Pension Plan Could Cost Canada Up To 200 Million
Ottawa reports estimate that a national old age pension scheme without means testing would require about 200 million dollars in its first year, roughly a third of 1945-46 tax revenue. Health Minister Brooke Claxton defended the plan, noting three funding options: taxes, borrowing, or printed money. He outlined a 70 year old flat pension of 30 dollars monthly and a 60-50 cost sharing for those 65 to 69 with means testing, projecting annual costs from 34 to 40 million.
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Ihe
National Health
Brooke Claxton
Angus Mactnis
CCF
Vacouver East
Mactnnis
Claxton
Loan for France credit pact aids postwar trade
Ottawa reports Canada will provide France a 22.5 million dollar credit to buy Canadian goods. The loan carries 3 percent interest, repayable in 30 annual installments from 1947 to 1976, under the Export Credits Insurance Act. It aims to widen western farm markets in France and boost eastern industrial output.
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Canada
Ottawa
France
J. L. Tisley
Mr. Tissey
Leon Blum
Long Canoe Trip From Vancouver to New York Begins
Vancouver prospector O P Smith, 66, paddles a canoe from English Bay up the Fraser River on a voyage toward New York via inland waterways. He left April 7 and plans to follow fur trader routes eastward through Athabasca and other rivers to Lake Winnipeg and the Great Lakes.
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Vancouver
New York
O. P. Smith
Fraser
Mr. Smith
English Bay
Point Grey
Athabasca River
Lake Winnipeg
Saskatchewan River
Winnipeg River
Great Lakes
Candy makers face tight Easter supply in Canada
In Ottawa candy merchants warn of a severe shortage for Easter as new sugar quotas arrive late. Despite a 10 percent increase, usable sugar remains below prior years and far under wartime quotas, signaling tough times for Easter novelties in 1944.
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Ottawa
Valuable Chart RevealsStone of Scone Safekeeping Tale
Ottawa reports a display at public archives detailing how Canada safeguarded the Coronation Stone. The chart and envelope described the stone’s August 1939 relocation from Westminster Abbey and its vault deposition in Canada. Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Bank of Canada officials held the secret until war’s end. An Ottawa note also announces a one per cent wholesale rise in honey prices with possible retail impact.
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Canada
Islip
England
Scone
Kenneth
Scotland
Dunstaffnege
Loch Etive
Westminster Abbey
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Bishop de Labilliere
Westminster
Charles Peers
William Bishop
Britain
Gerald Campbell
United Kingdom
Mackenzie King
Bank of Canada
Graham Towers
L. P. J. Roy
London
Islip Chapel
Prices Board
Ottawa grants permits amid refugee fees transfer
In the commons, Resources Minister Jen said 950 temporary permits were seized for entry into Canada and related to refugee fees, with transfers from the United Kingdom. Further details cited involve 2868.
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Ottawa
Jen
Commons
Canada
United Kingdom
Demand Refused 11 Teller In Toronto Bank Intimidated By Bandit
A Toronto bank teller Miss Emily Schleifer refused to hand over cash when a youth pistol-wielding robber pressed a note saying he would kill her. She calmly challenged the threat and continued with her duties. In Ottawa, a three day veterans training conference reported only one in twenty veterans has applied for unemployment benefits, per deputy minister W S Woods.
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Royal Bank
Richmond
Yonge
Emily Schleifer
Ottawa
Veterans Department Rehabilitation
Canada
W. S. Woods
Minster
France Accepts U.S. Plan for Paris Foreign Ministers Meeting
Paris reports Foreign Minister Georges Bidault says France accepts a U.S. proposal for a Paris meeting of foreign ministers on April 25. The ministers will also discuss ongoing Anglo French negotiations and a potential four power talk including Britain France Russia and the United States on the German issue. The cabinet approved the French Chinese accord signed at Shanghai on February 26 for Chinese withdrawal from Indo China.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
France
United States
Bevin
Britain
Foreign Affairs Commission of the Constituent Assembly
Russia
Shangking
Indo-China
War Inspection Board Dissolved in Canada and UK
The United Kingdom Canadian War Inspection Board, which approved over 6.5 billion dollars of wartime goods, was abolished on March 31. Its Canadian operations will shift to a purely Canadian board. Organized in 1940 the body employed over 19 000 technicians at peak activity with a mix of British American and Canadian members.
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Ottawa
Inspection Board
United Kingdom
Canada
United States
London
Kurt Me
Hyde Park Estate Declared National Shrine
Hyde Park New York Franklin D Roosevelt's home is dedicated as a national shrine with President Truman and Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt present Interior Secretary J A Krug attends The occasion marks the first anniversary of Mr Roosevelt's oath A marble tombstone sits in the estate rose garden for his grave
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Hyde Park
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Truman
Eleanor Roosevelt
Interior
J. A. Krug
Mr. Roosevelt
Supporters Of Tunnel Project Not Discouraged
London reports the Channel Tunnel project remains debated with no decision yet on funding or action. The Channel Tunnel Company Limited meets in June to discuss private investment, while past costs soared from 16 million to over 42 million pounds.
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London
English Channel
Poleon
Channel Tunnel Company Limited
Stock Exchange
Paris
Leo FA. D'Erlanger
Napoleon
Dover
Channel
Calais
Britain
Emile D’erlanger
William Collard
Sussex
Aday
Sir Herbert Walker
Southern Railway
Farl
Radnor
Britain Ready To Lower Food Standards In Exchange Pact
Britain signals willingness to ration bread to match US policy and save wheat and flour amid UNRRA famine fears. La Guardia urged Britain to export wheat stocks to Europe, while London seeks immediate replenishment guarantees.
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London
United States
UNRRA
Fiorello H. la Guardia
Mr. la Suaraia
United Kingdom
Exchange Telegraph News Agency
America
Washington
la Guardia
Canadian Bar Association seeks simpler tax forms in brief
The Canadian Bar Association urged Ottawa to clarify income tax legislation and end confusing antiquated rules. The brief called for an appeal tribunal, curbing revenue minister discretion, reviewing exemptions, and simplifying tax forms.
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Canadian Bar Association
Ottawa
Senate Committee On
Standard Railway Brotherhoods
Mackkenzie King
Muskox Expedition Faces Delay From Early Break-Up
Lt Col PD Paird of Montreal, commander of Operation Muskox, had reserved a Edmonton hotel room for May 4, but the earliest spring break-up in Canadian north threatens the last lap of the 3000 mile Arctic trek as snowmobiles push across Great Bear Lake toward river crossings and unmapped streams.
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Edmonton
PD. Paird
Montreal
Fee
Great Bear Lake
Bomb disposal squads clear 45000 delayed devices in Britain
Royal Engineers have rendered harmless 45 000 delayed action bombs. Ahead lies two more years of work with 2 000 men still active in London Bristol Hull and towns along the southeast coast.
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Britain
Royal Engineers
Bristol
Hull
Japanese General Iemura Dies in POW Camp
Moscow radio reports Lt Gen Minao Iemura former Kwantung Army commander died by his own hand on March 23 in a prisoner of war camp.
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Moscow Radio
Minao Iemura
Kwantung Army
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