Canadian Business Crisis Colors the Wilson Budget Outlook
A column argues Prime Minister Wilson faces a defining budget moment as deficits widen, unemployment rises, and major corporations falter. It warns higher taxes and spending cuts may follow, with inflation indexing ending and incentives for investment reshaping the economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mikey Wilson
Mulroney Terries
Feds
Dominion
Simpsons
Bay
Wilson
Via Rail
Congress
Mulroney
Ottawa
Bonn
Ed Broadbent
John Turner
Trudeau
This Week in Canada May Highlights From 1906 to 1932
A May series notes key Canadian events: 1906 British troops left British Columbia. 1919 Commons bars titles for Canadians. 1873 NWMP act. 1887 CPR transcontinental train to Vancouver. 1833 first medical degree in Canada. 1932 national broadcasting system act. 1849 stamp engraving for security. 1870 Fenians raid Eastern Townships.
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Canada
British Columbia
House of Commons
Northwest Mounted Police
C.P.R
W. Logie
Montreal
Quebec
Editorials critique Mulroney era across Prairie weeklies
The piece surveys editors and columnists in Steinbach Altona Yorkton Carlyle Weyburn and Weyburn and others as they question patronage appointments and central Canada dominance. It notes high public support into spring yet persistent discontent over governance style and perceived power concentration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
U. of Manitoba
Mulroney
Steinbach
Trudeau
Echo
Altona
Yorkton
Air Canada
Central
Canada
Carlyle Observer
Seward on Canada and northern development in 1861
Seward praised Britain’s northern provinces and their projects across rivers, railways, and telegraphs, suggesting they would later join the American Union. He later oversaw the Alaska purchase from Russia for seven million dollars, widely deemed a folly at the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Rupert’s Land
Canada
North
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence
Arund
Hudson’s Bay
U.S
William H. Seward
Seward
Alaska
Russia
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Hamiota Echo Publications Ltd
P.O. Box 70
Hamiota, Manitoba
Romoto
Manitoba
U.S.A
England
F. D. (Don) Venables
CNA
By Garth Turner
Weyburn Review
Mulroney and Co
By Fred McGuinness
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