Television program named Tommy Douglas "The Greatest Canadian", based on a Canada-wide, viewer-supported survey. Thomas Clement Douglas was born in 1904 in...
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national politics. Douglas was born April 2, 1934, in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, the daughter of Irma May (née Dempsey; 1911–1995) and Tommy Douglas (1904–1986)...
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Thomas Douglas (American judge) (1790–1855), Florida Supreme Court justice Tom Douglas (chef) (born 1958), American chef, restaurateur and writer Tommy Douglas...
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Canadian actors Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas, and great-granddaughter of Canadian politician Tommy Douglas. She has an older half sister named Michelle...
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the corrupt officials is that Dawson might talk, so police officers Tommy Douglas (Tony Mooney) and Bob Craven (Sean Harris) finish torturing Dunford...
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principles, policies and structures, the New Democratic Party was born, and Tommy Douglas, the long-time CCF Premier of Saskatchewan, was elected as its first...
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to 2012. It was named after the city of Burnaby, as well as Douglas Road and Tommy Douglas, an MP who represented the area in the 1960s. This electoral...
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Tommy Douglas (January 9, 1906 – March 9, 1965) was an American jazz clarinetist, bandleader, and reed instrumentalist. Douglas was born in Eskridge,...
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Limited. ISBN 978-0-7737-3232-2. Stewart, Walter (2003). Tommy: the life and politics of Tommy Douglas. Toronto: McArthur & Company. ISBN 978-1-55278-382-5...
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presented to Tommy Douglas was put on auction in Ontario as part of a larger collection of Douglas artifacts. Douglas's daughter, Shirley Douglas, purchased...
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Scottish-born Canadian politician and former Premier of Saskatchewan Tommy Douglas, who is widely credited for bringing universal health care to Canada...
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on CBC television's The Greatest Canadian series as the advocate for Tommy Douglas, former Saskatchewan premier and regarded as Canada's "Father of Medicare"...
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response was criticized by prominent politicians such as René Lévesque and Tommy Douglas. After the crisis, movements that pushed for electoral votes as a means...
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bitterness around the Hazen-Douglas contest. Two days after the end of the NDP's 1961 founding convention, Tommy Douglas wrote a letter to Sophie Lewis...
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in Canada. Medicare is the country's publicly funded health system. Tommy Douglas championed public health insurance as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944...
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Recollections of T.C. Douglas. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press. pp. 6–7. ISBN 978-0-88864-070-3. Bryan Eneas. "Tommy Douglas honoured as person...
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evening the winner from more than 1.2 million votes was revealed to be Tommy Douglas. The series was inspired by the BBC production the Great Britons and...
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supported one Canada. On the left, former long-time Premier of Saskatchewan Tommy Douglas led the New Democratic Party, but once again failed to make the electoral...
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Tommy Douglas Collegiate Institute is a high school located in the Blairmore Suburban Centre district of western Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, serving students...
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Co. Ltd. ISBN 0-7737-3232-2. Stewart, Walter (2003). Tommy: the life and politics of Tommy Douglas. Toronto: McArthur & Company. ISBN 1-55278-382-0. Young...
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five-day-long convention, the New Democratic Party (NDP) was born and Tommy Douglas was elected its first leader. Once the NDP was formed, the New Party...
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month for all those 70 years old and over. The New Democratic Party of Tommy Douglas, campaigning under the slogan, "Fed up? Speak up! Vote for the New Democrats...
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Musical. In 2006, Therriault portrayed Tommy Douglas in the CBC Television special Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story. He was subsequently nominated...
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Tommy Douglas Secondary School (TDSS) is a secondary education facility in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada that opened on 3 February 2015. It is named after...
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Woodrow Lloyd (section Douglas government (1944–61))
Assembly of Saskatchewan in 1944. He became an instrumental figure in Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government between 1944 and 1961...
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Prairie Giant (redirect from Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story)
Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story is a CBC Television miniseries first aired in two consecutive parts on March 12 and March 13, 2006. It dramatizes...
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story first told by Clarence Gillis, and later and most famously by Tommy Douglas, leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)...
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provincial budget to Douglas's fiscal record. The statement included the phrase, "I knew Tommy Douglas and you Sir, are no Tommy Douglas". References to and...
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Canadian Labour Congress. The party chose longtime Premier of Saskatchewan Tommy Douglas as its first leader. The new party recovered ground lost by the CCF...
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main national opponents were PC leader Robert Stanfield and NDP leader Tommy Douglas, both popular figures who had respectively been premiers of Nova Scotia...
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