Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dionne has trouble with his hands when summer comes. They quit and go back to the farm, that costs him money, for looms stop clanking, and production costs soar. Considering this problem, Dionne recently had an idea. Why not bring in D.P.s from Europe? He persuaded the Government at Ottawa to declare that "there is a shortage of textile workers in Canada" and to waive immigration rules. Then he headed for Europe...
...divided as to whether Dionne's scheme is the "oeuvre de charité" (charitable act) that the Sisters of the Good Shepherd call it. The General Council of the Catholic Labor Syndicates called it a "great scandal." Other unions have protested. In the House of Commons at Ottawa, CCFer Clarence Gillis labeled it "a fire sale of human misery." But among the 12,000 D.P.s in Camp Wildflecken, near Fulda, Germany, the idea sounds fine. Last week Ludger Dionne, with the help of doctors and the Canadian consul, was busy hand-picking his 100 new mill employees from hundreds...
...this sort of talk the free-enterprising Ottawa Journal last week ran an editorial stopper...
Cause & Effect. It all happened because Canada could not do enough for her little girl. Two months ago, when 18-year-old Barbara Ann came triumphantly home from Sweden as world's figure-skating champion, home-town Ottawa rolled out the royal carpet. The Governor General's Foot Guards Band played the music; Cabinet Ministers rallied round; kids were let out of school. Then His Worship, the Mayor, fumbled through his welcoming speech-and gave her the auto, the gift of her fellow citizens. Nobody complained at the time that amateurs were not supposed to accept shiny...
...last week the rebellion had reached clear to the Maritimes. In staid Ottawa, 500 Lisgar Collegiate Institute students paraded to Parliament in a driving, cold rain, waving soggy placards: "Candy is dandy, but eight cents ain't handy," and "We'll eat worms before we eat eight-cent chocolate bars." In Toronto and Montreal, demonstrations got tangled with the Communist-inclined National Federation of Labor Youth, which tried to take over. Dominion retailers were trapped between high wholesale prices and higher juvenile tempers...