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...never had it so good. All told, the deals come to between 337 million and 437 million bushels and as much as $860 million in payments spread over several years. By next July 1, when the final checks for 1963 wheat are mailed out, farmers in the province of Saskatchewan alone will have received $448 million from all sources for their crop. Land values on the prairies are soaring out of sight, as U.S. farmers from Montana and North Dakota hurry across the border to get in on the bounty. One farmer in Alberta refused to deliver...
...Cabinet, Pearson hopes to ameliorate the nation's decisive biculture problems. The six ministers from Montreal, the three from Toronto, and the two from Vancouver show that Pearson has given adequate representation to the urban industrial areas. And each of the provinces, with the exception of all-Tory Saskatchewan, will have at least one voice in the Cabinet...
Prime Minister Diefenbaker's stronghold in the Prairie Provinces remained loyal to their benefactor. All of Saskatchewan's 17 seats went to the P.C.'s for the first time in history. Diefenbaker retained his own riding of Prince Albert. Liberal Hazen Argue suffered a surprise upset in his riding of Assiniboia...
...Democratic Party, under the leadership of T. C. Douglas, former Premier of Saskatchewan, has little hope of making any inroads in conservative Quebec. The N.D.P. has none of the ethnic appeal of either the Liberal or Socred parties, an appeal so essential in French Canada. The socialists find most of their support in the labor and agrarian movements, largely concentrated in the provinces of Ontario and Saskatchewan...
...hero: "Hello, Myra? I saw your picture in the Register this afternoon and I just couldn't wait to call you up. Do you remember about two years ago, when you went cave-crawling in Saskatchewan, one of the girls with you, Lisa Urdlu? Well, Lisa lives around the corner from me and told me to be sure and look you up this fall and say Hi and I'm usually terrible about making these contacts but I'd just thought I'd call...