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Should We Own Ships? | Maclean's


Should We Own Ships?
FREDERICK WILLIAM WALLACE
SHOULD CANADA maintain a Government-owned Merchant Marine? The question is one that has been raised many times in late years; particularly when Government estimates are tabled, or when money has to be voted for Canada’s excursions into State-owned transportation systems.
When things were going well with us and business was booming, deficits in the operation of our Government railroads and merchant shipping were accepted without much criticism from parliamentarians and with tolerant apathy by the average Canadian citizen.
But with the coming of the depression overworked term ! deficits in Government administrations assumed a new light, and the value of the services rendered was obscured by the unpleasant fact that they had to be paid for. And paid for out of a public treasury suffering from heavy demands and diminished revenue. ....

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Crossing Australia On The Ghan - The People's Friend


Crossing Australia On The Ghan
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January 26 is Australia Day.
To help mark the occasion, we’ve decided to revisit this article on the Ghan, the country’s iconic cross-country train.
David Kippen wrote this piece for us on the occasion of the train’s 90th anniversary. We first published it in “The People’s Friend” Special 180.
The iconic Ghan train takes three days and two nights to travel 2,979 kilometres  (1,851 miles) from Adelaide, on South Australia’s temperate coast, through the outback and across deserts to Darwin, in the tropical “Top End”.
2020 marks 90 years since the Central Australian Railway, fondly called the Ghan, reached Alice Springs in Australia’s remote centre. ....

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