OTTAWA – Maybe Goofy could sign the federal Crow Benefit buy-out cheques.
Last week, there was a public suggestion from an RCMP spokesperson that Agriculture Canada is making inquiries about the benefits of the marketing deal between the nation’s federal police force and the Disney Corp.
A year after Disney, the mythical home of Mickey Mouse and Goofy, struck a merchandising deal with the RCMP, the mythical home of Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, the police force is extolling the benefits of the deal.
It has been so successful, RCMP staff sergeant Ken MacLean told an Ottawa newspaper, that other cash-hungry government departments have been asking for information about how it works.
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One of those, he said, was Agriculture Canada.
At the department last week, nobody could be found who knew the details and MacLean was not available for elaboration.
Would it fall under Adventure Land or Frontier Land?
Ukraine gets credit union help
The Canadian government has announced it will help establish 100 credit unions in Ukraine.
The Canadian International Development Agency will put up $4 million over five years, supplemented with $1 million from the Canadian Co-operative Association and the Council of Ukrainian Credit Unions of Canada.
The credit union organizations will train management and staff of 20 Ukrainian credit unions and they will in turn help train staff for 80 more.
Twenty-five of them will be in rural areas.
Canadians also will advise Ukrainian lawmakers on how to write appropriate governing legislation.
Combine, tractor sales up
Sales of combines and two-wheel-drive tractors continued strong through the first five months of the year, according to the farm machinery industry.
By the end of May, 592 combines had been sold, a 27 percent increase over last year.
More than 5,000 two-wheel-drive tractors had been sold, an eight percent increase over 1995.
