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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 18, 1973
Page
2
Ottawa scrutiny grows as three executives depart Ontario Educational Television amid a 12.8 million dollar budget controversy. Critics say public funds vanished into impractical booklets and unfinished labor programming. The fallout raises questions over independence versus government funding and legislative accountability.
Pemler pledged that his newly elected government would sustain social democratic programs from the first term and introduce new initiatives. He announced start dates for venticare, a state fire insurance program to compete with private firms, urban transit support, and rural stay option plans, plus a government led refinery proposal.
The W. H. Coverdale Canadiana collection of 2800 prints and drawings from 18th and early 19th century Canada will tour national venues this fall after currently being shown at the Public Archives. Highlights include sketches by British officers and their wives during and after the Seven Years War and the War of 1812, with about 100 works slated to visit London Ontario Kingston Guelph Windsor Regina and Sackville New Brunswick. The government bought the collection in 1970 for 875000 and regards it invaluable.
A new RCMP museum at its training headquarters in Regina opens with a display on Riel and the 1870s NWMP founding. It includes the crucifix, rope, and handcuffs from Riel’s scaffold, plus artifacts from the Yukon gold rush and NWMP history. Queen Elizabeth officially opened the museum marking 100 years of RCMP history.
A band led by Chief Smallboy urged the Environment Conservation Authority to leave the Kootenay Plains wilderness untouched. Speaking through an interpreter at public hearings on land use, they asked that three townships covering about six square miles be reserved for their exclusive use and criticized ongoing development nearby. About 140 people live in the Smallboy camp, located roughly 75 miles south of the area, as members emphasized a peaceful, nature centered way of life.
Delegates from Manitoba British Columbia Alberta Ontario Quebec and Yukon Territories gather for CCU fifth annual convention to chart a national labor movement. They adopt a plan for a national organizing program and rename to Confederation of Canadian Unions while debating officer selection by convention or general membership. Manitoba minister Russell Paulley urges broader unionization and criticizes delayed affiliations. Cyr Gonick blasts government energy subsidies and supports public ownership of natural resources. Delegates approve a referendum on officer selection and back extending the Trans Canada pipeline.
Barnard Atherton, headmaster in South London, reports a survey of over 2,500 married couples showing co education links to higher marital happiness. Convent educated women were less happily married than non convent educated counterparts. Longer attendance at single sex schools linked to less stable marriages.
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