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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 27, 1982
Page
2
Canadian market outlook paints a grim January with high unemployment and rising rates. Analysts foretell a bottoming process by spring 1982 and offer guidance to buy gold or stocks while housing rebounds. others suggest silver, cash allocations, or real estate as safer bets.
Reggie notes a prairie grain farmer Harvey Gjesdal argues higher postal rates will reduce mail volume and staff costs, leading to lower rates. He applies his method to mail and salaries, while warning politicians in the Post Office department resist logical reform, a contrast with wartime outcomes.
The Conference Board of Canada outlines a bleak 1981 1986 outlook with slow growth and low productivity. Dr Thomas Maxwell predicts inflation easing partly from US trends but warns wage settlements must drop to 1 2 per cent for real inflation control, else widespread price rises continue.
This week's historical notes cover Canada from January 25 to 29. It recalls Louis Hebert's death in 1627, Nova Scotia's federal deal tweak in 1869, Jesuit missions to Port Royal in 1611, the 1924 approval of the Canadian Red Ensign, Ottawa's designation as capital, Carnegie libraries in Toronto, Montreal's 1961 subway approval, the 1870 City of Boston sinking voyage, Viscount Alexander ending his term in 1952, Queen Victoria's Victoria Cross founding in 1856, and the 1946 sinking of the schooner Bluenose.
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