The 17-day war

Article Abstract:

Royal Canadian Army troops were dispatched in 1941 at the request of the UK government to reinforce the garrison at Hong Kong. The Japanese attacked Hong Kong on Dec 8, 1941 and the defenders held out for 17 days. Survivors of the attack spent almost four years in Japanese labor camps.

Hong Kong, World War II, 1939-1945, Military history, Canada. Royal Canadian Army

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Saskatchewan's new idea: the province that invented medicare is trying to save it

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Saskatchewan's Premier Roy Romanow began a Medicare restructuring plan in 1992, that could serve as a model for the rest of Canada. He closed 52 hospitals, increased the number of health centers, raised drug co-payment fees and eliminated service redundancy.

Management, Social policy, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs, Health care reform, Medicare, Saskatchewan, Romanow, Roy

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A decade of devastation: reminders of the Great Depression

Article Abstract:

Reflections and statistics from the Great Depression of 1929 present a basis of comparison of the current economic state of Canada.

Depressions, Economic depressions

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