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	CBC - British Columbia Votes 2005 - Features - Election Dictionary
		general election (n) an election in all electoral districts.
		In other provinces and federally, general elections are caused when the sitting premier or governing party leader requests the Lieutenant Governor to dissolve the House of Assembly and call an election.
		The outcome of the dispute - an election victory by King - firmly established the principle that a Governor General must agree to a prime minister's request for the dissolution of Parliament and a general election.
	www.cbc.ca /bcvotes2005/features/dictionary.html (3914 words)

	British Columbia general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		November 23, 2003 - Carole James is elected as leader of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia.
		January 31, 2005 - Liberal MLA and former cabinet minister Sandy Santori resigns from his seat in the Legislature.
		May 3, 2005 - The leaders of the Liberal, NDP and Green parties meet in a televised debate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Columbia_general_election,_2005 (2180 words)

	BC Ministry of Education - School Trustee Election Procedures in British Columbia 2005
		Elections of all trustees, to be known collectively as a general school election, must be held every three years.
		The guide, School Trustee Election Procedures in British Columbia 2005, brings together all salient features of the Acts and regulations governing school board elections to make them more accessible and comprehensible to the layperson and school board officials.
		General voting day for the general school election must be on the third Saturday of November in the year of the election.
	www.bced.gov.bc.ca /policy/policies/school_trustee_election.htm (447 words)

	FairVote - Electoral Reform in British Columbia
		These results from British Columbia show clearly how obvious the limitations of winner-take-all are, in contrast to the advantages of choice voting.
		In British Columbia, if choice voting were adopted, the current single member districts would be combined into multi-member districts.
		Although the effort to switch to proportional representation in Canada at a national level may be blocked, five provinces, British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, are considering the adoption of proportional representation.
	www.fairvote.org /?page=515 (1527 words)

	Poll: BC NDP Leader Carole James KO's Campbell 'cold' in all station TV debate
		British Columbians who watched the TV debate on Tuesday May 3, 2005 are of the opinion that Carole James was the clear winner.
		British Columbians who did not watch the debate but intend to vote are inclined by a small margin to vote for Carole James and the BC NDP ahead of Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals.
		British Columbians were less inclined to watch the debate if they lived in the North and East of the Province, however amongst those who did not watch the television debate but intend to vote, Carole James is a marginal winner over Gordon Campbell in this region.
	www.robbinssceresearch.com /polls/poll_171.html (607 words)

	March 2005 Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The British Columbia government needs to invest in services that support families, students and seniors, said NDP Leader Carole James during at a dinner in Prince Rupert last night.
		James said that British Columbians would benefit by increasing the number of general and specialized residencies for foreign-trained doctors and by developing national assessment standards for doctors trained outside Canada.
		James said her plan also includes a commitment to work with the federal government to ensure new money allocated in the recent federal budget for foreign-trained doctors is used to develop national assessment standards to ensure foreign-trained doctors meet the high Canadian standards for treatment.
	www.rupert.net /~nivlact/march_2005_highlights.htm (973 words)

	Behind The Spin: Blogs and the 2005 election
		General election campaigns are competitive events and parties seek to use tactics, techniques and technologies which they believe will give them an edge.
		Following the US Presidential election campaign in 2004, where both candidates and experts' weblogs had played a role, some commentators predicted the blogosphere would be significant in the 2005 General Election.
		Therefore, in the run-up to the 2005 General Election, individual politicians' blogs could be viewed more as a media relations tool than a means of engaging in meaningful dialogue with constituents.
	publicsphere.typepad.com /behindthespin/2005/11/blogs_and_the_2.html (2236 words)

	General Strike Begins in British Columbia
		General Strike!" as Jim Sinclair, president of the BC Fed took the stage.
		The BC Federation of Labour has called a general strike in British Columbia's capital for Monday, but it is also clear that this is only the first step.
		A one day general strike in one city is a fantastic show of force that may scare the government into backing down.
	www.marxist.com /general-strike-begins-bc171005.htm (2652 words)

	Slaw \| Archive \| British Columbia Reports Online
		The British Columbia Reports is a law report series that was first published in 1884 by the Law Society of British Columbia, with judgments dating back to 1867.
		The British Columbia Reports is an important resource for legal researchers, historians, genealogists, and British Columbians in general, due to the fact that it provides a collection of unique primary information on society and individuals living in British Columbia in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
		Also published during this period was the Digest of British Columbia Case Law, a three-volume series of summaries of cases from the Reports, as well as from publications of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom.
	www.slaw.ca /2005/12/21/british-columbia-reports-online (418 words)

	The Sun Never Set on the British Empire
		In 1909 the British Empire encompassed 20% of the land area of the Earth and 23% of its population.
		The Union of South Africa was formed from the British colonies of the Natal and the Cape Colony, together with the subjugated Boer Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.
		The flag of the Union was, significantly, an archaizing Dutch flag, with an orange instead of a red stripe, and the flag of Britain, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal on the middle stripe.
	www.friesian.com /british.htm (6479 words)

	CUPE 4163 University of Victoria: BC Election 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The next provincial election in British Columbia is May 17, 2005.
		CUPE BC has resources with fact-sheets related to the election in British Columbia.
		General registration for the May 17, 2005 provincial general election is now closed.
	web.uvic.ca /~cupe4163/BCelection2005.htm (953 words)

	BC-STV Web Poll
		On May 17, 2005, citizens of British Columbia may or may not have decided to adopt this method.
		DemoChoice is not affiliated with Elections BC or any candidate, party, or campaign in the 2005 election.
		Candidates and links thereto are those published by Elections BC or available on a party website 1 month prior to the election, or directly requested by a properly registered candidate with a web page specifically about that candidate that we can link to.
	bc.demochoice.org (338 words)

	The Green Party in BC: Reading the Federal Elections :: thetyee.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Greens have fielded B.C. candidates in federal general elections since 1984.
		Consider the last three federal general elections, in 1997, 2000 and 2004, and the Green party's results in B.C. In 1997 the best performance by a Green candidate was in West Kootenay-Okanagan, where Andy Shadrack collected 2,455 votes.
		After all, three years earlier the B.C. Greens had soared to over 12% in the provincial general election, and several public opinion surveys placed the federal wing in the low 'teens in British Columbia as the federal campaign got underway.
	thetyee.ca /Election/Battleground/2005/05/05/GreenReading (681 words)

	thetyee.ca The North: Liberals Hard to Dislodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The North remains a key battleground in British Columbia's 2005 general election.
		As it was four years ago, the North in 2005 once again is a two-party battle between the Liberals and the NDP, with the Green party nearly irrelevant.
		In the last election there were no Green candidates in either Peace River North or Cariboo South, and party representatives garnered just 4.1% of the vote in Peace River South and 4.6% in Cariboo North.
	thetyee.ca /Election/Battleground/2005/04/30/NorthLiberals (491 words)

	FieldNotes: Notes on the Anthropology of British Columbia » 2005 » November
		The recent Aboriginal Summit in Kelowna, British Columbia, drew the provincial and territorial premiers, the prime minister, and aboriginal leaders into two days of discussions about how to improve the living conditions of native people in Canada.
		In an insightful news story in the Terrace Standard, internal Tahltan politics is identified as a possible threat to aboriginal-provincial relations in British Columbia.
		As tribute to Rosa Parks, TheTyee.ca writes this week about “the untold stories of courage, perseverance and unity from …; British Columbia.” The stories noted include successful Haida court challenges in BC courts, community forestry, and the Tahltan mining protests near Iskut Village.
	www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com /2005/11 (1391 words)

	Mapleleafweb.com: Voter Almanac - British Columbia Provincial Election Information
		In the 1996 and 2001 general elections, Campbell was elected to represent the constituency of Vancouver-Point Grey.
		Gordon Campbell was sworn in as British Columbia's 34th Premier on June 5, 2001.
		Adriane Carr was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1952.
	www.mapleleafweb.com /election/quick/bc.html (652 words)

	Elections BC
		Under the Constitution Act, provincial general elections are now held on fixed dates.
		The next provincial general election will be held on May 12, 2009.
		General Voting Day – Tuesday, May 17, 2005 from 8 a.m.
	www.elections.bc.ca /elections/elections-results.htm (391 words)

	cric.ca - Canada's Portal - Quick Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The British Columbia Liberal Party has captured its second straight majority government, but a revived NDP seized a number of seats, including those of at least eight cabinet ministers.
		The Government of Canada provides financial support to the provincial government of British Columbia, most notably through the Canada Health Transfer (CHT), the Canada Social Transfer (CST), the Health Reform Transfer (HRT) and Equalization.
		It is estimated that in 2004-05, support through major transfers to British Columbia will total almost $5.8 billion (about $1,383 per person).
	www.cric.ca /en_html/guide/provinc_elections/britishcolumbia_elec.html (318 words)

	ArcNews Spring 2005 Issue -- In Jefferson County, Kentucky, Voters Find Election Information on the Web With GIS
		Local ballots for the 2004 elections included hotly contested races for U.S. Congress, state legislature, the local board of education, and several judicial seats.
		Voter Connection was enhanced for the 2004 election to include 279 jurisdiction-specific ballot styles to allow citizens to preview ballots and candidate names before going to the polls.
		And in the end, local voter turnout was higher than usual as 71 percent of the nearly 500,000 registered voters in Jefferson County came to the polls.
	www.esri.com /news/arcnews/spring05articles/in-jefferson-county.html (854 words)

	2036 ......: February 2005 Archives
		This social-program bent of the electorate could also explain why the New Democrats are at 18.7 per cent, up three points since the last election, and at a heady 32 per cent support in British Columbia, Graves said.
		February 14, 2005 at 10:35 PM in Politics
		From Washingotn Post: "Beginning this week, however, influential figures among Sunni and anti-occupation factions signaled their willingness to take part in the process that has followed the election, a recognition by some that the vote may have created a new dynamic.
	www.ladlass.com /archives/2005_02.html (458 words)

	September 2005 Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Why Ralph Klein is hammering CN over the railway's toxic spill but not a word is heard from Gordo after the company wiped out the fish in the Cheakamus River.
		According to media reports, an internal Terasen Gas memo indicates that senior Terasen executives "are poised to cash in stock options worth $20 million if shareholders approve the transactions at meetings in Vancouver on October 18." Last week, the BCUC approved a 13-per-cent hike in natural gas prices Terasen charges to B.C. consumers.
		British Columbians paying more and getting less from BC Ferries: NDP
	www.rupert.net /~nivlact/september_2005_highlights.htm (838 words)

	FieldNotes: Notes on the Anthropology of British Columbia » 2005 » June
		The second is a new version of the UBCIC researcher’s handbook, Stolen Lands, Broken Promises: Researching the Indian Land Question in British Columbia (Second Edition).
		In the wake of the recent election victory by the Liberal Party in British Columbia, and their second majority mandate, some changes related to the administration of aboriginal affairs have been announced.
		At the heart of the conflict seems to be whether or not to believe the animal population numbers of Canadian government scientists or the traditional knowledge about caribou, their numbers, and migration patterns of Inuit hunters.
	www.anthroblog.tadmcilwraith.com /2005/06 (2325 words)

	British Government and Politics ; A Comparative Guide; Duncan Watts
		This core text meets the needs of those involved in courses relating to the British political system.
		The author examines the institutions and practices of British government and politics and makes selective comparisons with the experience of other countries, mainly liberal democracies.
		In each chapter, there is a general comparative analysis of the theme, followed by a thorough examination of the situation in Britain.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/074862/074862323X.HTM (131 words)

	UBC Election Stock Market B.C. 2005
		The Election Stock Market for the May 2005 provincial election and electoral reform referendum is now closed.
		Market Liquidation: Following the election and referendum on May 17, the market administrators will await the return of the writ, scheduled for June 8, before liquidating the market and sending out cheques.
		June 7, 2005: The market liquidation is in progress.
	esm.ubc.ca /BC05 (452 words)

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