Manitoba unemployment falls again with summer youth programs
Statistics Canada figures show Manitoba's jobless rate dropping for a second month from April to May 1981. About 17,000 new jobs were created, with Ken McMaster noting brighter prospects for youth and women. Manitoba government programs include STEP-in-Government, Hire-A-Student, and Private Sector Youth Employment offering wage subsidies and summer placements across rural and northern communities.
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Statistics Canada
Manitoba
Canada
Labour and Manpower
Ken McMaster
Treherne
Pilot Mound
Glenboro
Canada Employment Centre
Charlie Lew
Legislative Building
Winnipeg
Noon Day O Canada Singalong Becomes Canadian Tradition
Across the country at noon on Canada Day last year people paused to sing O Canada in unison. Airlines and railways joined in as pilots and staff urged passengers and travelers to join, with large gatherings from Edmonton to St. John’s.
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O Canada
Canada
St. John’s
Mld
Victoria
Newfoundland Telegram
Confederation Building
Air Canada
Legislature
Edmonton
Cb’ers
E.B. Andrews
Co-Operative Hail Insurance Company Limited
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish
Mrs. Dick Dowd returned home after a week of visiting with her daughter and son-in-law near Portage la Prairie. She visited Mr. D. McDougall, a former Glen Haven resident, and attended gatherings with Mrs. Aitken, Mrs. Mary Scott and others including hymn sings and Bible study led by local residents.
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Etta Aitken
John Ray
Dick Dowd
Frank Case
Portage la Prairie
Frances
Murray Gillies
Levi Plett
John Plett
Sigrun Sigurdson
Clara Johnson
Brandon
Sigrun
Harold Jonsson
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Argyle Lutheran Parish
Larry C. Glaeske
THE
Anglican Church OF Canada
Tom McQuiston
Rathwell
Holland
Glenboro United Church
Karl D. Lurber
Baldur
M. Comeault
Dunrea
Treesbank Evangelical Mennonite
Frank Goertzen
Henry Eimarson
M.L.A. Provincial Employment UP
iChurch
Glen Haven Manor News
South Cypress
John Elwood Shearer
Norman Leroy Peterson
Province of
Eric Plaetinck
Rural Municipality of
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