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...Rodrigue Villeneuve was one of a shoemaker's family of six. Born in Montreal, he was ordained a priest at 23. For the next 23 years he taught philosophy, morals, liturgy and canon law at the University of Ottawa. Then in 1930 he was named Bishop of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan. A year and a half later he was made Archbishop of Quebec; hardly more than a year after that, a Cardinal. Never in Canadian ecclesiastical history had anyone risen from priest to Cardinal so fast...
...Saskatchewan last week taxpayers poured into municipal offices and queued up before wickets to fork over their $5. They were getting under the wire with payment of the new head tax levied by the CCF for the first Government-controlled hospitalization plan in North America. Maximum tax: $30 a family a year. Those who failed to pay faced a 10% surtax and a $25 fine. All told, the CCF collected about $2,000,000. That, plus the $1,000,000 coming from other Government revenue, was considerably short of the $4,500,000 a year the plan is expected...
...doctor's recommendation, paid-up members will be admitted to any Saskatchewan hospital ward for at least 21 days, and will get free meals, drugs, X rays and blood tests. The Government will pay the hospital $4.50 a day for ward patients, or the same amount toward the cost of a private room...
...hospitalization plan is the CCF's second major step toward socialized medicine. On Jan. 1, 1945, it instituted free hospital and medical care for some 25,000 old-age pensioners, the blind, orphans, those receiving mothers' allowance and all their dependents. Now Saskatchewan hopes to work out a Government plan to pay medical bills...
...they left Canada's width and plenty? There were almost as many reasons as there were returning brides, but atop the list were 1) too few houses, and 2) too many in-laws. Mrs. Margaret Bann, 26, tried three months in Saskatchewan, quit it and her husband because "the home he said was waiting for me turned out to be a one-room shack." Some complained of drinking or faithless husbands, and of in-laws who did not like children...