Canada Post posts 1988 89 profit amid strikes and price hikes
Canada Post reports a 96 million profit for 1988 89 with an 8.7 percent operations revenue rise and a 5.9 percent mail volume increase. Absenteeism drops to 13.7 days, but critics say gains rely on stamp price hikes and asset sales while customers face disruptions and rising costs. The CUPW union contract expires July 31, 1989, and post office privatization gains draw mixed reactions.
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Post Office
Canada Post
Spiffy Report
Canadian Federation of Independent Business
CFIB
CUPW
Prairie residents chase ventures in self employment
Local clippings describe Debbie Peifer and Sheldon launching a U pick strawberry operation with 8000 plants, while products from bison meat to flags thread through Prairie communities. Dauphin investors buy Co op Implements, Shaunavon backs Macleod’s hardware take over, and a Junior Achievement company makes 116 Dual Stools, signaling growing entrepreneurial activity statewide.
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Nipawin Journal
Debbie Peifer
Debbie
Sheldon
Allan Refvik
Dauphin
Alberta
Quebec
Herald
Shaunavon Standard
Shaunavon
Macleods Hardware
Shaunavonians
Johnston
Ashville
Ethel
Ray
Japan
Australia
Alexander Pope
Sharholders
Mailbag echoes from rural Manitoba readers
A letters column surveys rural Manitoba views on topics from American dog trainers and Prairie Chicken trends to tax policy, a domed Winnipeg stadium idea, debt and government salaries, a Winnipeg transit injury, and a cheeky classified ad about false teeth, reflecting local concerns and humor.
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Manitoba
Pete & Mactkachyk
Langruth
Raymond Fry
Carman
Misleading comments from MLA on drug price reform
A June 14 letter from Bill Uruski MLA Interlake claims new federal patent legislation raised drug prices well above inflation. Statistics Canada shows wholesale pharmaceutical prices rose 3.8 percent from January 1988 to January 1988 while inflation rose 4.3 percent, suggesting the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board has helped restrain prices. Brian White MP defends the law and criticizes Uruski for misunderstanding the issue.
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Russell
Bill Uruski
Interlake
Statistics Canada
I. Utuski
Prices Review Board
Canada
Prices Board
Uruski
Manitoba
Peter's Point Camera Costs and Family Photo Dreaming
A humorous family tale of escalating camera ambitions. The narrator recalls siblings demanding their own 35 mm cameras, the clutter of films and enlargements, and a pricey tea outing that yielded a mosaic of odd portraits from Elizabeth, Alexander, Duncan, and Stephanie.
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Alexander
Duncan
Stephanie
Xias
Calabogie Lodge
Luas
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