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    The One Big Union (OBU) was a left-wing industrial union based primarily in Western Canada. Launched formally in Calgary on June 4, 1919, the OBU, after...
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    The One Big Union is an idea originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries amongst trade unionists to unite the interests of workers and offer...
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  • One Big Union may refer to: One Big Union (concept), a concept that all workers should be organised in one union One Big Union (Canada), a trade union...
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  • known as Offshore Banking Unit One Big Union (Canada) One Big Union (concept) Operative Builders' Union, early British union federation obu, ISO 639-3 code...
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  • Jacob Penner (category One Big Union (Canada) members)
    Party of Canada and was an opponent of conscription during the Conscription crisis of 1917. Penner was active in the Canadian One Big Union movement (OBU)...
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    This is a list of banks in Canada, including chartered banks, credit unions, trusts, and other financial services companies that offer banking services...
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    Arthur "Slim" Evans (category One Big Union (Canada) members)
    Industrial Workers of the World, the One Big Union, and the Worker's Unity League. He was a member of the Communist Party of Canada. Evans was born in Toronto in...
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    Roger Ernest Bray (category One Big Union (Canada) members)
    became Vice-President of the Winnipeg Labour Council formed by the One Big Union on 5 August 1919. At his sedition trial in 1920, Bray was acquitted...
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    Robert B. Russell (category One Big Union (Canada) members)
    was later the leader of Winnipeg's One Big Union. Born in Scotland, Russell was raised in Glasgow and came to Canada in 1911. He moved to Winnipeg, and...
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    North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four...
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  • Big Five is the name colloquially given to the five largest banks that dominate the banking industry of Canada: Bank of Montreal (BMO), Scotiabank, Canadian...
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  • Becky Buhay (category One Big Union (Canada) members)
    known as Becky Buhay, was a Canadian labour activist and union organizer. She was a leader of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC), among many other left-wing...
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    employers to recognize unions, and the ongoing international revolution. The One Big Union aimed to overthrow capitalism and the Canadian state and replace...
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    One Canada Square is a skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London. It is the third tallest building in the United Kingdom at 770 feet (235 m) above ground level...
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    Canada has significant per-capita membership in credit unions, representing more than a third of the working-age population. Credit union membership is...
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    Toronto (redirect from Toronto, Canada)
    Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the...
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  • Fred W. Thompson (category One Big Union (Canada) members)
    Party of Canada as a teenager during World War I. He was then an iterant worker and traveled throughout Canada. In 1920, he joined the One Big Union, a syndicalist...
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  • Jan Lakeman (category One Big Union (Canada) members)
    became active in his railway workers union, the One Big Union, the Canadian Labour Party and the Communist Party of Canada. He was the first leader of the...
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  • Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP; French: Syndicat canadien des communications, de l'énergie et du papier [SCEP]) was a largely private-sector labour union with...
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    Championship titles. Canada is one of the most successful national ice hockey teams in the world and a member of the so-called "Big Six", the unofficial...
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    times between 1976 and 1991. Only one team outside of the Big Six, West Germany, was ever allowed to compete in the Canada Cup; this occurred in 1984 when...
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    credit union than with a big bank. "Natural-person credit unions" (also called "retail credit unions" or "consumer credit unions") serve individuals, as...
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  • and General Workers Union of Canada, commonly known as the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), was one of Canada's largest labour unions. In 2013, it merged...
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  • Rugby Football Union or "Big Four" (founded in 1907) and the Western Interprovincial Football Union (WIFU) (founded in March 1936). The Big Four was renamed...
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    of the One Big Union (Canada), Defendant in the Winnipeg General Strike Trial, Mayor of Burnaby, BC. Issac Rab – active in Typographers Union as well...
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  • Big Four or Big 4 may refer to: Big Four accounting firms: Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, PwC Big Four (airlines) in the U.S. in the 20th century: American...
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  • Store Closing in Canada Is a Call to Arms". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 6, 2017. "Wal-Mart wins big union battle". Archived...
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    cross the U.S.–Canada border that do not have border inspection services, but where travelers are legally allowed to cross the border in one or both directions...
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    Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution. In the...
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    Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, doing business as CPKC (known as Canadian Pacific Railway Limited until 2023), is a Canadian railway holding company...
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