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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1985
Page
4
The Downtown Business Revitalization Zone Association DBRZA needs a skilled co ordinator to provide direction. Heritage Canada's Main Street program would have supplied this, but lack of funds led the DBRZA to decline. Chairman Carl Wilson says the group does not have $25,000.
Federal probe fallout reaches John Crosbie family as two sons exit as agents in Newfoundland prosecutions. Ottawa defends Crosbie using 1980 letter on conflict rules. Urban renewal plans stumble as DBRZA funds dwindle to 25,000 with 2,500 for administration. Downtown revival hampered by timidity of local businesses and limited budgets.
Canada remains the largest aid donor to Bangladesh while considering import cuts that would curb Bangladeshi textile exports. The piece argues for policy harmony, noting the tension between aid goals and protectionist imports and urging a balanced compromise.
The United States plans to subsidize a grain sale to Algeria arguing it mirrors EEC practices. Officials warn such perks could trigger a price drop as world wheat oversupply persists, risking destabilizing markets and lower prices globally. The move targets Europe’s policies rather than Canada’s durum trade.
Canadian officials cut textile imports from Bangladesh to 200000 shirts per year from 750000 in 1984 citing protection of domestic industry and trade deals. Critics say Ottawa should ease limits while renegotiating 1986 bilateral ties and continue aid and training programs for Bangladesh.
Jonathan Manthorpe argues Britain's civilized image masks a rough, loyal, and confrontational character shaped by 150 years of Victorian veneer. He cites soccer riots, mining clashes, and Parliament tempers as evidence that British sportsmanship is a recent facade underlying a tradition of turbulence and fecklessness.
Allan Fotheringham comments on how wasteful defense spending scandals erode trust in the Pentagon. He cites a $659.53 ashtray, a $435 clawhammer, a $7,400 coffee pot, and a $600 toilet seat as symbolic wastes that fuel cartoonists' barbs while defense leaders face ridicule amid espionage revelations and Walker family treachery.
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