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	Saskatchewan New Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) (formerly the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)) is a social democratic political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
		Blakeney's government was defeated in the 1982 election by the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan, led by Grant Devine.
		An irony of recent Saskatchewan NDP history is that despite starting in the 1930s as a party of rural discontent, it had by the 1990s lost almost all of its rural seats and found its greatest strength in Saskatchewan's cities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saskatchewan_New_Democratic_Party (757 words)

	New Democratic Party - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The New Democratic Party (NDP) is a political party in Canada with a social democratic philosophy and moderate democratic socialist tendencies that contests elections at both the federal and provincial levels.
		The influence of organized labour on the party is still reflected in the party's conventions as labour votes are scaled to 25% of the total number of ballots cast.
		A former Toronto city councillor, Layton was elected at the party's leadership election in Toronto on January 25, 2003, defeating his nearest rival, longtime Winnipeg-area MP Bill Blaikie, on the first ballot with 53.5% of the vote.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/New_Democratic_Party_of_Canada (3207 words)

	New Democratic Party - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		New Democrats are also active municipally, and have been elected mayors, councillors, and school and service board members — Toronto mayor David Miller is a leading example.
		The influence of organized labour on the party is still reflected in the party's leadership elections as labour votes are scaled to 25% of the total number of ballots cast.
		Layton, a former Toronto city councillor, was elected at the party's leadership election in Toronto on January 25, 2003, defeating his nearest rival, longtime MP Bill Blaikie, on the first ballot with 53.5% of the vote.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/NDP (1980 words)

	Saskatchewan Liberal Party - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The party dominated Saskatchewan politics for the province's first forty years providing six of the first seven premiers, and being in power for all but five of the years between the province's creation in 1905 and World War II.
		After the defeat of the Liberals in the 1971 election at the hands of the CCF's successor, the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP), the party remained the principal opposition party in the province until the 1978 election, when the party was wiped out and replaced on the right by the Progressive Conservatives.
		The party continued to founder and, in 1997, several right-wing Liberal Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) joined forces with Reform Party of Canada supporters and former Tories to form the Saskatchewan Party.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Saskatchewan_Liberal_Party (687 words)

	New Democratic Party info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The New Democratic Party (NDP) is a in with a social democratic philosophy and moderate tendencies.
		The influence of on the party is still reflected in the party's conventions as labour votes are scaled to 25% of the total number of ballots cast.
		A former Toronto city councillor, Layton was elected at the party's leadership election in Toronto on January 25, 2003, defeating his nearest rival, longtime MP, on the first ballot with 53.5% of the vote.
	searchwatch.org /en/New_Democratic_Party (1932 words)

	New Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Democratic Party (NDP; Nouveau Parti Démocratique in French) is a political party in Canada with a social democratic philosophy and moderate democratic socialist tendencies that contests elections at both the federal and provincial levels.
		The influence of organized labour on the party is still reflected in the party's conventions as labour votes are scaled to 45% of the total number of ballots cast.
		A former Toronto city councillor, Layton was elected at the party's leadership election in Toronto on January 5, 2003, defeating his nearest rival, longtime Winnipeg-area MP Bill Blaikie, on the first ballot with 43.5% of the vote.
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-New_Democratic_Party (3470 words)

	New Democratic Party - Gurupedia
		The importance of labour to the party is still reflected in the party's leadership elections as labour votes are scaled to 25% of the total number of ballots cast.
		It briefly lost official party status in the Commons due to a lack of MPs after the 1993 election, when it won only 9 seats (12 are required by the rules of the House of Commons).
		Saskatchewan New Democratic Party which first came to power in 1944 as the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation under Tommy Douglas and has won most of the province's elections since then.
	www.gurupedia.com /n/nd/ndp.htm (1068 words)

	New Democratic Party of British Columbia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a democratic socialist political party in British Columbia, Canada.
		Unlike other parties in Canada, where provincial and federal politics are strictly separated and members of one are not necessarily members of the other, NDP members are members of both the federal party and the provincial party.
		The party was formed in 1933 as the British Columbia section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) by a coalition of the Socialist Party of Canada (BC), the League for Social Reconstruction, and affiliated organizations.
	www.nyacknyus.com /profile/British_Columbia_New_Democratic_Party (2468 words)

	New Democratic Party
		The New Democratic Party (NDP) is a political party in Canada with social democratic and democratic socialist tendencies.
		New Democrats are also active municipally, and have been elected mayors, councillors and school and service board members -- Toronto mayor David Miller is a leading example.
		Layton, a former Toronto councillor, was elected at the party's convention in Toronto on January 25, 2003, defeating his nearest rival, longtime MP Bill Blaikie, on the first ballot with 53.5% of the vote.
	www.keywordmage.net /ne/new-democratic-party.html (1503 words)

	New Democratic Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The NDP is noted for its progressive, populist, agrarian and socialist roots, its close affiliation with organized labour, and, while the party is secular and pluralistic, its longstanding relationship with the Christian left and the Social Gospel movement, particularly the United Church of Canada.
		Over three election cycles, under the leadership of Audrey McLaughlin (1989-1995) — the first woman to be leader of a national political party in Parliament — in the first, and Alexa McDonough (1995-2003) over the next two, the party underwent a decline, a modest resurgence, and a slight decline again.
		Since then, the federal NDP is not integrated with a provincial party in that province; instead, it has a section, the New Democratic Party of Canada (Quebec), whose activities in the province are limited to the federal level, whereas on the provincial level its members are individually free to support or adhere to any party.
	new-democratic-party.ask.dyndns.dk (1461 words)

	Wikinfo \| New Democratic Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The social democratic party is the furthest left of Canada's mainstream parties.
		During the late 1960s and early 1970s the party was in conflict with the Waffle, a faction within the NDP that pushed a radical socialist program.
		The Party is currently favoured by an average of 15% in public opinion polls (an increase of 7% since the last election), and is very optimistic about its future.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=New_Democratic_Party (1120 words)

	Category:New Democratic Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Articles relating to the New Democratic Party at both the federal and provincial level.
		According to the NDP's constitution, the provincial parties are sections of the federal party with a single membership.
		This means that, for instance, the Saskatchewan NDP is that province's section of the New Democratic Party of Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:New_Democratic_Party_of_Canada (161 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - New Democratic party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY [New Democratic party] (NDP), Canadian political party, founded in 1961 when the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) reorganized itself and entered into close ties with Canadian labor unions, especially the Canadian Labor Congress (CLC).
		It had some success, especially in western provinces, and was the majority party in Saskatchewan (1944-64).
		The lives of the Party: the Democratic Party converging on Chicago isn't the one FDR, JFK and LBJ built - and some say Bill Clinton is betraying the party's liberal soul.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NewD1emoc.asp (392 words)

	New Democratic Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is a democratic socialist and social democratic party, and is considered the furthest left of Canada's mainstream parties, along with the Bloc Québécois.
		It currently governs the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, forms the Official Opposition in Nova Scotia and Yukon, and is the only opposition party in the legislature of British Columbia.
		In Quebec, the provincial NDP was expelled from the party in the early 1990s when it elected Paul Rose, a former Front du libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorist, as leader and voted to call for Quebec independence.
	aseannewsnetwork.de /articles/content/n/ne/new_democratic_party.html (1407 words)

	NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY : Encyclopedia Entry
		This was closer than any party has ever gotten before or since to the Liberals or Conservatives, and led to speculation that the NDP could eclipse the Liberals.
		Barrett reluctantly endorsed it to comply with party policy (he opposed the Meech Lake Accord in 1987), but later referred to the NDP's support for the Accord as a mistake.
		On November 28, 2005, Conservative leader Stephen Harper's motion of no confidence was seconded by Layton and it was passed by all three opposition parties, forcing an election.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/New_Democratic_Party (3502 words)

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		Leadership Training Conferences are one day events where the focus is on intensive training in the art of grass roots lobbying.
		The assigning of bills to particular committees is the responsibility of the leaders of the majority party in the house.
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	Lester Bowles Pearson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Party leadership He is elected leader of an Liberal Party at its 1958 leadership convention, but his party is badly routed in an election of that year.
		This is due in part to support of his minority government in an House of Commons from an New Democratic Party, led by Tommy Douglas.
		There, Pearson announced that an new leader chosen by an Liberal party is Pierre Trudeau, the man who Pearson had recruited with made Minister of Justice in his cabinet.
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	search.com - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Arguably, the party's greatest accomplishment was the introduction of North America's first comprehensive system of public medical insurance or Medicare (sometimes referred to as socialized medicine by critics of the system).
		The Romanow government was more conservative than previous CCF/NDP governments, and instituted a program of hospital closures and program cuts in order to eliminate the budget deficit inherited from Grant Devine's PC government.
		Romanow almost lost the 1999 election, and his government formed a coalition government with the small Liberal party.
	mail.search.com /reference/Saskatchewan_New_Democratic_Party (752 words)

	New Democratic party
		New Democratic party (NDP), Canadian political party, founded in 1961 when the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) reorganized itself and entered into close ties with Canadian labor unions, especially the Canadian Labor Congress (CLC).
		It had some success, especially in western provinces, and was the majority party in Saskatchewan (1944–64).
		Co-operative Commonwealth Federation - Co-operative Commonwealth Federation: see New Democratic party.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0835399.html (249 words)

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		2001 New Democratic Party leadership convention2001 Saskatchewan New Democratic Party leadership conventionsleadership convention.
		- January 29 - Peter Milliken is elected as the new Speaker of the Canadian House of CommonsSpeaker of the Canadian House of CommonsHouse of Commons after five rounds of voting.
		- February 3 - Roger Grimes becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador after winning the second ballot at the party's leadership convention.
	www.dictionary-of-meaning.com /2001_in_Canada.html (1320 words)

	Bibliography on the CCF-NDP and Canadian Social Democracy
		It was prepared for a course which studied the development of social democracy in Canada and explored the history, philosophy and policies of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the New Democratic Party (NDP).
		Whitehorn, A. and K. Archer "The Gender Gap Amongst Party Activists: A Case Study of Women and the New Democratic Party" in F.P. Gingras, ed., Gender and Politics in Contemporary Canada
		Whitehorn, A. and K. Archer "Party Activists and Political Leadership: A Case Study of the NDP" in Mancuso, et al.
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	History Faculty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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		It will also investigate the relationship between conventional structures of constitutional discourse and patterns of legislation at particular points in time, the impact of land reform movements on the evolution of legal theory, and the effects of changes in legal theory on the ideology and tactics of land reform leaders.
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