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  Alberta - Search View - MSN Encarta
Alberta is generally a dry region, especially in the south, where mountains trap air masses moving inland from the Pacific Ocean and drain them of moisture.
Alberta’s population grew rapidly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with agricultural settlement of the province.
Alberta is represented in the Canadian Parliament by 28 elected representatives in the House of Commons and by 6 senators, chosen by the federal government, in the Senate.
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 Alberta
Alberta is 756 miles (1,217 kilometers) from north to south and between 182 and 404 miles (293 and 650 kilometers) in width from west to east.
In 1992/93, Alberta Environmental Protection was formed from the merger of the former departments of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife, and Environment, and the Parks Division of the former department of Tourism and Recreation.
Alberta became one of the most impoverished areas of Canada during the 1930s, and social welfare programs were rapidly expanded at this time to help the poor and the unemployed of the province.
www.nationsencyclopedia.com /canada/Alberta-to-Nova-Scotia/Alberta.html   (6254 words)

  
 Welcome to Alberta, Canada
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 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.
Central and northern Alberta and the region farther north is the nesting-ground of the migratory birds.
www.hometowncanada.com /ab   (3974 words)

  
 Alberta general election, 1971 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Alberta general election of 1971 was the seventeenth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada.
It was held on August 30, 1971 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
The province of Alberta voted on its fourth provincial plebiscite.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberta_general_election,_1971   (489 words)

  
 Alberta - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Western Alberta is protected by the mountains, and enjoys the warmth brought by winter chinooks, while eastern Alberta is flat, dry prairie, where temperatures can range from very cool (−35°C in the winter) to very hot (+35°C in the summer).
Alberta is the largest producer of conventional crude oil, synthetic crude, natural gas and gas products in the country.
Alberta is fortunate in that it is home to only one variety of poisonous snake, the prairie rattlesnake.
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 Alberta general election, 1905 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Alberta general election of 1905 was the first general election held in the Province of Alberta, Canada.
The Alberta Liberal Party of Alexander C. Rutherford won twenty three of the twenty five seats in the new legislature, defeating the Conservative Party, which was led by a young lawyer, Richard Bennett, who later served as Prime Minister of Canada.
The election in 1905 was a bitter one, especially in Calgary and Southern Alberta where the Liberals were accused of vote tampering and interfering with Conservative voters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberta_general_election,_1905   (317 words)

  
 CBC - Alberta Votes 2004 - Ridings
Results are not official until Elections Alberta has reviewed the results, which usually takes several days.
In the 1986 general election, however, Gurnett was unseated by Tory Glen Clegg by a margin of 202 votes.
Throughout the election campaign we’ll be highlighting letters from people about the candidates, issues and coverage.
www.cbc.ca /albertavotes2004/riding/001   (354 words)

  
 Nelson - Political Science-Canadian Politics on the Web/Elections
The data from the 1997 election study are available on-line; the raw frequencies for a number of variables in their massive survey can be read directly with your browser, or you can download the full data set in SPSS format to analyze on your own computer.
Elections Canada provides the interim election results for the country as a whole, by province and by major metropolitan area.
Vancouver 1999 Local General Election Results - You can also read the results of the plebiscite held on what Vancouverites wished to do with their municipal electoral system.
www.nelson.com /nelson/polisci/elections.html   (1123 words)

  
 Thomson Nelson - Political Science Resource Centre
Visit New Zealand Elections for more information about this system and the history of its adoption in time for the 1996 general election.
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.
Elections Canada provides the official results of the 1997 and 2000 general elections on line.
polisci.nelson.com /elections.html   (1396 words)

  
 ABORIGINAL
In Alberta, the Métis of the Paddle Prairie Settlement in Northern Alberta managed to threaten the negotiation of governance restructuring.
Peter Lougheed, the Alberta Premier who began these negotiations to restructure the relationship between the province and one group of Métis in Alberta, wanted a made-in-Alberta solution to aboriginal self-reliance.7 "Resolution 18", which Lougheed introduced in the provincial legislature in 1982, was a commitment made by the government that led to the Métis Settlements Accord.8
However, it is important to note that within the constraining financial and legal boundaries set by the federal and provincial governments, in domains such as human resources policy, education policy or social policy, aboriginal decision-making may be relatively unencumbered.
www.ualberta.ca /~walld/NUNSEPT2.html   (6375 words)

  
 Your NDP MLA's : Alberta New Democratic Party
Brian Mason was active in Alberta politics early on, when he served as the Executive Director of the Alberta Federation of Students from 1977-1979 following his Political Science studies at the University of Alberta.
Raj was elected to the Alberta Legislature to represent Edmonton Strathcona on March 11, 1997.
He fought the 2001 general election, gaining respect and popularity for his principled and tough views on health care, education, and social justice.
www.albertandp.ca /Your_MLA.cfm   (993 words)

  
 Government- Government of Alberta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alberta's first premier, Alexander C. Rutherford and his Liberals took 22 of 25 seats.
The United Farmers of Alberta party overcame the Liberals in 1921 and stayed in power until 1935.
A virtual tour through Alberta’s Legislature Building with pictures and video, as well as a quiz to test your knowledge when you’re done.
www.gov.ab.ca /home/index.cfm?Page=26   (256 words)

  
 CanadaInfoLink is everything you wanted to know about Canada and canadian information about provinces, provincial ...
Ralph Klein was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party on December 5, 1992 in the first one member/one vote leadership race held in Alberta.
He was sworn in as Alberta's 12th Premier on December 14 of that year.
In 1992, he received a Governor General's Award and in 1993 he became the second white person in history to be adopted into the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation and was given the name Otskoipiiksi (Bluebird).
www.canadainfolink.ca /prem_alberta.htm   (548 words)

  
 The Tyee’s Election Central Blog » My final plea: Reform campaign finance
For while I’d covered elections for 25 years – I’ve reported on Canadian and Mexican contests as well as four US presidential campaigns, and was formerly a senior fellow at a nonpartisan watchdog called The Centre for Public Integrity – I’d not yet had the pleasure of covering a BC election.
What a pleasure it was: A tough but stiff neoconservative policy wonk clung to power by overthrowing handlers who wanted to keep him in a bubble, narrowly defeating a moderately progressive schoolmarm who soulfully led her party back from the brink of extinction.
The Tyee certainly enlived the BC Election by exposing the fact that some BC municipalities unknowingly gave money to the BC Liberal party in order to get certain services even if the fees that were charged at $100-$500 are quite small and pale in comparison to the scale of the Federal Sponsorship scandal.
thetyee.ca /electioncentral/?p=257   (3054 words)

  
 Canada's Other New Leader :: thetyee.ca
While Stephane Dion was taking control of the Federal Liberals in Montreal on Saturday, an equally unassuming pol was doing the same thing with a different party in Alberta.
Ed Stelmach, a former cabinet minister and Northern Alberta farmer, moved from third to first on the second day of voting in the race to replace (King) Ralph Klein as Alberta’s premier.
And if the new Liberal leader is serious, the next federal election will be fought on the environment -- not least on how to stop the oil-rich province on B.C.'s eastern border from doing so many bad things to it.
thetyee.ca /Bigstory/2006/12/05/stelmach   (504 words)

  
 Alberta
The current research report was prepared for the Alberta College of Social Workers, as background information on public welfare services and complement to the college's advocacy in the interest of Alberta citizens on low income.
Alberta Seniors and Community Supports is responsible for delivering programs and services for a wide range of Albertans.
Alberta somewhat resembles the 'ultra-liberal' United States, while Quebec leans in the direction of Europe, and to some extent, of social-democracy." [Excerpt from the Abstract].
www.canadiansocialresearch.net /abkmrk.htm   (9811 words)

  
 CBC - Alberta Votes 2004 - Voter Resources
The highest voter turnout was 81.8 per cent in the general election of 1935.
The lowest voter turnout was 47.25 per cent in the general election of 1986.
In the Red Deer-North byelection of 2000, fewer than 21 percent of voters cast ballots.
www.cbc.ca /albertavotes2004/features/alberta_numbers.html   (139 words)

  
 Compendium of Election Administration in Canada - Comparative Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Preliminary lists of electors are produced from an extract of the permanent register of electors or following the enumeration, as the case may be (in Alberta, the preliminary list is called the official list).
In all jurisdictions, there is a revision period, when names may be added to, deleted from, or corrected on the preliminary lists of electors.
According to the Alberta Election Act, a list of electors is distributed after the issue of the writ, unless there have been no changes to the list since the last time it was provided to political parties (2 years after polling day, or in the 4th and 5th years following a general election).
www.elections.ca /loi/com2001/comp2001_overview/reg_e.shtml   (1500 words)

  
 Summary of Results for Past General Elections 1905-2004
Note: We shall endeavor to ensure information is correct to the best of our knowledge; however, in the event that discrepencies are found between the hard copies and electronic version of the information, the hard copies will prevail.
General Election Results - Thursday, May 8, 1986
General Election Results - Tuesday, May 23, 1967
www.electionsalberta.ab.ca /pastelections.html   (557 words)

  
 Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy -- general news
The party, running in its first election, got 3.2 per cent of the vote in last week's B.C. election, but Mr.
As for the Canadian government, Solicitor General Lawrence Macaulay did not respond when asked if Canada is being pressured by U.S. The organization for the reform of marijuana laws says the Americans have a habit of throwing their weight around to influence other country's drug laws.
Allen St. Pierre (Reform of Marijuana Laws): Those countries often then bend and defer to the United States will on this and, unfortunately, abandon not only their own pragmatism and common sense, but to some degree their own sovereignty.
www.cfdp.ca /general4.htm   (5615 words)

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