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SHIFTHEADS: 1974: Trudeau, Nixon, and 79-Cent Ground Beef
Canada Day 1974 means a federal election, a sitting prime minister fighting for his majority, and a American president about to become the first to resign the office. The past has a way of arriving right on time.
This Throwback Thursday lands on the Canada Day long weekend and goes back fifty years to a moment that feels uncomfortably familiar: Canadians worried about mortgage rates, gas prices, food costs, and the cost of living while the political ground shifted under everyone's feet. Pierre Elliott Trudeau was campaigning hard. Robert Stanfield was pushing back. And south of the border…
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