29 Oct 1982
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Oct 29, 1982
Page
1
A stark Virgin prairie backdrop anchors a documentary about the founding of Medicine Hat. The film blends landscape imagery with archival notes to trace early settlement, local figures, and the city’s origin story.
Premier Peter Lougheed told Medicine Hat to expect no provincial loan of 46 million to buy gas fields, reiterating Alberta policy not to fund utility purchases with municipal borrowing. Alderman Davison criticized the province for withholding funds and revenue sharing, urging more support for municipalities.
Ottawa will add 400 million to the 3.2 billion set for rail expansion and reform of the Crow rate as Transport Minister Jean Luc Pepin calls the move a commitment to solving the Crowsnest Pass freight rate issue. Finance Minister Marc Lalonde notes a farm vs railway subsidy choice remains.
Finance Minister Marc Lalonde announced eight economists from across Canada to a new economic advisory panel. John Helliwell of the University of British Columbia will chair. Members include Judith Alexander, Pierre Fortin, John Graham, David Laidler, Douglas Purvis, Andre Raynauld, and Tom Wilson. All will serve without remuneration.
In Madrid tens of thousands celebrated as the Socialists won a majority in parliament for the first time since Franco. Felipe Gonzalez, promising modernization, heads a party that took 201 of 350 seats with 46 percent of the vote. NATO membership and referendum were highlighted issues.
Calgary report outlines a volatile Alberta campaign as Lougheed’s Conservatives face challenges from the Western Canada Concept separatists and the NDP. It notes many independents and reform groups, with potential long term upheaval, and predicts the political landscape could shift by 1986 after the current election.
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