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 CBC - British Columbia Votes 2005 - Features - Election Dictionary
Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (n, proper) official name of the political party commonly known as the "Canadian Alliance." The party was formed in 2000 after a failed attempt to merge the opposition Reform Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
Canadian politics in general is said to be more "left-leaning" than American politics because of the generally accepted socialist principles of health care, employment insurance and other government-administered policies with social impact.
Canadian politics in general is said to be more "left-leaning" than American politics because of the generally accepted socialist principles of health care and employment insurance.
www.cbc.ca /bcvotes2005/features/dictionary.html   (3914 words)

  
 Canadian federal election, 1949 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Canadian federal election of 1949 was held on June 27 to elect members of the 21st Parliament of the Canadian House of Commons.
It was the first election in Canada in almost thirty years in which the Liberal Party of Canada was not led by William Lyon Mackenzie King.
Smaller parties, such as the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and Social Credit, a party that advocated monetary reform, lost support to the Liberals, and to a lesser extent, the Conservatives.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_1949   (211 words)

  
 Timeline 1949
1949 Mar 4, In the USSR foreign minister V.M. Molotov was replaced by A. Vishinsky and Minister of Defense Marshal N.A. Bulganin was replaced by Marshal A.M. Vassilievsky.
1949 Apr 18, The Republic of Ireland withdrew from the British Commonwealth and was officially proclaimed in Dublin on the anniversary of the 1916 Easter rebellion.
1949 Sep 12-1949 Sep 15, In Germany Theodor Heuss (b.1884) was elected as President and Konrad Adenauer (73) as Chancellor of the Federal Republic.
timelines.ws /20thcent/1949.HTML   (8276 words)

  
 Thomson Nelson - Political Science Resource Centre
The raw survey data from the 1997 and 2004 elections are available for the CES and for the 1984-2000 election studies from York University.
Canadian Elections offers a table comparing the votes and seats won in 2004 by parties on a national and provincial basis.
Elections Canada provides the official results of the 1997 and 2000 general elections on line.
polisci.nelson.com /elections.html   (1396 words)

  
 ISUMA : Unsteady State: The 1997 Canadian Federal Election
There is no evidence in the Canadian election survey of voters punishing the Liberals for their shift to the right (as exemplified by cuts to social programs in order to eliminate the deficit).
Perhaps the tight focus on the 1997 election was achieved at some cost to a fuller and more probing examination of the historical context for the election.
It’s not clear enough, for instance, whether this election survey and the analyzes that form the core arguments of this book represent a continuation and confirmation of the claims of previous studies, or a significant departure therefrom.
www.isuma.net /v01n02/bickerton/bickerton_e.shtml   (1762 words)

  
 Canadian Geographic: Historical Maps
As in much of North America and Europe, the 1930s were a devastating decade for Canadians, as the Great Depression: Economic depression between 1929 and 1933 when the Gross National Expenditures decreased 42 percent and when one in five Canadians depended on government aid to survive.
By 1935, 10 percent of Canadians were dependent on some form of financial relief, and workers from government-sponsored relief camps were rioting in Regina over wages and working conditions.
In 1942, the property of Japanese-Canadians was confiscated and 22,000 were relocated from coastal B.C. to the Interior and elsewhere in Canada because of anti-Japanese hostilities that arose after the attack on Pearl Harbour.
www.canadiangeographic.ca /mapping/mappingcanada/1977.asp   (1478 words)

  
 Canadian federal election, 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The election resulted in a minority government led by the Conservative Party with Stephen Harper becoming the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada; this is Canada's smallest minority government since Confederation, in terms of the percentage of seats held by the governing party.
This general election elected members for the House of Commons, indirectly determining the prime minister and cabinet, as the government will be formed by the political party or coalition of parties that the governor general determines is best able to command the confidence of the House (usually the one with the most elected members).
The election involved the same 308 electoral districts as in 2004, except in New Brunswick, where the boundary between Acadie—Bathurst and Miramichi was ruled to be illegal.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_2006   (3566 words)

  
 Canadian federal election, 1867 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Canadian federal election of 1867, held from August 7 to September 20, was the first election for the new nation of Canada.
As it was, Brown ran concurrently for seats in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the Canadian House of Commons and hoped to become Premier of Ontario.
Elections held in the previous year in the Provinces of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia focused on the issue of whether or not to form a confederation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_1867   (388 words)

  
 Canadian Election--6/28 Live Thread   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Election Prediction Project says the race is too close to call on their PEI provincial page.
Election night will test whether Nova Scotians want to punish either of these young sons for the different ways in which they abandoned the banner under which they were elected last time.
Actually from what I know about Canadian electoral law the Governor General of Canada has say in whether an election is called or not in case of a no-confidence vote bringing down the minority government in power.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1161511/posts   (5386 words)

  
 Egwald Statistics — Canadian Elections — 1997
To this end, I collected data and calculated percentages for the 16 Canadian elections between 1949 and 1997.
Notice that the number of elections = 16, which equals the number of observations.
Since we are interested in the extent to which the four regions determine the winning party in a Canadian election, the number of independent variables = 4 (number of regions: E, OQ, P and BC).
www.egwald.com /statistics/canadianelections.php3   (462 words)

  
 POL 211 CANADIAN POLITICAL PARTIES 1998-99
Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Women in Politics: Becoming Full Partners in the Political Process (Ottawa: Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 1987).
Frederick J. Fletcher, "The Mass Media in the 1974 Canadian Election," in Howard R. Penniman, ed., Canada at the Polls: The General Election of 1974 (Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1975).
Gerald L. Caplan, The Dilemma of Canadian Socialism: The CCF in Ontario (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973).
www.chass.utoronto.ca /~clarkson/courses/pol211y_bib.html   (12248 words)

  
 Egwald Statistics — Canadian Elections — 2006
One can construct a possible scenario for the 2006 election by analyzing swing ridings, where the winning candidate won by a small margin of votes.
The 2006 Canadian Federal Election resulted in a minority government for the Conservative Party.
Over the last nineteen elections, the previous smallest percentage of seats of Ontario and Quebec won by the party forming the government was 49 percent.
www.egwald.com /statistics/canadianelections2006.php   (1110 words)

  
 Canadian Dimension / Articles » Iraq
From Japan Focus August 23, 2006 The United States had a monopoly of nuclear weaponry only a few years before other nations challenged it, but from 1949 until roughly the 1990s deterrence theory worked—nations knew that if they used the awesome bomb they were likely to be devastated in the riposte.
Special to Canadian Dimension Early Adventures On the afternoon of February 26th, 1991, in compliance with UN Resolution 660, tens of thousands of Iraqi conscripts began their slow, orderly withdrawal from Kuwait towards the Iraqi city of Basra.
The Canadian Dimension articles database is a searchable collection of progressive articles both from our magazine and other resources around the world.
canadiandimension.com /articles/category/iraq   (716 words)

  
 Electric Boat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Howe insisted the purchaser should be Canadian for, though he was born an American, he did not want the Americans controlling a major Canadian aircraft manufacturer.
On September 15, 1946, an agreement was signed between the Canadian government and a new Canadair for the lease of and option to purchase the land, buildings, machinery and equipment at Cartierville for 15 years at an annual rental of $200,000.
On January 21, 1947, the Canadian Privy Council formally approved arrangements for the Electric Boat take-over and, two days later, a joint statement to the press by Howe and Hopkins confirmed that Hopkins would become chairman of the board of Canadair and Oliver West would be president.
home.ca.inter.net /~rapickler/elecboat.html   (738 words)

  
 1949 - Free net encyclopedia
1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar).
September 17 - Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
September 24 - Laszlo Rajk, ex-foreign minister of Hungary, is sentenced to death.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/1949   (2244 words)

  
 Election 2006
Gary was born in 1949 and grew up in Sarnia-Lambton.
As a charter member of the Lambton-Kent-Middlesex riding, Gary had the pleasure of directing the inaugural election campaign for the CHP in that riding, acting as the Campaign Manager for John Koster.
Gary ran as a candidate in 2004 in Sarnia-Lambton
www.ctv.ca /mini/election2006/candidates/35078_CHP.html   (182 words)

  
 Political science (Politics and government) - Canadian Information By Subject
Canadian Network of Federalism Studies (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations)
Canadian High Commission in South Africa (Government of Canada)
Canadian High Commission in Trinidad and Tobago (Government of Canada)
www.collectionscanada.ca /caninfo/ep032.htm   (1316 words)

  
 Canadian Election Results: 1867-2004
Source: Party Candidates and Votes: Library of Parliament; Turnout: Elections Canada
**Note that the official voter turnout figure in 2000 is 61.2%, but that Elections Canada later realized that this was based on a voters' list that was artificially inflated by almost a million duplicate names.
The actual turnout figure is now estimated to be about 64.1%.
www.sfu.ca /~aheard/elections/1867-2004.html   (127 words)

  
 Newfoundland Act
Representation in the Senate and in the House of Commons shall from lime to time be altered or readjusted in accordance with the Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1940.
Without prejudice to the legislative authority of the Parliament of Canada under the Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1940, any works, property, or services taken over by Canada pursuant to these Terms shall thereupon be subject to the legislative authority of the Parliament of Canada.
Suitable provision will be made for the extension of the Canadian citizenship laws to the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
www.solon.org /Constitutions/Canada/English/nfa.html   (3108 words)

  
 Armageddon Online Forums - Another Canadian Election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
but I just watched Canuckian comedian Rick Mercer giving his 'rant' about tonights election and he summed up the funny, machine gun monologue with the phrase, "By tommorow we'll have made a substantive change, and no shots were fired.
He might end up surprising us all and might truly be moderate (admist unfounded fears that he's Hitler incarnate, silly) and the situation might work out best for Canadians.
He might last two years or so since we can't afford another election, and historically Canada has always been more liberal leaning, so we'll eventually re-elect the liberals either way.
www.armageddononline.org /forums/showthread.php?t=5656   (619 words)

  
 Canada 2004 · Federal Election Results · Canadian Federal Election 2004
Canada 2004 · Federal Election Results · Canadian Federal Election 2004
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www.nodice.ca /election2004/electionresults.html   (43 words)

  
 Canadian Census and Federal Election Data
For a full listing of files available from Data Services, check the UBC Library's online catalogue.
The following is a list of Canadian Census and Federal Election Data files (collected by Don Blake) currently available on the central UNIX service.
NOTE: Some of the data files on the central UNIX service are compressed (.gz) because of their large size.
data.library.ubc.ca /datalib/gen/files_unixg/blake.html   (79 words)

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