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University of Regina
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The University of Regina is a public research university located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It became a university in 1974. The University of Regina has an enrollment of over 12,000 full, the universitys student newspaper, The Carillon, is a member of CUP. In 2016, the University of Regina was ranked as one of the top 150 universities under 50 years old worldwide in the Times Higher Education world university rankings, the University of Regina is a non-denominational university, which grew out of Regina College, founded in 1911. James Henry Puntin designed several buildings on campus including, Regina Methodist College, East & West Towers, Ladies Residence, Gymnasium, Power Plant, in 1928, Darke Hall was built on College Avenue, escribed. as an admirable theatre, one which few cities can rival. In 1934 Regina College became part of the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Saskatchewan a single, public provincial university created in 1907 was modeled on the American state university, with an emphasis on extension work and applied research. The president, appointed by the board, was to provide a link between the 2 bodies and to perform institutional leadership, in the early part of this century, professional education expanded beyond the traditional fields of theology, law and medicine. Graduate training based on the German-inspired American model of specialized course work, Regina College continued as a Junior College until 1959, when it received full degree-granting status as a second campus of the University of Saskatchewan. It accordingly fully surrendered Regina College to the University of Saskatchewan, Regina College and its successor Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan and University of Regina have—possibly unawares—retained the Methodist motto as one who serves. In 1961 the college was renamed the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, in 1974 it became the independent University of Regina. With the transfer of control to the University of Saskatchewan the range of courses offered was somewhat broadened, the arts and sciences programs evolved with the growth of Regina Campus, which held its first convocation in 1965. The original design of Regina Campus and its buildings, in a stark concrete modernist style, were by Minoru Yamasaki. Louis, Missouri—such demolition being considered by some to be the beginning of postmodern architecture—Yamasakis modernist aesthetic was already somewhat passé in the view of many architects. A Royal Commission under a Supreme Court of Canada justice, Emmett Hall and that being said, numerous of the universitys faculties are significantly smaller in the 21st century than they were in the 1970s as priorities have shifted from liberal arts to vocational training. A. Riddell Centre and the Normal School was substantially renovated to become the Canada-Saskatchewan Soundstage, the campus has experienced a recent spurt of growth and expansion, having been static for some two decades after the construction of the Language Institute at the end of the 1970s. Since the late 1990s, several new buildings have been added including the Dr. William A, the building of the Wakpá Tower and Paskwāw Tower Residences also involved a significant redevelopment of the landscaping of the campus around a new oval as an aesthetic and community hub of campus. Future plans include construction on the east side of the Ring Road, the goal is to accommodate an enrolment of 25,000. In the summer of 2005 the University of Regina hosted the 2005 Canada Games, many events took place in the newly completed state-of-the-art Centre for Kinesiology, Health and Sport
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Saskatchewan New Democratic Party
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The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It currently forms the opposition, but has been a dominant force in Saskatchewan politics since the 1940s. The party is the successor to the Saskatchewan section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the origins of the party began as early as 1902. In that year a group of farmers created the Territorial Grain Growers Association, the objective of this group was to lobby for farmers rights with the grain trade and the railways. The name was changed to the Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association when Saskatchewan became a province in 1905, in 1921 a left-wing splinter group left the SGGA to form the Farmers Union. However, the two reconciled in 1926 and reformed as the United Farmers of Canada. The first leader of the UFC was George Williams, the Progressives disappeared over the course of the next four years and were largely absorbed by the Tories. The rightward drift of the Progressives prompted the UFC-SS to decide, in 1930, in 1931, the UFC participated in the March on Regina to protest against government indifference to the farmers plight during the depression. During that event the UFC met with the Independent Labour Party, led by M. J. Coldwell, from that meeting they agreed to form the Farmer-Labour Group with Coldwell as the leader. The new party acquired its first member in the Saskatchewan legislature when Jacob Benson, elected as a Progressive in 1929, the FLG participated in the 1934 provincial election and won five seats and became the official opposition to the Liberals. Coldwell failed to win a seat but remained as leader, in 1935, Coldwell ran for federal office in the 1935 federal election and was elected. Williams took over as party leader, in the 1944 election, the Saskatchewan CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, swept to power. They took 47 out of 52 seats to form the first avowedly socialist government in North America, in the process, they handed the Liberals the worst defeat that a sitting government has ever suffered in Saskatchewan. Since that election, the CCF/NDP has won 12 out of 19 elections, arguably, the partys greatest accomplishment was the introduction of North Americas first comprehensive system of public medical insurance or Medicare. The fight to introduce Medicare in the province was intense, due to the opposition of the doctors who were backed by the American Medical Association. The AMA feared that public health care would spread to parts of the continent if introduced in one part. In July 1962 the doctors staged the 23-day Saskatchewan doctors strike, the program was introduced and became so popular it was soon adopted across Canada. After doing much of the work on Medicare, Douglas resigned as party leader and Premier of Saskatchewan in 1961 to become the founding leader of the New Democratic Party
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Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
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The Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan is one of two components of the Legislature of Saskatchewan, the other being the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan. The Legislature has been unicameral since its establishment, there has never been an upper house. The Legislature meets at the Saskatchewan Legislative Building in Regina, there are 61 ridings in the province which elect MLAs to the Legislative Assembly. All are single-member districts, though the cities of Regina, Saskatoon, the current party standings in the legislature are as follows, Member in bold italic is the Premier of Saskatchewan. Members in bold are in the Cabinet of Saskatchewan, members in italic are Legislative Secretaries to Cabinet Ministers. † Speaker of the Assembly For current cabinet see Executive Council of Saskatchewan, in September 2013 the Legislature established the position of Usher of the Black Rod. Their role is similar to the one for the Senate of Canada. Rick Mantey was the first person to hold the office, the current Usher of the Black Rod, as of 2014, is Ben Walsh. The Black Rod was made by Scott Olson Goldsmith of Regina
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
