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Modern-day politicians should be more like Douglas

Vincent Lam, award-winning author of Tommy Douglas, sheds some new light on the father of medicare, who traded in boxing and the pulpit for politics.

Former NDP leader Tommy Douglas, considered the country's father of universal health care, was a Scottish-born Prairie politician, a Baptist minister, a champion boxer, a visionary, a tireless activist, and a fiery orator who fought tooth and nail for the issues he believed in, something lac...

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