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Some of the legislation that it forecast was expected and routine. Parliament would be asked to approve the bright new United Nations Charter. It would be expected to pass bills to speed the country's return to peacetime life, to create peacetime jobs, to solve the Dominion's housing shortage. There would be legislation authorizing Canada's participation in international monetary agreements. A Veterans' Charter, something like the U.S.'s "G.I. Bill of Rights," would be created. But to Canadians the most interesting legislation in prospect involved the creation of a Canadian nationality and adoption...
...Gabriel Tremblays were not alone in their troubles. Some 30,000 other war workers had been laid off in Montreal alone. Across the Dominion, thousands more were looking for new jobs. Some took the situation stoically; many protested...
Just as the echoes of last spring's Dominion-wide electioneering died away, Canadians learned that they were in for some more tub thumping. British Columbia's Premier John Hart called a provincial election for Oct. 25, Manitoba's Premier Stuart Sinclair Garson got ready to do the same (probable date: some time between...
Said a Veterans' Affairs Department spokesman last week: U.S. citizens who served in the Dominion's armed forces in World War II (most of them before Pearl Harbor) are entitled to a gratuity of $7.50 for each 30 days of service, plus 25? for every day served overseas, plus seven days pay for every six months overseas.* Only about 2,000 (of 12,000 eligibles) have applied, said the Department. The "rest probably don't know about...
Post Dispatch, Laybourne today is the fulltime head of our office in the Dominion capital. But he knows every province in Canada firsthand-is as likely to be found somewhere in the Maritimes or way out on Vancouver Island...