Canadian credit card rates draw political fire in 1981 to 1986 shift
Reg Stackhouse probes credit card charges amid a rate collapse from 21% to 8.43% while bank and store cards stay high. MPs reveal lenders’ slow cooperation and hostile responses, noting U S rates and oil firm cards run far lower. About 14 million Visa Mastercard cards exist in Canada with 68% paying interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of Canada
Visa
Mastercard
Canada Trust
Reg Stackhouse
Stackhouse
The Canadian Force Motto and a Wolves Tale origin
Sir James H MacBrien recalls the RCMP motto Maintain the Right not Get Your Man and shares a frontier anecdote about a five hundred mile chase to arrest a Native soldier whose capture was foiled when wolves ate the prisoner. The tale illustrates rugged policing lore and the old West mindset.
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R.C.M.P
James H. MacBrien
Tombstone
Neighborly News on Self-Protection and Rights Debates
A columnist surveys editorials and incidents about self defense versus legal limits. They reference a Calgary pharmacist gun case, a Manitoba merchant firing at burglars, and calls for clearer rights for victims while resisting vigilantism. The piece weighs justice system reforms against individual protection.
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Minnedosa Tribune
Elphenstone
Calgary
Hanna
Kesler
Carlyle Observer
Independent
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Hamiota Echo Publications Ltd
P.O. Box 70
Hamiota, Manitoba
Romoto
Manitoba
U.S.A
England
F. D. (Don) Venables
Scarboro West
Commons Finance Committee
Feds
Bank of Montreal
Canada
By Fred McGuinness
Devon Dispatch
Montreal
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