Budget revisions drive House agenda through June
Government budget resolutions advance with extensive changes to tariff, sales tax, check tax, confectionary beverages, and new year dates. Amendments to the Pension Act and Bank Act revisions loom, while exemptions and dumping duties are refined. Fielding promises details to come and notes the session may run past mid June with further information to follow.
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Ottewa
Wey
Special Agriculture Committee
Banking and Commerce Committee
Ralston Royal Commission
House of Commons
Chetka
Fielding
Immigration Law Amended in Ottawa Senate Action
The Senate amended the Immigration Bill by removing a clause that exempted British subjects from deportation provisions. The measure, tied to postwar security, allowed deportation of non native Canadians seen as overthrowing authority within five years of residence. Debate cited British Isles danger and evolving views on British exemptions.
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Ottawa
Senate
Winnipeg
Immigration Department
George Foster
Great Britain
Fowler
British Isles
Robertson
Communist Party
Galaxy of Nations Premier King Sees Empire Day Message
Premier W L Mackenzie King of Canada highlights Sir Wilfrid Laurier's diamond jubilee remark that the British Empire is a galaxy of nations. He praises unity and common tradition as Dominions celebrate with the British Isles, sharing origins, ideals, and cooperative effort for the whole.
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London
Wilfrid Laurier
Queen Victoria
British Empire
W. L. Mackenzie King
Canada
London Times
British Isles
Baldwin Succeeds Bonar Law as Britain's Prime Minister
London reports Right Hon Stanley Baldwin chosen as British prime minister succeeding Bonar Law. The new leader, a Chancellor of the Exchequer, rises from business to politics, with Labor's rise noted in Parliament and questions about ministerial replacements and Lords representation.
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Hon
Stanley
Baldwin
Bonar Law
Britain
London
Stanley Baldwin
Andrew Bonar Law
Lord Stamfordham
Daldwin
Ike Marquis Curzon
Earl of Balfour
Labor Party
House of Lords
Winges
Lerd Haldane
Pier Tutere
Labor
Curzom
House of Commons
Commons
Haliwin
Talnisters
Sinking of the Marvale Honored by Seamanlike Rescue
The Canadian Pacific liner Marvale struck Cape Freles Rock near St Johns Newfoundland. All 436 passengers and crew were saved in lifeboats after Captain Lewis guided the ship toward St Shotts Beach as it sank in smooth seas. Women and children first, lifeboats filled within an hour, no injuries reported.
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St John's
Marvale
St. Shotts
Newfoundland
Cape Freles Rock
Lewis
Cape Freles
Trepazsy
Ner
St. Shott's
More Building This Year Ottawa Expansion April Reports
Ottawa building permits totaled 17 544 061 dollars across 56 cities, up 105.3 percent from March at 8 544 228 dollars. April’s value also rose 24.9 percent versus last year and surpassed 1921 and 1920 April levels by 44 and 18 percent respectively.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Cancer Cure Claim From Liverpool Professor Bell
Dr L E Houghey reports a supposed cancer cure by a lead colloid solution developed by Prof Blair Bell of Liverpool University. Bell, a genealogy professor, spent 18 years on it and has treated over 60 cases with no recurrences, though details remain undisclosed as he prefers more testing before public release.
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New York
Blair Bell
Liverpool University
L. E. Houghey
Concordia
Kas
Adams
Bell
Houghey
Delorme Trial Set After Transfer to Montreal Jail
Premier Taschereau announced Rev Adelard Delorme would be moved from Beauport Asylum to Bordeaux Jail Montreal to stand trial for the murder of his half brother Raoul in Montreal. The transfer was ordered after a provincial cabinet meeting and the June term of the criminal assizes was set for the case.
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Quebec
Adelard Delorme
Beauport
Bordeau
Montreal
Raoul
Taschereau
Abbe
Abbe Delorme
Snow slide kills four on Denver railroad line
A gigantic snow slide swept down the mountains at high speed striking the west end of a tunnel on the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad between Corona and Clide Lake Colo. Four workmen were killed and two were injured in the incident.
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Denver
Colo
Denver and Salt Lake
Corona
Clide Lake
Prairie premiers push co operative cattle pool plan
Premier Greenfield of Alberta Premier Downing of Saskatchewan and Premier Bracken of Manitoba visited Union Stockyards St Boniface Manitoba to inspect a thousand export steers for shipment to British markets under United Grain Growers pooling plan The premiers praised the system for boosting farmer returns and expanding cooperative marketing including sorting cattle into uniform lots for sale or export to Glasgow Dundees and Manchester.
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Greenfield
Alberta
Downing
Saskatchewan
Bracken
Manitoba
Union Stockyards
St. Boniface
Man
United Grain Growers Ltd
Glasgow
Dundes
Manchester
Premier Greenfield
Premier Duncing
Great Britain
C. C. Chipman
Grain Growers' Guide
C. Rice-Jones
United Grain Growers, Ltd
Hudson Bay route and Ottawa trade prospects race in Senate
In Ottawa Senator Pope urged action to open the Hudson Bay route for traffic amid reports of German prewar activity in the area. Casgrain and Dandurand defended government plans to operate the railway to protect investments, while Fowler predicted the route would unlock mineral wealth and cattle trade for the west. In Washington, Ottawa expects a Canadian representative to be named after the Imperial conference, aiming for direct talks on reciprocity and St Lawrence development with U S officials.
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Ottawa
Senate
Rufus Pope
Hudson Bay
Casgrain
Dandurand
Fowler
Washington
King
London
Canada
United States
Hohorough
Congress
St. Lawrence
Liiely
Easter Island Mystery Supposed Sinking Rebutted
Rumors that Easter Island sank in last November's quakes were proved unfounded. The Falcon, a fishing schooner, returned from a February voyage reporting the island safe. Chile uses the island as a penal colony with about 1,200 inhabitants, 2,500 miles west of the mainland, noted for its prehistoric sculptures.
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Santiago
Chile
Easter Island
Falcon
Young daughters stop derailment by removing torpedoes
In Eden Nova Scotia two young daughters of William Miller Beclonman discovered a flaw in the railway track and seized torpedoes from their father’s track walking outfit. They halted the Sydney express in time to prevent derailment. The children are ten and twelve years old.
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Sydney
N.S
Eden
William Miller
Memorial Tablet Honors 531 Barnardo Boys in Canada
A wartime memorial lists 531 Barnardo Boys among 5211 Canadian Expeditionary Force volunteers who died in the Great War. The New York Waldorf Astoria convention honored US Chamber of Commerce members with tips totaling 1100 dollars, presented by D A Skinner, secretary of the association.
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Torento
New York
Clause In Debt Pact Withdrawn to Satisfy United States
Sir John Bradbury, British negotiator, is said to be ordered to remove the clause that would end the pact if the United States collects war damages from Germany, aligning with France and Belgium to accept the U S draft without extra charge. Capt. Alexander McDougall, 76, famed shipbuilder and inventor, died in Duluth May 23 after 20 years on the Great Lakes, born in Scotland. Turkish troops reportedly blew up the Maritza River bridge linking Adrianople and Karagateh, causing consternation in Athens.
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United’ States
Germany
Paris
Sir John Bradbury
United States Army of Occupation
London
United States
France
Belgium
Duluth
Alexander McDougall
MccDougall
Great Lakes
Scotiana
Athens
Maritza River
Adrianople
Karagateh
Saskatchewan and Alberta May Establish Wheat Board This Year
Ottawa reports suggest Saskatchewan and Alberta plan to form a wheat board to manage the 1923 crop. Premier Greenfield and Premier Dunning have been meeting, with private whispers of calls for J H Haslam of Regina and Thomas Sales to fill top roles as chair and vice-chairman amid efforts to assemble a leadership slate from export circles.
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Saskatchewan
Alberta
Wheat Board
Ottawa
Canada
Manitoba
Greenfield
Dunning
James Stewart
Winnipeg
W Riddell
Regina
John MacFarlane
Calgary
J R. Murray
James Richardson
Cecil Aine-Jones
I. W. Wood
United Farmers of
J. H. Haslam
Thomas Sales
Sask
Haslam
Royal Commission
Sales
Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company
Saskatchewan Grain
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O. S. Sugden
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Delorme
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