Postal Users Fight Back Against Rate Hikes and Strikes
A critical reflection on Canada Post shows public sympathy for postal unions waning amid rate increases and strikes. Polls indicate a strong push to strip postal workers of the right to strike, with business groups and households, especially lower income, urging government action and essential service status to curb labor actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Powers-That -Be
Post Office
Canada Post
Gallup
Canadian Federation of Independent Business
CIB
John Bulloch
Bulloch
Postal Union
A Summer of Visitors and Tech Tales at Home
The author recalls a busy summer hosting varied visitors and the chaos they caused. He laments the constant arrival of cousins and friends, jokes about a foot and mouth ban, and muses on hospitality. He also shares insights on faxing, modems, hackers, and the rise of electronic banking, ending with a playful MacPrint moment.
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Antarctica
Elizabeth
O.K
Alexander
Lepage
Sumer
Canada
Western Assembly
Toronto Star
Puro
Financial Times
Royal Bank
Travel scams flood Canadian prairies warn of visa number theft
Peter Warren reports on Florida and Hawaii vacation offers that lure rural Manitobans into sharing credit card numbers by telephone. The Winnipeg BBB warns that such schemes persist despite prosecutions, while RCMP caution against participation and note pyramid plans and multi level mail order scams. Insp Moorley cites potential criminal charges under the Criminal Code.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Warren
Florida
Hawaii
Illinois
Canada
Varios
Sates South
MasterCard
American Express
Winnipeg Better Business Bureau
BBB
Tom Durham
RCMP
H.K. Moorley
Manitoba
Warren
Moorley
Barnum and Bailey
Old bones inquiry about Woodland Buffalo skull finds
Reader Faye Arthurson seeks dating for bones found in a creekbed on Jack Bryer’s property northwest of Russell. She recalls skulls and other bones from the early 1960s and asks for guidance on where to send a sample for age determination. Pioneer relatives reportedly saw no live buffalo in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton Kilkenny
Assiniboine
Jack Bryer
Russell
Faye Arthurson
Nee Bryer
la Ronge, Sask
Cattle shipments and local milestones span decades in Russell area
The clipping notes diverse local happenings from 1907 to 1977 including cattle shipped northward by Ike Goodbun with the Andersons and others from Castleavery, wheat binders at Shellmouth, a horticulturist venture near Dropmore on the Russell Branch of the CN, a library gift from JH Farthing, graduating grade 12 students, Ken Little’s visit to Somerset, Stan Krowski’s second place in a Manitoba Marathon event, a growing Russell class taught by Miss Jean Langford, dedication of the Angus homestead cairn in Silver Creek, and Louis Ziprick earning Master Angler honors at Shellmouth Dam.
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Russell Bar
Ets
Ksday
Massaanitoba Rouiwo
Advan
United States
Chaloner Publishers
Clayton G. Chaloner
Peter
Iceland
Computer Age
By Fred McGuiness
Ike” Goodbun
Andersons
Allbright
Robertson
Dugan
Castleavery
A. Setter
Shellmouth
Dropmore
Canadian Nation‘al
F.L. Skinner
Vial Mountains
JH. Farthing
Russell and
Craigie
Russell ‘School
Lorena Adolph
Zena Adolphe
Ruth ‘Adams
Thunder Creek
Beryl Forsyth
Jean Hancock
Agnes Kernaghan
Sidney Allen
Katherine Whitmer
Ken Little
Somerset
Stan Krowski
Seip Wolters
Winnipeg
Labor Day
Jean Langford
Angus
Silver Creek
Elizabeth Ackroyd
Wm. Angus
Louis Ziprick
Jack
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