SHIFTHEADS: 1974: Trudeau, Nixon, and 79-Cent Ground Beef

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, Richard Nixon was telling the world he was not a crook, with about six weeks left before he proved otherwise.

Bread was thirty-five cents. A dozen eggs cost seventy cents. Gas was twenty cents a litre. The more things change.

Topics: Canada 1974, Pierre Trudeau election, Watergate Nixon resignation, Canadian cost of living, Great Lakes water protection

Originally aired on 2026-07-02

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