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...February, the Winnipeg Free Press declared: "The men who occupy [the Appeal Court] do not have the collective energy to deal adequately with the litigation before them. Two of the judges, by reason of age and infirmity, are unable to discharge their duties ... a condition which approaches a public scandal...
Secessionist Ross urged fellow twin citizens and Northwestern Ontario to quit Ontario, to join neighboring Manitoba, whose capital, Winnipeg, is only 400 miles away. Acting Mayor J. E. Fryer thought it a good idea, cried: "The greatest frontier in Canada is being governed by people who don't know and don't care." In Port Arthur, another stouthearted Westerner, Mayor Arthur Cox, wanted Manitoba to seize all of Ontario as far east as Sudbury, 700 miles away...
Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King has no more articulate supporter for his foreign policies than George V. Ferguson, executive editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. In London with visiting Canadian newsmen, Editor Ferguson spoke bluntly via the BBC to Britons...
From the chest down, Ernie Defort, 12, of Winnipeg was two boys. Ever since he was born, Ernie had carried around a repulsive parasitic growth on his lower chest.* It consisted of two extra arms, an extra abdomen, an extra pelvis, two extra legs, an extra liver. Ernie used to have an extra pair of kidneys, but they were removed when he was two years...
Last week the delicate operation was over. It took Dr. Henry William Mayerding two hours to perform. Ernie was back at school in Winnipeg. Len was somewhere among the Mayo's pickled souvenirs...