Jet service for Medicine Hat? PWA mulls options
Pacific Western Airlines contemplates jet service to Calgary and Edmonton from Medicine Hat after losing Vancouver route to Time Air. Promotions manager Brian Johnson says losses of 150000 to 200000 loom, but future plans remain uncertain. The piece casts doubt on a serious commitment, noting required frequent schedules.
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Pacific Western Airlines
Medicine Hat
Brian Johnson
PWA
Alberta
Vancouver
Time Air
Calgary
Edmonton
Auditor General Dye warns on waste and debt in Canada
The piece argues Auditor General Dye should push harder to expose government waste and mismanagement. It notes the national debt of 82.2 billion dollars consuming 20 cents of every tax dollar and criticizes ongoing spending increases despite calls for reform.
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Kenneth M. Dye
Dye
Quebec politics in flux after unruly party convention
After a turbulent Parti Quebecois convention led by Premier Rene Levesque the party shows a fragile balance with radical motions toward sovereignty and a growing left faction challenging his policy. Levesque blames agitators and warns of shared responsibility while factional tensions continue to rise ahead of future decisions.
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Parti Quebecois
Rene Levesque
Quebec
Ottawa
Levesque
Palestine Liberation Organization
Dickens era Christmas warns of hard times and thrift
A satirical piece imagines Ebenezer Scrooge facing 1981 economic woes. The Cratchett family struggles with mortgages and rising costs while government tax cuts vanish. Scrooge contemplates bankruptcy yet seeks a new happiness, amid energy shortages and post holiday inflation.
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Scrooge
Cratchett
Yesteryear
Tiny Tim
Bob
Mrs. C
Cratchetts
Poll reveals shifting Canadian political winds after constitutional talks
A Gallup poll suggests Canadians would reelect Joe Clark and the Conservatives while Trudeau faces a political setback despite a constitutional victory. Liberals fall from 50 to 38 percent. Clark soars to 42 percent as Tory leadership jitters rise and Broadbent’s NDP holds around 18 percent.
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Ottawa
Pierre Trudeau
Joe Clark
Ed Broadbent
Trudeau
Clark
Broadbent
NDP
Gallup
David Crombie
Crombie
John Napier Turner
Canada
Southam
Boeing Seattle builds six metre cruise missile for NATO
Four days before Geneva talks begin, Boeing in Seattle rolls out a six metre long pilotless cruise missile designed to carry a nuclear warhead. The weapon aims to counter Soviet SS-20 missiles and will be deployed in Europe by 1983 if talks stall. Verification remains the key obstacle as on site inspections face Soviet resistance.
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Geneva
Boeing Aerospace Company
Seattle
NATO
Europe
Reagan
Soviet Union
Brezhnev
West Germany
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John A. Weimer
Fancy
Roslyn Hart
Bob Cratchett
Dicken
T.T
Poll Heralds Future
Jim Travers
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