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Big Business, Big Union, Small Town
The city fought hard to secure a big store that draws in people from the surrounding towns – they have a Wal-Mart. But the community and the Wal-Mart workers now find themselves the focus of a battle between two titans. Big Business, Big Union, Small Town looks at what the local Wal-Mart really means in…
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Black Tuesday
On September 29, 1931, between 300 and 400 miners and their wives from the Bienfait area coal mines drove to Estevan, Saskatchewan, to march in protest of their working and living conditions and the refusal of management to acknowledge their newly formed union. The peaceful protest and show of solidarity by the miners escalated into…
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Two Gun Cohen
A truant cockney Jew, Morris Cohen was sent to Saskatchewan Canada, He learned to gamble and shoot, and began a lifelong friendship with the Chinese people. A man looking for somewhere to belong, he finally found a great man to follow, the founder of modern China, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. Morris Cohen was known as a…