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  Independent Labour Party (in Manitoba) (II)
\n---- \nThe Independent Labour Party was the dominant leftist group in the Manitoba legislature prior to the emergence of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation.
The party was social-democratic in nature, and often had hostile relations with groups that were further to the left.
Following the election (in which the party won seven seats), disgruntled ILP members succeeded in disaffiliating the parties until an acceptable compromise could be reached.
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  List of political parties in Canada - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
2.5.1 Parties represented in the House of Assembly
In contrast with the political party systems of many nations, Canadian parties at the federal level are often only loosely connected with parties at the provincial level, despite having similar names.
Parties represented in the National Assembly of Quebec
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 Manitoba - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Manitoba is located in the longitudinal centre of Canada, although it is considered part of Western Canada.
The second subsidiary aspect was that, as a struggle for leadership in the Labour movement was being waged as the strike began, it was not made clear which object, the legitimate and limited one, or the revolutionary and general one, was the true purpose of the strike.
John A. Macdonald introduced the Manitoba Act in the Canadian House of Commons and pretended that the question of province or territory was of no significance.
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 Manitoba History: Labour in Brandon Civic Politics: A Long View   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Labour’s intervention in the municipal elections of 1917 and 1918 was a manifestation of intensified class antagonisms.
Labour achieved a breakthrough in the provincial election of 29 June 1920, when Reverend A. Smith, candidate of the Brandon Labour Party, won the Brandon seat in a campaign planned and organized under the leadership of local unions.
The history of labour and social democratic party involvement in civic elections in Brandon suggests that the political culture of the working class in Brandon was never sufficiently developed to generate the sustained efforts required to wrest control of city hall away from the city’s ruling elites.
www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/mb_history/23/brandonlabour.shtml   (10806 words)

  
 William Bayley Information
He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1915, as a candidate of the Labour Representation Committee.
Labour's electoral fortunes rose in Manitoba after the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
Bayley ran for the legislature again in the 1920 provincial election as a candidate of the Dominion Labour Party, and defeated Wilton by 103 votes.
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 Canada - Search View - MSN Encarta
The initiators were three political leaders—George Étienne Cartier and John A. Macdonald of the Conservative party, successor to the Tories, and George Brown of the Liberal party, successor to the reformers—who formed a coalition government in 1864.
In Ottawa, Diefenbaker was unable to govern the country effectively, and his party was beaten in the election of 1963 by the revitalized Liberals led by Lester Pearson, a former diplomat.
Although the party failed to win an overall majority, the governor-general asked Stephen Harper, leader of the Conservative Party, to form the new government and a coalition is expected to be established in the near future.
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 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Manitoba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The second subsidiary aspect was that, as a struggle for leadership in the Labour movement was being waged as the strike began, it was not made clear which object, the legitimate and limited one, or the revolutionary and general one, was the true purpose of the strike.
Manitoba was unusual in its leap to provincial status.
Manitoba's early economy was one that depended on mobility and living off the land.
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 Liberal Party of Canada - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The party has been frequently dubbed "Canada's natural governing party", since it was in power for most of the twentieth century, and starting with Wilfrid Laurier in 1896 every leader of the party has served as Prime Minister of Canada.
The Liberal Party was reduced from a majority to a minority government due, in part, to the sponsorship scandal, in which advertising agencies supporting the Liberal Party received grossly inflated commissions for their services.
In April 2005, David Kilgour, one of the party's two MPs from Alberta announced that he was leaving the party to sit as an independent member of the House of Commons due to the damaging allegations of corruption in the Liberal Party's Quebec wing based on testimony in the Gomery Commission inquiry.
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 Mark Thomas | Setting the Minimum: Ontario's Employment Standards in the Postwar Years, 1944–1968 | Labour/Le ...
During the late 19th century, labour and employment law in Canada was shaped by the principles of "liberal voluntarism" — minimal state regulation of the employment relationship, both with respect to unionization and minimum standards.
This commitment was made in a context of growing labour unrest, the emergence of the federal welfare state, and the regulation of the former by the later through the labour relations legislation of the postwar settlement.
Labour market segmentation theories posit that capitalist labour markets are constructed through the intersection of social, institutional, economic, and technological forces, and that they are divided into sub-markets, each of which may regulate labour market actors in different ways.
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 Arthur Puttee Information
He became chairman of a new party, the Independent Labour Party, based on the British model.
In 1918, Puttee helped to create the Dominion Labour Party, which was intended to consolidate labourist activities in various cities throughout the country.
Puttee ran for the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1922 in the riding of Winnipeg -- not as a Labour candidate, but as a Progressive, aligned with the United Farmers of Manitoba.
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 Labour Studies: Online Learning Centre
The Minister of Labour was authorized to collect and publish labour information and to appoint conciliation officers or a conciliation board whose services could be placed at the disposal of either or both parties to a dispute.
The Railway Labour Disputes Act applied to the Crown and its provisions were utilized in two disputes involving the Inter-colonial Railway and in 1921 in one on the Canadian National.
Nevertheless, the Deputy Minister of Labour stated in his report for 1918-19 that in the early days of the life of this statute it was the practice to establish a board in a dispute involving municipal utilities "in the absence of a distinct protest by the municipality on the ground of jurisdiction".
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 Catholic Insight : Culture : The CCF and the Canadian Catholic Church
He condemned the party, fearing that it would raise the horrors of class warfare, that its approach was essentially materialistic, and that it opposed private property.
Also, many of the party’s supporters were members of the recently formed United Church of Canada, and some prominent leaders were, or had been, ministers, who like Woodsworth, had left the pulpit in protest against their congregations, which were under the control of the middle class who ignored the poor.
The party was on the move and ahead of the Conservatives in the polls.
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 Thoughts from a Management Lawyer: Labour Law
In the end, the parties may not contract out of the duty to accommodate under human rights legislation and, to the extent that they do so, their agreement will be of no force or effect.
It is obviously open to the parties to bar the use of surveillance evidence at arbitrations through the inclusion of an appropriate clause in their collective agreement, and arbitrators would respect such a clause.
If either party believes that the other is engaged in an "unlawful strike" or "unlawful lockout" then they would make an application to the Ontario Labour Relations Board for a "declaration" that the conduct in question is in breach of the Act and a "cease and desist" order.
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 H. H. STEVENS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
He and the executive of the Reconstruction Party were drafting a manifesto "to grapple the pressing problems with the purpose of improving the conditions of the masses."
The Reconstruction Party was largely an act of political desperation; it had no ideological base to compare with that of the CCF, Canada's socialist party, or even the Social Credit Party.
No one can ever hope to calculate what the rift between Bennett and Stevens cost the party in terms of its disaster on polling day, but it is possible to make some estimate of how many seats the votes cast for the Reconstruction Party cost the Conservative candidate his victory; and the results are startling.
www.canadafirst.net /our_heritage/h-h_stevens   (3357 words)

  
 MINER'S DIARY - John A. Gill, Asessippi, Manitoba, Canada
Eldorado & Bonanza Dominion & Sulphur seem to be about only creeks of importance worked - I am going out to have a look at some of them.
Foster has gone out to Dominion Creek with his friend White, will be back about Friday, on the chance of staking claims that no representative work has been done all such claims are being open for re-entry on 1st September.
Foster returned from Dominion Creek staked one claim but don't think he can record it as it is impossible to get near the office without a week waiting & then may find that it is reserved or something of the kind.
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 Dangerous Knowledge: Canadian Workers' Education in the Decades of Discord
For my purposes, the boundaries of workers' education ought to be drawn such that we can study both the "schools of labour" and "labour's schools." Simply defined, the schools of labor are the socially organized work places, embedded in networks of economic, social, and political control.
Perhaps the most significant development in Winnipeg in September 1919 was the Labour Church and OBU's call for the formation of a Labour College for Winnipeg after the bitter defeat of the General Strike of May and June.
From the beginning, the educational classes of the OBU were considered to be preliminary to the establishment of a Labour College in Winnipeg.
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 Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The premier (called the prime minister until 1972), who is usually the leader of the majority party in the Ontario legislature, is the actual head of the provincial government and presides over the executive council or cabinet.
The equal representation of the two regions in one parliament, however, brought political deadlock that was broken in 1867 by confederation, in which Upper and Lower Canada became the separate provinces of Ontario and Quebec respectively.
With 44 per cent of the Canadian population in 1871, Ontario was the dominant member in the new Dominion.
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 Manitoba: History and Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Manitoba was explored and posts were established by the French as well as by the British; their rival claims were resolved when England's conquest of Canada in the
Agricultural settlement in Manitoba proceeded slowly, but when the railroads came (1870 and 1881), they provided access to grain markets on the Great Lakes, and during the 1880s the population doubled.
Manitoba's area was enlarged in 1881, and in 1912 it was given its present extension to Hudson Bay.
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 CANWIN - The Canadian Women's Issues Network
The Dominion By-Elections Act of 1919 gave women, for the first time, the right to be elected to Federal Parliament.
Miss Agnes Campbell MacPhail was elected in 1921 and 1925 as a Progressive and in 1926 as a United Farmers of Ontario (U.F.O.) candidate.
These are the percentages of female candidates riding in certain political parties in the 2000 National Canadian Election.
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 Free Essay The Four Political Parties of Canada
Her early days of campaigning were regarded as successful for herself and the party, but in the latter part of the election campaign, debates over whether or not Campbell was a competent leader were raised.
Even though the federal party was decimated, provincial PC parties seemed to hold their own during the federal dark times.
One moniker that the Reform Party wears that could damage their hopes of ever being the opposition or the government is the fact that many Canadians have the stereotype that Reform MPs and supporters are red-necked hillbillies from out west.
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 Index J   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
He was an employee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1958-63), chairman of the Central Administration for the Development of a Communal Economy (1963-66), deputy minister of the interior (1966-68), and chairman of the party's Central Control and Auditing Commission (1968-77).
The president of the Bosnian branch of the Croatian HDZ party and since 1996 defense minister of the Muslim-Croat federation, Jelavic successfully ran for the Croat seat on the country's presidency in 1998.
In the first party leadership election in Canadian history in which all party members could vote directly for the candidates, he was chosen leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ) on Sept. 29, 1985.
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 Canada in Review | The Dominion
The NDP's campaign is in clear juxtaposition to the Liberal Party's coronation ceremony and handled effectively will position this as an election issue in a year to a year and half when the next federal election should be held.
Campaign finance restrictions are also making news in Manitoba where the NDP government is seeking re-election in the first provincial elections since major restrictions on campaigning were imposed.
The Dominion is a monthly paper published by an incipient network of independent journalists in Canada.
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 The Legal Aid Services Society of Manitoba
10:03 Where an employee is suspended by the Manitoba Law Society and as a result is incapable of performing his regular responsibilities with the Legal Aid Services Society during the period of suspension, subject to Section :04, the Society shall not be required to maintain the employee's salary during the period of suspension.
27:01 In recognition of the mutual benefits to be derived from joint consultation, the parties agree to the establishment of a Labour Management Committee to be comprised of three (3) employee representatives as determined by the Association together with equal representation from the Society as determined by the employing authority.
The appointees of the respective parties to the Committees shall be named within one (1) month of the signing of this Agreement and notice thereof shall be given to the other party.
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 Why the labour movement supports the New Democrats
This is such an obvious truth that it should come as no surprise that labour political parties have been in existence since working men got the vote in this country in 1897 (working women didn’t get the vote until twenty years after that).
The Dominion Labour Party, the Canadian Labor Party, the Workingmen’s Party and the People’s Political Party were all early attempts by Canadian workers to create a political vehicle for working people.
If you add the various progressive political parties whose aim was to advance the rights of working people, like the Canadian Socialist Party and Social Democratic Party, you can see how prevalent the idea of a workers’ party actually has been in Canada.
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 GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note
He joined the newly created Independent Labour Party in 1894 but was unsuccessful in his bid for a seat in Parliament.
In 1900 he became the first secretary of the Labour Representative Committee, later the Labour Party, and with the decline of the Liberal Party, the major parliamentary alternative to the Conservatives.
Economic difficulties at home, however, forced his resignation as head of the Labour Party, and his attempts to continue to govern as head of a coalition led to failure and replacement by the up-an-coming Stanley Baldwin.
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 spci
The first political party in Canada claiming to be socialist was the Socialist Labor Party, an offshoot of the Socialist Labor Party of America.
The Socialist Party of British Columbia was less enthusiastic, however, as it had increased in size and influence; it also had three of its members elected to the British Columbia Legislature.
Some members of the Socialist Party of Canada, particularly former supporters of East and Central European social democratic parties, proposed that the SPC affiliate to the “International Socialist Bureau”, that is the Second International.
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 Federal Election 2004
It obviously didn't help that the New Democratic Party of Alexa McDonough was facing an identity crisis with factions wondering if the NDP should be a blairite Third Way Centrist party or to return to its Labour roots.
In Quebec, sovereignist support for the Bloc Québécois was on the way down from the 1995 referendum, and their decline continued from the losses in 1997.
The Reform parties were the Alliance, taking the right-wing, and the NDP taking the left-wing, while the conservatives were the PCs and the Liberals.
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 Cities and Towns - Hometown Canada
The only other party to have formed a government is the now-defunct, right-of-centre Progressive Conservative (PC) Party and its predecessor, the Conservative Party, which was the dominant political party in the 19th century.
The PC Party merged with the Canadian Alliance to form a new Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003.
The provincial political climate of Quebec is quite different: the main split is between separatism, represented by the Parti Québécois, and federalism, represented by the Parti Libéral du Québec.
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