Relief cost reductions in new Canadian budget estimates
The federal budget seeks to cut relief costs for the new fiscal year with grants-in-aid to provinces totaling 19.5 million dollars and a larger overall supplementary package of 96.06 million dollars. Major items include 35 million to cover estimated CN rail deficits, 7.33 million to provincial and municipal relief projects, and 12.55 million for public works plus park and road projects across provinces and territories.
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Mtawa
House of Commons
Charlies Trnning
Prairie Provinces
Norman Rogers
Canadian National Railways
Dunning
Cln.r
Labor Department
Public Works
Northwest Territories
Board of Railway Commissioners
Veterans’ Assistance Commission Act
National Battlefields Commission
Federal District Commission
Ottawa
Britain and Japan Near An Agreement On Extraterritorial Rights
London reports that Britain and Japan have nearly completed a pact to phase out extraterritorial rights. Perpetual leases held by British firms would run until 1942 before property reverts to standard foreign ownership rules. Leases provided tax exemptions on much British property.
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London
Britain
Japan
Britain Plans 80 Ship Navy Expansion and 1937 Budget
Britain allocates £23.8 million more for the 1937-38 navy, expanding new construction by 80 vessels including three battleships like King George V class and Prince of Wales, two carriers, five cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and smaller ships. Total 1937 program costs £105.1 million with £27 million from proposed defence loans. personnel rise to 112,000.
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Fleet Air Arm
Prince of Wales
Moose River Gold Mine blamed for collapse in Nova Scotia
A Nova Scotia commission ruled the Moose River Gold Mine management responsible for the April collapse. It found ore removal from pillars after reopening in January 1936 weakened roof supports, leading to the disaster that trapped Herman Magill and two others, with Magill dead and two survivors rescued ten days later.
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Moose River
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Herman Magill
D E. Robertson
Alfred Scadding
No Change In Title Defender Of The Faith
London reports no change to the King's title Defender of the Faith. Prime Minister Baldwin's private secretary responds to Lionel Fowler of the Protestant Alliance, saying coronation oath wording changes followed discussions with this country and dominions. No alteration to the title beyond that.
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London
Lionel Fowler
Protestant Alliance
Baldwin
Fowler
Great Britain
Injured Derby Mushing Hero Morris Evans Hurt in Mine Accident
Morris Evans famed for dog derby victory in Cameron Bay at the Arctic event was injured in a Great Bear Lake mine incident. He crushed his right foot and was rushed by plane piloted by Matt Berry to Fort Smith hospital, about 480 miles north of Edmonton. The 15 mile Arctic derby ran at Cameron Bay, N W T, roughly 1,100 air miles north of Edmonton.
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Morris Evans
Fort Smith
N.W.T
Great Bear Lake Country
Edmonton
Matt Berry
Cameron Bay
Britain to station Territorial Troops in Northern Ireland
The government will station three companies of territorial troops in County Antrim the first posting of such units in Northern Ireland. The War Office says artillery engineers and air corps reserves will be provided. A recruitment campaign runs as enlistments total 7 993 officers and 133 668 men short of authorized strength by 1 960 officers and 53 532 men.
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Britain
Northern Ireland
London
County Antrim
War Office
Canada Senate Advances Free Foreign Trade Zones Bill
The senate gave third reading to a bill enabling the establishment of free foreign trade zones or free ports in Canada and then sent the measure to the House of Commons.
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Ottawa
Senate
Canada
House of Commons
Fascist Council Approves Seven Point Population Plan
Italy plans promote larger families with prioritized marriages and employment for fathers of many children. The program includes family based salaries, living condition protections, marriage loans, dowry aid, and a national big families association. Provincial boundary revisions and a census in 1941 aim to curb excess populations and concentrate resources. The policy will become law, emphasizing life as the basis of national strength.
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Rome
Grami Councct
Mussolini
Italy
Big Families’ Association
Import of Canadian caribou eyed to save U S herds
W T Cox of Saint Paul Minnesota, federal resettlement administrator for the Great Lakes states, warned at a wildlife conference that only four caribou remain in the United States, the last of a large Minnesota herd. He said Canada proposed ten caribou for import, and that they may be brought into Minnesota this spring.
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St. Louis
United States
Canada
W. T. Cox
St. Paul
Imperial Defence Problems to Shape Coming Conference
London reports the imperial conference will focus on defence as eleven years since a full study. Delegates from the empire will discuss principles from the 1923 and 1926 resolutions, stressing local defence, seaborne routes, naval bases, a minimal foreign naval standard, and coordinated air force development across dominions and India.
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Dowing Street
London
Canada
Ww. L. Mackenzie King
King
Great Britain
Dominions
India
Alberta Marketing Problems Edmonton
Alberta extension of cooperative marketing facilities is foreshadowed by Hon. W N Chant in the legislature. He vows to promote farm commodity marketing so farmers gain a larger share of the consumer dollar and notes eastern Canada sees the prairie drought as a national issue. He cites cooperation with the Dominion in rehabilitation and water conservation as a permanent solution.
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Edmonton
Alberta
W. N. Chant
Chant
Prairies
Canada
Dominion
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Lord Ancaster
Saskatchewan
Claude Ellis
Regina
Ellis
Bryant
Saskatoon
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