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Dale Botting from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, interviewed by Dennis Gruending. This interview is in regards to Dale Botting's opinion of Roy Romanow personally and professionally. Copied to ACD R-15525.

Sylvia Kish interviewed by Dennis Gruending. This interview is in regards to Sylvia Kish's opinion of Roy Romanow personally and professionally. Copied to ACD r-15526.

An interview with Lorne Dietrick regarding the topics co-operative farming, government, and taxes. Copied to ACD R-15528.

Chiefly Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) speaking engagements and materials relating to his career as a journalist in Saskatchewan.

This fonds consists of records created, accumulated and used by Dennis Gruending, in his career as a writer and researcher, journalist, radio host and producer, television reporter, graduate student, federal political candidate and New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for the Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar constituency. Much of the material in the fonds relates to his work in Saskatchewan, as well as his graduate studies and career in Ottawa, Ontario.

Contents include research notes, general correspondence, transcripts, interview question sheets, sound recordings of interviews, photographs, manuscript drafts, speeches, radio broadcasts, editor and reviewer correspondence, video and audio footage of talks, interviews and appearances by Gruending on radio and television shows. Records principally relate to Gruending's books: Gringo: Poems and Journals from Latin America (Coteau Books, 1983); Emmett Hall: Establishment Radical (Macmillan of Canada, 1985 ed.); Promises to Keep: A Political Biography of Allan Blakeney (Western Producer Prairie Books, 1990); The Middle of Nowhere: Rediscovering Saskatchewan (Fifth House, 1996); Great Canadian Speeches (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2004); Truth to Power: The Journalism of a Benedictine Monk (Kingsley Publishing, 2010); Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Public Life (Kingsley, 2011); and Speeches that Changed Canada (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2018).

Also included is material related to Gruending's work with CBC radio and television, his freelance journalism in Saskatchewan, and a range of other research, writing and communications projects he has undertaken for various public officials and organizations.

The records described in 1992 consist of seven series: Emmett Hall: Establishment Radical; Promises to Keep: A Political Biography of Allan Blakeney; Speeches and Workshops; Organizations; Writing; Radio and Television Journalism; Miscellaneous. An Addendum series including CBC radio material, speeches and workshop material and poetry readings was added in 1993. Five further series were added in 2021: Graduate Studies; Political Activities; Additional Publications; Other Employment and Projects; and Photographs.

The sound recordings and photographs described in 2002 and 2003 relate to the earlier material in the fonds. A list and transcripts to interviews conducted for Promises to Keep has been added at File II.54.

Unidentified woman, possibly related to Emmett Hall, in front of house.

Painting of Emmett Hall by C. Leeper.

Item is a cartoon depicting Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau encouraging Emmett Hall on a tightrope drawn by Ted Jackman.

An interview with Emmett Hall by Dennis Gruending for his book EMMETT HALL: ESTABLISHMENT RADICAL. Hall discusses his family history, his designation as Kings council in 1935, the report of the Grain Handling and Transportation Commission, the fall of the Diefenbaker Government and natives in the medical schools. Copied to ACD R-15427.

An interview with Henry Kloppenberg by Dennis Gruending for his book EMMETT HALL: ESTABLISHMENT RADICAL. Kloppenberg discusses his time working as Hall's law clerk, the kind of person Hall was and how Hall dealt with cases. Copied to ACD R-15428.