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  Progressive Conservative leadership convention, 1976 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1976 leadership convention of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was held in Ottawa on February 22, 1976, to elect a leader to replace Robert Stanfield, who had resigned after losing the 1968, 1972, and 1974 elections.
The convention's delegates were elected by the party's riding associations, along with the party's youth, campus and women's associations.
Mulroney later defeated Clark for the leadership at the 1983 leadership convention.
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 Progressive Conservative leadership convention, 1983 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1983 Progressive Conservative leadership convention was held on June 11, 1983 in Ottawa, Ontario to elect a leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
The convention became necessary when Joe Clark, who had been leader of the party since the party's 1976 leadership convention, resigned in the face of only 66.9% of the party supporting his leadership.
At the convention, Brian Mulroney was elected leader of the PC Party on the fourth ballot.
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 Leadership Convention
While leadership conventions have compensated to a very substantial degree for the regional imbalances of the parliamentary parties, they have at the same time effectively ended the caucus's monopoly over the selection of a party leader, with a curious result.
The record suggests that the leadership convention process actually serves as a disincentive to those who might aspire to a lengthy parliamentary career capped by a successful run at their party's leadership.
At the 1995 Progressive Conservative convention, at which Jean Charest was unopposed in his bid to succeed Kim Campbell, the Tories approved a proposal whereby future leaders would be chosen by a direct vote of all party members in the entire country.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004588   (1523 words)

  
 Pierre Trudeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trudeau was persuaded to run for the Liberal leadership, and ran an energetic campaign that mobilized and inspired many youths who had been influenced by the 1960s counterculture, and who saw Trudeau as a symbol of generational change.
At the April 1968 Liberal leadership convention, Trudeau was elected leader of the party on the fourth ballot, defeating several prominent, long-serving Liberals including Paul Martin Sr.
Trudeau announced his intention to resign as Liberal Party leader; however, before a leadership convention could be held, Clark's government was defeated in the Canadian House of Commons by a Motion of Non-Confidence.
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 Brian Mulroney - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
When Mulroney joined the Progressive Conservative Party in 1955, it and the Liberal Party were the two main national parties.
In 1976 Stanfield resigned as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, and Mulroney used his newfound prominence in Québec to launch his own campaign to become leader of the Conservatives.
Mulroney was elected leader of the Conservatives on the fourth ballot.
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 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Even though the Quebec Conservative Party dominated politics in that province for first thirty years of Confederation at both federal and provincial levels in the 20th the party was never able to be force in provincial politics and ultimately dissolved the Union Nationale in 1935.
As was common amongst 19th century conservative movements Canadian Tories opposed the of Crown intervention in social and economic advocated by the liberals of the era.
Diefenbaker on as Progressive Conservative leader until 1967 increasing unease at his reactionary policies authoritarian and perceived unelectability led to a convention Nova Scotia Premier Robert Stanfield defeated Diefenbaker for the party's leadership.
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 Progressive Conservation Party Papers
The root of the modern day Progressive Conservative Party of Canada is found in the 1854 Liberal Conservative Coalition Government of the Province of Canada which was headed by Sir John A. Macdonald.
Between 1873 and 1878, the Liberal Conservative Party dropped the Liberal label in favour of the title Conservative Party which was in keeping with the flavour of Macdonald's National Policy and pro-British election platform.
This fonds was in the custody of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada until it was donated to Trent University.
www.trentu.ca /library/archives/72-005.htm   (521 words)

  
 Get 'em while they're young
If the Conservatives are to form a national government and create a winning coalition for the long-term, it is imperative that they professionalize their party structure.
In Britain, Conservative Future is key in recruiting young people to the Tories; in the United States, the College Republican National Committee has produced some of that party's most influential members, including Bush advisor Karl Rove (chairman, 1974-77) and prominent GOP activists Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist.
The first is that a youth association would relegate young Conservatives to a "sandbox," and thus diminish their influence in the wider party.
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 Selections from John George Diefenbaker at conservativeforum.org
He became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1956, and was a fierce leader of the Opposition leading into the 1957 election.
Diefenbaker's government focused on the "progressive" side of the agenda, and introduced or refined social programs to the increasing ire of conservative party members and voters.
The growing split between conservatives and radicals in his party led to his losing the leadership to Robert Stanfield in 1967, but he remained a PC Member of Parliament until his death.
www.conservativeforum.org /authquot.asp?ID=225   (875 words)

  
 Jean Chretien - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
In 1967 Chrétien gained his first cabinet appointment as a minister in the Department of Finance, and the following year he became minister of national revenue.
In 1979 the Trudeau government lost to the Conservatives in a general election in which the Liberal government’s management of the economy was a central issue.
Chrétien was one of the two leading candidates at a party convention in June.
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 Canadian political conventions: Not as good as they used to be   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
There was even blood on the floor after the 2003 PC convention in Toronto, when Peter MacKay won the leadership based on a deal he made behind closed doors with rival candidate David Orchard: a deal to review the effects of the free trade deal and to never make a merger with the Alliance.
More and more leadership races in this country are decided, not by delegates at a leadership convention, but by party members voting in the ridings.
When the Liberals finally held their convention at the Air Canada Centre (home to the Maple Leafs and Raptors for you sports fans out there), the outcome was a foregone conclusion.
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 Origins of Reform, Conservative and Orthodox
Conservative Judaism is not halachic because Conservative Jews are not halachic, and increasingly even Conservative rabbis are not halachic.
In the history of Conservative Judaism published by the Jewish Theological Seminary, American Hebrew is described as "an unofficial voice for the [Jewish Theological] Seminary, indeed an arm of Seminary propaganda and publicity" (Tradition Renewed, vol 1, p 38).
Harold Kushner, "Is the Conservative Movement Halachic?" in Proceedings Of The 1980 Convention (Rabbinical Assembly, 1980).
www.beingjewish.com /unchanged/keleman.html   (3642 words)

  
 Dean Hopes and Green Dreams: The 2004 Presidential Race
"Conservative Vermont business leaders praise Dean's record and his unceasing efforts to balance the budget, even though Vermont is the only state where a balanced budget is not constitutionally required," Business Week reported in its August 11 (2003) edition.
On a full range of issues -- from international trade to health care to labor rights to welfare to criminal justice and the drug war to federal spending priorities to environmental protection to gay rights to the death penalty to foreign policy -- Dean's positions are markedly inferior to Kucinich's platform.
But a hefty Kucinich delegate count would be a strong progressive statement within the Democratic Party and would provide a louder national megaphone for the values that we share.
www.commondreams.org /views03/0826-04.htm   (2908 words)

  
 Index Ch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A Conservative member of the House of Commons from December 1918, he served as postmaster general (1922-23), paymaster general of the armed forces (1923), minister of health (1923, 1924-29, 1931), and chancellor of the Exchequer (1923-24, 1931-37).
He was arrested in 1967 for his dissident activities and sentenced to three years in prison, a term later cut in half.
He served in the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government as minister of health and national insurance from 1977 to 1982, minister of tourism from 1982 to 1984, and minister of agriculture, trade and industry from 1990 to 1992.
www.manic-raven.com /rulers/indexc2.html   (17647 words)

  
 Bull Moose
What plagues progressives is that many have them have lost touch with their own faith tradition and that of this nation.
However, since the 1967 war, the intellectual and activist left has increasingly identified with the Palestinians as the "underdog" and have viewed Israel as the oppressive occupiers.
And, the leadership class of the Democrats is according deference to this left wing Freeper contagion.
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 CBC News Indepth: Joe Clark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
After two terms leading the Progressive Conservative party and decades in political life, Joe Clark moved to the backbench to make room for new blood, only to have his party merge with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada.
Clark tried running for office himself in the 1967 provincial election in Alberta, going up against the Social Credit Speaker of the legislature in what was considered a "suicide seat." Clark made a battle of it, losing by only 462 votes.
When his Progressive Conservative party, under new leader Peter MacKay, merged with the Canadian Alliance, Clark decided not to sit with the new Conservative party.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/clark_joe   (1196 words)

  
 Michael Starr, 89, Ukrainian Canadian political pioneer, dies (04/02/00)
In April 1952 he ran in a federal by-election as a Progressive Conservative Party candidate for the Ontario Riding and won, receiving the highest support from south-end Oshawa, his old Ukrainian neighborhood.
Diefenbaker's leadership was challenged within the Conservative Party and a leadership convention was called for September 1967, Mr.
Starr later stated that his motive in running for the leadership of the Conservative Party was to encourage others from the Canadian ethnocultural groups to enter Canadian politics.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2000/140004.shtml   (1375 words)

  
 Chief no more - Dief the Chief - CBC Archives
As votes are tallied at the Conservative leadership convention in Toronto, embattled party boss John Diefenbaker sits in the stands reading telegrams from supporters.
• The leadership vote in Toronto on Sept. 9, 1967, shown in this clip was the climax of a long and messy war within the Progressive Conservative party.
For much of the convention before the vote, he and his wife Olive were holed up in a hotel suite receiving a parade of visitors, including other candidates seeking his support should he throw in the towel.
archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-73-1599-10967/politics_economy/john_diefenbaker/clip9   (578 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > People > Senators > Senators Who Changed Parties During Senate Service ...
As a delegate to the Republican party's national convention in 1888, Stewart drafted the currency plank for the party's platform, which was later abandoned.
While Poindexter's change in viewpoint – from progressive to conservative – hurt him at the polls, party switching did not have an apparent affect on his committee chairmanships.
The National Progressive Republican League was created in 1911 to encourage the nomination of a reform-minded candidate for the upcoming presidential election.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/briefing/senators_changed_parties.htm   (5979 words)

  
 Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress -- THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, 1800-1992
This policy reflected the conservative philosophy of Librarian of Congress John Silva Meehan and Sen. James A. Pearce of Maryland, the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, who favored keeping a strict limit on the Library's activities.
In 1915 the Librarian reported that the new legislative service was anticipating questions from Congress on: "the conservation bills, so-called," the merchant marine, the government of the Philippines, immigration, convict-made goods, railroad securities, federal aid in road making, publicity in campaign contributions, and a national budget system.
In 1967, the Library of Congress inaugurated a pilot project to study techniques for the preservation of deteriorating or "brittle" books---volumes disintegrating because they were printed on acidic paper.
www.loc.gov /loc/legacy/loc.html   (7947 words)

  
 Chronology of the Middle East, 1967 to 1990
Consolidation of power under the Iraqi leadership: Hardan al-Takriti is dismissed on 15Oct70 and exiled (murdered in Kuwait on 30Mar71); ‘Ammash removed from RCC and vice-presidency, sent as ambassador to the USSR (28Sept71).
Iraq, in competition for the leadership of the Gulf region, denigrates Iran by stressing its Arabist credentials, breaks off relations with Iran and UK, expels 60,000 Iraqis of Iranian origin, turns to USSR for support.
Opposition largely drawn from those who had seen the 1967 war as an indication that there was a deep social and moral malaise in the Arab world, reflected in the military defeat.
middleeastreference.org.uk /Chronology2.html   (9128 words)

  
 Leadership Conventions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Conservatives have elected their leader by means of a national convention since 1927.
Votes of Party members across the country were weighted with 100 selection votes (points) for each constituency, regardless of the size of its Party membership or the number of votes cast.
The points were distributed among the leadership candidates according to the proportion of the votes cast for them within each constituency.
www.parl.gc.ca /information/about/related/Parties/LeaderConv.asp?lang=E¶m=5   (142 words)

  
 The History of Jim Crow
Students attending Tuskegee learned about soil conservation and crop rotation techniques, the importance of not borrowing money at usurious rates from merchant suppliers, personal hygiene, and how to save their money at fl-owned banks (there were 20 fl-owned banks in the South in 1911).
His leadership of a Harlem temple and his brilliant oratory and intelligence soon made him the leading spokesperson for the Nation until his break with its leader in 1964.
The Nation of Islam taught a form of Black Nationalism in response to the demeaning claims, practices, and laws of Jim Crow, contending that civilization had sprung from the Nile Valley of Egypt and that fl people were the Earth's original inhabitants.
www.jimcrowhistory.org /history/surviving2.htm   (6587 words)

  
 Glossary of People: Ma
Opposed the growing chauvinism of the SDF leadership as early as 1910; on the outbreak of war in 1914 he asserted that it was necessary to “develop a 'class patriotism', refusing to murder one another for a sordid world capitalism.'
In August 1792, he was elected to the Convention, where he led the attack against the Girondists.
She was raised in a conservative environment in Ireland, moved to Paris as a young adult and there married Count Markievicz.
www.marxists.org /glossary/people/m/a.htm   (9026 words)

  
 True Patriot - Canadian Conservative Club : Canada's Conservative Choice Online http://www.geocities.com/CanConCluTruPat
Not surprisingly, with this kind of discouragement from the party leadership, not many resolutions originating with the grassroots have ever got to be official party policy and so is the plight of the Liberal Party member who is forced to toe party line no matter how much it hurts their honest conscience.
Under Manning's leadership, in just ten short years, the Reform Party grew from a western-based protest party to become the pan-Canadian Official Opposition in Parliament, an unprecedented political move yet to be replicated electorally.
Progressive Conservative 2002 in Edmonton, Canadian Alliance 2002 in Edmonton, Edmonton Calgary ABCAHQ, Canadian Alliance Leadership Race 2002, CA March Madness to April Fools 2002, Canadian Alliance National Council Election 2002, Calgary CBC, Calgary CTV, Edmonton CWG, Progressive Conservative 2000 in Quebec City
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