Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN TIME'S Calgary correspondent Ed Ogle headed down the Mackenzie River on assignment for this week's report (see THE HEMISPHERE) on the Canadian North, he was touring a familiar beat, where he is the most widely known reporter from "outside."' Within the last year Ogle has gone north of the Arctic Circle three times. This time he missed one of his planned stops, reported: "I had no luck getting into Tuktoyaktuk. I hired a seaplane, but storms blew ice into the bay so that no landing was possible. I finally landed ten miles...
Canada's Bureau of Statistics last week reported employment at an alltime high, with 6,053,000 at work and unemployment running lower than Ottawa economists dared expect only a few months ago. The number of jobless Canadians dropped sharply last month to 234,000, which is 3.7% of the labor force, compared with 10% in March 1958. As the result of stronger demand for Canadian raw materials in the bullish U.S. recovery, Canadian exports to the U.S. surged to $321.1 million in June (v. $233.6 million in June 1958), and overall exports were up to a one-month...
...This is really the big time," grinned a shrewd, hearty Canadian named Roy Thomson last week. "Have you ever heard of anything bigger?" Few had: Roy Thomson, 65, already owner of 27 papers in Canada, seven in the U.S. and nine in Scotland (plus TV stations on both sides of the Atlantic), had just agreed to pay $14 million for most of Britain's great Kemsley chain, including twelve provincial papers and three Sunday nationals, one of them the Sunday Times.* Combined circulation of Thomson's acquisitions : 14 million...
...binding cultural medium in a country that is strung-out, bilingual and unattractive to private networks. It tries to keep down its subsidy ($60 million this year) by selling commercials in a gentlemanly, low-pressure way. With its money, the CBC turns out a satisfactory and varied diet of Canadian-produced live and film programs, plus an occasional spectacular piped in from the U.S. The network's dilemmas are 1) how to be above politics when the government is paying the bills, and 2) how to apportion program production costs between the government and the advertiser...
...secret fiscal details, produced after an ultimatum from the Commons, showed that the CBC made a profit on only 17 of 102 shows produced during a typical March week. Largest subsidy-wherein only $9,678 of the total cost of $30,132 was paid by sponsors-went to a Canadian version of the longtime U.S. radio and TV Hit Parade show...