Trudeau budget a political battlefield and economic failure
The piece blasts Allan MacEachen’s budget as disastrous and arrogant, arguing it raises taxes, offers only cosmetic reforms, ignores unemployment and inflation, and shows Liberal mismanagement. It urges voters to replace the Trudeau government, calling for accountability and bold fiscal leadership.
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MacEachen
Pierre Trudeau
Allan MacEachen
Foreign Investment Review Board
FIRA
Bank of Canada
Trudeau
City council erred over closing wading pools in Medicine Hat
Citizens protest the pool closure led by a petition with 1000 plus signatures and offers from the Kinsmen Club to help fund reopening. Mayor Grimm rejects budget change but suggests charging for pool use or private donations as a way to reopen. The letter urges the city to assume responsibility and adjust spending to restore the service.
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Ted Grimm
Grimm
Medicine Hat
Kinsmen Club
Son of Budget unsettles House as MacEachen clings to image
Allan J. MacEachen, in a somber budget address, is mocked by MPs while admitting a deficit rise from 10.5 billion to 19.6 billion. Critics label the Liberal shift as flip flopping and call for stronger policy restraint as Ottawa faces pay increases and energy sector debates.
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Ottawa
Allan J. MacEachen
Son of Budget
House of Commons
Allan J
Cape Breton
MacEachen
Liberals
Western Canada
Eastern Canada
Why I Hate Little Old Ladies in the Elevator
Mike Royko recounts a morning elevator encounter with a gray haired jogging-suit lady who criticizes his hello and reveals his lifelong habit of mumbling. He recalls a past elevator robbery by a gray-haired granny and notes how fear and past trauma shape his reactions to different women in elevators.
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Sun-Times
Centre for Inflation and Productivity warned on wage and price dynamics
John Ferguson outlines CSIP findings as Canada moved past wage and price controls in 1978 79. He notes profits surged 22 to 36 percent while inflation revived, questioning whether wage increases or prices drove the rise and detailing corporate profit shares and labor share trends since 1970.
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Ottawa
Economic Council of Canada
Centre For
CSIP
Seesip
Jean Chretien
Centre
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