Alberta plans tighter auto insurance rules
A Calgary legislative committee rejected compulsory mobile insurance and urged stricter safety rules. Recommendations include drivers tests for new licenses and repeat offenders, harsher penalties for drunk driving and multiple serious accidents, broader accident prevention campaigns, and higher vehicle standards. If insurers fail to cut rates, the government could offer mobile insurance as a public service. The three member panel chaired by Economic Affairs Minister Hooke also suggested a future test program for all drivers.
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TLC Faces Unions In Canadian AFL Clash
March 8 reports show the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada threatening a jurisdictional war with the American Federation of Labor if AFL pulls unions from TLC. The leadership accuses AFL of unwarranted domination and vows action to defend its 309000 members amid intra union feuds dating to last summer’s moves by Frank Hall to remove Communist elements.
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AFL
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Briti sh Guiana Irrigation Scheme Aims To Drain Flooded Coastlands
Government officials in British Guiana pursue a $12 million long range plan to drain and irrigate the flooded coastlands. The project would take about 20 years, creating about 504000 acres of production with 133000 acres as new pasturable land, mostly along the coastline. High rainfall and seasonal floods drive the need for drainage to reduce crop losses and boost agriculture.
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British Guiana
Canada
Maritime provinces
Rate boost hits British Columbia shippers and buyers
Vancouver March report notes a 19 to 40 percent tariff rise on 200 commodities from beef extract to steel products. The change, removing older commodity rates, could raise costs for households and alter purchasing from eastern Canada. Trade officials warn some importers may seek cheaper sources abroad as inter coastal traffic via the Panama Canal expands with possible new shipments from Montreal in April.
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Ottawa May Be Site Meeting of Commonwealth Ministers
Speculation centered on where Commonwealth foreign ministers will meet after the Ceylon conference was canceled. Ottawa emerged as a possible site as London papers noted hints from Washington that the North Atlantic pact could be signed this month and Bevin invited Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Italy, and other Brussels powers to join talks on European union. Uncertainty in the Mediterranean and east raised by the Ceylon cancellation prompted dominions to discuss an alternate site and timetable with potential UN conflicts in mind.
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Butter Prices Fall Across Canadian Cities Amid Competition
The Canadian Press reports butter prices dropped and sales declined in Toronto Montreal Halifax and Saskatchewan as margarine gains and supply demand dynamics affect markets. No 1 and No 2 butter solids and prints fell by up to seven cents a pound, cream prices also eased, while Quebec markets held steady where margarine is banned.
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Chinese Premier Sun Fo and Cabinet Resign
Premier Sun Fo and his cabinet resigned at a legislative Yuan meeting, a move seen as opening talks with Communist leaders. Gen Ho Ying-chin, former defence minister and on the Communist list of war criminals, emerged as likely successor, signaling a shift in civil war negotiations. Sun, son of Sun Yat-sen, had taken the premiership last November 26.
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Odom Sets Non-Stop Honolulu To Teterboro Record
Bill Odom, 25, former WWII ferry pilot, set a 4,999 to 5,010 mile world non-stop record for light planes from Honolulu to Teterboro New Jersey. He landed at 12 44 p m EST after 46 hours one minute in a Beechcraft Bonanza Waikiki Beech, amid crowds and emergency vehicles.
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Main Debate Petering Out
Ottawa reports the long speech from the throne dragging into its fourth week with a potential break for a non confidence vote. About 120 of 245 MPs have spoken as debate continues amid calls for measures on orderly marketing of natural products and health care.
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Social Credit party
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Regina
Douglas Ross
Toronto St . Paul's
CBC
Canada
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St John Albert
Ralph Maybank
Winnipeg South Centre
Anthony Hiynka
Vegreville
Jean Francois Pouliot
Ind
Temiscou+ata
D. J. McCusig
Maple Creek
L E Sardiff
Huron North
Wilfrid Ganepy
Three Rivers
Matthew MacLean
Cape Breton-North Victoria
Alberta gas export questioned by royal commission
A royal commission examining Alberta natural gas reserves reported no recommendations on export. The six member panel chaired by Lands and Mines Minister Tanner reviewed proven and unproven reserves totaling 426 trillion cubic feet and proposed three export possibilities while stressing local priority for Alberta residents andCanadian users. The report notes Alberta's strong bargaining position and defers to legal guidance on price protections.
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Lands and Mines Minster Tanner
R. J. Dinning
Calgary
Andrew Stuart
Roy C. Marfer
Bremner
Alta
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Dinning
H. Hume
Businessman Edgett Shot in Vancouver Home
Lloyd W. Edgett, 44, a noted British Columbia lumberman, died in hospital after being found shot at his Vancouver residence. Police say he was shot twice in the head with a .22 rifle. Mrs Edgett says he had recently faced business reverses and was a respondent in some dispute.
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VANCOUVER
March
Lloyd W. Edgett
British Columbia
Bulgarian spy case yields four life sentences for church leaders
In Sofia four top defendants in Bulgaria's spy trial were sentenced to life imprisonment. Nine others received prison terms from nine to five years, while two defendants got suspended one year terms and fines. Sentences included confiscation of property and loss of civil rights. The court, packed with observers, heard ministers vow to cooperate with the new regime as communist officials accused them of espionage for Britain and the United States.
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Yanko Ivanov
iNikola Mihailov Naumot
Georgi Chermevy
Ziapkay
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Dimiter Georgiev
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United States
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Constantiine Tiddiev
Nikola Petkov
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News bulle tins show grim injury in Saskatoon case
March reports detail a 23 year old Posishetuk from Big River Saskatchewan found in her room with both legs nearly severed above the knees. Police investigate a claim she belonged to a 22 member religious cult amid a troubling and unclear incident.
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