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  CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
In general, the Sovereign is bound by constitutional convention to almost always follow the advice of her Prime Minister, as long as the Prime Minister maintains the confidence of the House of Commons and acts within constitutional limits, though she retains the right to encourage, advise, and warn.
The Governor General summons, prorogues, and dissolves Parliament.
The Queen is informed by the governor general of the acceptance of the resignation of a prime minister and the swearing-in of a new prime minister and members of the Ministry.
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  Saskatchewan general election, 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Saskatchewan general election of 1964 was the fifteenth provincial election held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
It was held on April 22, 1964, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
The CCF had governed Saskatchewan since the 1944 election under the leadership (until 1962) of Tommy Douglas.
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 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Education is generally compulsory for children from ages 6 or 7 to ages 15 or 16, depending on the province in which they live, and it is free until the completion of secondary school studies.
Elections are held at the prime minister's discretion.
In the parliamentary elections of January 2006, the Conservatives won 124 of the 308 seats in the House of Commons; the Liberals finished second with 103 seats, the BQ took 51, the NDP won 29, and an independent filled the lone remaining seat.
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 John Diefenbaker - Search View - MSN Encarta
In 1935 he was chosen president of the Saskatchewan Conservative Association, and in the next year he was made leader of the provincial party.
In 1952 the Liberals in Saskatchewan abolished Diefenbaker's Lake Centre seat altogether by merging it with the neighboring legislative district of Moose Jaw, where the CCF had a vast majority.
The extent of the Conservatives' decline was seen in the spring election of 1962, which Diefenbaker campaigned on the misdeeds of the Liberals instead of on his own record.
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 Canada
Elections were held in June 2004, and until dissolution of parliament on November 29, Prime Minister Paul Martin led a minority Liberal government.
The government generally respected the human rights of its citizens, and the law and judiciary provide effective means of addressing individual instances of abuse.
According to the 2004 General Social Survey, children and youth under the age of 18 accounted for 21 percent of victims of physical assault and 61 percent of victims of sexual assault, while representing 21 percent of the population.
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 Saskatchewan general election, 1967 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Saskatchewan general election of 1967 was the sixteenth provincial election held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
It was held on October 11, 1967, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
The Liberal Party of Saskatchewan, led by Premier Ross Thatcher, was re-elected with a slightly larger majority in the legislature, and with a larger share of the popular vote.
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 TIJ Book: Chapter 10
In a Saskatchewan of substantial differences among the populations of constituencies, with a bias toward the rural, this was not a natural majority, and the NDP was typically only elected when it ran against two opposition parties that split the vote.
Saskatchewan's pursuit of innovative strategies can also be seen in the adoption of governmental investment in energy resources during the mid 1970s, in an environment of perceived scarcity of oil and gas and therefore energy generally.
Saskatchewan was found to have been an administrative innovator, based on having created and adopted early 34 innovations, and to have exhibited the trait of innovativeness, more than would have been expected of a government of its size, and more than have been identified for any other governments of any size at the time.
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 Voting Age Canada
Opposition to this measure threatened to be sufficient to unseat his government in the next election, prompting Borden and his government to adopt two election acts designed to modify the composition of the electorate.
You can go out to Saskatchewan and you can campaign in a federal election, and you will find that your audience is older on the average than when you campaign in that province during a provincial election, because in Saskatchewan we have given our citizens the right to vote at the age of 18.
In fact, the arbitrary nature of age limitations in general, and with respect to voting rights in particular, was recognized by both sides in the debate.
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 Romanow defeats Zazelenchuk in Saskatchewan legislature race (11/09/86)
Romanow, attorney general and deputy premier from 1971 to 1982, unseated his opponent by more than 3,000 votes, and will more than likely go on to assume the leadership of the NDP from Allan Blakeney.
The residents of this part of Saskatchewan have grown accustomed to having one of their own represent their interests on all three levels of government.
Romanow was elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature in 1967.
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Richards was born and raised in Saskatchewan, had gone to the University of Saskatchewan, and was completing a doctorate at the University of Washington in St. Louis.
Indeed, in the 1971 provincial election he was elected to the legislature from Saskatoon-Sutherland.
One poll conducted by the Social Research Unit at the University of Saskatchewan in 2000 reported that 40 percent believe that religion should be taught in the public schools.
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 Maple Leaf Web -- Alberta Party Parties
A surprise by-election victory for Elmer Roper in Edmonton in 1942 gave the CCF their first seat; they followed that with a few seats over the next several elections.
Following the election disaster, Martin resigned and was replaced in 1994 by leader Ross Harvey, a former researcher for the provincial party, and the first (and only) New Democrat ever elected to represent Alberta in the House of Commons (Edmonton East in 1988).
Barrett proved to be an effective critic of the Klein government's health care policies; however, after a near-death experience, caused by an allergic reaction to local anesthetic at the dentist, she resigned in 2000.
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 NDP | Our History
Douglas was defeated in the federal election of 1962, due largely to a doctors’ led backlash at the time against the Saskatchewan NDP government's introduction of Medicare.
She was first elected to the House of Commons for the Yukon in a by-election in 1987 and re-elected in the general elections of 1988 and 1993.
In the federal general election of June 2, 1997, McDonough and 20 other New Democrats were elected Members of Parliament, including six, the largest number ever, from Nova Scotia and, for the first time, two from New Brunswick.
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 Researchers : Māori and Pacific peoples' electoral participation in NZ - annotated bibliography
The purpose of this chapter is to examine three elements of the electoral system during the 1978 general election – the statutory provisions, the procedures for redistricting elections, and the regulation of the elections themselves.
Election ’78: The 1977 Electoral Redistribution and the 1978 General Election in
It is purely a statistical record of the dates of general elections and by-elections, vote summaries by parties, regional electoral summaries, Māori and General electorate results, and an index of candidates.
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 Thomson Nelson - Political Science Resource Centre
Visit New Zealand Elections for more information about this system and the history of its adoption in time for the 1996 general election.
The raw survey data from the 1997 and 2004 elections are available for the CES and for the 1984-2000 election studies from York University.
Elections Canada provides the official results of the 1997 and 2000 general elections on line.
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 Canada - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
The country's chief rivers include the Yukon and Mackenzie in the west, the North Saskatchewan, South Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan and the Athabasca Rivers in central Canada as well as the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers in the east.
In 1967 Canadians celebrated the 100th anniversary of confederation with Expo '67 and a resurgence in French nationalism occurred after the visit by French Pres.
On June 25, 1993 Campbell was sworn in as Canada's first female prime minister while national elections held on Oct. 25, 1993 resulted in the election of Jean Chretien of the Liberal Party as the country's new prime minister.
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 Governor General Cartoons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Because the Governor General doesn't really have a political role, he or she is rarely in the public spotlight, and as a result cartoons of the GG are not very common.
Historically, the Governor General was supposed to be the emissary of the British monarch to Canada.
The Governor General can then accept his resignation and call new elections, or appoint a new Prime Minister, or refuse the resignation (the last two powers are never used, but remain part of the GG's "reserve" constitutional authority).
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 Election 2006
He was also a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the 1997 and 2000 federal elections.
MacKenzie was appointed Critic for the Associate Minister of National Defence for the Conservative Party of Canada and he also sits as a member of the House of Commons Standing Committee of National Defence and Veterans Affairs.
MacKenzie was a distinguished police officer for the Woodstock City Police from 1967 to 1997.
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 cric.ca - Canada's Portal - Quick Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
On April 4, 1967, he became Minister of State attached to the Minister of Finance and on January 18, 1968, he was appointed Minister of National Revenue.
He was returned to the House in the June 25, 1968, election, representing the new constituency of Saint-Maurice.
In the September 4, 1984, election, he was re-elected as the Member of Parliament for Saint-Maurice and as a member of the Opposition was appointed Critic for External Affairs.
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General William O. Darby, the latest of several ships that have left the river since last summer, will be towed to the Marine Metals facility in Brownsville, Texas, to be dismantled.
The General William O. Darby was first constructed as the Admiral W.S. Sims (AP-127), a P-2 Admiral-type troop ship and used by the Army Transport Service to return troops to the United States from the Southwest Pacific.
Thirteen years later, the General Darby was selected for conversion and upgrade into a barracks ship for use by the Norfolk Naval Shipyard.
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 Lockwood, Saskatchewan - The Story of Lockwood Community - Lockwood History
Sometime during the winter of 1913-1914 a general meeting of all the interested ratepayers was held in the school in Lockwood.
In the Federal election of 1953 Ross Thatcher was elected as a representative of the C. in April 1955.Since then Ernest Pascoe, Progressive-Conservative has been the representative and the constituency was enlarged and was known as Moose Jaw Lake Centre until the latest distribution.
Generous donations were given to the skating and curling rinks and to minor ball.
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 Douglas-Coldwell Foundation - M.J. Coldwell - Major James Coldwell
In the 1935 federal election, Coldwell was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Rosetown-Biggar.
In the 1958 election, Coldwell lost his seat, and the party was reduced to a rump of eight MPs.
He was unenthusiastic about the movement to merge the CCF with the Canadian Labour Congress and create a "New Party", but he joined the New Democratic Party at its founding, and remained an elder statesman in the party until his death in 1974.
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 DSF - History
English is the only language used to teach in Saskatchewan: use of French is permitted at the elementary levels.
The Saskatchewan’s Education Act permits regular courses to be taught in French in schools.
First elections of the Fransaskois school trustees in accordance with the new Fransaskois Education Component.
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He lost the election of 1878 and was succeeded as leader by Edward Blake in 1880.
McDougall was one of the negotiators for the purchase of 64,000 square mile belt of land beyond the Red River along North Saskatchewan to the mountains for the Hudson’s Bay Company.
With the failures of the rebellions in Red River from 1869 to 1871 and Saskatchewan in 1885, the metis either sank further into poverty or were absorbed into the city.
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 Biographies of Palestinian political leaders since 1967
Was the Hamas representative to the 2002 talks in Gaza of all the major factions on a united Palestinian programme, and reportedly was involved in the drafting of the 10Aug draft agreement.
Joined Fatah in 1967 and rose quickly to be elected a delegate to the PNC in Feb69.
After 1967, was a frequent contributor to al-Quds: he proposed the emergence of a local leadership, chosen through elections and probably leading to a federation with Jordan (1Jan69).
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 CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Leaders and Parties
The official parliamentary website lists his occupation as "labour organizer," but he also was the general manager of the Université de Montréal newspaper Quartier Latin while he was a student there and worked the night shift as a medical orderly for five years in the 1970s.
In his role as BQ leader, Duceppe is known for his eloquent speeches that take the future independence of Quebec as a given, and for his well-aimed attacks against the government in question period.
However it rebounded in the 2004 election, when the party took 54 of the 75 Quebec seats.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/leadersparties/leaders/bio_duceppe.html   (921 words)

  
 The Emergence of Native Alaskan Political Capacity, 1959-1971
During the drive for Alaskan statehood in the 1950's, there was general concern that the undefined native land rights would come to haunt the political economy of the future state.
Because of the unstable basis of Alaska's economy, the new State was granted a very generous amount of land from the Federal public domain; article 6 of the act allowed the State to select 102,550,000 acres within twenty-five years of admission into the Union.
However, there was a general awareness among native leaders that they must establish a united front since there were already several land claim settlement bills being drafted in Congress.
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 Nelson - Political Science-Canadian Politics on the Web/Elections
The data from the 1997 election study are available on-line; the raw frequencies for a number of variables in their massive survey can be read directly with your browser, or you can download the full data set in SPSS format to analyze on your own computer.
Elections Canada provides the interim election results for the country as a whole, by province and by major metropolitan area.
Vancouver 1999 Local General Election Results - You can also read the results of the plebiscite held on what Vancouverites wished to do with their municipal electoral system.
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 CBC - Canada Votes 2004
In the 1979 election the Socreds won only six seats – half of the 12 needed for official party status, and the exact number needed by then-Prime Minister Joe Clark and his minority PC government if they were to govern effectively.
In the 1962 election, 30 Socreds were elected to the House – 26 of whom were from Quebec.
In the general election that year it won 52 seats – just two shy of the official Opposition Bloc Québécois and 50 more than the Progressive Conservative party.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes2004/leadersparties/parties/graveyard.html   (1220 words)

  
 injusticebusters 1999 > > Roy Romanow: The King of Saskatchewan Bad Lawyers
He was first elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature in 1967 and was re-elected in 1971, 1975, 1978, 1986, 1991 and 1995.
Throughout those 11 years, he also served as Saskatchewan's Attorney General, and was responsible for the introduction of many justice system reforms, including: the introduction of a provincial legal aid plan; the creation of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission; the introduction of a Saskatchewan Human Rights Code; and the creation of the Provincial Ombudsman's Office.
Romanow led the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party to a 55 seat majority government, and assumed the duties of Premier on November 1, 1991.
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