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  Stockwell Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Day is currently MP for the riding of Okanagan—Coquihalla in British Columbia and the Minister of Public Safety.
Stockwell Day was born in Barrie, Ontario, in 1950, living in a number of places in Canada during his youth, including Atlantic Canada, Ottawa and Montreal.
Day later appeared as a speaker at a "Canadians for Bush" rally in the Niagara region, organized by controversial right-wing minister Tristan Emmanuel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stockwell_Day   (1516 words)

  
 Why I like Day - Interim, March 2002
Yet after Day's last appearance on the show was covered in the media, the only call that was mentioned was the one that tried to associate the man with Holocaust deniers.
Those very close to Day say how surprised they are that even in private their leader refuses to badmouth or criticize people who are making a profession out of doing this to him.
Day may or may not now survive all this, but if he doesn't, the only people to win will be the very types who have done and still do this great country no good service at all.
www.theinterim.com /2002/mar/coren.html   (676 words)

  
 The Globe and Mail: Series
Day has said that he would favour referendums on such controversial issues, including capital punishment, before making any changes to Canadian law, but that such changes are not high on his agenda.
Day is scheduled to face a civil lawsuit for defamation in November, regarding a letter he wrote to the Red Deer Advocate about a lawyer who defended a convicted pedophile charged with possessing child pornography.
Day has tried to raise the level of decorum in the House of Commons, forcing his caucus to sit silent in Question Period as Liberal shouts and guffaws send the Speaker to his feet.
www.theglobeandmail.com /series/election/leaders/day.html   (726 words)

  
 ZNet Commentary
Stockwell Day is a fundamentalist Christian with a history in the government of the province of Alberta of fighting abortion and gay rights.
Stockwell Day is a deeply conservative man reflecting views similar to the Moral Majority in the United States.
Day is trying to quietly shelve his views under the pressure of the desire for political power in a country where more than 80 percent are pro-choice and a significant majority support gay rights but that’s not what he’s done in Alberta.
www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2000-10/03rebick.htm   (911 words)

  
 The Long Night of Stockwell Day
Day was desperate to try to hide his anti-women, anti-gay policies during the federal election last fall, for fear of losing votes.
Day was met by pickets and alternative press packages at almost every election campaign stop, exposing and opposing his sexist, homophobic politics.
Day’s decline is just one marker in the rise of a new mood of resistance to the politics of oppression, scapegoating and bigotry.
www.web.net /sworker/En/SW2001/356-07-Day.html   (1040 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
TORONTO - Not since the days of Social Credit, with its evocations of hellfire Prairie populism and unvarnished anti-Semitism, have national politics grabbed the attention of Canadian Jewry as the ascension of Stockwell Day to the leadership of the Canadian Alliance.
Congress will also be meeting with Day in the coming months to air the community's priorities, which include prosecuting war crimes, establishing a Holocaust museum in Ottawa, the state of Canada-Israel relations, and the fight in Ontario over the provincial government's refusal to fund religious and independent schools.
Day replied that the question was "ridiculous," noting that he had been gratified by support from the Jewish community in his campaign to lead the Alliance.
www.cjnews.com /pastissues/00/july27-00/front1.asp   (512 words)

  
 editorial - Political opinion and review - Politics Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Stockwell Day was born in Barrie, Ontario on August 16, 1950.
Stockwell Day is identified as one of Canada's leading voices in advocating for democratic reform, long-term economic opportunity for all Canadians and constitutional respect for federal-provincial relations as a unifying force in our nation.
Day was officially sworn in as a Member of Parliament on September 19th, 2000, becoming Leader of her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the House of Commons.
www.canadawebpages.com /pc-editorial.asp?Key=81&editorPrimeKeyword=Day   (809 words)

  
 The Honourable Stockwell Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Stockwell Day was first elected to the House of Commons in 2000 and he was re-elected in 2004 and 2006.
Day represented Red Deer North in the Alberta legislature, where he served in the Progressive Conservative government in a variety of senior roles including Chief Whip, Government House Leader, Minister of Labour, and Minister of Social Services.
Day was born in Barrie, Ontario, in 1950.
www.wcdm.org /wcdm_day.html   (190 words)

  
 CNN.com - Stockwell Day pushes Canada's right-wing agenda - November 26, 2000
But Day instead found himself on the defensive over his strong religious and political beliefs, which the Liberals focused on to raise suspicions among voters in the politically crucial eastern part of Canada.
In private, Day is a wickedly funny man with a sharp and often self-deprecating sense of humor.
Day -- who refuses to campaign on Sundays -- has tried to deflect attention from his religious beliefs, saying they are not relevant to the campaign.
edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/11/26/canada.day.reut   (777 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Day said there should be no blurring between the "evil" of terrorism, which he defined as the deliberate targeting of civilians, which Israel has suffered, and "the tragic collateral damage in warfare.
Day reiterated his promise that he would support a federal tax credit for parents who send their children to religious schools.
Day said Bailey's remarks were unacceptable and that no one should be excluded from a cabinet post because of his or her background.
www.cjnews.com /pastIssues/02/feb14-02/front5.asp   (762 words)

  
 TABLE OF CONTENTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Day later argued the quote was taken out of context and that he was merely representing the position of the Christian schools.
Day denied the validity of any of these concerns, contending the staff were qualified, the Training Centre was properly registered, and that the teaching materials used in the school neither condoned nor encouraged racism or anti-Semitism.
For all of the "hype" about Stockwell Day's accomplishments by the various media, in the spring of 2000 he was an untested politician of modest accomplishments, a meagre national profile, and enough controversial baggage to fill a Ryder truck.
www.web.net /blackrosebooks/requiem2.htm   (5408 words)

  
 Stockwell Day
Stockwell Day was elected to the House of Commons in 2000 as the leader of the newly created Canadian Alliance.
Day was born in Barrie, Ontario, but has lived in almost every region of Canada, including the Maritimes, Quebec, the Arctic, and the West.
Stockwell Day is a strong advocate of democratic reform, long-term economic opportunity for all Canadians, and constitutional respect for federal-provincial relations.
www.conservative.ca /EN/shadow_cabinet/stockwell_day   (225 words)

  
 A fractured Right
Day is under siege and it remains to be seen whether his plea, to the dissident group and those who want him to go, to let him remain until judgment day - the party convention - will be granted.
Day believes that Preston Manning, the founder of the Reform Party, who lost out to Day in the battle for leadership in the newly created Canadian Alliance, is behind the conspiracy.
Battling for Day and rallying the loyal troops is John Reynolds, the MP who worked for the Manning camp and tried all he could to prevent Day from winning the leadership race.
www.hindu.com /fline/fl1812/18120590.htm   (1582 words)

  
 CSA News Issue 36 - Book Review
Stockwell's educational record is as diverse as his multi-provincial postal codes.
Finally, in 1985, Stockwell Day became an elected professional politician, representing the Progressive Conservative constituents of Red Deer in the Alberta Assembly.
During these 15 years in politics, Stockwell Day has shown no evidence of having a "hidden fundamentalist agenda." He firmly believes that a politician must listen to his constituents and represent THEIR views.
www.snowbirds.org /csanews/issues/36/57.html   (770 words)

  
 CBC News - Viewpoint   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Stockwell Day represents the aspirations of millions and millions and millions of Canadians who will not be ignored any longer.
Stockwell Day is an honest man who does what he says he will do.
Since the supposed rise of Stockwell Day and the many criticisms of his views I have noticed in letters and opinion columns in newspapers an increase in the number of letters from the Christian right wing asking for tolerance of their point of view.
www.cbc.ca /news/viewpoint/columns/rebick/rebick000628.html   (2514 words)

  
 As Alberta's treasurer, taxpayers coughed up more than $400-million to cover bad loans and guarantees to businesses ...
Stockwell Day says that he never mixes his own personal beliefs in religion with his politics yet in the Alberta Legislature he goes back to his bible and says: "to procreate is a God-given responsibility." He must have missed the sex education classes since he thinks people only have sex to procreate.
Stockwell Day would not know what to do as a family man if one of his sons came to him and said he was gay.
Stockwell Day has not discovered that there are over 5 Billion people on our humble little planet that do not believe in his lordship.
www.times10.org /edit92000.htm   (910 words)

  
 Liberty Magazine
Readers unfamiliar with Stockwell Day and, indeed, with Canada’s political system may need a brief history lesson to understand how Day, a 50-year-old former lay pastor and administrator of a Christian school, is poised to compete for the prime minister’s job.
Day freely admits that he, like most of his supporters, is pro-life and would personally favor decriminalizing abortion, but, he says, “I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
Under Stockwell Day, the Alliance is actively recruiting the support of people of faith other than conservative Christians—most notably Jews and Muslims, who are attracted by Day’s commitment to tax breaks for parents who send their children to religious schools.
www.libertymagazine.org /article/articleview/251/1/30   (2505 words)

  
 The Canadian Alliance: the new face of political reaction
The corporate media's response to Day's election and the large number of pro-Day statements emanating from Canada's corporate boardrooms indicate that important sections of the ruling class plan to use the Day-led Alliance to press for massive tax cuts for the well-to-do and a new assault on public and social services.
Day first came to political prominence in the mid-1980s as the spokesman for a group of religious schools that did not want to accept provincial government regulation.
While under Day's scheme all provinces would formally gain the same powers, decentralization has long been advocated by the political and economic elite in the West as a means of wrenching power from their rivals in the more populous Eastern provinces.
www.wsws.org /articles/2000/jul2000/can-j19.shtml   (2533 words)

  
 canadaeast.com - TP E-Brief   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Day, who now serves as the Alliance's foreign affairs critic, attracted about 150 people to the event at Fredericton High School, during which he got a jump on campaigning for the next federal election by outlining the party's vision for issues such as gun registration, pedophilia, and military spending.
Day, however, continued on with his speech, not acknowledging the protesters or their comments until he arrived at the subject of same-sex unions.
Day speak, however, had the highest praise for their former leader.
canadaeast.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030922/TPEBRIEF/309220009   (732 words)

  
 rabble news
Stockwell Day is pointing to a published report that includes the suggestion that Yasser Arafat had AIDS in explaining why he didn't send condolences on the death of the PLO leader.
Stockwell Day, the man who once admitted that he believed humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, has once again revealed that he is not fit to hold public office.
Press reports revealed recently that Day, who is the Conservative Party's foreign affairs critic, refused to send condolences to the Palestinian people on the death of President Yasser Arafat.
www.rabble.ca /news_full_story.shtml?x=35687   (914 words)

  
 Canadian Alliance's Stockwell Day and the charge of anti-Semitism
During the Alliance leadership race Day tried to lay such allegations to rest, declaring a claim that he had said Jews were “children of the devil” was “1000 percent false.” Yet questions about Day's beliefs persist, and this for three reasons.
Day, by contrast, was drawn to Bentley, which has been called the buckle in Alberta's Bible belt, by his increasing commitment to religious fundamentalism.
Stockwell Day does in fact have a close family tie—in the person of his father—to the ultra-right-wing Western Canada Concept.
www.wsws.org /articles/2000/nov2000/day-n27_prn.shtml   (2274 words)

  
 BBC News | AMERICAS | Stockwell Day: Preaching politician
Stockwell Day, a telegenic former preacher, has only been in national politics for a few months.
Stockwell Day received a big vote in the farming west, consolidating the position of his Canadian Alliance party.
Mr Day is said by analysts to have charmed most of the press and used television well.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1042000/1042814.stm   (564 words)

  
 CNN.com - Stockwell Day: Little-known preacher propelled to main opposition - November 27, 2000
Campaign polls indicate that won't happen, but Day succeeded in making his party and its ideas known far beyond the western provinces where it was born and holds most of its support.
Day opposes abortion rights, has called homosexuality a choice and supports capital punishment in a nation with strong liberal leanings.
Day won a provincial parliament seat with the Conservative Party in 1986 in Red Deer, Alberta, and by 1992 he was labor minister.
edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/11/27/canada.day.profile.ap   (422 words)

  
 Day
The origional length of one day, when the earth was new, is actually closer to 23 hours.
When taking leap seconds into account, a civil clock day is 86400 or 86401 SI seconds long (or theoretically 86399 s on occasion, which never happened).
Some noted people with the name Day include Doris Day and Stockwell Day.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/da/day.html   (541 words)

  
 National Post Boycott - News
In a joint statement, they said they were supporting Stockwell Day because he is the most tolerant of their views and that he is the best positioned leader to take Canada to a pure Christian state.
Day's views on issues such as abortion, the gay conspiracy and immigration, they were afraid to speak out in public.
Day with each and every one of the five Canadian Alliance member voting kits he had already received at his home in Lousiana.
www.nationalpost.8m.com /news915.htm   (503 words)

  
 November 5, 2000
Day to the punch and registered www.stockwelldaysucks.com, but sadly enough, hasn't done anything with it as the election approaches.
Stockwell indicated how fun these personal attacks were by continuing them in press conferences even after both the French and English debates were completed.
Of course, such niceties weren't a staple of the new and improved Stockwell Day until after the French language debate, that being the one he needed to adhere to a script on, as his French is only somewhat better than his Disney-squeaking predecessor.
www.angelfire.com /rock/cpar/p2k/2knov05paperless.html   (459 words)

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