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In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

  
  Cal Law
Electoral candidate who defended against lawsuit challenging voters' pamphlet statement was entitled under private attorney general doctrine to attorney fees for litigating scope of electoral statute.
District court's order excluding evidence of sexual assault lacked adequate supporting explanation where court's identification of evidence to be excluded was vague and ruling was finalized by means of one-sentence order lacking findings or explanation.
District court's jurisdiction to hear claim filed while state court judgment on plaintiff's inextricably intertwined claim was pending ceased as soon as state court entered judgment on that claim.
www.law.com /regionals/ca/opinions/civil.shtml   (6917 words)

  
 standing committee on Procedure and house affairs - report 29 - Electoral Boundaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In its considerations, each commission is to take into consideration the community of interest or community of identity or the historical pattern of an electoral district in the province, as well as what constitutes a manageable geographic size in cases of sparsely populated, rural or northern regions.
The mention of two distinct communities in the electoral district ignored several equally significant and distinct communities that also composed the riding – Tuxedo, Osborne Village, Crescentwood, Lord Roberts, Riverview, Wildwood Park and Fort Rouge – and was therefore exclusionary.
The 8% variance of population in the two electoral districts is well within the statutorily allowable maximum of 25%.
www.parl.gc.ca /InfoComDoc/37/2/HAFF/Studies/Reports/HAFFRP29-e.htm   (1921 words)

  
 [No title]
The district court ruled that Abbott was substantially limited in a major life activity (reproduction), and thus was disabled for the purposes of the ADA.
District Judge McKenna dismissed the First Amendment claim, ruling that, although Tester was "openly gay," he did not assert any specific statement on which to base a First Amendment claim.
Hadinger__, 573 N.E.2d 1191 (1991), the 10th District Court of Appeal said that the common thread of statutory and judicial decisions dealing with cohabitation was "living together in an intimate relationship," and applied the statute in that case.
www.qrd.org /qrd/usa/legal/lgln/1997/04.97   (13520 words)

  
 Louis Riel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, by late June Riel was back in Manitoba and was soon thereafter convinced to run as a member of parliament for the electoral district of Provencher.
In the electoral district of Lorne, a meeting of the south branch Métis was held in the village of Batoche on March 24, and thirty representatives voted to ask Riel to return and represent their cause.
On May 6 a joint "Settler's Union" meeting was attended by both the Métis and English-speaking representatives from Prince Albert, including William Henry Jackson, an Ontario settler sympathetic to the Métis and known to them as Honoré Jackson, and James Isbister of the Anglo-Metis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Riel   (5923 words)

  
 List of Canadian federal electoral districts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of Canada's 308 electoral districts (also known as ridings in Canadian English) as defined by the 2003 Representation Order, which came into effect on May 23, 2004.
Electoral districts are constituencies that elect Members of Parliament to Canada's House of Commons every election.
Parliament of Canada: History of the Federal Electoral Ridings since 1867
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Canadian_federal_electoral_districts   (132 words)

  
 Elections Canada On-Line | General Information
Federal electoral district boundaries were subsequently revised to reflect changes and movements in Canada's population.
The electoral district name was changed subsequent to the 2003 Representation Order by An Act to change the names of certain electoral districts (S.C. 2004, c.
The electoral district name was changed in accordance with An Act to change the name of the electoral district of Battle River, (S.C. 2005, c.
www.elections.ca /content.asp?section=gen&document=ec92605&dir=bkg&lang=e&textonly=false   (278 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
In the federal general election of February 1874 he was again elected in Provencher, only to be expelled from the House of Commons.
This persistence on the part of the solidly French constituency of Provencher angered an increasingly large percentage of English-speaking voters in Manitoba as well as in Canada as a whole.
Although a private member’s attempt to disqualify senators from sitting in the provincial legislature (a measure that drew attention to Girard’s double mandate) was defeated in committee by only one vote, the bill itself, along with more than 20 others, passed easily and received royal assent.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40246   (3491 words)

  
 96. VAUGHAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
There shall be in the Province of Manitoba fourteen (14) electoral districts, named and described as follows, each of which shall return one member.
The population figure of each electoral district is derived from the 2001 decennial census.
There shall be in the Province of Alberta twenty-eight (28) electoral districts named and described as follows, each of which shall return one member.
laws.justice.gc.ca /en/E-3/SI-2003-154/97887.html   (881 words)

  
 Voices in the Wilderness : Iraq Update - November 21 - 27
Kindy and Provencher went to the Residency Office of the Ministry of the Interior to follow up on their requests for temporary residency.
Kindy and Provencher, as CPTers and as Indiana constituents, did the “action” part by writing a letter to Senator Lugar (R-IN) calling for re- allocation of funds to rebuild Iraqi infrastructure instead of to the military.
In the late afternoon Tom Fox and Provencher did an interview with a friend of the team who is a priest in a Catholic church.
vitw.org /archives/699   (1075 words)

  
 Report to the Standing Committee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
And, the Canadian electoral system is recognized as being so archaic and so undemocratic that it is universally rejected by modern and emerging democracies when sincere electoral reform is undertaken.
The way that the electoral system distorts the number of votes earned by parties relative to the seats gained in legislatures is only the most glaring distortion because it is easy to compare votes cast with seats won.
The fact that Canada's electoral system so effectively disenfranchises millions of Canadians is the reason for the rise of -- and the argument for the compelling need in our present system for -- third parties to vigorously participate in elections.
www.environmentvoters.org /C2ReporttoStandingSenateCommittee.html   (2774 words)

  
 MHS Transactions: The life and times of Archbishop Tache
Provencher, noticing that some of his priests were recalled or returning to eastern Canada, he appealed to the Oblate Congregation to supply him with missionaries.
It was during this period that Bishop Provencher sent the new priests with the Reverend Lafleche to the extreme northern mission of Ile a la Crosse; he remained alone to assist the 96 persons, who died within three weeks as a result of the epidemic.
Provencher hesitated before calling on the youngest of the two, "who, however, had excellent dispositions but born only yesterday." An oblate bishop, furthermore, would be an asset to the missions, for this would establish a permanent link with this grand Order.
www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/transactions/3/tache.shtml   (6798 words)

  
 Biographies of Monroe County People.
Walter, John A. P., was born in 1846, in the Electorate of Hesse, near Frankfurt on the Main, and came to this country with his parents in 1855 and located in Rochester, where be attended the public schools, and later the Lutheran Parochial schools.
In 1888 he represented the district in the Electoral College, and in August, 1889, was appointed collector of customs for the port of Genesee.
Foote was one of the delegates from this senatorial district to the Constitutional Convention, which made and submitted to the people the Revised Constitution of the State which was adopted in 1894.
www.rootsweb.com /~nymonroe/bios/biographies011.htm   (9003 words)

  
 Green Party of MN Coordinating Committee Meeting Minutes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
District, which may serve as a model, has started a recruitment committee and is looking for candidates.
District 4 is looking at growing their local, attracting a more diverse membership, and candidate recruitment.
Senate Districts are huge, a three hour drive for some.
www.mngreens.org /committees/1103notes.htm   (1283 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
perfectly permissible to change the opinion of an elector by reasoning and all other means of persuasion, but never by intimidation.” He concluded: “The policy of the Liberal party is to protect [our] institutions, to defend them and spread them, and, under the sway of those institutions, to develop the country’s latent resources.
That is the policy of the Liberal party and it has no other.” Laurier had expressed ideas that would satisfy Bishop Conroy in powerful words which he would repeat through the best years of his political career.
In imperial relations, he decided to remove ambiguities, keeping a close eye on his electoral base in Quebec where Bourassa’s impassioned speeches were stirring more and more unrest.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41636   (15738 words)

  
 Elections Canada On-Line | Statement of Assets and Liabilities - Registered Electoral District Associations
The most significant changes affecting electoral district associations – often known as riding associations or constituency associations – concern registration, contributions, financial reports and public disclosure of information.
Additional information on new rules governing electoral district associations is available in the backgrounder entitled Registration and Political Financing of Electoral District Associations – New Rules on January 1, 2004.
As the deadline for filing the statement is based on the registration date of each electoral district association, we will be updating this information periodically as additional statements are received.
www.elections.ca /eda_forms3.asp?textonly=false%E2%8C%A9=e&lang=e   (261 words)

  
 Vol
The Provencher Bridge is a priority for the city of Winnipeg.
The Provencher Bridge is a priority for the federal member for St. Boniface, the Honourable Ronald Duhamel, and for the federal government.
The Provencher Bridge is important for Winnipeg and for Manitoba.
www.gov.mb.ca /hansard/hansard/2nd-37th/vol_023/h023.html   (19470 words)

  
 Manitoba Canada Census Records Online
1901 Census of Lisgar District: Pembina and Manitou, Manitoba
1901 Census of MacDonald District, Manitoba: Neepawa and Lansdowne
1901 Census of MacDonald District, Manitoba: Rosedale subdistrict
www.censusfinder.com /manitoba-canada-census-records.htm   (569 words)

  
 UN News Centre - News Focus
Two separate missions to Pur Chaman and Shebi Koh districts have already previously been deployed to this area, but a new assessment team is being sent there.
Until then Ariane Quentier, Sultan Baheen, Richard Provencher, and Martin Battersby will be holding the fort and will continue to put together the briefings, with the cooperation of our colleagues from the agencies.
But I understand that the electoral experts are working on it and I understand that in the coming days they will be concluding the operational plan that I mentioned to you a few days ago — and that of course has a clearer budget estimate.
www.un.org /apps/news/infocusnews.asp?NewsID=888&sID=1   (3642 words)

  
 CBC - Canada Votes 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In 2004, it kept 99 per cent (population=85,063) and added 1.5 per cent (population=1185) from Churchill and 0.35 per cent (population=307) from Provencher.
In 2001, minister of health appointed him to the Interlake Regional Health Authority's board of directors and for the past two years has served as chair of its planning committee and has sat on the executive committee.
In Oct 2003, he was invited by the chief electoral officer to participate in the National Forum on Youth Voting in Calgary.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/223   (1013 words)

  
 1906 Census of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Provencher, being the electoral district of Provencher (see map in MrSid format)
* first lines of page 1 image which was located in the Alberta, District #21 (Strathcona), Subdistrict #39 pages actually are for this subdistrict; page was also found on the Saskatchewan, District #16, Subdistrict #13 National archives webpage.
33 was found in Saskatchewan District #16, Subdistrict 11 as p.
www.afhs.ab.ca /data/census/1906/manitoba/7   (1129 words)

  
 Center for Justpeace in Asia - Justpeace News
With the demise of both the Congress and the Nehru dynasty as the dominant party and family in Indian politics, the center-left has yet to arrive at the reconstruction of a new coalition that can offer a viable democratization alternative to the re-brahminization of the Hindu Right.
Due to the electoral system (first-past-the post in single-member constituencies), the BJP has captured a near majority of seats in the national Parliament, the Lok Sabha, with only 25% of the popular vote in the elections held in February 1998.
And in keeping with "caste censorship" the term Dalit was not used, and, of course, not that there might be an organization called the Panthers.
daga.dhs.org /justpeace/blog/2005_03_01_jpblog.htm   (5295 words)

  
 Shot In The Dark: October 2004 Archives
The electorate best knows which candidate will serve this end; which candidate most promises to be European-like in attitude and they can choose that path with both eyes open.
Should the electors decide for the President, as I would slightly prefer, the excruciating personality of George Bush strikes me in the light of a second- or third-order consideration.
If the worst that is said of him is true--that he is an idiotic and psychically damaged Sabbath-fanatic, with nothing between his large Texan ears--then these things were presumably just as true when he ran against Al Gore, and against nation-building and foreign intervention.
www.shotinthedark.info /archives/2004_10.html   (11582 words)

  
 << Journals Division of UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS >>   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Thirty women, young brides living in a working-class district of Montreal during the economic depression, agreed to answer Baillargeon's questions on their life history.
Oral history resources prove to be invaluable in fleshing out the cold demographic and economic data on declining birth rates or unemployment curves.
The book consists of nine `chapters.' The first is a brief overview of the CCF/NDP's electoral support, membership base, and ideology, with an emphasis on recent developments.
www.utpjournals.com /jour.ihtml?lp=product/chr/741/untitled.html   (18292 words)

  
 CPTnet November Releases: IRAQ UPDATE: November 21-27, 2004
Kindy and Provencher went to the Residency Office of the Ministry of the
Kindy and Provencher, as CPTers and as Indiana constituents, undertook the
awareness that other electoral systems are not perfect, either.
www.cpt.org /archives/2004/nov04/0044.html   (1007 words)

  
 Canada Gazette
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to subsection 93(3) of the Canada Elections Act, that I have determined the number of names appearing on the preliminary lists of electors established at the pending general election, for each electoral district, as listed in the Appendix.
For the purposes of subsection 441(2) of the Canada Elections Act, the average number of names appearing on the preliminary lists of electors established for all electoral districts at the pending general election is 64,437.
The format of the electronic version of this issue of the Canada Gazette was modified in order to be compatible with hypertext language (HTML).
canadagazette.gc.ca /partI/2000/20001027-x/html/extra-e.html   (116 words)

  
 Turmel Political Press 1987-1989
A word from the mayor and her police would have allowed all of the candidates to participate but without that intervention, her eventual electoral victory was tainted.
Turmel tried to persuade District Judge Gordon Killeen that CFPL-TV was planning to discriminate against him during a taping of an Inquiry news program scheduled for airing Sunday.
Turmel argued that because Inquiry is a "free-time" political broadcast, CFPL was bound by Section 8 of the Television Broadcasting Regulations formulated by the CRTC.
www.cyberclass.net /turmel/prspol87.htm   (10792 words)

  
 IDSP PROGRESS REPORT ON HEALTH EFFECTS OF ALUMINUM IN THE WORKPLACE
Verification of the method of assigning cases to the probable Alzheimer's disease category was established in 19 of 24 cases based on the final clinical diagnosis in 52 consecutive cases in one center.
Using age- and sex-specific population data for England and Wales in 1983, the incidence of SDAT was standardized for each county district in the study.
However, care is needed in the interpretation because, as in all epidemiological surveys, the possibility exists that the relation observed is due to the operation of some unknown confounding variable.
www.canoshweb.org /odp/html/OCT1989.htm   (18323 words)

  
 bound by gravity
The parole office should be downtown, in the commercial district – not in a residential neighbourhood across from a school.
It doesn't matter whether you are pro-same-sex marriage, or anti-same sex marriage, it should be a no brainer to see that if the CPC campaigns on annihilating same-sex marriage then they will lose the next election badly.
Conservative MP Vic Toews (Provencher, Man.), his party's high-profile justice critic and a former Manitoba justice minister, told The Hill Times that the Conservatives will definitely make it an election issue out on the hustings and said if the federal Conservatives win the next election they will attempt to repeal the law.
www.boundbygravity.com /2005_07_01_bbgarchive.aspx   (13335 words)

  
 1906 Census of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Calgary, being that part of the electoral district of Calgary which lies within the province of Alberta together with that part of electoral district of Assiniboia West which lies within the province of Alberta between the line dividing townships 17 and 19 and the Red Deer river (see map in MrSid format).
That part of Calgary district bounded on the north by the northern boundary of the district, on the east by the 4th M, on the south by the Red Deer river, and on the west by the line between ranges 10 and 11 west of the 4th M
Townships 18 to 25 inclusive in ranges 11 to 18 inclusive, townships 22, 23, 24, 25 in ranges 19, 20, 21 and those parts of townships 21 in ranges 19, 20, 21 lying north of Blackfoot Indian Reserve, all west of the 4th M
www.afhs.ab.ca /data/census/1906/alberta/19   (2205 words)

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