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...years Alberta has been the only one of Canada's nine provinces to sanction sterilization of mental defectives. Last week neighboring Saskatchewan was debating whether it should follow suit. The controversy was touched off by a report on mental ills by Dr. C. M. Hincks, general director of the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene...
...Saskatchewan's Premier and Health Minister Tommy Douglas cautioned that the report was not necessarily Saskatchewan government policy...
...greying provincial leader Seymour James Farmer had raised the banner of a "bold and practical people's program," had charged that the Garson coalition was the "tool of big business." What Manitoba needed, he cried, was a socialist regime like Saskatchewan's. Saskatchewan's CCF Premier Thomas C. Douglas bounded over the border with four of his Cabinet ministers and stumped around rural Manitoba to spread the word...
...Party's third straight setback since it swept Saskatchewan a year and a half ago.* Within a matter of days, it would have two more chances-in Nova Scotia (prospects: dim) Oct. 23, in British Columbia (prospects: fair) Oct. 25. If it failed again, it would surely be time for Canada's socialists to stand off and take a long, severe look at themselves...
...Canadian Pacific and the Hud son's Bay Co., both holders of vast mineral rights in Saskatchewan, the mineral-tax law was virtually "confiscatory." The Dominion Loan & Mortgage challenge was almost surely a direct result of the fact that this year Saskatchewan's crop is poor...