could I just ask for a straightforward discount on the home price?

Ha! Not really. Usually those deals amount to a prepaid lease for three years, so maybe you could get that value in exchange?

Most homebuilders are buying lots and building on spec. That's why inventories are so high. In a multi-unit project, they'll hit their pre-sale targets - say, 50% - and build the rest on spec. Reason there is that the bank won't finance. But in the single-family world where the lot is purchased and the house built, often the creditors for the big generals end up being the subs. If the house sells before it's complete, fantastic. If not, subs can end up carrying long receivables until they threaten to lien the property. They've got all kinds of tricks up their sleeves these days to keep that 45 day lien period going...

[thefourthtower]

http://blogs.canoe.ca/lilleyspad/pol...oming-economy/

VIDEO: Saskatchewan’s booming economy
Brian Lilley - April 5th, 2014

[Simplicity]

Originally Posted by thefourthtower

http://blogs.canoe.ca/lilleyspad/pol...oming-economy/

VIDEO: Saskatchewan’s booming economy
Brian Lilley - April 5th, 2014

The issue with Regina is that it's overbuilt, not that the economy isn't creating jobs or growing. Saskatchewan is just fine. Homebuilders just whiffed on demand projections and created crazy inventories.

[Cyro]

I thought posters on this forum (Man./Sask.) might find this site interesting.

Analytics, Analysis..something I do to monitor my Websites and Forums.
Not an accurate measure by any means but fun none the less.

http://boardreader.com/fp/Skyscraper...n_1001284.html

[1ajs]

• Video Link

[trueviking]

Fascinating article about the rationale behind not wearing bike helmets.

http://www.howiechong.com/journal/2014/2/bike-helmets

[trueviking]

Good song. I've always found his voice interesting.

[rypinion]

Does anyone have experience with turning a large, older single family home into a duplex/triplex, or adding a secondary suite?

I can't help but have that idea pop in my head when browsing properties available in old St. B around the university.

[Riverman]

Ask Scott McGillivray.

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by rypinion

Does anyone have experience with turning a large, older single family home into a duplex/triplex, or adding a secondary suite?

I can't help but have that idea pop in my head when browsing properties available in old St. B around the university.

look up the fire code thats a biggy.

theres piles of grants depending where u are to do this as well

[SkydivePilot]

Originally Posted by Simplicity

The issue with Regina is that it's overbuilt, not that the economy isn't creating jobs or growing. Saskatchewan is just fine. Homebuilders just whiffed on demand projections and created crazy inventories.

Regina, if anything, is actually underbuilt.

[SkydivePilot]

The old General Motors plant in Regina had a production capacity of 150 cars/day. That is pretty impressive - considering there were no robots around at that time!

[Riverman]

Beer is the key to urban revitalisation!

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opi...259178421.html

[bomberjet]

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/loc...259249761.html

Councillor slams new mailbox program
By: Aldo Santin
Posted: 12:31 PM


A city councillor says Canada Post’s plans for its new community mail box program is fraught with problems and unworkable for seniors and those with disabilities.

Coun. Ross Eadie said Canada Post appears prepared to erect the mail boxes on almost every block across a wide swath of north Winnipeg, north of Inkster Boulevard from the Red River to the CPR Arborg rail line.

"This won’t work," Eadie said. "People won’t be able to get to them, it’s going to cause parking and litter problems and eventually the city will be expected to fix the problems this creates."

The community mailbox program is Canada Post’s alternative to home delivery. The Crown agency announced in December it will phase out home delivery of mail over a five-year period and replace it with community mailboxes, similar to those that exist in new suburbs.

Two areas of north Winnipeg are part of the initial introduction of community mailboxes, which is expected to begin later this year.

.....

Eadie said the mailboxes will be erected on boulevards, adding that traditionally is where the city stores snow in winter.

"The mailboxes will be buried and people won’t be able to get to them," Eadie said, adding that the city does not plow residential sidewalks in winter, making accessibility a serious problem.

Eadie said that even if sidewalks are plowed, residents would have difficulty climbing the resulting windrows.

The situation is made worse for seniors and those with disabilities, he said.


You clear the snow, just like you do for fire hydrants! Clear the snow! Additional cost to the City? Well work it out with Canada Post. Anywhere these things goes, the same issues will arise. What happens in places like Lindenwoods or Amber Trails where they have community mail boxes already?

[h0twired]

I am beginning to think that based on the number of people that are complaining about community mailboxes due to mobility issues, that there are a LOT of Winnipeggers who should probably be moving out of their homes and into condos, apartments or nursing homes.

Seriously.

If you can't walk a few hundred feet to get your mail how do you manage to do anything?

[bomberjet]

Originally Posted by h0twired

I am beginning to think that based on the number of people that are complaining about community mailboxes due to mobility issues, that there are a LOT of Winnipeggers who should probably be moving out of their homes and into condos, apartments or nursing homes.

Seriously.

If you can't walk a few hundred feet to get your mail how do you manage to do anything?

BINGO! No disrespect or anything. But it's that thing again, about people feeling they have a right to everything under the sun. In the winter it was about windrows in the back lane. People unable to clear them, even though it's been that way forever. Be glad you have a roof over your head and are not out in the cold, literally.

[1ajs]

theres truthe but... what about in the midle of winter when the thing is burried under a mountan of snow cause the plows buried it the night befor and its turned to ice? or the snow plows smash it cause they tried to clear the mound they just made...

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

BINGO! No disrespect or anything. But it's that thing again, about people feeling they have a right to everything under the sun. In the winter it was about windrows in the back lane. People unable to clear them, even though it's been that way forever. Be glad you have a roof over your head and are not out in the cold, literally.

if u dont get to the window within the first couple hours at best its a block of ice... and allot of the time people are at work come home to this block of ice......... or wake up in the morning to a block of ice......