Saskatchewan

Douglas. Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, was born October 20th, 1904. He was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a significant Canadian social democratic politician. He was a leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in 1942, and also was the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961. He was at the head of the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public health care (Medicare), to Canada. He passed away February 24th,…

Data Aboriginal peoples are the descendants of the original inhabitants of North America and the Canadian Constitution recognized three groups of Aboriginal people– Indians, Metis, and Inuit. The total population of Aboriginal people in Canada is approximately 1.5 million with the Indians (now refereed to as First Nations) being 57%, the Metis 33% and the Inuit about 10% of the total population of Aboriginal people. (National Aboriginal Health Organization 2003) According to the Public Health…

Canadians, as finding the funds to pay for healthcare was difficult. However, this started to change starting in the late 1940s. Tommy Douglas, the leader of the left-wing CCF party, was the Premier of Saskatchewan, and a strong supporter of socialized healthcare. Under his leadership, Saskatchewan became the first province to introduce free hospital care to its citizens. Many other provinces…

Myron himself came to Canada, along with his family from Winnebago, Iowa in 1903 to scout out better prospects in the newly expanding Saskatchewan. They all had originally come from Illinois. It was a good decision as the Freeley farm became quite a success affording James the comfort of several servants. During the interwar years the Feeley farm income was a substantial $60,000 per annum…

Canada used to be the world’s leader in the mining of uranium. They supplied the uranium to many countries, especially the United States during World War Two. The United States were creating nuclear and atomic bombs and weapons, more specifically the Manhattan Project. Canada supplied the United States military with the uranium necessary for the weapons construction. Canada refined and processed the uranium for the use of it in United States military in 1942. Uranium is a key ingredient in…

have any legitimate business operations, and were simply channels used to move investor money to Marathon and vice versa. Nudawn had actually been used to accept investor money, after Marathon had been instructed not to take any new money by the Saskatchewan Financial Securities Commission. It was also determined that loans had been made from Marathon to RJ Fast Management and personally to Ronald Fast, (that were never repaid) in excess of 1.5 million dollars (R v. Fast & Fast-Carlson, 2014…

on an issue that have not been previously considered. Thus, “helps ensure that no issue is examined from only one comparatively narrow point of view” (“Diversity In Politics”). However, many provinces in the western region, including Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia felt alienated from the rest of Canada because as stated in Creating Canada they felt that “Ottawa neither understand nor appreciates the needs and hopes of Westerners” (74). Now, as of the May 2011 election, the…

accident injuries, recreational athletes, professional athletes and competitive amateur athletes” (Saskatchewan Athletic…

in Canada and in North America. The James Smith Cree Nation is a diversion of the Cree Nation; a Cree First Nation band government. An agreement between band governments of First Nations at Fort Carlton over owned territory; current provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta (Postl et al. 2010). At the time of the treaty, the population of the James Smith Cree Nation was at about 134 members and had grown to a population of roughly 3,400 members with an estimated 1,900 members on the reserve…

lot of men even the premier of Manitoba Rodmond Roblin didn't agree that women can have the rights to vote. In 1916, Women in Canada got the right which allowed them to vote in provincial election by the new Manitoba government. Later in 1916, Saskatchewan and Alberta also gave women the right to vote in provincial election. After the Ontario and British Columbia followed those examples in 1917, Canadian government passed a law that allowed women who were British subjects over the age of 21 to…