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Author : T. C. (Thomas Clement) Douglas
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 9780888942623
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Tommy Douglas Speaks written by T. C. (Thomas Clement) Douglas and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Clement Douglas
Publisher : Lantzville, B.C. : Oolichan Books
ISBN 13 : 9780889820227
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Tommy Douglas Speaks written by Thomas Clement Douglas and published by Lantzville, B.C. : Oolichan Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dave Margoshes
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459726111
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Tommy Douglas written by Dave Margoshes and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 17 years he was premier of Saskatchewan, Tommy Douglas changed the face of his province. He then served for 10 years as first leader of the federal New Democratic Party. Today he is recognized as the "father of medicare." In 2004, CBC TV viewers voted him the "Greatest Canadian."
Author : Walter Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552784594
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (845 download)
Download or read book The Life and Political Times of Tommy Douglas written by Walter Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vision and eloquence, two qualities valued in a political leader, were what Tommy Douglas was all about. Social policies we take for granted today -- Medicare, a Canada-wide pension plan, bargaining rights for civil servants, a Wheat Board to protect farmers -- were first advocated by Douglas. Medicare, his finest achievement, was first wrestled into place in Saskatchewan, and finally embraced by all of Canada.Tommy Douglas was a canny politician, but he never lost sight of his principles. He told his own party that, whenever it came up with a good idea like Medicare, political opponents were bound to take over. But that didn't matter to him. What mattered was that the ideas took root, to benefit every Canadian. Walter Stewart has written a passionate, clear-sighted biography of one of Canada's pre-eminent political trailblazers.
Author : Vincent Lam
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143180436
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Extraordinary Canadians: Tommy Douglas written by Vincent Lam and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once voted the greatest Canadian of all time, Tommy Douglas was a prairie politician who believed in democratic socialism, the crucial role of civil rights, and the great potential of cooperation for the common good. He is best known as the “Father of Medicare.” Born in 1904, Douglas was a championship boxer and a Baptist minister who later exchanged his pulpit for a political platform. A powerful orator and tireless activist, he sat first as a federal MP and then served for 17 years as premier of Saskatchewan, where he introduced the universal health-insurance system that would eventually be adopted across Canada. As leader of the national NDP, he was a staunch advocate of programs such as the Canada Pension Plan and was often the conscience of Parliament on matters of civil liberties. In the process, he made democratic socialism a part of mainstream Canadian political life. Giller Prize–winning author Vincent Lam, an emergency physician who works on the front lines of the health-care system, brings a novelist's eye to the life of one of Canada's greats.
Author : Thomas Clement Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Tommy Douglas Talks about Energy and You. (Videocassette) written by Thomas Clement Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tommy Douglas, M.P. talks about energy in general, and the development of the oil industry in Canada in particular. Topics raised include: running out of hydrocarbon fuel in 35-40 years; the partition of Canada into two oil markets during the Diefenbaker years; the plea for a national corporation to develop the Athabasca Tar Sands, and the danger of depending on foreign imports for oil. This program is an excerpt from the Conference, in which Mr. Douglas addressed the delegates.-
Author : Doris French Shackleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Tommy Douglas written by Doris French Shackleton and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis Gruending
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
ISBN 13 : 9781550417524
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Great Canadian Speeches written by Dennis Gruending and published by Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the most powerful and moving oratory that Canada has to offer. Throughout history, men and women of great eloquence have persuaded their contemporaries to build nations, to make war and create peace, to sway judges and juries, to celebrate the accomplishments of the living, and to mourn for the dead. Canada has had more than its share of great orators, individuals who have used their rhetorical powers to explore important issues faced by our nation: Confederation, relations between peoples, human rights, the economy, culture, our international relationships, particularly with the United States, but also our role in the larger and developing world. Great Canadian Speeches is a thought-provoking collection of the finest speeches in Canadian history, among them: Sir John A. MacDonald making a case for Confederation, while silver-tongued Joseph Howe argues against it; Louis Riel pleading his case to a Regina jury in 1885; Nellie McClung demanding the vote for women; Dr. Norman Bethune urging Canadians to support the Republican cause in Spain; Pierre Trudeau and Rene Levesque facing off in the 1980 Quebec referendum; Thomas Homer-Dixon pondering Canada's future in an increasingly unstable world. Great Canadian Speeches is an eminently readable, thought-provoking oratory for anyone who treasures our country's history and literature.
Author : Gordon L. Heath
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630877840
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Baptists and Public Life in Canada written by Gordon L. Heath and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public discussion about the relationship between religion and public life in Canada can be heated at times, and scholars have recently focused on the historical study of the many expressions of this relationship. The experience of Canada's smaller Protestant Christian groups, however, has remained largely unexplored. This is particularly true of Canada's Baptists. This volume, the first produced by the Canadian Baptist Historical Society, explores the connections between Baptist faith and Baptist activity in the public domain, and expands the focus of the existing scholarship to include a wide range of Canadian Baptist beliefs, attitudes, perspectives, and actions related to the relationship between Baptist faith and practice and public life.
Author : Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487504977
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book From Seminary to University written by Aaron W. Hughes and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Seminary to University is the first historical, social, political, and institutional examination of how religion is taught in Canada.
Author : Leo Heaps
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550283532
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (835 download)
Download or read book Our Canada written by Leo Heaps and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface Acknowledgements PART 1: The Pioneers A Note on the Biographies J.S. Woodsworth Leo Heaps A.A. Heaps Leo Heaps M.J. Coldwell David Heaps Tommy Douglas Pierre Berton
Author : Jack Layton
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771046162
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Speaking Out Louder written by Jack Layton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book written by Jack Layton (1950-2011) on his political life and vision, this is the former NDP leader's passionate call to action and will inspire all Canadians to embrace a better future. On August 22, 2011, Jack Layton, Official Opposition Leader, died as he lived, with dignity, bestowing to his country a message of hope. Canada was in mourning and within hours of his death, tens of thousands of Canadians -- from NDP supporters to political opponents -- paid tribute to the man and his legacy through public vigils, memorials, and expressions of grief. Originally published in 2006, Speaking Out Louder represents Layton's "blueprint for Canada" Highly acclaimed and powerfully written, this book captures Jack Layton's political vision and exemplifies the optimism that marked his life's work. In it he shares personal stories and fascinating, behind-the-scenes details of his career in national politics and talks about the big issues (poverty, AIDS and healthcare, childcare, housing, education) and the ideas that work for Canadians.
Author : Charlotte Gray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476784698
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Promise of Canada written by Charlotte Gray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a Canadian? What great ideas have changed our country? An award-winning writer casts her eye over our nation’s history, highlighting some of our most important stories. From the acclaimed historian Charlotte Gray comes a richly rewarding book about what it means to be Canadian. Readers already know Gray as an award-winning biographer, a writer who has brilliantly captured significant individuals and dramatic moments in our history. Now, in The Promise of Canada, she weaves together masterful portraits of nine influential Canadians, creating a unique history of our country. What do these people—from George-Étienne Cartier and Emily Carr to Tommy Douglas, Margaret Atwood, and Elijah Harper—have in common? Each, according to Charlotte Gray, has left an indelible mark on Canada. Deliberately avoiding a top-down approach to history, Gray has chosen Canadians—some well-known, others less so—whose ideas, she argues, have become part of our collective conversation about who we are as a people. She also highlights many other Canadians from all walks of life who have added to the ongoing debate, showing how our country has reinvented itself in every generation since Confederation, while at the same time holding to certain central beliefs. Beautifully illustrated with evocative black-and-white historical images and colorful artistic visions, and written in an engaging style, The Promise of Canada is a fresh, thoughtful, and inspiring view of our historical journey. Opening doors into our past, present, and future with this masterful work, Charlotte Gray makes Canada’s history come alive and challenges us to envision the country we want to live in.
Author : Jim William Warren
Publisher : Coteau Books
ISBN 13 : 9781550503357
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)
Download or read book On the Side of the People written by Jim William Warren and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of working people in Saskatchewan, from the mid-1800s to the present, in a handsome coffee-table format, including numerous historical photos of the personalities and events that bring it to life. This book is created for the working people that it celebrates. In a plain-spoken and engaging narrative style, it captures the events and the personalities that shaped the working people of Saskatchewan, and the life of the province that those workers built. Jim Warren tells the fascinating tale of jobs, working conditions, and the attempts to effect meaningful changes in the condition of workers' lives. Starting with the Fur Trade period, and moving through the arrival of the railroad brotherhoods, the emergence of the craft unions, two world wars, modernization, and into the present age, Working in Saskatchewan shows the evolution of the work force, and the relationship between that work force and both private and public sector employers. The book wraps up with a short chapter on the imagined future of labour in the province, in the voices of a series of speakers ranging from former Premier Allan Blakeney to ordinary workers on the floor of a recent sfl convention. Working in Saskatchewan also includes a number of features that will make it even more useful for private study or school work. Two comprehensive indexes detail the chief characters who played a role in the development of the labour movement, and a list of events and important topics. A series of informational appendices present statistical information relating to the Saskatchewan labour force - size of the organized and unorganized labour force, number of women in the work force, etc. There will also be ahelpful glossary of the acronyms and abbreviations that characterize written or oral discussions about labour, and a geneology of labour which charts the rise and growth of certain unions and their transformation into, or absorption by, others.
Author : Frances W. Kaye
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1897425988
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Goodlands written by Frances W. Kaye and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amer-European settlement of the Great Plains transformed bountiful Native soil into pasture and cropland, distorting the prairie ecosystem as it was understood and used by the peoples who originally populated the land. Settlers justified this transformation with the unexamined premise of deficiency, according to which the Great Plains region was inadequate in flora and fauna and the region lacking in modern civilization. Drawing on history, sociology, art, and economic theory, Frances W. Kaye counters the argument of deficiency, pointing out that, in its original ecological state, no region can possibly be incomplete. Goodlands examines the settlers' misguided theory, discussing the ideas that shaped its implementation, the forces that resisted it, and Indigenous ideologies about what it meant to make good use of the land. By suggesting methods for redeveloping the Great Plains that are founded on native cultural values, Goodlands serves the region in the context of a changing globe."--Publisher's website.
Author : Barry L. Strayer
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 0888646496
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Canada's Constitutional Revolution written by Barry L. Strayer and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Honourable Barry L. Strayer’s political memoir on Canadian constitutional reform, 1960–1982.
Author : Dale Eisler
Publisher : University of Regina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889771949
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)
Download or read book False Expectations written by Dale Eisler and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Myth has played an important and ongoing role in the development of Saskatchewan's political economy. First, during the time of the National Policy, Saskatchewan was portrayed to immigrants as a promised land. This period served as the psychological and economic foundation for the provice. When belief in Saskatchewan as a promised land was shattered by the Great Depression and Dirty Thirties, the myth was reconstituted through the inspiration of the social gospel. It was then politically reinvigorated in the meaning of medicare and has been expressed in recent decades through the competing visions for economic development. Through all these eras, no matter what the tides of politics, there remained one constant--the singular, collective idea that Saskatchewan was a special place with unrealized potential. The challenge for the public dialogue of Saskatchewan, as the province enters its second century, is to not replay the mistakes of the past. Saskatchewan people must recognize the role that myth has played, and must continue to play, in the life of the province. But, at the same time, they must differentiate it from reality by understanding the power of myth as a force for progress and its potential to create false expectations."--pub. desc.
