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Thus last week when a motion to review the Regulations reached the floor of Ottawa's House of Commons, galleryites pricked up their ears, prophesied a fight. They were not disappointed. In two of the hottest sessions in recent history they saw a no-holds-barred battle between Canada's first and only woman M.P., Mrs. Dorise Nielsen, and wily oldstager Ernest Lapointe, present Minister of Justice, whose job it is to administer the Regulations...
When she appeared last year in the pleasant suavity of Ottawa, Mrs. Nielsen was an unpleasant reminder that all is not well on the farms of Canada's great West. She looked exactly like what she was, the wife of a poor farmer, tired, badly dressed, with broken nails and an ill-fitting set of store teeth. As an M.P. she has spruced up considerably, but keeps her tart oratorical ability. Typical was her maiden speech: "I feel very much qualified to speak upon this question of relief because for three years I have lived upon relief...
...Surgeons told him that if it was not amputated he would die. Stubborn Fred Banting said, "I'm going to keep that arm," and he did. When World War II broke, he was too old to fight but he wanted to help. Turning up in Ottawa in dowdy clothes spotted by cigaret ashes, he promoted a laboratory for aviation research. Rumor had it that he was working on ways to prevent "blackouts" (brief losses of consciousness) in fighter pilots pulling out of steep dives. It was in connection with this work that he was flying to England...
...relaxed. Squadron Leader von Werra opened a window, jumped out, struck westward through the woods to a highway. His facile French got him a ride from a French-Canadian who could not see the German tunic under his passenger's civilian greatcoat. Soon Franz von Werra was in Ottawa. There he begged a road map from a filling station, hitched a ride to somnolent Prescott. All that lay between him and freedom was the broad St. Lawrence. But at that point the river was not frozen over. After dark Werra stole a rowboat, paddled across to Ogdensburg...
...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...