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...Amusement taxes of 20% and 25% and the 5% tax on pari-mutuel betting are abandoned, at a cost to the Dominion of $23½ million annually. (At least three of the provinces will impose similar taxes to fill their own tills...
...nine others charged but found innocent, four are back at their former jobs; one of them working for the Dominion government, one for a Montreal newspaper and two others, a physician and an optometrist, at their own practices in Toronto. The rest of the acquitted have had to get other jobs. One of them, a biochemist, went to Paris to work after vainly trying for a year to get a place in Canada...
...year. From then on, she fished alone. She can handle her own gear: 32 lines for cod, 100 lobster pots (most of which she made herself), eight nets for herring, mackerel and other ground fish, two rowboats and a 23-foot motorboat. She first qualified for the Dominion government fishing bounty* 17 years ago, has just got her latest $8.75 check for the 5,000 pounds of fish she caught...
...tell the U.S. about the new road, the summer skiing, the mountain peaks and the trout fishing, the Alberta government was spending $179,900 on radio programs, advertisements and glossy come-ons. It was laying down $15,000,000 for roads, while the Dominion government was earmarking $3,500,000 for Alberta's parks...
...bill had little chance of passage. Snapped the Ottawa Journal: "... A very silly notion. Words or the lack of them do not make our independence." But many loyal, pro-Empire Canadians agreed with Arsenault's purpose, if not his motive: they were tired of explaining to Americans that "Dominion" does not imply "domination...