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Newspaper reaction was a nearly unanimous cry of dismay. The Liberal Winnipeg Free Press called the tax "silly, illiberal and vindictive." The Tory Globe and Mail branded it "one of the worst tax measures ever devised by the government of a free country." The newspapers also expressed doubt that the tax would be of any help to Canadian magazines. They foresaw that the U.S. publications principally affected (Reader's Digest, TIME, Family Circle, Woman's Day, Everywoman's and Parents Magazine) would raise their advertising and subscription rates, and that advertisers who preferred these publications would continue...
...government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism." Thus in 1933 the founders of Canada's socialist movement, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, set forth their party's basic political aim in their first manifesto. Last week, at a convention in Winnipeg, an older and wiser CCF gave up the goal of uprooting capitalism and adopted a new manifesto recognizing a definite "need for private enterprise...
...biggest and riskiest construction projects ever undertaken in Canada. The company will begin building the world's longest gas pipeline, costing more than $350 million, to bring Alberta gas some 2,000 miles to industrial Eastern Canada. Trans-Canada must complete the first 574-mile leg to Winnipeg before next Dec. 31 and must repay the loan, with 5% interest, by next April. If it fails, the company will lose all its assets in government loan foreclosure...
...technique in Parliament will weigh against the Liberals in the next election campaign. The opposition parties, sounding off at a steadily rising pitch against U.S. financial control of Canadian industry, will belabor the government for its support of Trans-Canada. But if Alberta gas is gushing through to Winnipeg this year, the government will be able to point to a notable industrial asset gained, and to argue that the end justified the means...
...measure, introduced in Parliament, to lend up to $80 million to Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd., a company more than 80% owned and controlled by U.S. gas and oil interests headed by Texas Millionaire Clint Murchison. The loan is to be used to build the first leg (Alberta to Winnipeg) of a long-delayed transcontinental natural-gas pipeline...