Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enriched treasury that has already cut the province's debt to $90 million, financed large-scale grants to local schools and municipalities, and has built up a $347 million surplus. Some of the bonus money will also go to enrich the federal government, since tax authorities in Ottawa were prompt to rule that Alberta citizens will have to declare and pay federal income taxes on the money from Edmonton...
...scheme: rebating $28 of taxes to every homeowner in his province. Both British Columbia's Bennett and Alberta's Manning, having built solid political bases at home, are now planning a drive to add to the 15 seats that Social Crediters occupy in the federal Parliament at Ottawa. With a national election probable for this spring or summer, they will soon have a chance to test the appeal of giveaway government for the voters in other parts of Canada...
...stage was set for the kind of political show that sobersided Canada seldom allows itself. Ottawa's Coliseum was decked out with flags, bunting and flashing red, green and yellow lights. More than 1,200 Progressive Conservative delegates converged on the capital from all over Canada to nominate a new leader at the party's first national convention since 1948. Even those who could not attend in person could watch from afar; for the first time, TV cameras were on hand to broadcast the proceedings and let all Canadians see the choosing of the man who will...
...behooves TIME to criticize Sir Anthony Eden. Regardless of what Ottawa says, the majority of Canadian citizens were heartily in agreement with the British and French stand. The U.S.A., as usual, won't wake up until it is almost too late...
...Toronto visit the Prime Minister received a handsome set of matched monogrammed golf clubs as a gift from the city. Less than 24 hours later, Louis St. Laurent was out on the Ottawa course testing his new equipment. He seemed to enjoy the exercise, playing with his daughter Madeleine (Mrs. Hugh O'Donnell). But no one outside the family could say whether the set of championship sticks had any magical effect on Duffer St. Laurent's chronically 100-plus game. As usual, he kept his score a deep secret...