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Topic: Ontario Liberal Party


  
 1938: Ontario - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
The Liberals won two of the three by-elections held during the year for the provincial legislature.
Although the mayors defeated a resolution which would have given them 'a mandate to take over the provincial government' if steps were not taken to relieve the burden on the cities, the introduction of such a resolution indicated that their patience was very rapidly becoming exhausted.
Ontario's most renowned citizens — the Dionne Quintuplets — underwent a successful operation for the removal of their tonsils and adenoids in the late fall.
encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461500650/1938_Ontario.html   (590 words)

  
 Liberal Report on Rent Control, 1996
Liberals call on tenants to ask their local Tory members on the committee and others in the Tory caucus why they did not want to listen to what was told to them in the hearings and why they insist on moving ahead with their dangerous plant to scrap rent controls.
Liberals are upset that so much taxpayer money went into staging the three weeks of hearings across the province, when clearly from the beginning the Tory members of the committee were only prepared to listen to Al Leach and not to tenants.
Liberals are also very disappointed that so much hard work and research went into the witnesses' presentations while the Tories were not prepared to heed any of the advice given to them.
www.ontariotenants.ca /government/liberal1996.phtml   (3712 words)

  
 Liberal Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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)

  
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Among Liberals' suspicious of Kennedy's sudden emergence as their party's golden boy, it was taken as proof of the messiah complex they'd been whispering about for months.
Kennedy said the Liberals "lost their edge" because they governed for a dozen years without facing a united opposition, indulged in personality politics and turf wars, and allowed a tiny group around the leader to make most decisions for the party.
Of the 102 Liberals in the House of Commons, 54 are from Ontario.
www.deremilitari.org /kennedy2006.doc   (8921 words)

  
 Ontario's Ruling Party Endorses Progressive Renewable Energy Policy--A First in North America
The Liberal Party is the ruling party in the provincial legislative assembly.
The Liberal Party was swept into office in the fall of 2003 on a platform that included closing Ontario's notorious coal-fired power plants.
Be it resolved that the Government of Ontario encourage the use of renewable energy by implementing Advanced Renewable Tariffs that will allow distributed solar, small hydro, or wind energy to be established by farmers, co-ops, and locally owned enterprises and to be able to market this energy on the provincial grid.
www.wind-works.org /FeedLaws/OntarioLiberalPartyEndorsesARTs.html   (928 words)

  
 Ontario Electricity Coalition
The Liberal Party has not come to terms with the extent of the damage caused by Conservative policies of privatization and deregulation.
McGuinty, the Liberal Party electricity policy is written to please private power producers and would be harmful to the people of Ontario.
Ontario does face an electricity shortage that must be addressed by either increasing the amount of electricity generated or reducing the amount of electricity consumed.
www.electricitycoalition.org /articles/Letter_20030924_McGuinty.htm   (703 words)

  
 Ontario Election 2003 Voter Guide: Political Parties
Green Party would place "the responsibility of pick-up, recycling, and reuse of all products and packaging material" on manufacturers: "For example included in the cost of the purchase of a car would be a levy that would be used to dismantle, recycle and reuse the remains of the car".
A Liberal Party government would also create programs intended to encourage educators in better government schools to improve education in government schools that are not educating children quite as well.
A Liberal Party government would bring back real rent control: after a tenant vacated a unit, there would be a limit on the amount for which the landlord could offer to rent the unit to a new tenant.
www.mondopolitico.com /elections/ontario2003/parties.htm   (4986 words)

  
 Liberal Party of Canada Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ontario Liberal Party - The Ontario Liberal Party is a centrist provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada.
Ontario Party of Canada - The Ontario Party of Canada was a political party in Canada that was co-founded in September 2002 by George Burns and Brad Harness of London, Ontario to promote the interests of the Province of Ontario within the Canadian confederation.
Liberal Party of Canada - The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada), colloquially known as the Grits (originally "Clear Grits"), is a Canadian federal political party positioned around the centre of the political spectrum, combining a generally progressive social policy with moderate economics.
me81.3rdfaze.info /liberalpartyofcanadaontario.html   (1226 words)

  
 Ontario Liberal Landslide Could Benefit the Environment
The Liberals won a resounding victory, taking 72 of Ontario Legislature's 103 seats, leaving 24 for the Conservatives, who lost their governing majority, and seven for the New Democrats.
Ontario Premier-elect Dalton McGuinty has been leader of the Ontario Liberals since 1996 and the Member of the Provincial Parliament for Ottawa South since 1990.
In an open letter to McGuinty, the coalition charged that Liberal Party electricity policy was "written to please private power producers." The coalition says it stands for accountable, publicly owned, environmentally responsible electrical utilities.
www.ens-newswire.com /ens/oct2003/2003-10-09-01.asp   (640 words)

  
 Response from the Liberal Party: Ontario Trucking Safety Questions
Ontario should be a leader in developing a consensus to increase road safety.
Ontario should be aim to be a national leader in truck safety.
The trucking industry wants the Ontario government to allow longer multi-trailer trucks that are up to 120 feet long, are more difficult to pass and are more inclined to sway or go out of control.
www.web.net /~crash/reports/liberal.html   (767 words)

  
 ODA Committee Update dd April 8, 2003 - Ontario Liberal Party Unveils 2003 Election Pledge to Enact Strong Effective ODA
The Ontario Liberal Party released its 2003 election platform on the Ontarians with Disabilities Act issue by a letter dated April 7, 2003 to the Ontarians with Disabilities Act Committee.
In this letter, the Liberals pledge to include in the strong and effective Ontarians with Disabilities Act all 11 principles which the ODA Committee has formulated and which the Ontario Legislature unanimously approved on October 29, 1998, on a motion by Liberal MPP Dwight Duncan.
The Liberals commit to introduce their new, strong and effective ODA with the intention of passing it into law within one year of taking office.
www.odacommittee.net /news80.html   (734 words)

  
 Liberal Party Majority in Ontario - Events Quarterly
Ontario is the best economy in the G7, the first place in the Western Hemisphere to legalize gay marriage, and a place that allows women to walk around topless in public, but it still has a fairly undemocratic system.
Over half of the people in Ontario did not want the Liberal government in power, but the government will now have absolute power for a 5 year term.
I propose that Ontario either implements Proportional Representation or decides the leader by lottery.
www.eventsquarterly.com /news/october2003/oct3.html   (223 words)

  
 Newsvine - ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ontario's Progressive Conservative leader John Tory and 19 members of his caucus rolled up their sleeves to sort foodstuffs for some of London's most needy today.
Relatives of a 19-year-old Ontario man who died in Mexico over the weekend believe he was beaten to death, even though police say he was hit by a car.
It promises to be a year of firsts in Ontario politics, with the Liberals not only facing the first fixed-election date in the province's history, but doing it from the government benches for the first time in 17 years.
www.newsvine.com /ontario   (1032 words)

  
 New Ontario trillium logo ‘very liberal’   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Martel says it is similar to the logo used on Ontario Liberal Party materials.
In the year after the Liberals took power, the firm won $6.3 million in government advertising contracts, compared with $99,900 in the final year the Tory government held power, she says.
If the Liberals didn’t change the logo to influence people’s votes, she’s not sure why it was done.
www.northernlife.ca /News/Lifestyle/2006/07-05-06-ontario-logo.html   (278 words)

  
 Liberal.ca :: Renewal
In the spring of 2006, the Liberal Party of Canada announced the formation of the Renewal Commission.
Austin Bowman is the Director, Eastern Region on the National Executive of the Liberal Party of Canada Seniors commission.
Bobbi Éthier is the past President of the Liberal Party of Canada (Manitoba) and served as co-chair of the 2003 Liberal Party Leadership Convention.
www.liberal.ca /renewal_e.aspx   (700 words)

  
 Ontario Elections, Part II: Liberal Party
Dalton McGinty, Leader of Ontario's Liberal Party, was born in 1955 in Ottawa.
The Liberal Party, in Ontario, last held Office from 1985 to 1990 when David Petterson won the election.
The Liberal Party starts off by telling Ontario that what Harris has done was the wrong thing to do.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/life_in_canada/19625   (447 words)

  
 OCAP Protests Ontario Liberal BBQ Fundraiser | The Dominion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
On Saturday, August 28, the Ontario Liberal party held its "Red Hot Grits" fundraiser at the residence of party supporter Joseph Kurian in the York Mills/Bayview area.
Liberals and friends who arrived needed a police escort, and many decided simply not to go – a success for the protesters.
OCAP says Premier McGuinty and the Liberal government have done precious little to fight poverty, despite their campaign of "change." They point out that while a few pennies have been added to the minimum wage, social assistance has only gone up 3%, an increase that has not yet even been delivered.
dominionpaper.ca /canadian_news/2004/09/30/ocap_prote.html   (305 words)

  
 globeandmail.com - Breaking Ontario Elections News
The Ontario Liberal party steamrolled the Progressive Conservatives Thursday night, ending eight years of Tory rule in the province by easily forming a new majority government.
The Liberal party were elected in 72 ridings Thursday night, the Progressive Conservatives in 24 and the New Democratic Party in seven.
The Liberals were elected in 19 of the city's 22 ridings, while the NDP won the three other spots.
www.theglobeandmail.com /generated/realtime/SpecialEvents4.html   (1261 words)

  
 OCUFA encouraged by Ontario Liberal Party plan to increase affordability of higher education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
(OCUFA) said that OCUFA is encouraged by the Ontario Liberal Party announcement today which would roll back tuition fees by 10% while providing more public funding to universities and colleges to cover the cost, restore Ontario Student Assistance Plan eligibility for part-time students as well as increase the student earnings allowance under the Plan.
And yet, Ontario government funding and tuition policies for higher education threaten the ability of our universities to play the important role expected of them.
“OCUFA is pleased that both the Liberal Party and the NDP have now put the issue of affordability and public funding for higher education on the election agenda.
www.ocufa.on.ca /press/990322.asp   (362 words)

  
 Critics stomp on new trillium logo
The Liberal government is under fire for spending $219,000 to replace Ontario's traditional trillium logo with a drastically new version.
Opposition parties also criticized the design of the logo, saying the new A-shaped logo closely resembles the shape of the trillium embedded in the text of the Ontario Liberal party's trademark.
In the late 1980s, David Peterson, the Liberal premier, came under fire for using a photograph of a red trillium, not the typical white one, on the cover of the provincial budget.
www.cbc.ca /canada/toronto/story/2006/06/23/to-trillium20060623.html   (1346 words)

  
 About the Ontario Liberal Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Ontario Liberal Party is made up of thousands of members who volunteer their time and energy on issues of public importance to the people of Ontario.
Find out more about the Party on these pages, and how you can join us is working to build a stronger province for all Ontario families.
Ontario Liberals have made considerable progress for all Ontario families in education, in health care, for the environment and for safer streets.
www.ontarioliberal.ca /en/About/Default.aspx   (230 words)

  
 Costas Manios runs in Scarborough Centre
The Ontario Liberal Party hierarchy is duking it out with the angry executive members of its own provincial Liberal Riding Association, and that’s just for openers in this Battle Royale.
While the Liberal party, whose poll support began evaporating within days of the election call, should be fighting PC MPP Marilyn Mushinski, they’re fighting each other.
"As I have indicated in discussion with Party officials, I am a friend of Costas Manios, the past candidate, and I understand that he is actively seeking the nomination," Duguid wrote in a letter to Sorbara.
www.canadafreepress.com /2003/main091503.htm   (914 words)

  
 Current Government Information for the Ajax Area
The political party in power is The Liberal Party of Canada
The political party the MP belongs to is The Liberal Party of Canada
The political party the MPP belongs to is The Ontario Liberal Party
members.fortunecity.com /plink2/government.html   (386 words)

  
 Turn Left: World Liberalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Liberalism isn't just found in the United States.
The nuances of the meaning of the world may change from country to country, but the idea of progress and freedom beats in the hearts of people around the globe.
Liberal International (LI) and the International Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth (IFLRY)
www.turnleft.com /worlds.html   (74 words)

  
 CBC - Ontario Votes 2003 - Commentary
Each week, Canada Now’s Raj Ahluwalia is joined by strategists from the three major political parties to discuss and debate developments in the Ontario election.
Our guest panelists for Sept. 18 are Sheila White of the NDP, Jim MacLean of the Liberal Party, and John Matheson, replacing Karen Gordon of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Julie Ireton observes as the now-infamous Tory news release returns as a juicy photo-op for the Liberals.
www.cbc.ca /ontariovotes2003/commentary/index_panel.html   (368 words)

  
 Ontario Women's Liberal Commission
the OWLC, in conjunction with the Ontario Liberal Party, held a breakfast fundraiser for the Margaret Campbell Fund.
The Premier spoke about the important roles women play in the Liberal party, as party staff, administrators, holding elected office in the party and running as candidates in general elections, representing our party’s goals and values to the public.
The Ontario Women’s Liberal Commission supports this fund provincially as well as the Judy LaMarsh fund, which has the same purpose but is targeted to federal female Liberal candidates.
www.lpco.ca /owlc/page.aspx?id=268   (491 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The ad carried a cut-out petition, to be mailed to the Ontario Liberal Party.
Congress adds that in its 1998 meeting with McGuinty, while the Liberal leader stressed his first priority is public education, it was the first time any provincial party leader had made a statement in support of funding independent schools.
Congress, meantime, is continuing its meetings with officials of Ontario's finance ministry to work out the mechanical details of the tax credit.
www.cjnews.com /pastissues/01/june7-01/main.asp   (643 words)

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