Record Spending Push From Canadian Budget Debates
Treasury records show a total budget of 11.858 billion for the new financial year, up 9.5 percent from 1968 69 estimates. Finance Minister Edgar Benson defends the rise, claiming a balanced budget remains possible while medicare appropriations loom, with Ontario and Quebec withholding support amid broader tax and social development plans.
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Commons
Treasury Ro
C. M. Drury
Edgar Benson
Mr. Benson
Benson
Ontario
Quebec
Deserved Arrest as Toronto students disrupt public lecture
A Toronto University of Toronto event saw student disruptors storm the stage insulting Dr Clark Kerr former UC president. Dr Claude Bissell faced a rude rejection as a twenty minute fracas ensued with calls for immediate arrests and harsher measures.
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Toronto
Clark Kerr
University of California
Claude Bissell
University of Toronto
Dr. Bissell
Japan Navy to Tour Indian Ports in Summer Cruise
Reports from Tokyo say a Japan Self-Defense Fleet squadron will conduct a goodwill cruise this summer visiting Indian Ocean ports. Western diplomats in New Delhi note potential political signaling amid Britain’s 1971 drawdown and Soviet interest.
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Tokyo
Japan
Bay of Bengal
Calcutta
New Delhi
Christian Science Monitor
Indian Ocean
Grade Five Students Visit Planetarium
Grade V pupils from MacGregor Elementary toured Winnipeg and the planetarium on Thursday January 30. Students described the planetarium projector, its blue glow, and the 200 switches. they learned about stars, constellations, and the Big and Little Dipper, Orion, Saturn, and Venus. The visit included lunch, a look at Black Brant IV, meteorites, a weigh scale, and a guided tour with a host and projector operator.
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MacGregor Elementary
Winnipeg
Winnipeg Planetarium
Planetarium
Venus
Carolyn Doel
Planetariium
Richardson
Allison ‘Tarr
Churchll
Election cost Canada 13.5 million for June 25 vote
Canadian election costs totaled 13,596,643 with 8,217,916 of 10,860,798 eligible voters casting ballots. Printing 2,489,594. polling stations 3,525,168. enumeration 5,030,777. returning officers 1,524, ae. miscellaneous 396,586. Chief electoral officer's office spent 526,564 and armed forces ballotting 94,479.
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Jean-Marc Hamel
Stamp honors early painter Aurele de Foy Suzor-Cote
The Seedral post office will issue a 10 cent commemorative stamp on March 14 celebrating Aurele de Foy Suzor-Cote born in Arthabaska Quebec. The design features a reduced color reproduction of Return from the Harvest Field from the National Gallery Ottawa with text in a vertical white panel.
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Aurele de Foy
Suzor-Cote
Seedral
Suzor-Cole
National Gallery
Ottawa
Arthabaska
Quebec
Tommy Douglas Returns To Ottawa In Victory Parade
Tommy Douglas arrived in Ottawa after winning the Nanaimo Cowichan The Islands byelection on Feb 10. A crowd of about 150 NDPer supporters welcomed him on the tarmac with cheers and songs as Irma Douglas joined in the celebrations.
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T. C
Tommy) Douglas
Nanaimo-Cowichan
Islands
New Democratic
Eporter
Peoples’ Party
Tommy
Irma
Pte
David Lewis
Lewis
Saskatchewan
Les Benjamin
Regina Lake ‘Centre
Coldwell
Douglas
Pierre Trudeau
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Adbury Star
South Asia
Red Sea
Fear
Manitoba Weekly Newspaper Association
Allen McGregor
Bator
Arnold Wiebe
Earth
Canada
Andre Fortin
Creditiste-Lotbiniere
Trimble's
Portage LA Prairie, Manitoba
McLaren
Rupert
Denwal Pharmacy
Lorist
Macgregor
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