Canada Must Seek Markets To Increase Trade
Trade Minister Mac Kinnon urged Canada to widen and diversify exports beyond Britain and the United States. He cited gains with Latin America and potential growth in the Pacific, especially China India and Japan, noting war gains and aiming for sustained, profitable ties with Orient markets.
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Envymonton
MacKinnon
Canada
Britain
United States
Canadian Junior Chamber of Commerce
Dominion
Department of Trade and Commerce
Latin America
Japan
Australia
New Zealand
China
India
Manitoba Farmers Lead In Income Tax Assessments
Manitoba farmers topped Canada in income tax assessments for 1944 45 with 5562 farmers. Ontario had 4000, Saskatchewan 3465, Alberta 1316, and British Columbia 911. Remaining provinces numbered only a few dozen each.
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Ottawa
Manitoba
Canada
G. H. Castleden
C.C.F
Yorkton
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Quebec
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
New Brunswick
Strike in Cairo Ends as King Farouk Intervenes
A thousand Egyptian telegraph workers halted the internal system for 48 hours before royal protection was granted. Police blockaded the Cairo telegraph offices while some strikers reached the royal palace to press demands for better working conditions. Food was later allowed into the building and officials promised to consider the workers' requests.
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Cairo
Farouk
Telegraph Administration
Royal
British Officer Vows Heligoland Demolition Within Months
A senior British naval officer said the German island fortress Heligoland will be blown up within three months and become a bird sanctuary. Plans call for explosive charges totaling several hundred tons in one blast, making the island uninhabitable. Heligoland covered about 130 acres and housed 4,000 people before the war.
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Cuxhaven
Germany
Heligoland
Curios Stolen From Viscount Bennett Residence
The home of Viscount Bennett in Mickleham Surrey was broken into weeks ago and several curios taken. Among items stolen is a gold key given to the former Canadian prime minister when he was made a Free man of Vancouver.
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Mickleham
Surrey
Eng
Viscount Bennett
Vancouver
Food quality key to tourist trade says Canadian restaurateur
Nat Bailey of Vancouver, president of the Canadian Restaurant Association, told delegates at the opening of the two day convention of the maritime section that good clean food is essential for building up a successful tourist trade in Charlottetown.
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Charlottetown
Nat Bailey
Vancouver
Canadian Restaurant Association
Maritime
Siberian Taiga, World’s Vast Forest Belt
The Taiga of Siberia stretches about 4 000 miles in length and spans 1 000 to 2 000 miles in width, ranking as one of the planet's largest forest ecosystems.
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Siberia
BBC TV signals reach Torquay reviewer reports
A Torquay area reviewer using a pre war television set in a cliff top village reported clear reception from Alexandra Palace the BBC transmitting station in north London over 200 miles away. The note adds that London’s No 10 Downing Street was first occupied by a Prime Minister in 1704.
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Torquay
Devon
Eng
Alexandra Palace
BBC
London
No. 10
Downing Street
Urae Seeks Greater Use of Hudson Bay Route
Saskatoon reports Secretary Frank Eliason of the Hudson Bay Route Association urges reconvening the interprovincial committee to push Churchill storage and shipping for this year's wheat. He cites potential British ship support and Canadian merchant marine participation, plus demand from Saskatchewan rural telephone firms and Davidson coop store for imports via the Hudson Bay route.
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Saskatoon
Frank Eliason
Hudson Bay Route Association
Churchill
Canadian Wheat Board
Daigileish Steamship Lines
Britain
Eliason
Saskatchewan
Hudson Bay
Davidson, Sask. Co-Operative
Change Proposed Armistice Day Observance in London Front
The Evening News reports plans to move Armistice day from November 11 to the second Sunday in November to honor the dead of both world wars. The house of commons notes questions on the proposal and says dominions will be consulted before a decision.
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London
The
Evening News
House of Commons
Dominions
Prairie Land Faces Fertility Decline and Rust Threats
At the western Canadian society of agronomy, F C Bentley of the University of Saskatchewan warned prairie soils are losing fertility, especially phosphorus, risking lower nutritional value in crops. He urged fertilizer use to reach 200000 tons by 1955. Dr T Johnson noted rust races now threaten oat and wheat varieties, with 15B able to attack newer wheat, though not yet in Canada.
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Winnipeg
F. C. Bentley
University of Saskatchewan Soils Department
Western Canadian Society of Agronomy
Prairie
Bentley
Prairie Provinces
T. Johnson
Dominion Laboratory of Plant Pathology
Vanguard
Ajax
United States
Renown
Regent
Thatcher
Canada
Ottawa Prices Board Cuts Staff As Costs Rise
The prices board reduced staffing from 5,678 to 5,106 employees between January 1 and June 1. May salaries and expenses totaled $842,626 with December 1945 at $908,553. The note ends by stating one third of Australia lies in the tropics.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
N. J. M. Lockhart
P.C
Lincoln
Australia
Tropics
Grave Problems In Dealing With Two Minorities
Post war Shanghai faces government allegiance issues with two foreign groups, Russians and Poles. Russians, stateless since the Russian Exodus, may seek USSR passports, Chinese papers, or stay stateless as options. Over 2,000 White Russians have Chinese nationality. many remain without a country. Poles shift allegiance from London to Warsaw, while awaiting Poland's developments and care for its diaspora.
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Shanghai
China
Russia
Ussr
London
Warsaw
Lublin
Poland
Plans described for improved Indian health services
Hon. Bruce Claxton outlined major health upgrades for Indians in western Canada. A 50 bed extension to the Fort Qu’Appelle Indian hospital was announced, plus replacement of a fire‑damaged nurses’ residence. The plan boosts annual funding from 2.526 million to 4.103 million dollars and creates five regional health superintendents including one in Winnipeg. An air ambulance service will transport seriously ill patients via RC AF, private planes, or the department of transport.
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Ottawa
Fort Qu'Appelle
Brooke Claxton
Brooke
Canada
Claxton
North
Winnipeg
R.C.A.F
Department of Transport
Department
U.S. Prices Rise on Butter Cheese and Evaporated Milk
The Office of Price Administration set higher prices for butter, cheddar cheese and evaporated milk with 12 month outlooks. Meat poultry eggs wheat products and dried fruits may be in shorter supply while canned fruits and vegetables should be more plentiful. overall supplies roughly steady.
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Washington
United States
Office of Price Administration
Agriculture
Anderson
ALL MUST WORK former Nazis Do Their Share In French Occupied Zone
In Baden Germany French occupation authorities press a de Nazification policy by assigning former Nazis to work. They say even dyed in the wool Nazis are used in jails camps or cemeteries while others are placed in jobs best suited to them under careful supervision.
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Baden
Germany
United Press
Fever Prisoners Ottawa Report Reveals War Prison Numbers
In Ottawa on June 1, prisoners of war in Canada numbered 10 404, down from 33 833 on January 1. The labor department records show 4 570 prisoners employed in timber operations and 3 807 in agriculture.
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Ottawa
Canada
Commons
Labor Department
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C.M.A
Col
Henry Seymour Tobin
Pacific
Labor Party
Herbert Morrison
Mihailovic
Tio
Chetniks
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Jan Masaryk
Fvl
Bruce Claxton
U.S
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