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...committee room of the huge, grey stone House of Commons in Ottawa last week the nine Provincial Premiers of Canada met with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his Cabinet to confer on the Rowell-Sirois Report. The Premiers of Canada's five poor provinces (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island) were generally in favor of it. Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of French-speaking Quebec was not ready to commit himself, but would talk. Three Premiers were flatly opposed: Ontario's florid Mitchell Hepburn, Alberta's vast shiny William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, British...
...Canada [TIME, Sept. 23] belongs to the same class as the young Americans who say there are no opportunities in the U. S. . . . That you have to go to New York or London if you want to reach the top, is equally true whether you live in Yorkshire, Manitoba, Texas or Patagonia. The larger centres offer the biggest opportunities...
Late Monday night Houde found out. He was taken into custody and interned, presumably for the duration of the war. Too Much. Across the flat, silky wheatlands of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the great combines purred last week, cutting and threshing wheat. Every grain the machines gathered was a problem. Canada's wheat economy is built on an average annual production of 350,000,000 bushels, of which the greatest part was formerly shipped to Britain. Of that Britain marketed a large amount. Blitzkrieg and the fear of helping the enemy has knocked that market out. Last year Canada...
...GRIERSON Winnipeg, Manitoba...
...Bold Step." Ten years ago, 59-year-old Dr. John Ralston Davidson, former associate professor of medicine at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, set up a small laboratory in his cellar, to continue his experiments on mouse cancer...