Word: manitoba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better balanced staff coverage of Canadian news in general. Reporting the west's vast growth of population and industry and the development of its natural resources, Bureau Chief Ogle will work with the 16 of our 35 part-time Canadian correspondents who are scattered through Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the Yukon and Northwest Territories...
...million expansion by Canada's International Nickel Co., world's biggest nickel producer. Company is boosting prices 9½? a lb., by 1960 will increase annual capacity by 50% to 385 million Ibs. Inco is opening two big new mines in Mystery-Moak Lakes area of northern Manitoba, building concentrator, smelter, refinery, and city for 8,000 on site...
Ontario Conservative W. Earl Rowe, acting leader of his party, scoffed at Harris' reasoning. Said Rowe: "I do not believe it will help any Canadian magazine." Later, in the usually staid Senate, Ontario's Norman Lambert and Manitoba's Thomas Crerar accused their own Liberal party of abandoning its free-trade traditions. But the objections were overrun by the impatient Liberal drive for a vote. In three hours, Harris' carefully timed bill cleared the House; the Senate rubber-stamped it in a single sitting...
...while Hutterite sons stayed home as conscientious objectors, an irritated Alberta government forbade the Hutterites to buy any new land.* The law was later relaxed to permit some newland purchases, but none within 40 miles of an old Bruderhof. The Hutterites had to look to Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and back to the U.S. for new living room...
Cattle breeders are in a fluster about dwarf calves, which are being born in ever-increasing numbers in the U.S. and Canada, and cattle experts are building up herds of dwarfs for study. Last week Professor E. W. Stringam of the University, of Manitoba was tenderly nursing a bull calf which he and assistants had delivered by Caesarean section from a dwarf cow. The calf, sired by a normal young bull, is normal in proportions. It will outweigh its mother in three months, but it probably carries the taint of hereditary dwarfism...