Let's Talk Taxes. The FAT Food Aid Experiment
A satirical timeline from 1964 detailing the rise of the Food Administration Taskforce FAT a government backed system to guarantee subsidized food. It covers funding fears rising taxes job creation food fees later banned and a shift to cost saving measures including temporary facility closures. The piece ends with a tongue in cheek note about the Association of Manitoba Taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maggie Stone
Stone
Preps
The
Association of Manitoba Taxpayers
Franco-Manitoba French school division formed in Manitoba
A new Manitoba French school division has elected its first chair man A Societe Franco- Manitobaine community development officer from La Broquerie. Louis Tetrault, a trustee candidate, says the division broadens public involvement beyond language. It aims to place francophone parents at the curriculum table and allow communities to build cultural centers in schools, echoing a New Brunswick model of broader services. A crowd of about 200 militant farmers rallied at the International Peace Garden near Boissevain to protest Canadian grain shipments to the US, with ND Secretary of Agriculture Sarah Vogel urging President Clinton to curb grain imports. Dauphin’s Agnew Group Inc. faces downsizing elsewhere, but Dauphin stores are deemed safe as the company retains 245 outlets and 1,200 employees. Stylerite Inc. in Dauphin wins creditor approval for its restructuring. RCMP Constable Ken Denbury reported 252 litres of seized liquor dumped after a two year investigation into a truck from a Hutterite Colony in Treherne area, yielding 144 175-litre bottles of American liquor. One man pled guilty and paid a $1,000 fine. estimated liquor value at $6,000 to $7,000. RCMP have seized about 145 cases of US liquor over two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Societe Franco- Manitobaine
la Broquerie
Manitoba
Louis Tetrault
Tetrault
New Brunswick
Ken Denbury
Killarney
RCMP
Treherne
Cst
Denbury
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International Peace Garden
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Sarah Vogel
N.D
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Agnew
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John Lynch
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Groundhog
Florida
Twat
Roxann Barker
Hamiota Echo
Nesbitt Publishing Ltd
Hamiota
GST & Pst Inc
Gregory Nesbitt
Heather Dickson
Kelly McMurachy
Dorothy Barr
Pam Henton
Marcie Harrison
Wanda Strachan
CCNA
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