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...might just as well be called a "Canadian Recovery Program." ERP's European beneficiaries will use ERP dollars to pay for the vast food stocks and limited manufactured goods they buy from Canada. (Prairie farmers will supply half the wheat for ERP shipments to Europe.) Last year the Dominion had a deficit of $743 million in its trading accounts in U.S. currency. This year, as a result of the import restrictions, it will be less. ERP, with at least $500 million earmarked for Canada, will wipe out the 1948 deficit...
Drew's answer was to throw the whole affair into Howe's lap: the Dominion Government should "now inaugurate its own immigration program." That put it squarely up to Ottawa. It also got Drew off the hook. Ontario's labor shortage is easing up. Moreover, immigrants are squawking at the poor jobs offered and the appalling housing shortage there. Drew's immigration program seemed headed for the scrap heap anyhow. Now he could blame it on Ottawa...
Less than a month after receiving $13,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Student Council's Salzburg Seminar yesterday reaped $5,000 more from the Old Dominion Foundation of New York...
Besides the N.H.L., there are two other important professional circuits, the American Hockey League (eleven teams) and the U.S. Hockey League (eight teams), which operate in the U.S. This season the two minor leagues drew all but five of their 348 men from the Dominion...
...Game. There are 70,000 registered amateur hockey players in Canada. Dominion youngsters ask for skates almost as soon as they can talk, at seven are ready for competitive hockey in the "peewee leagues." This year the Dominion's two big-league teams (Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens) will spend more than $70,000 to help keep amateurs on ice, groom some of them ultimately for the big time. In a setup similar to major-league baseball, N.H.L.'s six teams own farm teams in the lesser professional and amateur leagues...