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Topic: List of Canadian Prime Ministers by residence


  
  Prime Minister of Canada
The Prime Minister of Canada, the head of the Canadian government, is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons.
Since the Prime Minister is in practice the most powerful member of the Canadian government, he or she is sometimes erroneously referred to as the head of state.
Most Canadian legislation originates in the cabinet of Canada, which is a body appointed by the Prime Minister largely from the ranks of his party's MPs.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/p/pr/prime_minister_of_canada.html   (1718 words)

  
 Prime_Minister_of_Canada - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
The Prime Minister is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons.
If the prime minister should fail to win his or her seat, a junior Member of Parliament in a safe seat would typically resign to permit a by-election to elect that leader to a seat.
Since the prime minister is, in practice, the most powerful member of the Canadian government, he or she is sometimes erroneously referred to as Canada's head of state.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Prime_Minister_of_Canada   (1862 words)

  
 Prime Minister of Canada
The Prime Minister of Canada, the head of the Canadian government, is the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons.
John Turner was briefly Prime Minister in 1984, for example, without being a member of the House of Commons.
The function, duties, responsibilities, and powers of the Prime Minister of Canada were established at the time the country was created as an independent nation in 1867 and were modeled upon those of the existing office of the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/p/pr/prime_minister_of_canada.shtml   (1489 words)

  
 Category:Prime Ministers of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See Prime Minister of Canada for an article on the topic and a chronological list.
List of Canadian Prime Ministers by place of birth
List of Canadian Prime Ministers by academic degrees
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Prime_Ministers_of_Canada   (121 words)

  
 CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Voter Toolkit - Election Dictionary
Canadian politics in general is said to be more "left-leaning" than American politics because of the generally accepted socialist principles of health care, employment insurance and other government-administered policies with social impact.
Prime Minister Paul Martin formed a minority government after the June 2004 election, with 135 MPs out of a possible 308, compared to 99 for the Conservatives, 54 for the Bloc, 19 for the NDP and one Independent.
The houses of Parliament are the elected lower house, the House of Commons and the Senate, whose members are appointed by the prime minister.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/voterstoolkit/electiondictionary.html   (5240 words)

  
 List of Canadian Prime Ministers by residence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Before 1951 the Prime Minister of Canada had no official residence and they lived in a variety of structures around Ottawa:
Related Lists: Political parties by time in office
This page was last modified 16:14, 17 April 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Canadian_Prime_Ministers_by_residence   (163 words)

  
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Greer was the Minister of Health for Ontario during the NDP governmentin the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Brother Maher, an Irish Canadian from New Brunswick, was the Superior of the Presentation Brothers in Canada and the first non-Jesuit principal of the prestigious Brebeuf College School in Toronto.
Mulroney, of Irish parentage, was the Prime Minister of Canada from 1984-1992.
www.geocities.com /brebeufalumni/irishcanadianlist.html   (1704 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
The Canadian minister to Washington, Leighton Goldie McCarthy, was weak and Pearson quickly took on the major role in representing Canada, not only to the American government but also in the numerous committees that were the birthplace of post-war international institutions.
The confusion surrounding the acceptance of nuclear weapons caused turmoil within the Conservative Party; the minister of national defence, Douglas Scott Harkness*, was a strong proponent of acceptance and the minister of external affairs, Howard Charles Green*, a strong opponent.
Yvon Dupuis, another Quebec minister, although later acquitted, was fired from cabinet because he faced criminal charges involving the acceptance of a bribe to accelerate the granting of a racetrack licence.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=42123   (10711 words)

  
 The Embassy of the U.S.A., Ottawa - Embassy Ottawa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Ambassador's Residence is located in Rockliffe Park, an historic residential neighborhood within walking distance of Rideau Hall, the official residence of the Governor General.
The majority of the artwork on display in the Residence is on loan from contemporary American artists and from the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts.
The Residence is the venue for the Ambassador's annual Independence Day celebration, each July 4th, when guests enjoy the spectacular grounds and sophisticated cuisine, mark the anniversary of 1776, hear the anthems of both countries, and witness the U.S. Marine Guards perform their flag drill, the Presentation of the Colors.
www.usembassycanada.gov /content/textonly.asp?section=embconsul&document=lornado   (379 words)

  
 BBC - History - Prime Ministers Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
He was the first prime minister in the post-war period not to win his own mandate (be elected or re-elected by popular vote).
Branded the 'unknown prime minister' by his bitter political rival HH Asquith, Canadian-born Bonar Law is principally remembered for a single speech he made in 1922.
Liverpool is the second longest serving prime minister in British history (after Robert Walpole), winning four general elections and clinging on to power despite a massive stroke that incapacitated him for his last two years in office.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/state/monarchs_leaders/pm_and_pol_tl.shtml   (7214 words)

  
 The Canadian Electoral System (BP-437E)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Only those who hold Canadian citizenship may vote in federal elections.  Because of the historical relationship with Great Britain, British subjects were allowed to vote in Canadian elections until the mid-1970s.
Canadians are very mobile, and about 20% of the information on the Register of Electors changes every year.  The Register is updated with information from existing federal and provincial data bases.  By complying with certain procedures and requirements, eligible voters are able to vote, even if they are not on the voters’ lists.
Each of the 308 Members of the Canadian House of Commons — including the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers, the Leader of the Opposition, and the Speaker — is elected to represent a particular constituency.  As noted above, elections in Canada are organized on a constituency basis and are largely administered at this level.
www.parl.gc.ca /information/library/PRBpubs/bp437-e.htm   (1175 words)

  
 CBC News: Harper sworn in as 22nd prime minister   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board - Chuck Strahl.
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration - Monte Solberg.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, on his trip to the G8 summit in Russia, has been praising Canada as a destination for foreign investment in the energy sector.
www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2006/02/06/harper-ottawa060206.html   (1575 words)

  
 Bermuda and Canada
Canadian visitors to Bermuda on vacation seem to like going from a hundreds or thousands of times bigger province but with a hugely smaller population density per square mile to a tiny (21 square miles) island with hundreds or thousands more people per square mile.
It was on one of the Canadian National Steamships' 'Ladyboats' much loved in Bermuda that the Duke of Windsor and his wife, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, sailed in 1940 from Bermuda to Nassau, Bahamas, where the Duke became the wartime Governor of the Bahamas.
The leading Canadian organization which owns a number of the watercolors she painted while she was in Bermuda (and lent them to Bermuda for a 1999 exhibition) is the National Gallery of Canada.
www.bermuda-online.org /canada.htm   (7925 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library: Museums in Canada
This list is derived from The Virtual Museum of Canada.
The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies assists in the educational, cultural, and aesthetic pursuit...
Contemporary Canadian art is the primary focus for the collection; it reflects the cultural diversit...
icom.museum /vlmp/canada.html   (10445 words)

  
 CanadaInfoLink is everything you wanted to know about Canada and canadian information about provinces, provincial ...
Mother tongue is defined as the first language a person learned at home in childhood and still understood at the time of the census.
Canadians reported more than 100 languages in completing the census question on mother tongue.
Canadians who changed province or territory between 1996 and 2001 still headed west.
www.canadainfolink.ca /canmap.htm   (967 words)

  
 Bermuda's distinguished visitors over the years
The leading Canadian organization which owns a number of the watercolors she painted while she was in Bermuda (and lent them to Bermuda for a recent exhibition) is the National Gallery of Canada.
British Prime Minister Edward Heath (in office 1970-1974, died July 2005) and members of his personal staff and official British delegation arrived in Bermuda by air at the Civil Air Terminal at Kindley Field on December 17, 1971 for a pomp-and-circumstance welcome from the Governor, Government Leader, members of Cabinet and other officials.
Prime Minister Dame Marjorie Thatcher of Britain also selected Bermuda for her discussions with American President George Bush Sr in the last few years of the twentieth century.
www.bermuda-online.org /specialvisitors.htm   (9271 words)

  
 Canada Finds Fifth Mad Cow, Japan Bans U.S. Beef Again
Canadian officials said the mad cow finding "is not unexpected and was identified through Canada's national surveillance program, which targets cattle at highest risk of being infected with BSE." The program has tested some 87,000 animals since Canada's first BSE case in May 2003.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is launching an investigation but said food safety "remains protected" through the removal of specified risk material (SRM) from all cattle slaughtered for human food in Canada.
Japan is struggling to contain the spread of mad cow disease in its own herds, but the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Monday confirmed its twenty-second BSE case in a 5-year and 4-month-old cow that died last week on a Hokkaido farm.
www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jan2006/2006-01-24-03.asp   (1536 words)

  
 Mail & Guardian Online:
Former US secretary of homeland security Tom Ridge, in Toronto for a forum on border security with former deputy prime minister John Manley, said Canadians shouldn't be wary of close relations between Bush and Harper.
Harper immediately went into his first Cabinet meeting with ministers who were also sworn in by Governor General Michaelle Jean in a ceremony at her residence, Rideau Hall, in the federal capital of Ottawa.
Peter MacKay, deputy leader of the Conservative Party, was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Monte Solberg became Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
mg.co.za /articlePage.aspx?articleid=263496&area=/breaking_news/...   (743 words)

  
 The Blogging Tories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
UK Trooper Canadians are involved in one of the largest operations thus far in Southern Afghanistan.
This speech by Prime Minister Harper yesterday in London following his meeting with the Queen is telling.
Prime Minister at the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce
www.bloggingtories.ca   (2986 words)

  
 International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Blair, who became prime minister on May 2, 1997 after winning the first of three straight general elections, will hold 10th place alone on Saturday when he overtakes Herbert Henry Asquith's eight years and 244 days in power.
Blair has promised not to stand for a fourth term as prime minister at the next general election, due in May 2010 at the latest.
Peter Hennessy, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of London, and author of "The Prime Minister: The Office And Its Holders Since 1945", said that longevity in Downing Street was largely down to "luck and caprice".
independent-bangladesh.com /news/dec/31/31122005ap.htm   (4662 words)

  
 CANADA (House of Commons - Chambre des Communes)
In the wake of the premature dissolution of the House of Commons, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (Liberal Party) announced the date on the general elections on 27 April.
In this connection, the Prime Minister declared that his Government had restored the "financial sovereignty" of Canada and stabilised public spending.
The voting outcome in general underlined the pronounced regionalisation of Canadian politics, with each party, besides the Liberals, being backed mainly on geographical basis (Reform Party in west, BQ in Quebec, Progressive Conservative Party (PCP) in the east) except for the socialist New Democratic Party (NDP), headed by Ms.
www.appf.org.pe /members/003about.htm   (1174 words)

  
 Significant Terrorist Incidents 1961-2003: A Brief Chronology
Assassination of Indian Prime Minister, October 31, 1984: Premier Indira Gandhi was shot to death by members of her security force.
The hostages included one U.S. citizen, five British soldiers, one Canadian citizen, one representative from Ghana, one military officer from Russia, one officer from Kyrgystan, one officer from Zambia, one officer from Malaysia, a local Bishop, two UN officials, two local journalists, and 16 Sierra Leonean nationals.
President Bush and Cabinet officials indicated that Usama Bin Laden was the prime suspect and that they considered the United States in a state of war with international terrorism.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm   (10869 words)

  
 Virtual Law Office: Constitution Act, 1982
The authoritative list of what enactments now form part of the Constitution is set out in one of the schedules to the 1982 Act.
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
A constitutional conference composed of the Prime Minister of Canada and the first ministers of the provinces shall be convened by the Prime Minister of Canada within fifteen years after this Part comes into force to review the provisions of this Part.
www.bloorstreet.com /200block/sconst82.htm   (4682 words)

  
 Canada: History Resources for Students: Canadian Symbols
It is an account of Canada's flag by an active participant—partisan might be a better word—in the battle for a Canadian flag, written a decade after the fact."
"The official ceremony inaugurating the new Canadian flag was held on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on February 15, 1965, with Governor General Georges Vanier, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, the members of the Cabinet and thousands of Canadians in attendance."
Until the adoption of the maple leaf flag, the flags that flew over Canada represented the European nations that had power in Canada.
www.cdli.ca /CITE/canada10.htm   (1397 words)

  
 (K) Appendix B: Background Information on Terrorist Groups
The first section lists the 29 groups that currently are designated by the Secretary of State as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
Claimed responsibility for the attempted assassinations of Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi in August 1993 and Prime Minister Atef Sedky in November 1993.
Peruvian forces stormed the residence in April 1997, rescuing all but one of the remaining hostages and killing all 14 group members, including the remaining leaders.
www.state.gov /s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2000/2450.htm   (9179 words)

  
 Site Map of Knight's Canadian Info Collection - All About Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Knight's Canadian Info Collection is committed to providing our visitors with a web site that respects their privacy.
All of the data in Knight's Canadian Info Collection website are free to use for personal research, school projects, education, or just to help you learn something new about our great country, Canada.
Knight's Canadian Info Collection website is a Personal Home Page and is intended solely for the entertainment, information and education of its viewers and visitors.
www.members.shaw.ca /kcic1/sitemap.html   (1143 words)

  
 Finding Canadian statistics
In the interests of brevity, for Canadian sites which contain both English and French language resources, only English language sources are given here; most Canadian federal government Internet sites and some provincial sites include links to parallel French-language resources.
A small collection of Canadian social and macroeconomic statistics: key monthly and quarterly measures of economic performance, annual economic data, land area, plant and animal life, and environment, population traits and trends, education, culture, health, government finances, employment, justice, and elections.
A list of more than 110 digital environmental datasets pertaining to various aspects of the environment of Nunavut.
www.chass.utoronto.ca /datalib/other/findcans.htm#financial   (8817 words)

  
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The list in question, or rather the lists, concern groups that the government labels foreign terrorist organizations, or FTOs, along with funders, supporters and business entities that aid them.
The State Department list of FTOs, created by the 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and first issued in 1997, currently includes twenty-eight groups.
There is ``a good chance'' that Osama bin Laden is dead, French defense minister Alain Richard said Thursday, leaving open the possibility that the al-Qaida leader is in hiding, NY Times, March 11, 2002
www.eff.org /Censorship/Terrorism_militias/antiterrorism_chill.html   (13711 words)

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