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Blog
Dennis Gruending
| The Liberals are promising pharmacare but not a universal program. Let's look to the wisdom of medicare founders T.C. Douglas and Emmett Hall on how to proceed. |
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Blog
Ed Finn
| Medicare originated at the provincial, not federal level -- in Saskatchewan. So could the extension of public health care to include prescription drugs, and even dental and vision coverage. |
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Blog
Doreen Nicoll
| Tommy Douglas is very much alive in Dan Ebbs play "In This Corner: Eight Rounds with Tommy Douglas." |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The Wilson Center is tied closely to the U.S. government and housed in the Ronald Reagan Building. As a former Conservative Party leader, Rona Ambrose should feel right at home there. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Sound, popular, progressive legislation is precisely the "nightmare" the full-blown anti-NDP campaign now under way in Alberta is designed to forestall. |
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Mimi Williams
| Had the NDP not veered to the right in an attempt to capture votes, it might have been able to retain its principles while finally grasping power. |
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Michael Laxer
| While it took the NDP many years to transition to a fully Blairite party one can only hope the road back to the left takes considerably less time than it did for Labour. |
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Blog
Ryan Donnelly
| Tom Mulcair and the NDP have stood up against Harper's Bill C-51. With support for the bill declining, does this mean support for the NDP is increasing? |
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Blog
Rod Mickleburgh
| Rod Mickleburgh reflects on a forgotten and endearing nugget of Canadian history: a one-term NDP politician (and uncle) who almost got a national holiday in February -- 18 years ahead of his time. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| We may have come from all over to Western Canada, but after a generation or two we became Scots without even realizing it. |
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Columnists
Thomas Ponniah
| In a time when the Harper government is cutting funding to Canada's health-care system -- and by extension transforming the national identity -- citizens need to be re-introduced to Tommy Douglas. |
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News
Megan Leslie
| NDP MP Megan Leslie to rabble columnist Murray Dobbin: The NDP has got big ideas, and we're proud of them! |
