Tommy Douglas had a new vision for the role of government; he believed that it had the responsibility to improve the lives of ordinary people. In Saskatchewan people faced tough times. Farmers ...

Tommy Douglas, the father of medicare, former premier of Saskatchewan, and former leader of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) is one of my heroes. Once a month, on the fourth Friday ...

Saskatchewan doctor Socialist politician Tommy Douglas was the force behind Canada's first universal health insurance plan, enacted in Saskatchewan in 1962. Pictured here, Douglas NDP convention ...

This feature documentary traces the political career of T.C. (Tommy) Douglas, former premier of Saskatchewan and leader of the New Democratic Party, who was voted the Greatest Canadian in 2004 for ...

In Tommy Douglas and the Quest for Medicare in Canada, Gregory P. Marchildon reminds us that the gestation was long, and that, in the decades since the first experiments with publicly funded ...