Word: dominione
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...Ceylon, a British Crown colony since 1802, a state council leader announce that the island was asking Dominion status...
...Canadian Pacific and the Hud son's Bay Co., both holders of vast mineral rights in Saskatchewan, the mineral-tax law was virtually "confiscatory." The Dominion Loan & Mortgage challenge was almost surely a direct result of the fact that this year Saskatchewan's crop is poor...
...only socialist government in Can ada faced the toughest fight of its young life. Big business, which had seethed in silence for 15 months while Saskatchewan's CCFers adopted a batch of socialist laws, suddenly struck back. The Canadian Pacific Railway, the Dominion Loan & Mortgage Association and the Hudson's Bay Co. appealed to the Federal Government to void three key Saskatchewan laws...
...reasons of pride many Canadians liked the new policy. In the past the Dominion had too often followed the U.S. lead, acted like a shy girl clutching her big sister's hand. Now Canada was stepping out, boldly and independently, on her own. More important internationally was the fact that Canada, taking the lead in a field where she has logical leadership (before the war, one third of all the wheat in world trade was Canadian), was making her wheat industry a national responsibility...
...Jehovah's Witnesses are virulent in their attacks on organized religion, are particularly offensive against Roman Catholicism. But more thoughtful Quebeckers well knew that the Witnesses, who thrive on persecution, had made a case for themselves in Canada's Catholic province, had showed the rest of the Dominion that many of Quebec's people subscribe to free speech only up to a point. Said the Toronto Star: "The offensiveness of the Witnesses' methods does not justify people ... in taking the law into their own hands...