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Tommy Douglas plays golf for the greater good. Part of Tommy's avocation is giving back to the community. The president and owner of Douglas Insurance Services, Inc. developed his service skills by… ...
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.
The role model is Tommy Douglas. Yes, he was a socialist, a label Harris has been running from for as long as she’s been in politics. But Douglas is also remembered as one of his country’s ...
"They've kept it very low profile," Ms. MacKinnon tells me. ... Ms. MacKinnon, a cabinet minister in Saskatchewan during the 1990s, is in the Tommy Douglas mould.
How Tommy Douglas honed his political skills behind the pulpit of a small-town church Even before his political career began, Tommy Douglas—who immigrated to Canada from Scotland as a child, and ...
Kiefer Sutherland on Monday told Ontario political leader Doug Ford to stop invoking the name of his grandfather, Tommy Douglas, for political purposes. “I personally find your comparison of ...
TORONTO - Tommy Douglas, the former Saskatchewan premier who is credited with being the founding father of Canada's health-care system, was named Monday night as the winner in the CBC's Greatest ...
Tommy Douglas By Vincent Lam. Penguin Canada, 235 pp, hardcover. With NDP Leader Jack Layton stirring up excitement across the country, there’s no better time to review the roots of his party.
Shirley Douglas, the Canadian activist and actress, mother to actor Kiefer Sutherland and daughter of Canada medicare founder Tommy Douglas, died Sunday. She was 86.