Volume 37#06

July 17 – July 30, 2012

Both David McLaughlin and Anestis Karagiannidis were awarded Large Gold Medals at EFIRO 2024. (Picture originally posted on the RPSC website.)

Douglas stamp marks nation’s health care shift

Tommy Douglas, the person best associated with Medicare and a person voted the Greatest Canadian by CBC viewers in 2004, is the subject of a new stamp issue. As a young boy Douglas developed an infection that would have cost him his leg. He was able to receive medical treatment only after his father met a surgeon who agreed to treat him in order to teach students. Later in life he became a Baptist preacher in Weybourn, Sask. Always a believer in social activism, he also became involved in politics. Continue reading →

Features

Royal Roundup - Sights from Edmonton

Page 10

Grey Cup Centenary - CFL greats, memorable moments depicted on new stamps

Page 10

Regulars

Are you buying or selling?

Page 19

Check out the shows in your area

Page 23

Editorial

Universal health care a newer, but defining Canadian detail

That short history lesson reminds us that something we have come to take for granted really is quite a recent innovation. So it is nice to see a stamp that reminds us that this part of our identity is so very new; much newer than Confederation. I often joke that Canadians often define themselves in two ways: one, that they have universal health care, and two, that they are not residents of the United States. If that’s the case, these stamps are very truly Canadian.

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By Bret Evans