To secure single payer here in the United States —

We have to understand how Canada did it.

And to understand how Canada did it, we have to understand Tommy Douglas.

And not just that Canadians voted him The Greatest Canadian in a recent poll. Or that he’s the grandfather of the actor Kiefer Sutherland.

But we have to understand how Tommy Douglas built a political movement that toppled the two corporate parties in Saskatchewan in the mid-1940s. And what the lessons are for citizens in the USA.

Citizens in the second Congressional district of West Virginia have launched a petition drive urging their Congresswoman, Shelley Moore Capito, to resign.

They have put up a web site — capitoresign.org — that urges citizens of the district to sign a petition calling on Capito to resign.

“We all know people in this district who are dying or who have died because they don’t have health insurance,” said Russell Mokhiber of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, who is helping to organize the effort.