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Acid rain burning Canadian businesses
When Venture first launched in 1985, one stated goal was to be a TV version of the Wall Street Journal's front page: lively, lucid and wide-ranging. It's about business, but it's not just for businessmen and businesswomen. Venture covered all the aspects of the economy in Canada and beyond: prices, profits, personnel, innovation and ideas as they affect any business. From farms to fishing boats, boardrooms to barbershops, Venture was about the business of making a living.
• Canadian scientist Harold Harvey conducted some of the first research into dead lakes and acid rain in the 1960s, finding dozens of lakes where the entire fish population had died off.
Program: Venture
Broadcast Date: June 10, 1985
Guest(s): Stan Darling, Peter Freeman, Peter Pellequin, Dean Winborne
Host: Patrick Watson
Reporter: Peter Raymont
Duration: 10:18
Last updated: January 30, 2013
Page consulted on March 27, 2013
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