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  Alberta Progressive Conservatives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Alberta Progressive Conservative Association is a provincial right-of-centre party in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Alberta experienced a large development boom, particularly in Calgary, in the 1970s and 1980s.
Alberta under the Tories has also been the province most willing to challenge Canada's system of Publicly funded medicine, introducing private clinics and threatening to opt out of the Canada Health Act, despite the claims of some that he does not have a mandate from the electorate to do so.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberta_Progressive_Conservatives   (1180 words)

  
 ninemsn Encarta - Search View - Alberta
Alberta, province, westernmost of the Prairie provinces of Canada, bounded on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Saskatchewan, on the south by the American state of Montana, and on the south-west and west by British Columbia.
Alberta's highest point, Mount Columbia (3,747 m/12,294 ft), is in the Rocky Mountains along the south-western border; the lowest, 170 m (557 ft), is in Wood Buffalo National Park in the north-east.
The Alberta Plain in the south is a gently rolling grasslands region, and the soils of this region are notably fertile.
au.encarta.msn.com /text_761552877__1/Alberta.html   (2207 words)

  
 Alberta - Simple English Wikipedia
Alberta is 1 200 km long from north to south and about 600 km wide at its greatest, so the climate varies a great deal from place to place.
A fourth party, the strongly conservative Social Credit Party, was a power in Alberta for a number of decades, but disappeared from the political map when the Progressive Conservatives came to power in the early 1970s.
Central and northern Alberta and the region farther north is the nesting-ground of the migratory birds.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberta   (2061 words)

  
 Alberta First Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Alberta First Party was the first real attempt to establish a provincial party to appeal to Reform Party of Canada supporters: the policies of the two parties were very similar.
Alberta First was ahead of its time, however, as the Alberta Progressive Conservatives were at the height of their popularity.
Alberta First was de-registered in 2003 by Elections Alberta after the party failed to file financial statements with the electoral office.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberta_First_Party   (368 words)

  
 Alberta. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alberta is bounded on the E by Saskatchewan, on the N by the Northwest Territories, on the W by British Columbia, and on the S by Montana.
The population is concentrated in S and central Alberta; except for farm centers in the fertile wheat-growing valley of the Peace, the north is sparsely settled.
Alberta was originally part of the vast territory granted to the Hudson’s Bay Company by King Charles II in 1670, and its early history was dominated by the fur trade.
www.bartleby.com /65/al/Alberta.html   (1219 words)

  
 Alberta Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
'''Alberta''' is one of CanadaCanada's Provinces of Canadaprovinces.
Alberta is the leading beekeeping province of Canada, with some beekeepers wintering hives indoors in specially designed barns in southern Alberta, then migrating north during the summer into the Peace River (Alberta)Peace River valley where the season is short but the working days are long for honeybees to produce honey from clover and fireweed.
Alberta also has a large Hutterite population, a communal Anabaptist sect similar to the Mennonites, and a significant population of Seventh-Day Adventists in and around the Lacombe area due to the presence of the Canadian University College.
www.echostatic.com /Alberta.html   (3206 words)

  
 Alberta Progressive Conservatives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Only one Conservative MLA was returned to the Legislature in this election in which the new United Farmers of Alberta defeated the Liberals and took power.
In the late 1930s, the Conservatives and Liberals formed a united front in an attempt to fight Social Credit and, as a result, no Conservative candidates ran in 1940, 1944 and 1948.
Alberta under the Tories has also been the province most willing to challenge Canada's system of Publicly funded medicine, introducing private clinics and threatening to opt out of the Canada Health Act.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/alberta_progressive_conservatives   (920 words)

  
 Conservative Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Conservative Party of Canada was formed by the merger of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance party in December 2003.
Conservative activists had hoped to recruit former Ontario Premier Mike Harris for the leadership but he declined, as did New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord and Alberta Premier Ralph Klein.
The Saskatchewan Party was an unofficial merger of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan and members of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party, which arose after the collapse of the Progressive Conservatives following the scandal-plagued government of Grant Devine in the 1980s.
www.indexlistus.de /keyword/Conservative_Party_of_Canada.php   (1041 words)

  
 AlbertaAvenue: Alberta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Under the pilot project -- which was conceived by the Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute and began in April this year -- patients have only had to wait an average of six weeks once their family physicians refer them for an orthopedic consultation, instead of the provincial average of 35 weeks.
Alberta needs to change its basic policy approach from simple "cash focus," balance the current books letting the chips fall where they may, to an "asset focus," planning, organizing and ramping up our physical and educational assets effectively to take on the increasingly competitive world.
And if this rumour is true, then the Alberta Liberal Party and Alberta NDP may want to go back to the negotiation table and look again at the possibility of merging these two parties (they attempted a merger, to my knowledge, a few years ago).
calgaryobserver.blogs.com /blog/alberta   (3758 words)

  
 Alberta
Alberta is located in western North America, and borders the Northwest Territories (north), British Columbia (west), Montana (south) and Saskatchewan (east).
Alberta is a land of wheat fields, rolling plains, foothills and the Rocky Mountains.
Alberta is still a leading producer of livestock, grain and farm products.
www.unitednorthamerica.org /AB.htm   (223 words)

  
 The plot to kill the Canadian army [Free Republic]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The conservatives have left the Progressive Conservative Party federally and formed the Canadian Alliance, a new party formed out of an alliance of the Reform Party, a conservative-populist party that recently became the official opposition and conservatives who finally abandoned the Tory rump to try to help create a new conservative party.
The small "c" conservatives are the true conservatives, the large "C" conservatives are members of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Provincially, in Ontario and Alberta the Progressive Conservatives are dominated by the conservative wing of their respective parties and have been elected and re-elected as governments.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a0ea53a3090.htm   (3964 words)

  
 250k   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alberta taxpayers have paid $400 million to prop up the beef industry after an animal with mad cow disease was discovered in the province last May 20.
Alberta's deficits were larger and growing faster than those in most other provincial capitals, and the provincial government of the day seemed unable to get things back on track.
Alberta's ability to assert its interest, along with its anticipated role in the conservative party, provide an important backdrop to developments at an Alberta Progressive Conservative policy conference that took place in Edmonton over the weekend.
www.albertaresidentsleague.com /articles2.htm   (15116 words)

  
 Progressive Conservatives: Rise to Power
In 1965, a young lawyer from Calgary, Peter Lougheed, was elected leader of the fledgling Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta.
Alberta's increasingly urbanized and upwardly mobile population could relate more to the Progressive Conservatives.
While in opposition, the Progressive Conservatives continued to hone their party's image and platform in anticipation of the next election.
www.abheritage.ca /abpolitics/events/party_pc.html   (414 words)

  
 List of All Canada Political Parties
Conservative Party of Canada This article concerns the Conservative Party of Canada that was founded in 2003.
Political ideology: conservative The Conservative Party of Canada was formed by the merger of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance party in December 2003.
Conservative-Labour Conservative Labour was the label used by Tory Hamilton politician Henry Buckingham Witton as a candidate in the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario from 1872 to 1875.
www.seaiba.com /PoliticalParties.htm   (2247 words)

  
 Mapleleafweb.com: 2004 Alberta Provincial Election
Alberta voters will go to the polls on November 22, 2004, to elect a new provincial government.
Recent polls suggest that the Alberta Progressive Conservatives under Premier Ralph Klein are holding a commanding lead in popular support.
Seat distribution in the Alberta legislature prior to dissolution, recent public opinion polls, results from the last provincial election in 2001, including voter turnout numbers.
www.mapleleafweb.com /education/spotlight/issue_57   (290 words)

  
 CBC News:Former Manitoba PCs back Liberals
WINNIPEG - A group of former Manitoba Progressive Conservative party members, disgruntled with the new Conservative party, threw their support behind the Liberals on Monday.
"We are concerned that people who have supported the tolerant, moderate Progressive Conservative party may be misled by the name of the new Conservative party," the group said in a release issued on Monday.
Dobbie says she's concerned because the new Conservative party has not had a policy convention, and she doesn't know its agenda on social issues.
www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/06/14/canada/winnipeg1_libs040614   (326 words)

  
 seanblog: a tory point of view
The fact of the matter is this: if you’re a Conservative, you can run for a nomination and have the same chance of winning as anyone else no matter what your age.
This is where I and most Conservatives clash with the Liberal Party of Canada, and their NDP brethren.
He tried to fix the constitution, but was thwarted in his first attempt by jealous Liberals who couldn’t imagine a Conservative ending the Quebec separatist threat (which the Liberals have done more to further than the PQ or BQ ever could).
seanhblog.blogspot.com   (2877 words)

  
 Mayerthorpe Freelancer, Mayerthorpe, AB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alberta has accommodated some of the most substantial enrollment increases in Canada, with enrollment growing to 139,000 this year from 104,000 in 1992-93.
Funding to Alberta’s post-secondary system this year is about $1.4 billion — an increase of $125 million, or nearly 10%, over last year’s budget.
As a share of total provincial expenditures, Alberta ranks second among provinces in spending on post-secondary education.
www.mayerthorpefreelancer.com /story.php?id=127969   (523 words)

  
 Power policy brings lots of laughter @ workopolis.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Conservatives have been laughed off the stage during their defence of electricity deregulation.
Picking on the Tories for bungling deregulation has become a favourite political sport in Alberta (health care is the other hot button) in an otherwise bland campaign that focuses on the immense popularity of Premier Ralph Klein during an economic boom.
Roughly 70 per cent of Alberta's power is generated by coal-fired plants while most of the other operations rely on natural gas.
www.workopolis.com /servlet/News/qprinter/20010308/RJANG   (715 words)

  
 CBC News: Klein drops 13 seats on way to majority win
EDMONTON - Ralph Klein led the Progressive Conservatives to a fourth majority government in Alberta in Monday's provincial election, but lost 13 seats in the process.
The seats that moved to the opposition included one held by a cabinet minister in Edmonton, as well as three ridings in the Tory stronghold of Calgary and a rural seat in the heart of cattle country.
The Conservatives won 61 of the legislature's 83 seats, chalking up the party's 10th consecutive victory since 1971.
cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2004/11/23/alberta-election-041123.html   (567 words)

  
 CanConv - Regional Issues::Alberta
Alberta Liberal Environment Critic David Swann is calling on the Conservative government to focus on repairing the long term damage to Wabamun Lake and holding CN responsible for the hazardous releases that occurred there.
In his article, he dismisses the fact that the Alberta Liberal Party is a force to be reckoned with, while dumping tons of praise on the Alberta Alliance for winning a single (!) seat in the last election.
Alberta was not mentioned specifically in the article, but the IMF (International Monetary Fund) advises governments to give priority to spending that will have a more lasting impact on growth and living standards.
canconv.boundbygravity.com /ViewCategory.php?cat=44   (2418 words)

  
 Conservative Party Of Canada - Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Conservatives announce a new Choice in Child Care Allowance
This website is the property of the Conservative Party of Canada and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without express written permission.
Copyright © 2005 Authorized by the chief Agent of the Conservative Party of Canada.
www.conservative.ca   (275 words)

  
 Alberta Votes 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
  The progressive conservative’s have been the choice for a long time here in Alberta.
  Unfortunately, rural Alberta was inclined to side with the Conservatives and Klein was the former mayor of Calgary.
The Social Credit party was Alberta’s reigning party before the Conservatives.
members.aol.com /albertavotes/parties.htm   (813 words)

  
 Calgary Bio, Pictures, News and RSS Feeds at BlinkBits.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As of 2004, the metropolitan population (CMA) was at an estimated 1,037,1001.
This is contrasted with an increase of 10.3 percent for the province of Alberta.
The Alberta Liberals won three seats in the provincial legislature during that election, two of which were new as a result of redistricting.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/calgary   (5820 words)

  
 Alberta Conservative Progressive Resources from the Right Side of the Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alberta Political Parties i Goto · Progressive Conservative · Alberta Liberal Party · New Democrat Party · Social Credit · Alberta Green · Equity Party · Alberta Party · Alberta First ·...
Alberta's corporate tax rates will be reduced under Bill 27.
This web site provides information about Ralph Klein, Premier of Alberta, as well as some of his government's news and policies.
www.rtside.com /directory/alberta-conservative-progressive.html   (395 words)

  
 Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
Alberta's history comes alive with the opening of a 1955 time capsule
Alberta Legislature to be smoke-free in the New Year
Alberta marks National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
www.albertapc.ab.ca   (156 words)

  
 Albertans go to the Polls on Monday, November 22 to Elect MLA's and Senate Nominees
According to recently published opinion polls, the Alberta Progressive Conservatives, led by Ralph Klein, are set to win another big majority, with the Alberta Liberals and NDP far behind.
The contest to replace him is expected to involve former Alberta finance minister Jim Dinning, who is already viewed as the frontrunner and clear favourite of the party establishment and assorted Alberta Red Tories.
Morton is well known in Alberta as a supporter of strong provincial rights and traditional family values, including support for the unborn and the traditional definition of marriage.
www.lifesite.net /ldn/2004/nov/04111903.html   (719 words)

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