Prudence and the part-time worker
Tony Carson argues that mandatory benefits for part-time workers could reduce hiring and raise costs for small businesses. He cites Ontario rulings, notes 70 percent prefer part-time schedules, and warns that blanket benefits may hurt income and flexibility while boosting paperwork and automation risks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Carson
Ontario
Bur
Smallirms
Canada
Canadian Federation of Independent Business
CFIB
Growing old comfortably in Canada era
A reflective piece contrasts past Canadian generations with modern retirement hopes. It argues that ancestors endured hard labor, large families, and rugged living without pensions or condos, while current seniors seek security and comfort, imagining pensions, oil, and leisure not aligned with their forebears.
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Borg
Scotland
Ireland
England
Bill Smiley’s Inflation Weather Forecast Pitches Wealth Advice
A streaming monologue mocks age anxiety and rising prices while promoting Bill Smiley’s tips on investments and lifestyle. It rails at high costs, recalls past hardship, and contrasts prudent finance with radical opposition. The speaker urges following Smiley’s moves, then doing the opposite, as a joke on speculative schemes.
Culture clash in Manitoba farm politics pits Mayer and Uruski
Peter Warren notes shared Manitoba farming roots as federal Wheat Board minister Charlie Mayer and provincial agriculture minister Bill Uruski clash in tone and style. Mayer decries infighting while Uruski fires from the hip at Ottawa farm policies. Both cite boards and statistics to support their positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Charlie Mayer
Bill Uruski
Mayer
Canadian ‘Wheat Board
Urushi
Ottawa
Two Manitoba Ministers Clash Over Federal Farm Aid
In a recent interview ministers Uruski and Mayer differ on Ottawa funding for port, rail, and grain facilities. Uruski seeks large federal aid to shore up farmers while Mayer urges restraint and warns against Ottawa bashing. Both stress protecting family farms and sustaining Western Canada's agricultural sector through cooperation.
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Churchill
Uruski
Mayer
Western Canada
Farrm
Canada
Cement Blocks and Land Donated for Anglican Church
The clipping notes several dated items from 1905 to 1979. It mentions Anderson and Plo starting a cement machine to make blocks, land donated by C. G. and J. S. Maynes for an Anglican Congregation church to be built this fall, and a CPI telegraph office update at Millwood. Other entries report a Red Cross Aeroplane issue, Milton Setter’s California trip and farm dealings, threshing weather in 1935, Harold Jon Adams injured on a farm in 1949, a welcome home for Andrew Stewart, rising school enrollment in 1955, a field fire near George Mintenko, ladies golf club results in 1965, secretarial courses in Brandon in 1979, and a Russell junior golf tour with multiple winners.
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Messrs
C.P.R
Millwood Land
Rusell Red Cros Society
Red Cross
Harold Jon Adams
Inglis
Andrew Stewart
Eadcliffe School
Andrew
Peter Lougheed and the end of an era in Alberta politics
A retrospective view captures Peter Lougheed’s rise and the broad acclaim across Alberta and Western Canada as his leadership reshaped politics. Across newspapers from Medicine Hat to Bow Island, observers credit him with building a durable political machine, ending Manning’s era, while noting future challenges for successors and the risk of dynastic perceptions.
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Peter Lougheed
Medicine Hat News
Mr. Manning
Social Credit
Lougheed
WEOC
Western Economic Opportunity Conference
Alberta
West
Confederation
Trudeau
Canada West
Davis
Mr. Levesque
Echo of
Altona
Carstairs
Community Press
Wetaskwin Times
Iwill Kely
Hanna Herald
Bow Island
Vermilion Standard
Esterhazy Miner-Journal
Standard
PC Party
Ernest Manning
Secreds
Omeone
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Terussells Badrer
Russell
Sist
Rojiwo
Cana
United Statehatoner
Clayton G. Chatoner
Prudence
U.S
Grampa
Gramma
Cheung
Aririte
Aeta
Anc
Genin
Miko
Bill Smiley
Smiley
Peter Warren
Oudly
The
Wheat Board
Ave
Milton Setter
California
George Mintenko
Donna Lawson
Ethel Clement
Hope Bruce
Karen Todoruk
Wheat City Business College
Brandon
Joan Gillen
Francey Langford
Kathy Burton
Theresa Stasiuk
Bett. Spurway
Brad Clement
David Rowat
Wayne Onchulenko
Perry Bowowski
Rossburn
Blair Miller
Daryl Robinson
Jamie Moran
David Keating
Fred McGuiness
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