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Just as the echoes of last spring's Dominion-wide electioneering died away, Canadians learned that they were in for some more tub thumping. British Columbia's Premier John Hart called a provincial election for Oct. 25, Manitoba's Premier Stuart Sinclair Garson got ready to do the same (probable date: some time between...
...Manitoba and British Columbia are the only two provinces governed by Liberal-Conservative coalitions. For these two campaigns, the two old-line parties decided to remain fused. That meant that in each province the fight would be mainly between the Liberal-Conservative fusion and the socialist...
...appeared to have little chance in Manitoba, although it probably would do better than its present five seats (it will run 45 candidates for 55 seats). The British Columbia elections would be something else again. In that largely industrial province, the one thing that has kept John Hart's coalition Government together for four years is an admitted fear of the CCF-a fear so real that the coalition has fought socialism with socialism's weapons. The coalition has, for example, embarked on a program of public ownership of public utilities...
...made one good strike in Manitoba, but it petered out in the late...
...Army took another step in retreat from Canada's subArctic. To Winnipeg from Churchill, Manitoba's port on Hudson Bay, chugged a trainload of some 200 Army engineers, quartermasters, signal men and maintenance men. They had been holed up in dreary, chilly U.S. outposts in the far north for so long (some of them for two years) that they could be forgiven for chalking on the sides of their U.S. Pullmans: "Back To God's Country...