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  Mapleleafweb.com: Articles - 2001 Alberta Election Commentary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Alberta election outcome is a bit paradoxical.
In 1997, we saw this expressed when the Liberals presented a different face in each region of the province.
While many of their policies are outside of the narrow policy consensus that defines Alberta politics, they do have the advantage of providing a clear, consistent alternative.
www.mapleleafweb.com /articles/jansen.htm   (574 words)

  
  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.
encarta.msn.com /text_761552877__1/Alberta.html   (8822 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
Alberta is 756 miles (1,217 kilometers) from north to south and between 182 to 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 maintains the largest livestock population in Canada, accounting for 42 percent of the country's beef cattle, 15 percent of the hogs, and 24 percent of the sheep and lambs.
cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/canada/alberta.htm   (5776 words)

  
 Canadian Election Law & Policies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The specific limits on candidates' election expenses for the 2006 election vary from riding to riding because they are based on the number of electors in a constituency.
This law was challenged during the 2000 election, by Stephen Harper when he headed up the National Citizens Coalition, on the grounds that the law is an unconstitutional limit on the freedom of expression and of the voters' rights to be fully informed of all points of view.
The Alberta Queen's Bench issued an injunction lifting the third party spending limits pending a full hearing, and the injunction was upheld by the Alberta Court of Appeal.
www.sfu.ca /~aheard/elections/laws.html   (2146 words)

  
 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   (264 words)

  
 Canadian Elections - Riding Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The 2006 general election will be conducted using the 308 ridings contested in the 2004 election; by contrast there were 301 constituencies in the 1997 and 2000 elections.
The 2006 elections will be conducted with the same electoral boundaries used in the 2004, with the exception of two constituencies in New Brunswick: Acadie–Bathurst and Miramichi.
Perhaps the most interesting ridings to watch in the 2006 elections are the 58 marginal seats, where candidates won with a margin of 5% or less in the 2004 elections.
www.sfu.ca /~aheard/elections/ridings.html   (617 words)

  
 CBC - Alberta Votes 2004 - Ridings
The riding is tied for having the second-fewest low-income residents in Alberta - 3.8 per cent.
In the 1993 general election, Conservative Carol Haley unseated MacDonald by 1,883 votes.
Throughout the election campaign we’ll be highlighting letters from people about the candidates, issues and coverage.
www.cbc.ca /albertavotes2004/riding/043   (245 words)

  
 ATA NEWS - Volume 32, Number 4 - 1997 PEC by-election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
An ATA by-election, necessitated by the resignation of Dick Hehr, will be held for the office of district representative, Calgary City.
Election information, including nomination papers, was mailed to all school representatives and local secretaries on June 18, 1997.
Complacent after easy victories in the election, they must be pressured to put the interests of students, teachers and public education first.
www.teachers.ab.ca /archive/newsletter/teachers.ab.ca/byelection.html   (1726 words)

  
 Mapleleafweb.com: 2004 Alberta Provincial Election - Alberta Election Numbers
Prior to the dissolution of the Alberta legislature, the Progressive Conservative Party held 73 seats, with the Alberta Liberal Party holding 5 seats, and the Alberta New Democratic Party the remaining 2 seats.
This was only down marginally from the 1997 general election (at 54 percent), but sharply down from the 1993 election (at 60 percent).
Historically, the largest voter turnout for an Alberta general election was in August 1935 (at 82 percent), while the lowest turnout on record was May 1986, with 47 percent voter turnout.
www.mapleleafweb.com /education/spotlight/issue_57/election-numbers.html   (451 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)

  
 Election Finance Links
Elections Canada's site has maps and information about the federal ridings Ontario used in June 3's election.
In Alberta, the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer says that it is planning to put contribution information on line in the near future.
Elections Manitoba's site includes every piece of financial information for parties there you could possibly think of, except donor information.
www.snappingturtle.net /electionfinance/links.html   (771 words)

  
 Publications - Alberta Solicitor General and Public Security Home - Alberta Solicitor General and Public Security Home
This section is an archive of select Alberta Justice, Alberta Solicitor General and Public Security, government and related agency publications and reports.
Final report of a review process initiated in July 1997 by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General to assess the effectiveness of First Nations police services and make recommendations to remedy any identified weaknesses.
The impact of organized crime in Alberta is discussed and emerging trends are noted.
www.solgen.gov.ab.ca /publications/default.aspx?year=1998   (221 words)

  
 ARL - Articles
Alberta has a chance to lead Canada toward the kind of regulated private pension alternatives that are proving so superior in countries such as Chile.
The royalties Alberta received from the oil and gas industry -- which includes natural gas, crude oil, synthetic crude and bitumen -- for the fiscal year of 2004-2005 was $8.4 billion.
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.
www.albertaresidentsleague.com /articles.htm   (10300 words)

  
 Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - Bloc Québécois
In the federal general election of 1997, the BQ under Duceppe won only 44 seats, losing its Opposition status to the Alberta-based Reform Party of Canada (led by Preston Manning, son of longstanding former Alberta Premier Ernest Manning, whose Social Credit Party of Alberta remained in power there for decades).
In the federal general election of 2000, still under Duceppe, the party won fewer seats again: 38.
Some BQ MPs have announced that they do not intend to seek the nomination for the 2004 general election.
www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/bq.htm   (919 words)

  
 Calgary & Southern Alberta - Labour Since 1935   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Aberhart proceeded to pass the first general minimum wage legislation in Canada and in 1938 the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act gave labour the right to collective bargaining.
The Alberta Federation of Labour retreated from militancy and radicalism in the late 1940s.
In 1950, for example, municipal employees established an Alberta joint council that came to represent nearly 3,000 workers by 1954.
www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/calgary/labour1935.html   (205 words)

  
 NDP News : Alberta New Democratic Party
They share Alberta NDP's commitment to a truly democratic and inclusive society - one that embraces values of social justice, fairness and equality - to which I have been proud to give voice for the past nine years," said Pannu.
Pannu was elected to the Alberta Legislature to represent Edmonton-Strathcona on March 11, 1997.
He took over as Leader of the Alberta NDP in February of 2000, leading the party's fight on Bill 11.
www.albertandp.ca /News.cfm?ID=436   (666 words)

  
 Alberta general election, 1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Alberta general election of 1997 was the twenty-fourth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada.
It was held on March 11, 1997 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Ralph Klein's second election as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party was considerably more successful than his first.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberta_general_election,_1997   (218 words)

  
 CNN.com - Chretien has narrow edge in Canadian race - November 25, 2000
But, speaking to reporters in the Alliance heartland of Alberta, he said that at least denying the Liberals a third straight majority would help curb their power.
Chretien called the five-week election campaign last month, earlier than he had to, to capitalize on a lead in the polls and on strong economic growth, and to catch the newly formed Alliance off guard.
An election victory would be a crowning triumph for the self-styled "little man from Shawinigan," the working-class Quebec town where Chretien honed his political skills and street-fighter instincts.
edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/11/25/canada.election.02   (812 words)

  
 Re 207053 Alberta Limited (Bankrupt)
Arden White's Company maintains that the Petition is a nullity because Manning was not a creditor at the time it was filed because Manning has only an equitable claim against it.
When a person confers a benefit on another in the expectation that a contract between them will be entered into, an unjust enrichment may occur if the agreement does not materialize.
In general terms, if the benefit in question was not intended as a gift and was not conferred officiously, restitution will be ordered.
www.ucc.ie /law/restitution/archive/canacases/alberta/207053.htm   (2689 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Canadian election: Party leaders
Alberta MP Stephen Harper was elected leader of the right-wing Conservative Party (CPC) in 2004, created a year earlier by the merging of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
Mr Layton was a city councillor until he was elected leader of the NDP in 2003, only entering the House of Commons after the 2004 general election.
He was the first MP elected under the Bloc platform, in 1991, and became party leader in 1997.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/4616818.stm   (797 words)

  
 Comparative Politics
The ACE Project (Administration and Cost of Elections Project) has amazingly comprehensive information about elections around the world.
Elections Canada The government agency that oversees Canadian elections.
Maps Great maps of the 1997 federal election results and demographic data.
www.american.edu /dlublin/old/sites/compara.htm   (534 words)

  
 AARN ELECTION 2005 Alberta RN - Find Articles
All president-elect candidates have an opportunity to address the AARN membership at the annual general meeting being held in Jasper on June 4, 2005.
I am seeking the opportunity to represent these, and all Alberta nurses in the professional arena at the provincial and national level.
I was the first doctoral student in the University of Alberta faculty of nursing to be awarded a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the first member in the faculty of nursing at the University of Calgary to receive a research grant from the SSHRC.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3929/is_200505/ai_n13640505   (778 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Election to bring national breakup?
This in turn would foreshadow the election of a separatist provincial government in a provincial election next year or in 2007, and a new Quebec referendum on the separation of Quebec from Canada immediately after that election.
But for Ontario generally, and Toronto particularly, the partial breakup of Canada would be an unimaginable disaster.
Ted Byfield published a weekly news magazine in western Canada for 30 years and is now general editor of "The Christians," a 12-volume history of Christianity.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47707   (796 words)

  
 Internet Society (ISOC) 1999 BOT Election - ISOC Members Only
My interest in running for election to the ISOC Board of Trustees is to help foster the continuing growth of the Internet and to preserve and strengthen the global community the Internet has helped to create.
I was appointed by the Internet Architecture Board to the Policy Oversight Committee where I served during 1997, until I was nominated and appointed to become Area Director for Applications Area in the IETF, a seat which I still serve.
They have in general over emphasized the 'game' part of it, or the extrange behaviours of some groups or, of course the use of the Net by people involved in selling pornography or in terrorism.
www.isoc.org /members/vote/99election/99candinfo.shtml   (6507 words)

  
 Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations
The CAFA Report is a quarterly publication distributed to Alberta faculty association members and interested parties.
Alberta Liberal Party Position on Post-Secondary Education and Training
Alberta New Democrats Agenda For Change Fully Funded Public Education
www.ualberta.ca /~cafa/report.html   (143 words)

  
 Calgary & Southern Alberta - Ernest Manning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He was sworn in as Alberta's twelfth premier on December 16 of that year.
Several months later, Albertans gave his party a victory in the Provincial general election of June 15, 1993.
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.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/calgary/klein.html   (384 words)

  
 E/1997/L.2/Add.2 Election to the Committee on Natural Resources
Organizational session for 1997 4-7 February 1997 Agenda item 8 ELECTIONS, NOMINATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS Election to the Committee on Natural Resources Note by the Secretary-General The Secretary-General has received the following nomination from the Government of Canada for election to the Committee on Natural Resources: Denis Davis.
Responsible for federal water programmes within Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories for enhancement of water quality and water resources management.
Supervised or participated in water quality monitoring sediment, snow and glacier studies, and watershed research programmes in Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
www.un.org /esa/documents/ecosoc/docs/1997/e1997-l2add2.htm   (604 words)

  
 Canada: Political truce until next year judgment day, IRED
He was part of the first group of Bulgarian intellectuals that began the opposition movement that finally put an end to the communist regime in the country, and in 1996-1997 participated in the international monitors' teams during the elections in several Balkan countries - Romania, Albania and Bulgaria.
Not with an absolute majority as in the previous 3 elections, but anyway far ahead of its main challengers from the new Conservative party.
June 29 election was considered to be a mere formality till last December, legalization of the earlier party coronation of its new leader Paul Martin.
www.ired.com /news/mkt/can-04election.htm   (1050 words)

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