Manitoba cabinet tours Central Plains area in pre election push
The Filmon government staged a regional blitz two weeks after a four riding push, with a Portage la Prairie cabinet meeting and tours in Portage Neepawa Gladstone and Elie. A major hog plant expansion in Neepawa got 250000 toward 8 million, boosting jobs and processing. The day also highlighted healthcare and crime briefs, dialysis expansion to 20 local patients and a 400000 Lions Manor upgrade, plus Shaw Cable plans for western Manitoba.
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Central Plains
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Gary Filmon
Day
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Gladstone
Neepawa
Jim Downey
Len Derkach
Glen Cummings
Springhill Farms
Don McGillivray
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Ken Waddell
Portage
Central Regional Healthcare Authority
Portage and District Chamber of Commerce
Elie
Carberry
Darren Praznik Annou
Lions Prairie Manor
Darren
Shaw Cable
Linda McIntosh
Stevenson Aviation Training Centre
Southport
Air Force
Southport Aerospace Centre
Stevenson
Warren
Harry Enns
Pc-Lakeside
Doyen
Duff Roblin
Walter Weir
Sterling Lyon
Deflation trends ease inflation with price drops cited
The Turner Report notes deflation as a rising influence, with commodity prices slipping after years of gains. GM Canada lowers 1999 car prices near 1 percent, and ForA cuts 1999 US sticker prices. Pentium PCs fall about 50 percent in a year. Metro Toronto house prices drop 1 percent to about $208,000.
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Do the opposite of what your parents did
The piece argues for deflationary trends driven by Asian contagion and technological shifts. It contrasts hard assets with financial assets, predicts cheaper mortgage rates and stronger bonds, stocks, and mutual funds, and urges shifting net worth toward financial assets as inflation wanes.
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