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...Saskatchewan's Socialist government achieved a tax reduction this week. It eliminated the 2% sales tax (levied for educational purposes) on groceries, fruit, vegetables, soft drinks, candies, restaurant meals. The tax will still apply to such luxuries as whiskey and beer. The reason for the reduction: revenue from other sources (liquor sales, farm income...
...sudden revaluation of the Canadian dollar caught most capitalistic speculators unawares. But not Saskatchewan socialists. Last week CCF's Provincial Treasurer Clarence M. Fines told how the province had cleaned up close to a quarter-million dollars on revaluation...
About a year ago, Treasurer Fines had to pay off a Saskatchewan bond issue of $2,250,000. As the issue had been floated in the U.S., he had to pay in U.S. dollars, then worth 10% more than Canadian dollars. After sending the check to Saskatchewan's New York banker, Fines decided that the Canadian dollar would ultimately be worth as much as that...
...hundred years Hamilton had never such a parade of pulchritude. Everything that brassieres and ballyhoo could do had been done. There were three Miss Montreals (all wearing bathing suits their city would have banned), a Miss Saskatchewan who had come 1,700 miles escorted by a "Mountie" sergeant, a Miss Yellowknife (who got lost for several hours in Toronto) and 54 other candidates for the title of Miss Canada...
Kratz, 24, had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment. As two Mounties took him away to the penitentiary at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he too was arrogant, and contemptuous of the soft-hearted Canadians. Said he: "After a few years all will be forgiven and I'll be sent home free...