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	Premier (Canada) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the ten provinces of Canada, the premier is the leader of the largest political party in the provincial legislature.
		Premiers appoint a provincial cabinet and guide legislation through the provincial legislature, of which they are a sitting member.
		The Premier of the Yukon Territory is chosen in the usual fashion, but the Premiers of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are selected from within the small and non-partisan elected territorial councils.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Premier_(Canada) (502 words)

	Responsible Government, 1855-1933: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Newfoundland was responsible for local matters and its own finances while external affairs were controlled by the imperial government.
		Newfoundland was left with a large debt and chronic financial problems after World War I. Financial troubles and partisan battles contributed to the suspension of responsible government in 1934.
		Newfoundlanders and Labradorians took great pride in the achievements of the Regiment, and in their country's representation in the Imperial War Cabinet and at the Versailles peace talks.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /law/responsible_gov.html (1633 words)

	NEWFOUNDLAND - LoveToKnow Article on NEWFOUNDLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A conference of colonial premiers was one of the notable events distinguishing that happy period, and the subject was argued before the conference at considerable length.
		This right of France to the coast of Newfoundland reserved to her fishermen is only a part of her ancient sovereignty over the island which she retained in ceding the soil to England, and which she has never weakened or alienated.
		Under the Newfoundland Foreign Fishing Vessels Act of 1893 the governor in council was authorized to issue licences to foreign fishing vessels, enabling them to enter any port on the coasts of the island to purchase bait, ice, supplies and outfits for the fishery, and to ship crew~.
	16.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NEWFOUNDLAND.htm (9521 words)

	Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador is the first minister for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
		Before 1964, the position's official title was Premier of Newfoundland.
		The current Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador is Danny Williams.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Premier_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador (101 words)

	Clyde Wells - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clyde Kirby Wells (born November 9, 1937) is a Newfoundland judge and former politician and Premier of the province.
		Born in Buchans Junction, Newfoundland, Wells graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a BA in 1959 and Dalhousie Law School with an LL.B in 1962.
		Wells first entered politics in 1966 when he was elected to the House of Assembly as a Liberal serving in the cabinet of Premier Joey Smallwood until 1968 when he resigned in protest of Smallwood's political authoritarianism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clyde_Wells (252 words)

	The Canadian Encyclopedia
		During his career in Newfoundland politics Bond supported the trans-island railway and economic independence, and was involved...
		Grimes, Roger, premier of Newfoundland and Labrador (b at Grand Falls-Windsor, Nfld 1950).
		Grimes, Roger, premier of Newfoundland and Labrador (born in 1950 at Grand Falls-Windsor, Nfld.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCECategories&Params=A1SUB7CAT198 (178 words)

	Premier of Newfoundland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		PC Newfoundland and Labrador Information about the Progressive Conservatives who form the government under Premier Danny Williams.
		The Newfoundland Patriot Advocating the independence of Newfoundland and Labrador.
		Western Newfoundland An introduction to Newfoundland, from the western part of the island, for the traveller and the curious.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Premier_of_Newfoundland.html (286 words)

	Newfoundland premier wants to have it both ways
		The premier of Newfoundland and Labrador went on province-wide television Jan. 5, and opened his first round of negotiations with provincial employees by publicly announcing a wage freeze.
		If this weren't enough, the premier then muddied the waters further by suggesting, once again in public, that the cost of raising wages for public employees could mean the elimination of 2,000 jobs across the province.
		In effect, the premier is asking public sector unions to turn their backs on 2,000 members in return for a raise of those who remain.
	www.nupge.ca /news_2004/n10fe04b.htm (336 words)

	Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Announces Short List for Lower Churchill Development
		Danny Williams, the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, announced today that a short list of four development options for the Lower Churchill River hydro-electric mega project has been determined.
		Development of the project by the province and NL Hydro would be the preferred choice of many in the province as it would ensure a low cost source of energy while allowing the province to retain complete control of the resource and resulting revenues.
		Myles' interest in Newfoundland and Labrador political and social issues is obvious in his writing for several publications and on his own web site, Web Talk - Newfoundland and Labrador.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2005/higgins080805a.htm (520 words)

	Daimnation!: Newfoundland's newest fight
		Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is boycotting equalization talks in Ottawa, accusing Prime Minister Paul Martin of reneging on a deal he agreed to both privately and in public.
		Williams said he was leaving because he says Newfoundland had a deal with Ottawa that would have given the province 100 per cent of offshore oil and gas revenues.
		On one hand, I think Newfoundland has to wean itself off of transfer payments from Ottawa eventually, and I've always believed it a bit disingenuous for us to demand we be allowed to keep all our federal transfers and all our offshore oil revenues.
	www.damianpenny.com /archived/003405.html (513 words)

	Newfoundland premier accused of bungling strike
		John's - Premier Danny Williams was attacked in the Newfoundland legislature Tuesday for bungling the biggest strike in the history of the province.
		Nearly 20,000 public sector workers are affected by a walkout that began on April 1 because of government demands for a two-year wage freeze and sweeping contract concessions.
		Roger Grimes, a former premier who is now opposition leader, and Jack Harris, the provincial NDP leader, said the Tory premier has mishandled the situation badly and lost the trust of workers and voters alike.
	www.nupge.ca /news_2004/n14ap04b.htm (368 words)

	Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
		In recent years he has become involved in Newfoundland and Labrador's oil and gas industry as President of OIS Fisher, an offshore oil and gas supply and services company.
		On October 21, 2003, he was elected premier of Newfoundland Labrador.
		Premiers of the province of Newfoundland since 1949, the year Newfoundland joined the Confederation of Canada.
	www.canadainfolink.ca /prem_nfld.htm (768 words)

	Waterford Today - 7 July 2004 - Premier of Newfoundland conferred with honorary fellowship at WIT
		Pictured gowning at the ceremony was the Honourable Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, left and Professor Kieran R byrne Director Waterford Institute of Technology.
		Honourable Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador has become only the sixth person ever to be conferred with an honorary fellowship at Waterford Institute of Technology.
		The Premier studied political science and economics at Memorial University of Newfoundland which has growing links with the Waterford Institute through a series of exchange programmes, particularly in the business and humanities faculties.
	www.waterford-today.ie /index.php?id=10800&what=1&issue=207 (272 words)

	Mapleleafweb.com: Newfoundland Election 2003 - Liberal Party Backgrounder
		The leader of the Liberal Party and Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador is Roger Grimes.
		He was first elected to the Newfoundland House of Assembly in 1989.
		In 2001 he was sworn in as Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador.
	www.mapleleafweb.com /education/spotlight/issue_41/nfld-liberal.html (483 words)

	Roger Grimes elected new premier of Newfoundland
		Newfoundland is the only province that doesn't have one.
		His brother Ross is a long-time union activist with the Canadian Union of Public Employees in the pulp and paper town of Grand Falls on the west coast of the the island.
		He served as labour minister when the public service was being reorganized; he headed the education department during the bitter school reform debate in the province, he was appointed minister of health when federal funding for medicare was drying up.
	www.nupge.ca /news_2001/news_fe01/n04fe01a.htm (404 words)

	Edited Hansard * Table of Contents * Number 105 (Official Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Obviously, Newfoundland's position as presented and defended by the Minister of Industry, is not the same today, if we compare it to the position he had when he was a member of parliament in St. John's.
		Replacing the name of Newfoundland by Newfoundland and Labrador in the Terms of Union is a symbolic measure which acknowledges in a significant way that Labrador is an essential and full partner of the province, with its own geography, history and culture.
		Essentially, it is to be understood from those words that the government of Newfoundland explicitly acknowledges that nothing in the terms of the motion of the government will have any impact on the delimitation of the border between Quebec and Newfoundland.
	www.parl.gc.ca /37/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/105_2001-10-30/han105_1055-E.htm (738 words)

	Premier and Cabinet sworn in to form new government in Newfoundland and Labrador
		Former Opposition Leader Loyola Sullivan, the son of a Newfoundland fisherman and one of 12 children, was born and raised in the Southern Shore fishing community of Calvert.
		He is a past Director and Fundraising Chairperson with the Newfoundland and Labrador Heart and Stroke Foundation; he served as Subcommittee Chairperson with the Law Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador; and he has served as Honourary Chair of the Eastern Avalon Chapter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada.
		Rideout was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier (1982-85), Minister of Culture, Recreation and Youth (1984-85), and Minister of Fisheries (1985-89).
	www.gov.nl.ca /releases/2003/exec/1106n01.htm (4567 words)

	James Spearman Winter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir James Spearman Winter (1845-1900) was a Newfoundland politician and Premier.
		The Winter government faced criticism over the granting of railway contracts and was accused by the Liberal opposition of selling out Newfoundland's interest to the Reid family as the minister of finance in Winter's government was also on Reid's payroll as his legal council while the contract was being negotiated.
		As a jurist, Winter represented Newfoundland at the 1887-1888 fisheries conference in Washington and was senior counsel for the British government when Newfoundland was before the arbitration tribunal at the Hague in 1910 over a fisheries dispute.
	www.wikiverse.org /james-spearman-winter (249 words)

	Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After 23 years in public life as Premier of Newfoundland (1949-1972), the last living father of Confederation, Mr.
		Smallwood committed his papers, his Newfoundland library, and his rich and varied collection of Newfoundlandia to the Centre.
		Although the leading principal was to write for the general reader rather than for experts on a given topic, the latter also find the Encyclopedia an interesting and useful reference work.
	www.mun.ca /iser/encyclopedia.html (341 words)

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		Scholarly historical research on Newfoundland and Labrador before 1949 was generally accomplished using archival sources found in Britain and, to a lesser extent, in Canada at the Public Archives in Ottawa.
		Both Newfoundland and Canada had previously been the recipients, for educational and cultural purposes, of financial assistance from American philanthropic foundations; indeed, Memorial's establishment in 1925 and its operation for a decade afterwards was thanks to aid from the Carnegie Corporation.
		Her bibliography of Newfoundland books, co-edited in the early 1980s with librarian Anne Alexander, was published in 1986 by the University of Toronto Press.
	www.ucs.mun.ca /~melbaker/CARNEGIE.htm (8512 words)

	Canadians don't care about the flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A couple of days before Christmas, Danny Williams, the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador announced that all Canadian flags flying from provincial buildings in his province were to be taken down.
		The premier insists that Prime Minister Paul Martin is reneging on a campaign promise that he made that Newfoundland could keep all of the revenues from such resources without seeing any reduction in the province’s equalization payments.
		The release criticized the prime minister’s handling of the negotiations between the federal government and the provinces of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia regarding offshore resources.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2005/weinreb010605.htm (657 words)

	1972 in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Premier of Newfoundland - Joey Smallwood then Frank Moores
		Premier of Prince Edward Island - Alexander B. Campbell
		January 18 - Frank Moores becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Joey Smallwood, who had governed for 23 years
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/1/19/1972_in_canada.html (356 words)

	1990 in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Premier of Nova Scotia - John Buchanan then Roger Bacon
		Premier of Prince Edward Island - Joe Ghiz
		September 27 - Brian Mulroney temprarily increases the size of the Senate to ensure passage of the GST
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1990_in_Canada (560 words)

	untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roger Grimes is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland with degrees in Science (B.Sc.) And Education (B.Ed.), as well as a Masters Degree in Education (M.Ed.).
		He was appointed Parliamentary Assistant to the Premier, a position he held until 1991 when he became the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations.
		Roger is well known in Newfoundland and Labrador for his athletic prowess having represented the province both provincially and nationally in a number of sporting events.
	www.hoa.gov.nl.ca /hoa/mha/exploits.htm (233 words)

	The Newfoundland Beaumont Hamel Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The largest of the battlefield parks established in memory of Newfoundlanders who died in the First World War is in France at beaumont Hamel, nine kilometres directly north of the town of Albert.
		In the Beaumont Hamel Memorial Park, which was officially opened by Earl Haig on June 7, 1925, the monument of the great bronze caribou, emblem of the Regiment, stands on the highest point overlooking the site of the St. John's Road and the slopes beyond.
		The reconstruction of a representative part of the battlefield preserves in its original state, the shellpitted ground between St. John's Road and the Y Ravine across which the heroic advance of July 1, 1916, was made.
	www.cdli.ca /beaumont/beaumont.htm (264 words)

	Canadian flag restored to provincial government buildings
		Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, announced that the Canadian flag will be raised in front of all provincial government buildings today.
		The premier also said he is concerned about the federal government using the flag as a negotiating tool.
		Premier Williams said the province has made a strong statement to the country; however, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are proud Canadians and will now restore the Canadian flag to the flagpoles of provincial government buildings.
	www.releases.gov.nl.ca /releases/2005/exec/0110n05.htm (497 words)

	1997-01-31 / Gray-Tobin: Cost of Police Services by the RCMP in Newfoundland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		NEWFOUNDLAND -- The following release was issued jointly by Brian Tobin, P.C., MHA, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Herb Gray, P.C., MP, Solicitor General of Canada.
		Brian Tobin, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Herb Gray, Solicitor General of Canada, have agreed to the formation of a Federal/Provincial Working Group to examine issues relating to the cost of police services by the RCMP in the province.
		Gray and Premier Tobin agreed that the Working Group would provide an opportunity to examine costs surrounding the current RCMP policing agreement in a structured, factual way, contributing to the process for budgetary decisions by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
	www.psepc-sppcc.gc.ca /publications/news/19970131_e.asp (163 words)

	Office of the Premier - Biography
		He practised law in Newfoundland and Labrador beginning in 1972 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1984.
		He has also been involved in Newfoundland and Labrador’s oil and gas industry as president of offshore oil and gas supply and services company OIS Fisher, and in the hospitality and tourism industry through the operation of three golf courses and one hotel resort.
		He has served as Chair of the Canadian Parliamentary Channel, Chair of the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation, Chair of the Provincial Government Offshore Oil Impact Advisory Council, and a member of charitable organizations such as the Terry Fox Marathon of Hope, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Iris Kirby House, and the Arthritis Society.
	www.premier.gov.nl.ca /premier/bio.htm (294 words)

	CTV.ca - Inco finds ally in Newfoundland premier - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Now it appears the new premier of Newfoundland is ready to break the deadlock.
		In his first question period as premier, Roger Grimes confirmed plans to approve the development, even if it means processing some of the ore outside the province.
		Throughout his time as premier he said there would be no deal with Inco until the company agreed to the terms of the original agreement.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1027382675426_22791875?hub=CTVNewsAt11&subhub=PrintStory (247 words)

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