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...five straight sittings the House of Commons had irritably talked about the nation's manpower, given no thought to women. Finally a woman had heard enough about men. The member for North Battle-ford, Saskatchewan, Mrs. Dorise Neilsen, had a point and a question...
...what pleased Liberals most was that tough Jimmy Gardiner had forged a potent political weapon. In Gardiner's own farmer-dominated Saskatchewan the up-&-coming Socialist C.C.F., which both Liberals and Conservatives mortally hate and fear, has been winning many a convert among the disgruntled. Minister Gardiner's bacon deal might help stem the Left-wing tide in the part of the Dominion where it flows highest...
...From the Saskatchewan prairies came doughty, onetime Baptist Minister Tommy Clement Douglas, who knows how to talk to farmers. His job is to become the first C.C.F. premier of Saskatchewan...
Paul Ausborn bought a farm in Saskatchewan. He tried to forget politics, but what he had learned in Germany haunted him. When Hitler came into power, Ausborn sold his farm, went to Winnipeg and devoted all his time to organizing an anti-Nazi movement among Canadians of German descent. For a while he was successful. Then the German Consulate organized a Bund in Winnipeg and financed a violent Nazi newspaper. Ausborn was beaten up by Bundist thugs. Once he made an effigial tombstone for Hitler, which was to be carried in a May Day parade. Police made him take...
...epidemic of encephalitis which broke out in 1941 in North Dakota, Minnesota, Manitoba and Saskatchewan the 2,792 cases were mainly among farmers and others who handle horses. About 12% of the victims died. Many others were left with damaged minds and spastic muscles since encephalitis-like poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis)-primarily attacks the nervous system...