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Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Lectures - Campus Activities Press Releases from Canadian Universities
		DeCicco will speak on her life leading up to a career in municipal politics, her role as Mayor and what challenges she looks forward to in the coming years.
		Cassie Campbell, a 1997 BA graduate of U of G, is leading the Canadian Women’s Hockey Team at the Torino Olympics.
		From February 27th to March 3rd, 2006 the Brandon University Tourism Research Centre will be hosting a Rural Tourism Week on the BU campus.
	www.canadian-universities.net /News/Press-Releases/Lectures.html (1240 words)

	Department of Political Science University of Waterloo
		"Vacancies on Council: Appointment or Election?," Municipal World, Vol.
		"Reclaiming the 'Pink Palace': The Progressive Conservative Party Comes in From the Cold," in G. White, ed., Government and Politics of Ontario, fifth edition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), 365-401.
		"'Doing Politics Differently': The Conservative Party and the Campaign of 1993," in J. Pammet, A. Frizzell, and T. Westell, eds., The Canadian General Election of 1993 (Carleton University Press, 1994), 9-26.
	www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /PSCI/prof-woolstencroft.htm (1240 words)

	Canadian Election Calendar/Calendrier d'élections canadiennes
		East York (Toronto) Municipal By-election - creation of new seat
		New Brunswick Municipal By-elections - Acclamation of Candidates
		Markham (Ontario) Town Council Ward 7 By-election - res.
	home.ican.net /~alexng/cal9798.html (1240 words)

	Accomplishments
		The first conference was in Calgary at the Metropolitan Centre in 1997 and the second was in Toronto at the Royal York Hotel in March of last year.
		Ran/endorsed 24 candidates under the PGIB banner in the 1994 Ontario Municipal elections in Burlington, Oakville, and Hamilton.
		Toured Southern Ontario and Alberta in the 1997 election promoting PGIB's platforms.
	www.pgib.ca /lobbying/accomplishments.htm (1240 words)

	1997 Columns
		The current municipal election campaign is focusing on downloading, including the transfer of responsibility for social housing to cities.
		In yet another signal that an election is just around the corner, Jean Chretien is bypassing democratic procedures by appointing women candidates in ridings they are unlikely to win.
		He said "the party represents ideas about politics and government that have been absent since the electoral aberrations of 1993 and have been sorely missed." David MacDonald is running as an NDP candidate in the Toronto riding he once held as a Conservative cabinet minister.
	www.sentex.net /~alan/1997.html (1240 words)

	ALAN TONKS FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Tonks served as Metro Chairman until 1997 when the municipality was amalgamated by the provincial government of Mike_Harris resulting in the abolition of Metro Council and the replacement of the Metro Chairman by a new Mayor of Toronto directly elected by all voters.
		He did not run in the 1997 "Megacity" election for the position of mayor and retired from elected municipal politics.
		Alan Tonks (born April_2 1943 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian politician, and was the final Metro_Toronto_Chairman before the amalgamation of Metro_Toronto into the new City of Toronto.
	www.witwib.com /Alan_Tonks (410 words)

	Metropolitan Toronto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was the name of the highest level of municipal government in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada, area from 1954 to 1997.
		The Metropolitan Toronto Council initially consisted of 12 councillors from Toronto (including the mayor), and one representative (usually a mayor or reeve) from each of the surrounding municipalities.
		In the 1995 provincial election, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader Mike Harris campaigned on reducing the level of government in Ontario, and promised to examine Metropolitan Toronto with an eye to eliminating it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolitan_Toronto (1263 words)

	Metropolitan Toronto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was the name of the highest level of municipal government in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada, area from 1954 to 1997.
		The Metropolitan Toronto Council initially consisted of 12 councillors from Toronto (including the mayor), and one representative (usually a mayor or a reeve) from each of the surrounding municipalities.
		In effect, the existing City of Toronto and the other five municipalities would be abolished and the larger Metro government retained.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolitan_Toronto (1217 words)

	Definition of George Smitherman
		The Toronto municipal amalgamation of 1997 proved to be a major issue in the campaign -- the riding's previous MPP, Progressive Conservative Al Leach, had chosen not to run again, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell was running as an independent candidate in protest against the "megacity" legislation.
		In the 1999 Ontario election, Smitherman was nominated as the provincial Liberal candidate in Toronto Centre-Rosedale.
		Smitherman was long active in politics, having been Chief of Staff and campaign manager to one-time Toronto mayor Barbara Hall, and a longtime Liberal policy advisor.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/George_Smitherman (1217 words)

	Ontario Municipal Elections 2003 canada.com
		A former city councillor and mayor of Toronto from 1994 to 1997, Hall wants to plant one million new trees in the city.
		This candidate is running to "make this a better world for the next generation." His vision includes splitting Toronto into smaller cities of one million residents each.
		The Osgoode Hall law school graduate ran for the Marijuana Party in the 2000 federal election.
	www.canada.com /toronto/features/municipalelections/tormayor.html (1217 words)

	George Smitherman - free-definition
		The Toronto municipal amalgamation of 1997 proved to be a major issue in the campaign -- the riding's previous MPP, Progressive Conservative Al Leach, had chosen not to run again, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell was running as an independent candidate in protest against the "megacity" legislation.
		In the 1999 Ontario election, Smitherman was named as the provincial Liberal candidate in Toronto Centre-Rosedale.
		Smitherman was long active in politics, having been an executive assistant and campaign manager to one-time Toronto mayor and subsequent mayoral candidate Barbara Hall, and a longtime Liberal policy advisor.
	www.free-definition.com /George-Smitherman.html (1217 words)

	Humanist Party of Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The party has fielded candidates in the 1994 Toronto municipal election, the 1997 Toronto municipal election, the 1999 provincial election, and the 2003 Toronto municipal election.
		He campaigned in the 1985 Quebec election in Mont-Royal as a candidate of the Parti humaniste du Quebec, and received 54 votes, finishing eighth against Liberal candidate John Ciaccia.
		The HPO is a member of the Humanist International.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ontario_Humanist_Party (437 words)

	Canada
		In the 1997 municipal elections in Toronto neo-Nazi sympathizer Don Andrews was a mayoral candidate.
		In the run-up to the June 1997 general election, former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau, who resigned in 1996 after his controversial remarks blaming the defeat of the 1995 referendum on 'money and the ethnic vote', revealed that he would have unilaterally declared Quebec independent within ten days had the separatists won the 1995 referendum.
		Andrews, formerly the leader of the now-defunct neo-Nazi Nationalist Party of Canada, was imprisoned in the mid-1970s for plotting to murder Israeli athletes in Toronto.
	www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive2/Canada/canada.htm (6699 words)

	Canada
		In the 1997 municipal elections in Toronto neo-Nazi sympathizer Don Andrews was a mayoral candidate.
		June 1997 general election: in the lowest turnout since 1896, the Liberal Party was returned to power, the Reform Party emerged as the main opposition party, and the separatist Bloc Québecois (38 per cent of the vote in Quebec) received the lowest result for a separatist party in the province for almost twenty years
		In the run-up to the June 1997 general election, former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau, who resigned in 1996 after his controversial remarks blaming the defeat of the 1995 referendum on 'money and the ethnic vote', revealed that he would have unilaterally declared Quebec independent within ten days had the separatists won the 1995 referendum.
	www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive2/Canada/canada.htm (6699 words)

	Peter Milczyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the merger of Etobicoke and other municipalities to form the new City of Toronto, he ran, but failed to win a seat on Toronto city council in 1997.
		In the 2000 municipal election he ran again and was victorious, ousting Blake Kinahan in a close race.
		Born in Etobicoke, he attended Etobicoke Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto where he got a degree in architecture.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Milczyn (243 words)

	Mel Lastman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Melvin Douglas (Mel) Lastman (born March 9, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada), was the mayor of the former city of North York from 1972 until 1997.
		Lastman did not run in the subsequent 2003 municipal election.
		Mel Lastman was born in Toronto in 1933, the son of Polish immigrants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mel_Lastman (811 words)

	Jane Jacobs endorses Miller for Mayor
		Miller is the only person to publicly declare he'll be a mayoral candidate in next year's municipal election.
		David Miller, Toronto Councillor for High Park-Parkdale, is unofficially in the running for Mayor of Toronto.
		The 43-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer represents Ward 13 (Parkdale-High Park) on Toronto city council and has become a touchstone of political opposition to the incumbent chief magistrate, Mel Lastman.
	www.davidmiller.org /newsarticles/millernewsoct292002.htm (811 words)

	Vote Mayor Mel
		Lastman, elected in 1997 as the first mayor of the new City of Toronto, listed the achievements of his administration and his vision for the future.
		He announced to cheers that he was seeking a second term in the November municipal election.
		Mayor Mel Lastman today outlined his priorities for the future of Toronto, should he be re-elected on November 13th, 2000.
	www.nerdsforhire.com /websites/mayormel/Press.html (1632 words)

	George Smitherman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Toronto municipal amalgamation of 1997 proved to be a major issue in the campaign -- the riding's previous MPP, Progressive Conservative (PC) Al Leach, had chosen not to run again, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell was running as an independent candidate in protest against the amalgamation legislation.
		In the 1999 provincial election, Smitherman was nominated as the Liberal Party candidate in Toronto Centre-Rosedale.
		Sewell's entry into the race was controversial, with many activists accusing him of splitting the left wing vote with the New Democratic Party (NDP).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Smitherman (464 words)

	Willowdale
		David Young was a North York School Trustee which his term ended in 1997 (he did not run for re-election in the new city of Toronto).
		David Young is a very smart politician and has put himself in the position of being a champion for the city of Toronto in the fight with the federal Liberals over aid for SARS.
		David Young has done a whole lot in his first term in office and is already holding a higher post (Municipal Affairs) in cabinet and touted to be one day the future leader of the party.
	www.electionprediction.org /2003_on/riding/willowdale.htm (464 words)

	Frank Di Giorgio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When North York was merged with several other municipalities to form the new "City of Toronto" in 1997, Di Giorgio sought a seat on the Toronto city council, but lost to Howard Moscoe and Mike Feldman.
		He ran again in the 2000 municipal election, and won against Mario Gentile, who had previously represented the area on city council before receiving a criminal conviction.
		Regarded as a centrist, he became a close ally of mayor Mel Lastman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Di_Giorgio (206 words)

	Toronto City Hall, Election 2000
		Classic case in point is the 1997 civic election when all candidates save one was an incumbent being returned to municipal office.
		Torontonians mowing their lawns and barbecuing in the summer of 2000 are bound to be interrupted by municipal politicians out on the hustings.
		Incumbent councillors are more adept than ever at taking advantage of any opportunity to attach their pictures to regular mail-outs to Toronto residents.
	www.torontofreepress.com /2000/0004a7.htm (206 words)

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