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Title:True North Strong & Free
Notice:Introduction in Note 535, For Sale/Wanted in 524
Moderator:POLAR::RICHARDSON
Created:Fri Jun 19 1987
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1040
Total number of notes:13668

417.0. "Federal Budget" by RDGE44::ALEUC () Fri Mar 01 1991 11:08

    
    
    What's new ( or old! ) in the recent Federal budget?
    
    
    
    Philip
    Reading, UK
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417.1KAOFS::S_BROOKAsk Not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for ME!Fri Mar 01 1991 13:0217
    Not a great deal really ...
    
    If you are a smoker, you'll pay 3c more per cigarette!
    
    The silly service has had a cap put on their salary increases for
    the next three years of 3% per year  (but they usually seem to have
    ways of getting around that ... like merit increases)
    
    Transfer payments to the provinces were messed around with again,
    which basically means that the provinces have to find more money,
    so we'll get hit by them instead of the feds.
    
    Most everyone is predicting doom and gloom as a result of the budget,
    because it does nothing to ease teh recession, and at the same time
    Crow is still talking about wrestling inflation down to around 2%.
    
    
417.2SIOG::EGRIMon Mar 04 1991 07:504
    How much does a litre of gas cost these days?
    
    Ted.
    
417.3OTOA01::PAQUINSo many privs. so little timeMon Mar 04 1991 14:274
    re-1
        yesterday I filled up for 57.8/ltr. here in Ottawa.
    
                                              Chris
417.4HXOU01::P_MACNEILMon Mar 04 1991 15:103
    Filled up here in Halifax for 66.7 per litre.
    
    /PM
417.5Markham, north of TorontoTRCO01::FINNEYKeep cool, but do not freezeMon Mar 04 1991 18:596
    Filled up yesterday at 49.7  cents per litre
    		last week at 47.5 at a different place
    		most places around Toronto hover between 50.0 and 55.0
    		pre litre.
    
    Scooter
417.6MQOFS::DESROSIERSLets procrastinate....tomorrowTue Mar 05 1991 13:217
417.7Esso ... the war is over!TROA09::MSCHNEIDERvi.... the editor from hell!Tue Mar 05 1991 22:321
    43.9 cents on March 5th in Kitchener, Ontario
417.8TRCO01::FINNEYKeep cool, but do not freezeTue Mar 05 1991 23:343
    the closer you get to Sarnia ...
    
    Scooter
417.9Funny you should mention SarniaTROA02::DEBOERWed Mar 06 1991 11:2011
    Did I hear you say Sarnia.
    47.6 this morning but I filled up for 99.9 per US gal yesterday in
    Michigan.
    
    Watching Market place last night they did a blurp on the octane levels
    that dropped on the low grade gas when they came out with the 3 grades
    instead of 2. Low grade is now 87 octane but used to be 89 but this has
    been very silently slipped in on us.
    
    Orval
    
417.10SIOG::EGRIWed Mar 06 1991 15:378
    Complain, complain! I got 20 Irish pounds worth of petrol (i.e. gas)
    yesterday and I think I got 33 litres which works out to 60.6 Irish
    pence per litre which at today's rate of exchange 2.0040 cents to the
    pound equals $1.21 per litre. And you guys think you got it bad.
    
    
    Ted.(who'd still rather be home in Canada)
    
417.11POLAR::RICHARDSONSick in a balanced sort of wayFri Mar 08 1991 16:455
    And they say "the luck of the Irish"
    
    He he he
    
    ;-)
417.12a price warVAOU02::HALLIDAYthis lovely messSun Mar 10 1991 23:444
    There's a price war on here in Vancouver. Unleaded regular is down to
    49.9. It got up to 65.9 during the war.
    
    ...laura
417.13ABCGOO01::LMILLERhasten slowlyTue Mar 12 1991 15:011
    How about 39.9/litre?
417.14EH?POLAR::RICHARDSONSick in a balanced sort of wayTue Mar 12 1991 20:011
    Are there any open positions in Calgary?????!!!!?????!!???!!?!?!?!?!
417.15SUBURB::THOMASHThe Devon DumplingWed Mar 13 1991 10:254
	How about 44p a litre - about $1 Canadian

	Heather - UK
417.16Latest update...KAOM25::RUSHTONDid you hug a Brussel sprout today?Wed Mar 13 1991 13:195
Heather:

	I'll be in the London area from 6-23 June.

Pat
417.17TRCO01::FINNEYKeep cool, but do not freezeThu Mar 14 1991 01:006
    >>>I'll be in the London area from 6-23 June
    				       ^^^^^^^^^
    
    hmmm, seems more like you should be in Normandy then ...
    
    Scooter
417.18Less than 3 months to go......SUBURB::THOMASHThe Devon DumplingThu Mar 14 1991 08:4818
	Hi Pat,

	6th-23rd huh - great minds think alike!

	well we're in the Toronto area 9th-23th June..............I'll wave
	to you as the planes pass each other on the way back!

	so, looks a bit close, but Friday 7th?????.......8th at a push..(we have
	to be up earlyish on 9th....)

	send me a mail,        suburb::thomash or Heather Thomas @reo

	I hope we do manage to get together, hubby has had withdrawal syptoms
	since he came back from Toronto mumble (9ish) years ago, after living 
	there for 5 years.

	Heather
417.1939.9 here, tooVAOU02::HALLIDAYthis lovely messMon Mar 18 1991 10:401
    The price war has gas down to 39.9 in Vancouver, too.
417.20KAOFS::S_BROOKAsk Not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for ME!Mon Mar 18 1991 12:528
    We have a price war in Ottawa too  54.7 per litre  ha rotten ha rotten
    ha!
    
    Go 25 miles outside Ottawa away from the Que. border and it plummets
    below.  Last week when gas was around 59 in Ottawa it was 53 in
    Carleton Place.
    
    
417.21Cheaper in the Valley...eh!?KAOM25::RUSHTONDid you hug a Brussel sprout today?Mon Mar 18 1991 15:214
417.22POLAR::RICHARDSONSick in a balanced sort of wayMon Mar 18 1991 18:463
    What a bag of wind....
    
    ;-)
417.23ah the joy of living in OttawaTROA02::MSCHNEIDERvi.... the editor from hell!Mon Mar 18 1991 23:163
    Price war which saw prices as low as 41.9 has ended and we're back up
    to 55.1 in Kitchener-Waterloo (a price that you people in Ottawa
    consider a price war!).