Canada Post under fire over alleged misstatements on mail service
A public critique portrays Canada Post as lying about new sorting policies and staff impacts. The piece cites earlier assurances that no full time employees would be affected, now contradicted by customers facing earlier outgoing mail deadlines and empty morning boxes. It warns against a retail outlet threat to the post office.
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Canada Post
Economics Council warns on unemployment trend and policy
The Economic Council of Canada outlines a rising unemployment rate from 1.4 million in 1984 to about 1.15 million six years later and warns that the trend could top 10 percent in the 1990s. It criticizes government policies and urges cooperative, evidence based action.
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Ottawa
Mulroney
Michael Wilson
Economic Council of Canada
Council
Canada
Economic Council
Department of Finance
Bank of Canada
Wilson
Bank
John Crow
Memories of BCATP fifty years on in Prairie towns
Fifty years after a wartime boom in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta BCATP stations produced pilots navigators and wireless operators. The Vulcan Advocate recounts a 50th reunion of personnel who taught or served at the training plan sites during World War II and recalls the impact on local life from 1941 onward.
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Prairies
Red
Rockies
BCATP
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Britain
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
North Atlantic
RCAF
Vulcan Advocate
Yorkton
U K
Nanton Lancaster Soci
Prairie perspective on BCATP era memorablia and museums
Prairie Perspective notes BCATP training impact with 131000 aircrew graduates and diverse origins. Describes Nanton Lancaster Society plans, a west Brandon BCATP museum with four aircraft and ongoing restorations, a WW2 service biographies directory, and volunteer efforts keeping memories alive through newsletters and memoirs by BCATP graduates.
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Ety
Assiniboine Valley
Brandon
BCATP
Harvard
Cornell
Stinson
Bolingbroke
Bcatp Grads
Prairies
Manitoba and Ottawa seal rural water infrastructure deal
After three years and a $90 million agreement the federal and provincial governments will fund a five year program to upgrade sewer and water systems in nine rural Manitoba communities. Each party covers one third with the locality providing the remaining share as projects seek better capacity to attract investment and spur economic diversification.
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Manitoba
Ottawa
Brandon
Dauphin
Portage la Prairie
Altona
Morden
Selkirk
Steinbach
Teulon
Winkler
Portage
Jack Penne
NDP Agriculture
John Plohman
Churchill
Plohman
Penner
NDP
Sharon Carstairs
Carstairs
Quebec
Ontario
Alberta
Senate
Mulroney
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