Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
5.247:

> You can you jump on
>> highway 4 to Swift Current, or go up through Shaunavon, jump on the
>> Transcanada to just outside Swift Current then on to Success.
>
> Sounds like an interesting route!

I don't know about interesting. It's very flat in that part of the
country, the only accidents of terrain being ravines and eroded riverbeds.

Saskatchewan was the bulwark of the CCF(FLS) (Co-operative Commonwealth
Federation (Farmer-Labour-Socialist)), which eventually became the NDP in
1961, and formed the first left of centre government in North America in
1944 under Tommy Douglas.

Tommy Douglas was voted the Greatest Canadian in one of those televised
marathon national blowjobs the English feel obliged to give themselves
every now and then to reassure themselves that they can watch Three's
Company and/or Sixty Minutes and still be different from the US.

The reason he was voted as the Greatest Canadian is because his government
introduced a plan for universal health care in Canada in 1944, which was
eventually phased in for the whole country by the federal government
through a series of acts starting in 1957 and on through to 1984 (Liberal
government).

Coincidentally, an ancestor of mine invented comprehensive medical
insurance back in the 17th century in Montréal. He was a barber (and
therefore a surgeon) and for the modest sum of 100 deniers per family (or 8
sols, 4 deniers), he would perform all the arrow removals, broken bone
resetting and blood-lettings they needed during the year.

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