Current Comments and Wheat Harvest Reflections in Hamiota Echo
A Winnipeg reader challenges past Current Comments topics on drunken drivers while the column riffs on wheat harvests, local economy, and community notes. It weaves in quotes, obituaries, volunteer calls for Meals on Wheels, and several short aphorisms from a Manitoba community page.
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Ernest Youngson
Winnipeg
Decker
Youngson
Echo
Hamiota
Brandon Sun
Mac McDonald
Defence budget clash risks Canada’s armed forces balance
Ottawa debates the national defence purse as promises for $2.3 billion in fighters and $1.5 billion for six new warships collide with radar upgrades and AWACs plans. Critics warn air defence lobbies may crowd out Army and Navy needs, delaying ships and Arctic radar projects.
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Ottawa
Department of National
Interna
Ee Defence
Dawson
Treasury Board
North Bay
Ont
Edmonton
Wee
Canadian Arctic
Reggies Ramblings on Taxes and Horn Blowing
A column discusses a federal tax auditor convicted of income tax evasion and losing his job. It notes Canadian reactions to U S sports coverage and a French proverb about self-praise. Christina Onassis denies divorce rumors after a recent marriage. An American writer links presidents to domineering mothers.
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Christina Onassis
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Jack Coombs
Mr. Youngson
John Ridley
L. L. Brown
Nora Knight
Eleanor Coombs
Kae
Trailer Court
Bruce Lemon
N. A. Curll
Gertrude Rankin
Mary Bull-Brandon
Mary
Geo. Ruttan
Ethel Baldwin
Earl D. Brooks
Clark Fraser
Frank P. Harrison
George McGhee
George R. McLaughlin
J. Earl Pulver
T. William Trewin
Hammond
United Church
William G. Onions
John Morrice
Bruce Mathison
Hamiota Echo
Charles Lindsay
George Crighton
Allan Cumming
RCMP
BY Peter Ward
Reggie
USA
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