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...first time since 1930, Canada's budget was in balance. The Dominion was taking in more than it was spending. Despite the summer's crippling strikes, Government revenue from income and excess profits taxes for the first seven months of the 1946-47 fiscal year (April 1 to March 31) was a thumping $157,000,000 ahead of estimates. In the same period, Government expenses were about $200,000,000 lower than anticipated. Surplus to date...
...many Canadians disturbed at the thought of U.S. troops permanently based in Canada. Few if any Canadians would regard this as a foothold for U.S. aggression. Nevertheless, the Canadians, who refused Britain permission to establish R.A.F. bases in the Dominion as late as 1938, want to go slow. (Actually the question of stationing British troops in Canada would probably raise much more furor.) They want to be sure there is no infringement of Dominion sovereignty...
Recently cheery, white-haired Russell Madill, 49, chief of the Magnetic Division of the Dominion Observatory at Ottawa, announced that the pole was some 200 miles north and 75 miles east of its previously announced location. He confirmed the observation of the navigator on the U.S. B-29 Pacusan Dreamboat, who two weeks earlier had found the pole where it was not supposed to be. The navigator's report neither surprised nor vexed Madill, who has mothered the wandering pole for 25 years...
There have now been three by-elections which tested political sentiment since the Dominion election of mid-1945.* Tories had won twice, a Social Crediter once (in Quebec last month). There was no longer denying the nation's surge to the right...
...pronounced sentence: ". . . solitary confinement until the seventh day of January, when you shall be taken to the place of execution and there hanged by the neck until dead." (A woman has not been hanged in Canada in eleven years. But four women were under sentence of death in the Dominion last week.) The trial of Bohozuk and Evelyn's father opened next day, then was postponed because Evelyn refused to testify against them...