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 Discussion Paper. The Reform of the Voting System in Québec
General election: Victory for Robert Bourassa’s Liberals with an excessive margin of seats (45.4% of the vote and 66.7% of the seats).
General election: The PQ under René Lévesque defeats Claude Ryan’s Liberals and is reelected with 49.2% of the vote and 65.6% of the seats.
On general election night, when voters hear the TV announcer utter the stock phrase "If the trend continues..." they know the score: One of the parties in the race is winning a majority of seats in the National Assembly and will form the next Government of Québec.
www.assnat.qc.ca /eng/publications/rapports/rapci1eng.htm   (15291 words)

  
 Quebec cinema, p. 2
Almost all of the Quebec filmmakers of that period emphasize, in the definition of their characters, the economic and social position of their protagonists.
This characteristic form of documentary filmmaking in Quebec, as elsewhere in the French-speaking world (Jean Rouch is its progenitor in France), is the area of the greatest achievements of the Quebec cinema.
Quebec's banking and savings system is based in large part on a network of cooperative neighborhood credit unions (caisses populaires) begun near the turn of the century (in some areas of English Canada as well) in order to help the little people combat the power of the big central banks.
www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC22folder/QuebecFilm2.html   (5001 words)

  
 Georgia Flag Facts - Camp 18 Sons of Confederate Veterans
The charges are that the battle flag portion of the 1956 Georgia flag represents slavery and bigotry and also that our the 1956 State flag was adopted in defiance of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, which led to integration of schools.
General U. Grant, Union Commander, stated that if he became convinced that the war was being fought to free the slaves, he would resign his commission and offer his sword to the other side.
On January 20 1956 it was announced that the Civil War Centennial Committee would be formed to plan commemorative events for the 100th anniversary of the War between the States.
www.geocities.com /scvcamp18/GAflagfacts.html   (4160 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Canadian Elections: Quebec
The support of Quebec voters in the Canadian election of April 8 will be of great importance in determining the national outcome.
Caouette, a car salesman from the northern constituency of Rouyn-Noranda, is a fiery, arm-waving demagogue, who captured the votes of rural Quebec in the last general election.
Involved in Quebec politics since the age of 25, when he was elected to the Provincial Legislature, Dupis has been described as a Young Paul Martin, a powerful speaker with the Gallic flair of Caouette.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=128674   (836 words)

  
 QuébecPolitique.com | National Union
The Union Nationale is born of the merging of two political parties: the Conservative Party, founded during the XIXth Century and led by Maurice Duplessis, and the Action Libérale nationale, a splinter group of the Liberal Party led by Paul Gouin since it's foundation in 1934.
This party dominated the political scene in Quebec from 1936 to 1960, and declined after the death of it's founder in 1959.
The last MNAs elected under the label "Union Nationale" were elected during the 1976 general election, with Rodrigue Biron as leader, boosted by the protest vote of the english-speaking Quebecers against the "Loi 22" voted by the Liberal government in 1974.
www.quebecpolitique.com /partis/un-en.html   (272 words)

  
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By extension, if there are two persons and they both choose to perform an act with no external effect beyond the two, it is neutral with respect to the others, and good or neutral between the two.
Generalizing, acts which are performed among consenting persons and with no external effects on others are either u.e.-good or u.e.-neutral.
If the acts are perceived as mutually beneficial among the group, or by at least one recipient of another's acts as a benefit, then the acts are u.e.-good, otherwise they are neutral.
www.foldvary.net /works/quebec.html   (6235 words)

  
 John Diefenbaker - MSN Encarta
The Progressive Conservative Party's difficulties were also great, but they were offset by the country's desire for change, which gave Diefenbaker his main chance in the 1957 general election.
In the election of June 10, 1957, the Progressive Conservative Party received only 39 percent of the popular vote but won more seats in Parliament than any other party.
His was a minority government, and a new election could not be long delayed.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572370_2/Diefenbaker_John_George.html   (1192 words)

  
 Dale | On Lester (“Mike”) Pearson of Canada (II)
In 1956, Secretary of State Dulles sponsored a high-level committee, known as “the wise men,” to explore non-military functions for NATO (Pearson commented at the time that “some are born wise, some achieve wisdom, and some have wisdom thrust upon them”).
The election of 1963 brought Mike and his associates to power in spite of bitter controversy over announced intention to permit U.S. nuclear weapons to be based on Canadian soil.
The Quebec provincial government set about making plans directly with the French Government, but Pearson considered visits of foreign heads of state to be a responsibility of the government in Ottawa.
www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/AD_Issues/amdipl_15/dale_pearson2.html   (1634 words)

  
 New York City During the First Year of the Revolution
As a general rule, ethnic and religious minorities ñ many of whom looked to the crown for protection ñ had a greater propensity towards loyalism.
In early January 1776, General Charles Lee, scarcely able "to sleep from apprehensions on the subject," proposed to General Washington that he be sent to secure New York with volunteer troops recruited from Connecticut.
General Charles Lee was arguably one of the most fascinating characters to participate in the Revolution; he was certainly one of the most controversial.
www.earlyamerica.com /review/2003_summer_fall/NYC.htm   (4454 words)

  
 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
In 1960, however, he supported the Quebec Liberals in the election which traditionally is identified as the beginning of the so-called "Quiet Revolution" in Quebec.
In the election which followed, so-called "Trudeaumania" swept the country as the media became fascinated with the quick mind, the athletic prowess, the romantic attachments, and the surprising indifference to traditional political concerns of Canada's new prime minister.
Against the strong opposition of Western Canada, Quebec, and most of the Atlantic provinces, the opposition parties, and leading newspapers, Trudeau pushed ahead his scheme for a new constitution which would be the last act of the United Kingdom Parliament to affect Canada.
www.bookrags.com /biography/pierre-elliott-trudeau   (1908 words)

  
 Québec
The most recent general election was held on 14 April 2003, in which the separatist Parti Québécois won 45 of the legislature's 125 seats, while the anti-separatist Québec Liberal Party won 76.
The Canadiens are the best-known team in hockey and have won the NHL championship (the Stanley Cup) a record 23 times—the earliest in 1924 and the most recent in 1993.
The Quebec Nordiques played in the NHL from 1979 to 1996 before the franchise became the Colorado Avalanche.
www.nationsencyclopedia.com /canada/Nunavut-to-Yukon/Qu-bec.html   (6723 words)

  
 Campaign To Ban Pesticides Grows In Canada
Bruinsma, a general practitioner with a degree in biology, was no stranger to ecology.
She worked as a general practitioner, and he was a tenure-track biology professor at the University of Ottawa.
The older generation of pesticides, such as ddt, tend to rise with evaporation, are carried by winds for days or weeks, over thousands of kilometres.
www.rense.com /general10/pest.htm   (4327 words)

  
 Do Canadians Trust Themselves?: The 2006 Federal Election by John von Heyking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Canadians are in an election campaign a mere seventeen months after their last one.
Americans will be interested in what impact the election has on Canada’s commitment to North American security, the war on terror, and energy security, not to mention its impact on trade between the two countries, which is the largest bi-national trading relationship in the world.
For instance, before the election the prime minister threatened to retaliate against U.S. softwood lumber duties by slapping export duties on Alberta oil and gas, which would increase U.S. reliance on Saudi and Venezuelan oil, and increase pressure to drill for oil and gas in environmentally sensitive Alaskan wild lands.
www.ashbrook.org /publicat/guest/05/vonheyking/2006election.html   (1523 words)

  
 List of political parties in Canada - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
None - the territory, established in 1999, has a legislature that runs on a consensus government model, candidates running as independents, and no parties are represented in the legislative assembly.
Between 1902 and 1978, candidates for election ran as independents.
From 1898 to 1909, there were some appointed members in the council that now is known as a legislative assembly.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_political_parties_in_Canada   (886 words)

  
 TIME.com: Still the Champion -- Jul 2, 1956 -- Page 1
Quebec's splinter parties joined in an anti-Duplessis coalition, and the strong federal Liberal organization, dropping its hands-off policy toward provincial affairs, sent a team of Ottawa Cabinet ministers to Quebec to campaign.
His main theme, as ever, was the cry that the Ottawa government threatens Quebec's autonomy, endangers its language and religion.
But on the Quebec hustings the Liberal politicians unblushingly fired it at Duplessis, charging that the big iron-ore project in Ungava and other U.S.-financed enterprises were "giveaways to foreigners." The maneuver boomeranged on the Liberals.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,891281,00.html   (722 words)

  
 GI -- World War II Commemoration
Legislative elections in November 1958 assured a majority for the new Gaullist party (the Union for the New Republic) and other supporters of de Gaulle, and in December 1958 he was elected president of the Fifth Republic by a 78% vote of the electoral college.
He proposed that the constitution be amended to permit election of the president of the republic by direct popular vote.
In the election of June 1968, de Gaulle, effectively using the threat of a Communist takeover and gaining the support of many Frenchmen who were frightened by the student excesses, won a landslide victory for his regime.
www.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_degaulle.html   (2175 words)

  
 QuébecPolitique.com | Ralliement créditiste
First, a social movement, the Union des électeurs have been founded in 1939 by Louis Even and Gilberte Côté-Mercier and presented candidates during the 1945 and 1949 federal elections, as well as for the 1944 and 1948 general elections in Quebec, but didn't succees, however, to elect a Member of the Legislative Assembly.
In 1970 was founded a Quebec wing for the Ralliement des créditistes: the Ralliement créditiste du Québec.
Quebec wing of the Social Credit Party of Canada, the Parti Crédit social uni (Québec) obtained the status of authorized political party on September, 1979.
www.quebecpolitique.com /partis/cs-en.html   (512 words)

  
 Quebec general election, 1956 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Quebec general election of 1956 was held on June 20, 1956 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
This was the fifth and final time (and the fourth in a row) that Duplessis led his party to a general election victory.
The Liberals did not manage to improve on their performance in the previous 1952 election.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_general_election,_1956   (170 words)

  
 Louis Stephen St. Laurent Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
With the end of the war, he was persuaded to remain in the Cabinet as secretary of state for external affairs, and in this post he became one of the architects of the North Atlantic Treaty.
In 1953 the government was again victorious in a general election.
Laurent's angry attacks on the policies of Britain and France during the Suez crisis of 1956 did little to improve matters, and in the general election of 1957 the government was defeated.
www.bookrags.com /biography/louis-stephen-st-laurent   (467 words)

  
 Crosspoint
In 1824, Archdeacon G. Mountain of Quebec, was a guest at the Mann's homestead.
He graduated in law and was admitted to the Quebec Bar.
The two remaining years of his life were spent in the calm of private life.
members.tripod.com /~CyberBart/crosspte.htm   (1445 words)

  
 Nodice · N.B. · New Brunswick Provincial Election 2006 · New Brunswick's Updated Provincial Election Resource
NB election will end political guessing game in too-close-to-call...
NB premier goes on attack in last debates of Sept. 18 election...
Pundits predict NB election campaign will get personal...
www.nodice.ca /elections/newbrunswick   (849 words)

  
 TIME.com: New Tory Leader -- Dec. 24, 1956 -- Page 1
Even those who could not attend in person could watch from afar; for the first time, TV cameras were on hand to broadcast the proceedings and let all Canadians see the choosing of the man who will be their Prime Minister if the Tory Party wins the next general election.
The Tories, out of power since 1935, have lost five straight elections, and they have shown few signs of increasing their political appeal.
That weakness has not been remedied by the election of John Diefenbaker, who speaks no French and failed to win any Quebec support at the Tory convention.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,808829,00.html   (721 words)

  
 Canadians to Elect New Parliament
Voters in Canada are heading to the polls Monday in the country's general election.
The election campaign was one the of longest in Canadian history.
The confidence vote was triggered by a public inquiry that found Liberal politicians in Quebec had taken kickbacks in return for government contracts.
voanews.com /english/2006-01-23-voa16.cfm   (630 words)

  
 Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Louis St. Laurent Column
We signed the mortgage for our Quebec City house in a notary's office in a building on Grande Allée that was the former prime minister's family home.
Virtually all analyses of the 1957 upset point to the Liberals as a party too long in power, having had a grip on Ottawa since the return of King in 1935, and lacking in a vision that stirred the imagination of an electorate craving something more inspiring than efficient management and balanced books.
Peter Black is a writer living in Quebec City, where he is the producer of Quebec A.M. -- CBC Radio's popular English-language morning show (91.7 FM, 6-9, Mon.-Fri).
www.tomifobia.com /unclelouis.html   (640 words)

  
 WPL: Maine History Resources, as of 1956   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Roberts, Kenneth L. March to Quebec: Journals of the Members of Arnold's Expedition.
A fourth volume was in the process of being published in 1956.
Famous general and head of the Freedmen's Bureau.
www.waterborolibrary.org /mehist2.htm   (4437 words)

  
 Bibliography of the Baha'i Faith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
A brief history of the movement is followed by a general exposition of its teachings, with an emphasis on the fulfilment of prophecy.
A general introduction, beginning with discussions of the nature of the Manifestation of God, the roles of previous prophets, including Christ, and continuing with an orthodox presentation of Baha'i history and teachings.
A short general introduction, emphasizing the lives of the Bab and Baha' Allah.
bahai-library.com /books/biblio/general.introductory.html   (12520 words)

  
 POL 211 CANADIAN POLITICAL PARTIES 1998-99
Manon Tremblay, "Political Party, Political Philosophy and Feminism: A Case Study of the Female and Male Candidates in the 1989 Quebec General Election," CJPS 26 (1993), pp.
John C. Courtney and David E. Smith, "Voting in a Provincial General Election and a Federal By-election: A Constituency Study of Saskatoon City," CJEPS 32 (1966), 338-353.
Frederick J. Fletcher, "The Mass Media in the 1974 Canadian Election," in Howard R. Penniman, ed., Canada at the Polls: The General Election of 1974 (Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1975).
www.chass.utoronto.ca /~clarkson/courses/pol211y_bib.html   (12248 words)

  
 C&EN: CANDIDATES' ELECTION STATEMENTS AND BACKGROUNDS
The ACS divisions, which generate the national meeting programs, must be provided with the resources and infrastructure support to enable them to develop the best possible technical symposia.
As a longtime teacher of general chemistry and as a coauthor of a general chemistry textbook, I understand and appreciate the necessity of reaching students from many disciplines, not just chemistry majors.
When I presented myself for election to this office in 2000, the economy was approaching the end of one of the longest and strongest periods of growth in our history.
pubs.acs.org /cen/acs/print/8137elections.html   (10754 words)

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