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In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  John Tory's time
Tory to voice his outrage about, his uncertain, middle-of-the-road positions on the big ones -- health care, education, the size of government -- have resulted in his party being cast as Liberal lite.
Tory has taken a hard line and stuck to it.
Tory has demonstrated a commitment to the rule of law.
www.canada.com /nationalpost/news/editorialsletters/story.html?id=9e50724d-90f9-4732-985c-561865173184   (416 words)

  
  John "The Tory" Randolph
John Randolph was born in 1727 or 1728, probably at what is now called the Peyton Randolph House on Market Square, and his heritage was thoroughly Virginian.
John Randolph arranged passage across the Atlantic for himself, his wife, Ariana, and their two daughters, Susannah and Ariana.
John Randolph died at Brampton, England, in 1784.
www.history.org /Almanack/people/bios/bioratjr.cfm   (605 words)

  
 John Shuttleworth
John Shuttleworth was a Unitarian and was a supporter of Joseph Lancaster and the Nonconformist school that he opened in Manchester in 1813.
John Edward Taylor now argued that "the qualification to vote ought to be low enough to put it fairly within the power of members of the labouring classes by careful, steady and preserving industry to possess themselves of it, yet not so low as to give anything like a preponderating influence to the mere populace.
John Shuttleworth was one of the first aldermen to elected to the borough council and his friend, Thomas Potter, became Manchester's first mayor.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRshuttleworth.htm   (1010 words)

  
 John Tory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John H. Tory, LL.B, BA, MPP (born May 28, 1954) is a Canadian businessman and leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.
Tory's opponents for the leadership post were former Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Oak Ridges MPP Frank Klees, both from the right-wing of the party.
Tory is the son of John A. Tory, president of Thomson Investments Limited and a director of Rogers Cable.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Tory   (1638 words)

  
 Le congrès des progressistes-conservateurs s'est terminé à Niagara Falls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
John Tory, a dit espérer que les Ontariens se prennent davantage en main pour régler leurs problèmes, plutôt que de s'en remettre au gouvernement pour les aider.
Tory refuse toutefois de faire payer aux fumeurs et aux alcooliques les frais de santé qu'ils font encourir au système en raison de leurs excès.
Tory a également affirmé que si son parti est porté au pouvoir en 2007, le public ontarien peut s'attendre à l'instigation de cliniques privées spécialisées dans certains soins de santé.
www.radio-canada.ca /regions/Ontario/2006/02/18/001-congres-conservateur.shtml?ref=rss   (382 words)

  
 MacKay - Canadian Editorial Cartoons
Tory said constituents told him as he campaigned they were disappointed in politicians and pointed to McGuinty's failure to keep his promise not to raise taxes.
Tory said that he in contrast would be an honest, straightforward, consistent and accessible politician.
A moderate conservative, John Tory is a Toronto businessman and lawyer who has been a backroom organizer and fund-raiser for the Progressive Conservatives for over 30 years, at the municipal, provincial and federal levels of government.
www.mackaycartoons.net /huh2005-03-19.html   (358 words)

  
 Eye Weekly - Police back Tory; you shouldn't - 11.06.03
John Tory revealed a lot about himself in his reaction to his endorsement as the mayoralty candidate of choice by the Toronto Police Association last week.
There seems little doubt that Tory's proposal to hire 400 more police officers is one of the key reasons for the endorsement, although the prominence of a police photo on his website can't have hurt either.
John Sewell is a former mayor of Toronto.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_11.06.03/city/citystate.html   (903 words)

  
 The People of Williamsburg
John "The Tory" Randolph - son of Sir John Randolph, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Attorney General for the Virginia colony and loyalist.
Edmund Randolph - son of John "The Tory" Randolph, joined the American army and served as aide-de-camp to General George Washington.
John Robinson - planter, delegate, and speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
www.history.org /Almanack/people/bios/biohdr2.cfm   (556 words)

  
 Toronto Sun Columnist: John Derringer - Tory unlike others   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Tory said this weekend that the next election in this province will be a full 12 years after Mike Harris' Common Sense Revolution swept into power, and that people's views have changed.
John Tory was certainly the closest to centre of the three main Conservative leadership candidates, and I doubt his ideas will drift much in either direction in the next few years.
Tory's biggest challenge won't be to find support among the province's moderates, but rather the conservative (big or small "c") hard-liners who saw Jim Flaherty as the party's future.
www.canoe.ca /NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/John_Derringer/2004/09/21/pf-637100.html   (619 words)

  
 Eye Weekly - The dispassionate Tory - 11.06.03
Tory is far from the political outsider, having served as a senior advisor to Mulroney and Kim Campbell and principal secretary to Premier Bill Davis.
Tory's own campaign may focus on his business expertise and volunteer photo ops, but he's a seasoned backroom player intimately familiar with the unelected side of politics.
Tory accused Toronto's poster bandits of turning the city into a "pigsty" and has proposed a bylaw banning postering and a crackdown on graffiti.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_11.06.03/city/tory.html   (644 words)

  
 John the Tory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
At the outbreak of the Revolution in 1776, John Colson was a prominent citizen of Anson County, North Carolina.
Read three times and ratified in General Assembly, at Fayetteville, the 6th day of December, 1788, except chapters 41 and 43, which were ratified the 15th of November, chapter 21, the 29th of November, and chapter 26, the 4th of December, 1788.
Whereas, it has been made to this General Assembly that the said John Colson has, in obedience to the above recited Act, taken the oath of allegiance and fidelity to this State as by law prescribed, of which there is a record in the Clerk's office of the county of Anson.
hometown.aol.com /eleanorcol/JohntheTory.html   (272 words)

  
 Cerberus: John Tory's "Progressive [pause, ahem, cough] Conservatives"
The panelists would ask Tory a question about some issue of the day and he would respond with "we don't have a policy on that yet" time and time again.
Tory is probably planning to run a campaign similiar to the one run by the Democrats in the US: Vote for us since we are not them.
Perhaps if John Tory would spend more time developing policies instead of lurking out of the shadows everywhere from ally ways, etc. to do the "trashing" routine he'd get somewhere.
canadiancerberus.blogspot.com /2006/11/john-torys-progressive-pause-ahem.html   (1242 words)

  
 Rogers.com | Investor Relations
John A. Tory, Q.C., 75, resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and has been a director of RCI since December 1979.
Tory was educated at University of Toronto Schools, Toronto, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and University of Toronto and holds an LL.B., University of Toronto.
Tory was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1954 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1965.
www.rogers.com /english/investorrelations/tory.html   (121 words)

  
 Stephen Taylor - Conservative Party of Canada Pundit: I met John Tory today
Tory addressed our group and fielded our questions and concerns for regaining provincial conservative grassroots support and for citing lessons learned during the last provincial loss to the Ontario Liberals.
John Tory asserted that campaigns cannot be based upon personal attacks and that such attacks reflect upon the lack of confidence in one's own policies.
Tory reminded us that the mayoral campaign was free from such attacks by all candidates.
www.stephentaylor.ca /archives/000054.html   (366 words)

  
 John Mayfield the Tory
Meek was captured by the Tories, who had to cross a river, and could find no other conveyance but a large hog trough into which they put their prisoner and ferried him over; and carried him to the house of one Capt. Mayfield, a Tory.
John W. Mayfield was the youngest son of John the Tory.
John Steen was a well known and prosperous land owner in the Thicketty Creek area of northern Union County - the same general area where I now believe that the 100-acre tract of John Mayfield was also situated.
sc_tories.tripod.com /john_mayfield.htm   (11803 words)

  
 CTV.ca | John Tory wins Ontario Conservative leadership
John Tory, the most moderate candidate for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, has won the leadership of his party on the second ballot.
The Tories have been in a period of regrouping and rebuilding, after ending up with just 24 seats under Eves' leadership in the provincial election on Oct. 2, 2003.
For the Tories, it was a bitter end to more than eight years in government, which began in 1995 when they were swept to power under then leader Mike Harris and his "common sense revolution" of smaller government and lower taxes.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20040919/PC_Ont_vote_040918/TopStories?s_name=&no_ads=   (921 words)

  
 Sandwalk: John Tory Promotes Creationism
John Cowan of The National Post—a conservative newspaper—reported it like this [John Tory on creationism, the theory of evolution and why ducks have wings].
Tory’s proposal would allow creationism to be discussed only as part of religious studies programming, as is now the practice in Ontario’s publicly-funded Catholic schools.
Tory is running against the current Education Minister Kathleen Wynne (Liberal) in the riding of Don Valley West (Toronto).
sandwalk.blogspot.com /2007/09/john-tory-promotes-creationism.html   (2934 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Profile: John Bercow
John Bercow first became involved in politics as a teenager having attended a school in Margaret Thatcher's Finchley constituency.
He led calls for Tory MPs to be banned from being members of the Monday Club.
The following year he told a Tory fringe meeting at the Conservative conference that there was a much-justified perception that the Tories were rural, provincial and "somewhat prissy".
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3970871.stm   (809 words)

  
 John Tory - The Huffington Post
Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory set out Monday to diffuse the controversy over his policy on faith-based schools by announcing that he would put it to a free vote in the legislature should he become premier.
An agitated John Tory glances at the timekeeper before expressing his frustration with him during a debate with Kathleen Wynne on Sept. 30, 2007.
Ontario Opposition Leader John Tory pledged Sunday to crack down on illegal occupations such as the long-simmering standoff between native and non-native protesters in Caledonia by beefing up the province's trespassing laws.
www.huffingtonpost.com /topics/John+Tory   (1175 words)

  
 Free Dominion :: View topic - John Tory to be cross of Bill Davis and Mike Harris?
Tory has never held elected office, unlike his two rivals, Jim Flaherty and Frank Klees, both cabinet ministers in the Conservative government that was routed in October by Dalton McGuinty's Liberals.
Tory is trying to connect with the grassroots of the party as he criss-crosses the province.
Tory said his leadership would be a cross between the inclusive approach of former premier Bill Davis, for whom he worked as principal secretary, and that of Mike Harris, who expressed a clarity of purpose and lived up to his promises.
www.freedominion.ca /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=26841   (5150 words)

  
 Andrew Spicer's Weblog - Next Steps for John Tory
John Barber's column in the Globe also quotes Tory campaign manager Rocco Rossi as saying "[Tory's] not unilingual," thereby taking a knock at one of the barriers that supposedly blocked Tory from national success.
Personally, I think John Tory would be an asset to any conservative party, but that's not really up to me. They can decide for themselves.
John Tory was doing what he really wanted to do.
www.andrewspicer.com /article188.html   (363 words)

  
 The Ontario PC Party - Search Results
John Tory was in Scarborough's Galloway neighbourhood, where he met with a local group of residents concerned with the increasing rate of violent crime.
John Tory says farmers are an integral part of our province and announces the new PC Party plan for agriculture that will see increased financial and organizational support for farmers and their...
John Tory calls on Dalton McGuinty to apologize to thousands of small business owners and employees around the province who the Premier said couldn't be trusted because of the lottery scandal.
www.ontariopc.com /search_results.asp   (3333 words)

  
 babble: John Tory seeking Tory leadership
Tory's bonus, which could be determined by the company meeting certain financial targets.
John Barber wrote a column about how his handlers essentially blew the campaign by chasing after right-wing votes that he would have had anyway, while conceding the centre to Miller, so that when voters started fleeing the good ship Hall, most went to Miller.
Tory can claim a better ability to deliver that agenda because he won't have to make a million promises to the left to get elected, à la Dalton.
www.rabble.ca /babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=9&t=000741   (1452 words)

  
 CNEWS Chin up, also-rans: there's a bright side to losing, says 2003 runner-up John Tory
TORONTO (CP) -- To the disappointed runners-up, the embarrassed, blown-out candidates, and the dejected rookies sure to emerge from Monday's 2006 municipal elections, former second-place finisher John Tory has some advice: don't throw in the towel just yet.
 Tory was a long shot in 2003 when he entered the 2003 mayoral race, but came within about five per cent of eventual winner David Miller on election night.
The nature of the campaign allowed both Tory and Miller to remain "honourable," he added.
www.canoe.ca /OntQueTicker/CANOE-wire.Ont-Elxn-Tory.html   (634 words)

  
 Interviews with Toronto's 5 Mayoral Candidates -- John Tory
Tory brings a wealth of experience and a record of achievement to his candidacy as a result of many successful years of service as businessman, lawyer, volunteer and community activist.
John became involved with the Ukrainian community at functions such as the “Help us Help the Children” at the CBC, The Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival, and St. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Community Homes.
Tory at the Yuschenko (former P.M. for Ukraine) banquet at the Royal York Hotel, and found John to be an intelligent upstanding gentleman.”
www.infoukes.com /politics/toronto_2003/tory   (498 words)

  
 John Nunziata vs. John Tory
According to the former Liberal rat packer, in late September, senior representatives of the John Tory campaign had offered him a $150,000 "bribe" to drop out of the mayoralty race in late September.
That was John’s story when the scandal broke and he didn’t stick to it long for long.
Nunziata points to John Tory’s camp were the headlines in Saturday’s Toronto Star.
www.canadafreepress.com /2003/ed102703.htm   (537 words)

  
 Tory new leader of Ontario PC party
John Tory pulled ahead of his closest rival, former Ontario finance minister Jim Flaherty, after the first ballot and won the second ballot with 56 per cent of the vote.
During the campaign, Tory positioned himself as a pragmatist who wants to move the party away from the style and substance of the right-wing platform implemented by former premier Mike Harris in the 1990s.
Flaherty had cautioned Conservatives not to pick a moderate candidate such as Tory, who he said, would try to be all things to all people and worry about the opinion of media and special interest groups.
www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2004/09/18/tories_ontario040918.html   (0 words)

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