Let's Talk Taxes: a call for tougher deficit cuts
Mitch Gray argues the federal budget should target a zero deficit for 1998-99, cut overall spending, and enact taxpayer protections. He urges bold tax cuts, end to wasteful programs, and asset privatization to spur growth, urging Paul Martin to heed these measures. The piece is framed as a Manitoba Taxpayers Association feature.
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Polonius
Laertes
Bill Shakespeare
Paul Martin
Martin
Devates
Prince Hamlet
Mitch Gray
Let’s Talk
The
Manitoba Taxpayers Association
Canadian Taxpayers Federation
McMeenan singled out as deterrent to others
A letter to the editor condemns the treatment of Andy McMeenan in Saskatchewan courts. The writer depicts chained journeys to jail for selling his own grain and moving his own tractor, arguing the actions deter others and erode freedoms cherished by pioneers. The letter pledges that McMeenan will be free and that consciences of persecutors will not.
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Feds
McMechan
Dy McMeenan
Saskatchewan
Prairies
Andy McMeenan
Russell Larson
Letter to the Editor on Liberal health care policy
Betty Findlay of Minnedosa argues the Liberal government betrays universal health care by cutting billions with the Canada Health and Social Transfer and privatizing services. She urges adherence to the five Canada Health Act principles and calls for maintained public, barrier-free health care.
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Canada Health and Social Transfer
Liberals
Canada
The
NDP
Prairie People of Irricana and Nearby Caregivers Highlighted
A Five-Village Weekly feature profiles caring prairie residents led by Jonathon and Josephine Hutchinson who placed an 808 acre conservation easement west of Big Hills Spring Park. The piece notes neighborly aid for cadets on a travel mishap and a $1 million hospital bequest by Jim Sayward. It also warns of a Caribbean toll scam and reports Dale Clark losing a lawsuit with $113,000 costs.
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Irricana
Boonies
Jonathon
Josephine Hutchinson
Big Hills Spring Park
Calgary
Alberta
Riel
Josephine
Wade Summer
Macklin Air Cadets
Bow Island
Jim Hougen
Ed Rarick
Foremost
Edwin Liffink
Macklin
Jim Sayward
Jim
Wellwood
Neepawa
Neepawa Hospital
Gulf Lake
Global Communications
Caribbean
Dale Clark
Crossfield District
Rocky View
Seasons Greetings
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Industry Canada
United States
Wsrooms
Western
the Man In Chains
Ottawa
Betty Findlay
Diabetes AssociaTion
Association Canadienne Bu Ousere
Fred McGuinness
Glee
Bob
Darlene
Realty
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