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...years ago, the orthodox Sommerfield group in the Red River Valley area decided that the time had come to move. Small groups in Saskatchewan and British Columbia joined them. They auctioned off their lands and farm equipment to other Mennonites. They advertised for creditors they might have overlooked, checked with the Income Tax Department on back taxes they might still owe. Then they packed...
Canada's high-flying socialist party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, last week hit a line squall: the provincial election in Saskatchewan. When the storm had passed, the Dominion's only CCF government was still flying, but it had been badly jolted. As a national party, the CCF had lost some of the cockiness that grew out of last month's impressive gains in British Columbia and Ontario (TIME, June...
Ever since 1944, when a former Baptist minister named Tommy C. Douglas led the CCF in a rout of the old-line parties in Saskatchewan, the province had been the CCF's show window. On display were a batch of socialist schemes: government insurance policies, socialized shoe and brick factories, a government-owned woolen mill. Government marketing boards kept close tabs on timber, fur and fish, regulated prices and methods of sale...
Elsewhere in Ontario and in two other Canadian provinces, most voters were better informed than Father Leguerrier. Campaigns were already under way in Saskatchewan (election: June 24) and in New Brunswick (June 28). Quebec and Alberta citizens, promised an election this summer, were still waiting for their premiers to name...
...Hyde Park Agreement which Canada wanted continued into the years of peace (TIME, Feb. 9). On Capitol Hill, Nebraska's Senator Kenneth Wherry and his Small Business Committee had a staff of clerks digging through the files for a full-dress investigation, some time soon. On Parliament Hill, Saskatchewan's CCFer Thomas John Bentley asked that the Secretary of State for External Affairs tell the House of Commons all there was to tell about Hyde Park...