Pension plan would cost Canada 200 million in 1945
Ottawa figures show a proposed national old age pension plan costing roughly 200 million dollars in 1945, about a third of projected income tax revenue. Brooke Claxton explained the plan's economics, noting funding would rely on taxes, borrowings, or printed money, while a 30 dollar monthly pension would begin at age 70 for all, with 65 to 69 receiving means-tested support.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Ito
Brooke Claxton
Angus Maciinnis
CCF
Vancouver East
MacInnis
Claxton
Loan for France Ottawa creates western farm markets
Canada extends a $242,500,000 credit to France to buy Canadian goods, easing post war rehabilitation. The loan bears 3 percent interest, repayable in 30 annual installments from 1947 to 1976, and marks the largest Canadian credit under the Export Credits Insurance Act.
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Ottawa
France
J. L. Ilsley
Mr. Isley
Canada
Leon Blum
Long Canoe Trip Starts for New York Route
Vancouver fisherman and prospector O P Smith, aged 66, begins a canoe journey from English Bay up the Fraser River toward New York. He left April 7 paddling to the Fraser mouth and plans to follow fur trade routes east via Athabasca and Winnipeg rivers to reach Lake Winnipeg and the Great Lakes.
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Vancouver
O. P. Smith
Fraser
New York
Mr. Smith
English Bay
Point Grey
Athabasca River
Lake Winnipeg
Saskatchewan
Winnipeg River
Great Lakes
Easter candy supply woes hit Ottawa makers
In Ottawa the candy trade warns of a tough Easter as manufacturers report the season will be the worst on record due to scarce goodies for Canadian children. A merchant cites late sugar quota arrival despite a 10 percent rise, with supplies still well below last year and 1943 44 levels.
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Ottawa
Chart Reveals Wartime Safekeeping of Coronation Stone
A public archives display shows a chart detailing how Britain's Coronation Stone was moved for safety before World War II. King Kenneth and Edward I are cited in history, with Islip England as the wartime hiding place and the Bank of Canada vault in Ottawa as the later repository. The chart names Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Graham Towers, and L P J Roy as three Canadians who knew the chart’s location.
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Ottawa
Public
Canada
Britain
Islip
England
Scone
Kenneth
Scotland
Dunstaffnege
Loch Etive
Westminster Abbey
Jacob
Bishop de Labilliere
Westminster
Charles Peers
William Bishop
Mackenzie King
Bank of Canada
Graham F. Towers
L. P. J. Roy
London
Islip Chapel
Honey price ceiling raised by one percent wholesale
Ottawa reports an immediate one per cent hike in wholesale honey ceiling price by the prices board. Retail prices are expected to rise by one to one and a half cents per pound as a result.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Ottawa grants 950 refugee entry permits from UK
Resources Minister Glen announced in the commons that 950 temporary permits have been issued for refugees transferred from the United Kingdom to enter Canada. The tally reflects ongoing immigration processing during the period reported.
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Ottawa
Glen
Commons
Canada
United Kingdom
Demand Refused Girl Teller In Toronto Bank Not Intimidated By Bandit
In Toronto the Royal Bank downtown branch on Richmond and Yonge streets saw teller Miss Emily Schleifer calmly ignore a robbery note. A youthful gunman demanded money, but she kept her composure and replied she was too busy to comply, refusing to alarm staff.
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Toronto
Royal Bank
Richmond and
Yonge
Emily Schleifer
Teller
Conference reports low veterans benefit uptake in Canada
A three day conference of supervisors from veterans department rehabilitation centres across Canada heard that only one in twenty veterans has applied for unemployment benefits. The figure was given by W. S. Woods deputy minister.
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Ottawa
Veterans Department
Canada
W. S. Woods
France Accepts US Proposal for Foreign Ministers Meeting
France's Georges Bidault announced acceptance of a United States plan for a Paris meeting of foreign ministers on April 25. The communique affirmed unanimous support to continue Anglo French talks and to resolve all pending issues in preparation for an alliance. Britain signaled readiness to negotiate. The cabinet endorsed the Chungking Chinese accords for Indo China withdrawal.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
France
United States
Bevin
Britain
Foreign Affairs Commission of the
Constituent Assembly
Russia
Chungking
Indo-China
War Supplies Board Dissolved After War Effort
The Wart Supplies Board, a UK Canada joint body formed in 1940 to approve war goods, has been abolished. Announcement came that it ended March 31 in Ottawa and London. A purely Canadian board will assume its Canadian operations. At peak it employed over 19,000 technicians with about 500 British and US experts among its members.
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Ottawa
Inspection Board
United Kingdom
Canada
United States
London
Hyde Park estate named national shrine by ceremony
Hyde Park New York Franklin D Roosevelt estate dedicated as a national shrine with President Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt and interior secretary J A Krug attending. The event marks the first anniversary of Roosevelt's death and a simple marble tombstone marks his grave in the rose garden.
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Hyde Park
N.Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Truman
Eleanor Roosevelt
J. A. Krug
Mr. Roosevelt
Supporters Of Tunnel Project Not Discouraged
London report outlines the Channel Tunnel Company Limited facing long odds with a June hotel meeting of six directors to discuss a railway and motor tunnel under the English Channel. The project dates back to 1881 with updated price tags rising to £42,000,000 by 1939, while current stock shows no dividends. Despite doubts, leaders like Sir Herbert Walker and the Earl of Radnor remain optimistic about future action and potential private funding.
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London
English Channel
Napoleon
Channel Tunnel Company Limited
Stock Exchange
Paris
Leo F. A. D'Erlanger
Dover
Channel
Calais
Britain
Emile D’erlanger
Channel Tunnel Company
William Collard
Sussex
Sir Herbert Walker
Southern Railway
Earl of Radnor
No decision yet on Meyer removal to Canada
London report says Canada's first convicted war criminal Major General Kurt Meyer remains imprisoned in the United Kingdom and no ruling has been made on transferring him to Canada to serve his life sentence, according to a spokesman at Canadian military headquarters.
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London
Canada
Kurt Meyer
United Kingdom
Rocky Mountains Span From Desert Southwest To Arctic
The Rocky mountains extend across the western United States from New Mexico and Colorado into the Arctic region. The range links hot desert landscapes with high latitude environments, defining a vast continental feature.
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Rocky Mountains
New Mexico
Colorado
Arctic
Britain Prepares Bread Rationing If US Follows
London reports Britain will ration bread if the United States adopts the same policy or matches US measures to conserve wheat and flour amid UNRRA needs. The cabinet cited US export shortfalls and La Guardia’s appeal, stressing solidarity with world hunger efforts while balancing potential stock repatriation.
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London
Britain
United States
Aris
UNRRA
Fiorello H. la Guardia
Mr. la Guardia
Combined Food Board
United Kingdom
His
America
Washington
la Guardia
Bar Association Calls for Simpler Tax Forms and Tax Reform
The Canadian Bar Association urged Ottawa to clarify income tax legislation, end antiquated calculation rules, and establish an appeal tribunal. It also pressed curtailment of ministerial discretionary powers and a review of exemptions, plus simplification of forms. The Standard Railway Brotherhoods backed tax relief through higher exemptions for low income workers in their brief to Prime Minister Mackenzie King.
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Ottawa
Canadian Bar Association
Senate Committee On
Standard Railway Brotherhoods
Mackenzie King
May Delay Threatens Arctic Trek Completion
In Edmonton a hotel room for May 4 is reserved for Lt. Col. P. D. Beird of Montreal, commander of Operation Muskox. The final 3,000 mile Arctic leg may face delay as spring breakup complicates crossings on Great Bear Lake and three major rivers ahead.
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Edmonton
P. D. Beird
Montreal
Great Bear Lake
Bomb disposal squads clear 45000 delayed action bombs in Britain
Royal Engineers report 45,000 delayed action bombs rendered harmless in Britain. Two more years of work ahead with 2,000 men deployed in London Bristol Hull and southeast coast towns.
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London
Britain
Royal Engineers
Bristol
Hull
Japanese general dies in POW camp suicide report
Moscow radio reports Lt Gen Minao Iemura former commander of the Japanese 4th Kwantung Army killed himself in a prisoner of war camp on March 23, the incidence reported from London.
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London
Moscow Radio
Minao Iemura
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