[3] He married Jennie Brow on April 14, 1946 at Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church in Brooklands, Manitoba.
Juba worked in odd jobs for several years and started two small businesses before he was twenty-one: Weston Builders Ltd. and S.N.
He was largely unsuccessful as a businessman until 1945, when he started a wholesale distributing firm called Keystone Supply Ltd, which would make him wealthy.
He ran as an independent candidate in Winnipeg North Centre in the June 1949 Canadian federal election, against rising CCF star Stanley Knowles.
In the 1949 Manitoba general election in November, Juba ran in the riding of Winnipeg Centre as an Independent Liberal, supporting the coalition government of Douglas Lloyd Campbell.
Juba was also re-elected as an MLA in the provincial election of 1958,[1] this time defeating CCF candidate Art Coulter in the redistributed, single-member riding of Logan.
His 1956 win came,[2] after a campaign in which he referred to Sharpe as Premier Campbell's "trained seal", and promised to fight harder for the city's fair share of provincial revenues.
One local newspaper described the result as a "big upset", and provincial CCF leader Lloyd Stinson later called it "a pretty shocking experience for South Winnipeg".
Though he presented himself as a spokesman for marginalized groups in the city's north end, he did not adhere to social democracy and often had a difficult relationship with the CCF and its successor, the NDP.
He convinced the NDP government led by Edward Schreyer to grant direct mayoral elections in the unified city.
He was opposed by the city's right-wing Independent Citizens' Election Committee during the 1970s, and frequently clashed with ICEC leader and Deputy Mayor Bernie Wolfe.
While Juba was usually an ally of NDP Premier Edward Schreyer in the 1970s, he also frequently clashed with ministers such as Russell Doern over the allocation of provincial resources.
ICEC opponent Robert Steen was able to win a narrow victory in the election which followed, primarily with support from Juba's north-end base.
Juba made another unexpected foray into electoral politics in the provincial election of 1981, running as an independent candidate in his old riding of Logan.