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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Sep 18, 1987
Page
1
Bank rate dips to 9.44 per cent in Canada
Ottawa The Bank of Canada rate fell to 9.44 per cent on Thursday from 9.40 per cent the prior week. The move marks a small easing in the central bank’s lending rate as financial conditions remain tight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Bank of Canada
Pioneer Walter Ross, aviation pioneer and Time Air founder
Walter Stubb Ross, 56, founder of Lethbridge Air Service and Time Air Ltd, died Monday in Alberta. A memorial service was held Thursday. Ross started with three employees and a Beachcraft in 1966, once ferried passengers in a Volkswagen to the airport, later building a regional airline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lethbridge
Alta
Alberta
Walter ‘‘Stubb
Ross
Time Air
Lethbridge Air Service Ltd
Time Air Ltd
Aden
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge Air Service
Calgary
Inflation rate drops as vegetable prices fall
Ottawa reports August inflation at 4.5 percent down from July's 4.7 percent due to a strong harvest and a 27.8 percent drop in vegetable prices. Month to month CPI rose just 0.1 percent, the smallest since last December, with potatoes plunging 39.3 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Statistics Canada
Allies hail arms accord move to curb nuclear missiles
U S allies praise an agreement in principle to ban medium and shorter range missiles. President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev plan further talks and a Washington summit as allies urge deeper cuts and removal of other nuclear weapons categories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Volker Ruehe
Helmut Kohl
London
Britain
Reagan
Soviet Union
George Shultz
Eduard Shevardnadze
Moscow
Washington
White House
Gorbachev
Howard Baker
U.S
Mulroney confident of free trade pact
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney says he expects to know within five days whether a free trade agreement with the United States is possible. He notes talks in Ottawa will continue next week with Ambassador Reisman’s input pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brian Mulroney
United States
Simon) Reisman
Mulroney
Toronto Star
Ottawa
Ontario
David Peterson
Pat Carney
Carney
Growing despair for farmers poll signals bleak 1987 outlook
A 1,105 farmer poll by Angus Reid Southam News covers the Prairie provinces Ontario and Quebec. It shows rising despair with 33 percent expecting to quit farming in two to three years and 25 percent likely to yield up land. Manitoba leads Western pessimism with 38 percent likely to stop. Saskatchewan 30 percent forecast losses. Ontario 18 percent and Quebec 16 percent foresee such outcomes. Only 25 percent expect profit this year, 53 percent break-even, 20 percent likely to lose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southam News
Toronto
Angus Reid- Southam News
Prairie Provinces
Ontario
Quebec
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
MP stuns House with leaked CSIS wiretap transcripts
New Democrat MP Svend Robinson released transcripts of CSIS wiretaps from May 1986. The records show CSIS knew Punjabi Planning Minister Malikat Singh Sidhu would visit British Columbia and that Sikhs might confront him, but the RCMP was not informed in time. Sidhu was shot on Vancouver Island on May 25, 1986 and recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RCMP
Sidhu
Canada
Vancouver Island
Kelleher
CSIS
British Columbia
Robinson
Pension battle wins for Chrysler Canada workers in Canada
Ten thousand Canadian Auto Workers at four Chrysler plants win a pension indexing pact after a three day strike in Windsor Toronto and Ajax. The tentative contract awaits voter approval with production possible to resume by Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Chrysler Canada Ltd
Bob White
Chrysler
Windsor
Ajax
Canada
White
Arvid Jouppi
U S Autoworkers Hold Fast As Talks Continue
White White said he will study the U S deal before commenting as U S autoworkers stay at work after their contract expired. Chrysler negotiator Bill Fisher notes changes in bargaining, with a pension index easing increases to 90 percent of inflation up to five percent, and 4.5 percent beyond. Canadian workers walkout as indexing aims to spur early retirements and preserve younger job security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jouppi
Chrysler
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
Ford
U.S
Frank Joyce
Canada
United States
Joyce
White
Bill Fisher
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