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| | ninemsn Encarta - Search View - Alberta |
 | | Alberta, province, westernmost of the Prairie provinces of Canada, bounded on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Saskatchewan, on the south by the American state of Montana, and on the south-west and west by British Columbia. | | | Alberta entered the Dominion with Saskatchewan on September 1, 1905, as the eighth and ninth provinces. | | | At the federal level, Alberta is represented in the Canadian Parliament by 6 senators appointed by the Canadian governor-general in council and by 28 members in the House of Commons popularly elected to serve terms of up to five years. |
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| | Conservative Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Additionally, three Senators, William Doody, Norman Atkins and Lowell Murray declined to join the new party and continue to sit in the upper house as Progressive Conservatives. | | | Stephen Harper was chosen as leader of the new party on March 20, 2004 defeating former Ontario provincial Tory Cabinet minister Tony Clement and former Magna International CEO Belinda Stronach on the first ballot. | | | The BC Liberal Party was once a provincial wing of the federal Liberal Party of Canada, but under Gordon Campbell has moved to the right and now contains supporters of the federal Conservatives and federal Liberals in its ranks. |
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| | Alberta should intervene in this appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. | | | While the unanimous nature of the Quebec Court of Appeal decision would appear to put the odds of a Supreme Court victory on the provinces, the courts have used previous cases challenging the constitutionality of the UI/EI program to expand, rather than limit the scope of the federal scheme. | | | The only problem is that the final arbiter would be the Supreme Court of Canada, which is hand-picked by the prime minister. |
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| | Mapleleafweb.com: 2004 Alberta Provincial Election |
| | Alberta voters will go to the polls on November 22, 2004, to elect a new provincial government. | | | Seat distribution in the Alberta legislature prior to dissolution, recent public opinion polls, results from the last provincial election in 2001, including voter turnout numbers. | | | This Spotlight examines the upcoming Alberta general election. |
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| | Progressive Conservatives: Rise to Power |
| | In 1965, a young lawyer from Calgary, Peter Lougheed, was elected leader of the fledgling Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta. | | | In doing so, the Progressive Conservatives showed voters they were ready to take over the task of governing the province. | | | Together, they won six seats in the provincial election of 1967. |
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| | Calgary Bio, Pictures, News and RSS Feeds at BlinkBits. |
| | This is contrasted with an increase of 10.3 percent for the province of Alberta. | | | The Alberta Liberals won three seats in the provincial legislature during that election, two of which were new as a result of redistricting. | | | The new St. Mary's University College is a private Catholic liberal arts institution located in the south part of the city. |
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| | ThePolitic - Canadian Political Weblog » Stephen Harper for Premier |
| | This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 17th, 2005 at 2:18 pm and is filed under Campaigns and Elections and Political Parties and Politicians. | | | On the other hand, if he were to resign and return to Alberta, he would most likely be met with open arms from provincial conservatives from across the province. | | | Lord as next leader of federal conservatives though, I think will happen but AFTER the next federal election. |
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| | Alberta. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Alberta sends 6 senators and 26 representatives to the national parliament. | | | Social Credit administrations were elected for years after Aberhart’s death in 1943, but their attempts to reform banking and money control were declared unconstitutional by the courts. | | | Ralph Steinhauer, a Cree, was lieutenant governor (1974–79) of Alberta; he was the first Canadian of indigenous descent to hold such a high executive post. |
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| | AlbertaAvenue: Alberta |
| | Although they're readying for a flurry of activity immediately after an election is called, organizers from the three major parties admit they're not quite sure how the campaign will unfold over the Christmas holidays, when voters will be more concerned with eating turkey than talking turkey. | | | Once the holidays have passed, Pollock said voters will be more willing to digest a weighty discussion of the issues. | | | Economist.com - The must-read for any truly progressive thinker |
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| | Albertans go to the Polls on Monday, November 22 to Elect MLA's and Senate Nominees |
| | Also contesting this election is the new Alberta Alliance Party, which is calling for the abortion and marriage issues to be put to a province-wide vote. | | | As a part of Monday’s provincial ballot, Albertans will also elect four new Senate nominees from a slate of ten candidates. | | | EDMONTON, Alberta, November 19, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Albertans will go to the polls this Monday to elect a new legislature. |
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| | CanConv - Canadian Conversation |
| | A great deal is being written about the recent Supreme Court decision striking down the conviction of the owner of a swinger's club in Montreal. | | | The LA Times reports that the US senate has, for now, blocked renewal of the US patriot act. | | | They say it doesn't matter who you vote for because the government always gets back in, but for British Columbia's aboriginal people, the upcoming federal election really does matter. |
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| | CBC News: Klein drops 13 seats on way to majority win |
| | The seats that moved to the opposition included one held by a cabinet minister in Edmonton, as well as three ridings in the Tory stronghold of Calgary and a rural seat in the heart of cattle country. | | | During the last provincial election in 2001, 53 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots. | | | Premier Ralph Klein's Progressive Conservatives lost 13 seats, including one held by a cabinet minister. |
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| | The plot to kill the Canadian army [Free Republic] |
| | In comparison, the province immediately west of Alberta, British Columbia, has chosen the hardcore path of socialism that will be familiar to those who live in some of the states in New England. | | | The upcoming election (November 27) may answer that. | | | Provincially, in Ontario and Alberta the Progressive Conservatives are dominated by the conservative wing of their respective parties and have been elected and re-elected as governments. |
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| | Alberta Conservative Progressive Resources from the Right Side of the Web |
| | Leduc Representative — With the Liberals hammered by scandal and voters looking for a change, candidates in the New Democratic Party are hoping to woo both soft Liberal and Conservative support. | | | Home - Office of the Premier - Government of Alberta | | | The Alberta Progressive Conservative party is a provincial right of centre party in the Canadian province of Alberta. |
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| | Alberta First Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The party was subsequently re-registered after filing after the filing deadline, then folded in 2004 when its leader resigned and its president moved to Saskatchewan. | | | The party was registered with Elections Alberta on November 2, 1999. | | | Alberta First was de-registered in 2003 by Elections Alberta after the party failed to file financial statements with the electoral office. |
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| | PC Newfoundland and Labrador |
| | The decisions that need to be made will not be easy, but with your participation, support and understanding, your government will lead you through it in a planned and progressive manner. | | | Former Premier and Member of Parliament Frank Moores was a wonderful leader and esteemed businessman who served this province tremendously. | | | Thanks to all who attended the 55th annual convention of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador on October 14-16 at the Delta St. John's Hotel and Conference Centre and made the weekend a tremendous success. |
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| | Calgary & Southern Alberta - Politics |
| | When Pierre Elliot Trudeau became Prime Minister in 1968, he presented himself as "new" and "modern." Lougheed sensed change and promised a Harvard business school style of government. | | | In 1985, after fourteen years of leadership, Premier Loughheed retired from political life. | | | The Progressive Conservative Party road on the success of the oil industry. |
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| | List of All Canada Political Parties |
| | Conservative-Labour Conservative Labour was the label used by Tory Hamilton politician Henry Buckingham Witton as a candidate in the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario from 1872 to 1875. | | | The Progressive Canadian Party is a new federal political party of Canada. | | | The Party must now nominate 50 candidates to qualify for official party status in the next federal election (expected in 2004) under the rules of the Canada Elections Act. |
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| | seanblog: a tory point of view |
| | “Alberta can blow me.” – Scott Reid, Press Secretary for the Prime Minister’s Office on October 23, 2005. | | | This is where I and most Conservatives clash with the Liberal Party of Canada, and their NDP brethren. | | | He tried to fix the constitution, but was thwarted in his first attempt by jealous Liberals who couldn’t imagine a Conservative ending the Quebec separatist threat (which the Liberals have done more to further than the PQ or BQ ever could). |
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| | Alberta - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | Alberta has traditionally had three political parties, the Progressive Conservatives, the centrist Liberals, and the social democratic New Democratic Party. | | | Alberta's towns and cities have their own governments which (usually) work in cooperation with the provincial government. | | | The city of Edmonton is Alberta's government seat. |
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/List of political parties in Canada |
| | Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (1978, 1982, 1985, 1989 elections; now the Yukon Party) | | | British Columbia Conservative Party (formerly known as the British Columbia Progressive Conservative Party) | | | From 1898 to 1909, there were some appointed members in the council that now is known as a legislative assembly. |
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| | Alberta |
| | Origin of Name: The Marquess of Lorne, Governor General of Canada from 1878 until 1883, visited Calgary and Banff in 1881, and the territory was named after his wife Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, daughter of Queen Victoria of Britain. | | | Legislative Assembly: 74 Progressive Conservatives (including Premier), 7 Liberals, 2 New Democrats (2003). | | | Alberta is located in western North America, and borders the Northwest Territories (north), British Columbia (west), Montana (south) and Saskatchewan (east). |
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| | CBC News:Former Manitoba PCs back Liberals |
| | Last week, a group of former Progressive Conservatives in Edmonton announced they would be backing Liberal cabinet minister and Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan. | | | WINNIPEG - A group of former Manitoba Progressive Conservative party members, disgruntled with the new Conservative party, threw their support behind the Liberals on Monday. | | | "I didn't support the merger but I am a member of the Conservative party and I remain a member. |
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| | Power policy brings lots of laughter @ workopolis.com |
| | This pressure was amplified by the fact that an election was looming in the spring of 2001." | | | The book is the sequel to his bestseller, Banksters and Prairie Boys, which bashed government-owned Alberta Treasury Branches. | | | That key business issue has been the major weak point of the Tory government, which has been facing a barrage of criticism from the Opposition Liberals. |
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| | Mayerthorpe Freelancer, Mayerthorpe, AB |
| | As a share of total provincial expenditures, Alberta ranks second among provinces in spending on post-secondary education. | | | • Allow colleges to offer full university-level degree programs that will be of the same quality as those offered by Alberta’s leading universities through the Post-secondary Learning Act. | | | “The importance of our universities, colleges and technical schools to our vision for Alberta’s future cannot be overstated,” said Ralph Klein. |
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| | Alberta Votes 2001 |
| | The Social Credit party was Alberta’s reigning party before the Conservatives. | | | Unfortunately, rural Alberta was inclined to side with the Conservatives and Klein was the former mayor of Calgary. | | | The Liberals and the Conservatives fought over which one was going to take the province through it’s financial restructuring. |
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| | Conservative Party Of Canada - Welcome |
| | Copyright © 2005 Authorized by the chief Agent of the Conservative Party of Canada. | | | This website is the property of the Conservative Party of Canada and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without express written permission. | | | OTTAWA – Leaked documents which appear to form the basis of a coming Liberal attack campaign show that the Martin Liberals have become desperate, according to Conservative Campaign Co-Chair John Reynolds. |
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| | The Report March 2003 at HighBeam Research |
| | Grits now fear recall: B.C. voters use their right to unseat MLAs to establish an effective opposition. | | | Society (only 116 of Alberta's 4,700 children up for adoption found homes). | | | Nova Scotia ponders Sunday shopping: with the population and party divided, the Conservative government proposes a prelbiscite on the issue. |
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| | Report, The: From the ground up (Alberta's Progressive Conservatives rebuild). |
| | But the meeting could prove to be more than just the regular business of a complacent ruling government in power for more than 30 years. | | | In Red Deer, at the end of March, Alberta's Progressive Conservatives will gather to discuss policy at their party convention. | | | FindArticles > News and Society > Report, The > March, 2003 > Article |
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| | CTV.ca Klein far ahead in Alberta campaign: poll |
| | 4 2001 10:32 AM ET Progressive Conservatives leader Ralph Klein is poised to take his third majority government in Alberta, a new poll suggests. | | | Respondents were asked which leader they thought would be most effective at handling health care, the price of electricity, education, representing Alberta to the rest of the country, and budget surpluses. | | | That's nearly five percentage points higher for Klein compared to an earlier poll conducted just as the Alberta election campaign kicked off in early February. |
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| | OnCampus: Making News |
| | After the Alberta Progressive Conservatives won another majority government at the polls, the Calgary Sun gathered the thoughts on three U of C political experts. | | | And, Dr. Ted Morton, a political science prof who is now an MLA on Team Ralph, stated that the Tories won the election because of their track record. | | | If they’re attacked they have the right to defend themselves and as neighbours we should be willing to help them, or at least not stand in their way’.” |
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| | Alberta Election Results |
| | Article URL: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/3586/112510 Title: Alberta Election Results Description: On November 22, Alberta re-elected Ralph Klein's Progressive Conservatives. | | | Canadian Culture - Alberta Election Results - http://www.suite101.com/article/send.cfm/life_in_canada/112510 | | | I thought you might find this article interesting. |
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