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	New Democratic Party of British Columbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a democratic socialist political party in British Columbia, Canada.
		It is the provincial arm of the New Democratic Party of Canada.
		The party was formed in 1933 as the British Columbia section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) by a coalition of the Socialist Party of Canada (BC), the League for Social Reconstruction, and affiliated organizations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Democratic_Party_of_British_Columbia (2405 words)

	Leadership convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike in the United States, where political conventions are held every four years to choose the party's presidential nominee, in Canada the leader of a party generally remains that party's de facto candidate for Prime Minister until such time as he or she dies, resigns or is dismissed by the party.
		In the New Democratic Party and some of its provincial branches, the position of party leader was treated as all other positions on the party's executive committee, and open for election at party conventions generally held every two years though incumbent leaders rarely face more than token opposition.
		Prior to that the leader of the party was chosen by the party's parliamentary caucus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leadership_convention (824 words)

	British Columbia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada, is bounded on the E by Alberta, on the S by Montana, Idaho, and Washington, on the W by the Pacific Ocean, on the NW by Alaska, and on the N by the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories.
		Large areas of central and N British Columbia are sparsely settled; almost three fourths of the population is crowded into the southwest coastal tip in the Georgia Strait region.
		In 1866, Vancouver Island and British Columbia were merged, and in 1871 the united British Columbia, lured by promises of financial aid and the building of a transcontinental railroad that would link it to the rest of Canada, voted to join the new Canadian confederation.
	www.bartleby.com /65/br/BritCol.html (1474 words)

	Political parties in Canada
		The current policies of the Conservative Party are also somewhat more ideologically "hard-line" than the policies of the PC party ever were, though they have softened a bit as a result of compromises leading to the merger.
		At party conventions all the party members in the country (or their elected "delegates") get to elect or re-elect their party leader, and pass various resolutions to alter the party platform.
		Of all the "fringe" parties their poll numbers remain highest, and some have speculated the party may eventually unseat the NDP as the new voice of the progressive left.
	www.filibustercartoons.com /canguide_1_pp_guide.php (2775 words)

	Politics of Canada
		Legislative power rests with the party that won the majority of seats in the House of Commons which is elected from a current 301 constituencies (or electoral districts) for a period not to exceed 5 years.
		Two parties won a combined 59% of the popular vote, but the separatist Parti Québécois won enough strategic electoral districts to take power with 41% of the popular vote, which is very common with first-past-the-post voting methods.
		In the 1993 national election, the conservative vote was divided between two parties that resulted in the Bloc Québécois being elected as the official opposition.
	www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_Canada.html (3760 words)

	Law.com - Federal Court Determines Party Bosses Control N.Y. Judicial Nominations
		The system of electing Supreme Court justices in New York violates the rights of voters and judicial candidates and must be scrapped, a federal judge said Friday in a scathing ruling that could change forever the way judicial offices in the state are filled.
		New York's century-old convention system is unique in the United States and only applies to Supreme Court justices.
		At conventions, candidates for the court are chosen by delegates.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1138356410783 (947 words)

	New Democratic Party - Gurupedia
		The importance of labour to the party is still reflected in the party's leadership elections as labour votes are scaled to 25% of the total number of ballots cast.
		Under the leadership of Audrey McLaughlin -- the first woman to be leader of a national political party in Parliament -- and Alexa McDonough, the party underwent a decline.
		Unlike other federal parties, the NDP is integrated with its provincial and territorial party, such that a member of the federal party is a member of the provincial or territorial party where he or she resides.
	www.gurupedia.com /n/nd/ndp.htm (1068 words)

	FIGHTBACK: It's time to start changing our unions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Caucus was organized in response to the failures of the leadership of the BC Federation of Labour and their role in the deal which ended this spring's Hospital Employees Union strike.
		British Columbiaâs labour movement has been crippled by a lack of vision, a lack of analysis, and bad internal and external politics.
		To move toward a labour movement that is genuinely militant, democratic and accountable to its members we must seek to implement a new set of strategies â“ from the BC Federation of Labour through each of the affiliated unions down to the level of local unions.
	www.cheblogs.com /roller/page/1234/FightBack (3450 words)

	Mapleleafweb.com: The Canadian Alliance Leadership Race
		The dominant federal political parties in Canada are the Liberal Party (which is currently in power), the Canadian Alliance Party (which is the Official Opposition party), the Progressive Conservative Party, the Bloc Quebecois, and the New Democratic Party.
		Reynolds was elected to the Legislative Assembly for British in 1983.
		Delegates to the national convention are elected in proportion to the membership vote received by each leadership candidate (for example, if Paul Martin receives 40% of the direct vote by party members, then 40% of the delegates to the national convention will be delegates who have declared their support for Mr.
	www.mapleleafweb.com /education/spotlight/issue_10/printable.html (2251 words)

	Liberal Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Liberal Party is often called "Canada's governing party" because it has been in in Canada for most of the past It is one of only two parties have alternately governed Canada since Confederation the other being the now-defunct Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and its various preceding incarnations.
		In their early history the Liberals were party of free trade continentalism and opposition to excessive imperialism.
		Under the party's new leader John Turner Liberals lost power in the 1984 Canadian election and were reduced to only 40 in the House of Commons.
	www.freeglossary.com /Liberal_Party_of_Canada (1967 words)

	The Phantom Observer
		The self-described Beast of British Columbia was eligible for the hearing because he has served 25 years of his life sentence for the killings, which shocked Canada in the 1980s.
		Party foot soldiers, some of whom predicted last year that they could not win a seat in Quebec, are delighted with their prospects in that province.
		For a thoroughgoing grassroots party, this now has to mean that a robust constituency association be able to conduct a fair and open nomination of its candidate according to established rules and guidelines without having the process set aside or overruled by ‘head office’ to favour a parachuted candidate or impose a hand-picked person.
	phantomobserver.com (4631 words)

	RankAndFile(RankAndFile.htm) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Revulsion gripped working people in Canada when the party that is supposed to be theirs, the New Democratic Party, voted in Parliament at the end of March in favour of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
		Overnight, the party’s youth organization, the Young New Democrats, condemned the war and disassociated themselves from the leadership’s decision.
		The betrayal of principle by the NDP and other parties of the Second International in regards to the war is a wrenching example of the contradiction at the heart of social democracy.
	www.socialism.com /fsarticles/vol20no2/RankAndFile.htm (977 words)

	Don't Call My Vote 'Wasted' :: thetyee.ca
		In the foreseeable future, their is only one electoral party, who has the election troops on the ground, the ability to raise large amounts of money and a dedicated core of national supporters who will not go away.
		And while we got a few new parks, enough didn't get done that the NDP had claimed they would do that indicates that their alliance with the forest unions is just every bit as strong as the Socred/Liberal alliance with the forest companies.
		The Green Party, under the present leadership, is not a friend of the environment that Rafe suggests.
	thetyee.ca /Views/2006/01/22/WastedVote (11106 words)

	Election-day in British Columbia: New Democratic Party in trouble
		A series of compromises and betrayals from the leadership of the labour movement has led to a lull in the movement against the government.
		When Carole James was elected leader of the BC New Democratic Party she was substantially to the left of where she stands now, and that isn’t saying much.
		The leaders of the New Democratic Party see the link with the labour movement as a threat to their positions, and rightly so.
	www.marxist.com /canada-bc-election-day170505.htm (1353 words)

	True Patriot - Canadian Conservative Club : Canada's Conservative Choice Online http://www.geocities.com/CanConCluTruPat
		Not surprisingly, with this kind of discouragement from the party leadership, not many resolutions originating with the grassroots have ever got to be official party policy and so is the plight of the Liberal Party member who is forced to toe party line no matter how much it hurts their honest conscience.
		We are sorry for trying to force the joint party idea upon you and are happy to take your beliefs and replace them with the ones of the past five years we built and created into the foundation of this website.
		Under Manning's leadership, in just ten short years, the Reform Party grew from a western-based protest party to become the pan-Canadian Official Opposition in Parliament, an unprecedented political move yet to be replicated electorally.
	www.geocities.com /CanConCluTruPat (6895 words)

	British Columbia: History and Politics
		Rival British and Spanish claims for the area were partly resolved by the Nootka Conventions of 1790–92 (see
		Rival British and American claims to the area were settled three years later when the boundary was set at the 49th parallel (see
		party came into power in 1952, under the leadership of W. Bennett, and retained control until 1972, when the New Democratic party, led by David Barrett, won a majority.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0857025.html (782 words)

	Salt Spring News :: Daily News Of and For Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		British Columbia was estimated to need 35,000 workers in the next several years to replace retiring workers and keep up with demand, the association said.
		British Columbia's 2005-06 public accounts, released on Monday, July 17, show that the province's "accumulated deficit" has fallen to just $124 million.
		British and American armies use similar scenarios to train their recruits and they have been able to reduce casualties as a result, said Fisekci.
	www.saltspringnews.com (12089 words)

	THE MANTICORE: Will bite when provoked. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Local News: "The governor said that at midnight, all of the boat operators trying to rescue people from rooftops were told to take a break.
		Blanco said rescuers were unable to get to people stranded in one tall building because so many other people were 'calling to them and jumping from rooftops' into the water to be rescued first.
		You are a poet, and you embody New York
	themanticore.blogspot.com /2005_08_01_themanticore_archive.html (4123 words)

	Nodice · Canada Federal Election 2006 · Parties and Leaders
		Political Parties who lost their eligibility to become registered
		Note: This site is not sponsored by any political party, candidate, entity, or organization.
		It does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external sites.
	www.nodice.ca /elections/canada/parties.php (47 words)

	Drug War Chronicle, Issue #403
		The necessity of adhering to the conventions is why Holland never officially ended marijuana prohibition even though it is now observed mostly in the breach, at least when it comes to the country's famous cannabis coffee shops.
		Pushed only limply by the Liberal Party leadership, the bill was reflexively opposed by the Conservative Party, and won only limited support from the Bloc Quebecois and the New Democratic Party, both of whom demanded substantial changes in the bill.
		This year's rite follows that convention, with Washington foes Venezuela and Myanmar being decertified, while China, with whom the US seeks closer relations, was rewarded from being removed from the list of drug-producing or transit countries despite major flows of heroin in and out of the country.
	stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/403/full.shtml (6477 words)

	The Democratic Party
		If an Islamic leader had encouraged assassination of a democratically elected official of a country, endorsed attacking the State Department or any other federal installation, made derogatory comments about Christianity, and preached bigotry, I strongly suspect the individual would be on a terrorist watch list and denied a tax-exempt forum.
		President George W. Bush’s recess appointment of ethically-challenged John Bolton as the new ambassador to the United Nations is a typical act of arrogant defiance from a man who believes he should be all-powerful and the checks and balances built into the U.S. Constitution are expendable when they conflict with his political agenda.
		The oilfields span both Columbia and Venezuela, and the brigades protecting the pipeline could easily slip across the porous border should there be a military confrontation between Washington and Caracas.
	www.democrats.org /a/2005/08/open_thread_61.php (13587 words)

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