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Canada's lower meat prices have long been the envy of U.S. housewives. Last week, T-bone steaks were 70? a lb. in Lethbridge and sirloin was 75? in Ottawa. This was a third less than New Yorkers were paying, but Canadian housewives thought the prices outrageous. In Ottawa they paraded with a papier-mâché cow, demanding a rollback. They would certainly protest more loudly if prices jumped again-as prices certainly would if the government lifted the embargo on beef shipments to the U.S. Yet cattlemen in Calgary, selling choice steers for record prices...
...last week. Growers argued that it wasn't the dollars so much as "a solid U.S. market" for the future that they wanted. The best bet was that the government would give it to them in midsummer. Then, packers predicted, sirloin would go to $1.10 a lb. in Ottawa-or to whatever outrageous figure U.S. buyers are paying at the time...
...Meaning of Wind. Back in Ottawa last week from his first inspection at Churchill, Defense Minister Brooke Claxton told how the 850 military men (500 Canadian, 350 U.S.) were meeting the challenge of cold...
...What kind of French shall we speak in 25 years?" asked Ottawa's Le Droit last week. "Will the laborer's jargon, which we know is composed of French and English badly pronounced, be purified . . ? Will the language of commerce, renouncing its innumerable borrowings from English, be a truly French language...
Foot & Mouth. In Ottawa, Parliamentary Law Clerk Paul M. Ollivier proposed that M.P.s be required to stand on one foot while speaking...