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 Thursday, November 2, 1995 -- PRIVATE MEMBERS BUSINESS (253)
At Regina a delegation of eight men was chosen and sent to Ottawa to meet with the Prime Minister.
Before arriving in Regina, the trek's ranks were augmented with new recruits.
The chief federal representative in Regina refused to meet with provincial officials but agreed to meet with the trek representatives at 10.30 a.m.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/english/hansard/previous/253_95-11-02/253PB1E.html   (7691 words)

  
 History 30 Activity Guide - External Forces and Domestic Realities
While using the state to ensure that everyone could have certain chances in life, individuals were to keep the rewards of their own efforts.
In July 1933, at a convention in Regina, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.) established its program based on democratic socialist principles.
Regina Riot - Prime Minister Bennett ordered the trek halted in Regina.
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/actss30/activ3d.html   (16870 words)

  
 Titles - Manifestos.net
Humanist Manifesto II - American Humanist Association (1973)
Humanist Manifesto III - American Humanist Association (2003)
Humanist Manifesto I - American Humanist Association (1933)
http://www.manifestos.net/titles/index.htm   (498 words)

  
 Our Times - Canada's Independent Labour Magazine
Among the speakers were Annie Gerin, Mayor Pat Fiacco, Rick Byrne from the CLC, Howie, and Joanne Crofford, Regina NDP MLA and Minister of Culture, Youth and Recreation.
He is a member of the Saskatchewan Centennial Workers Celebration Committee, and author of For Dignity, Equality and Justice: A History of SGEU.
Regina - home of the Regina Manifesto, the Regina Riot, and the first CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) government in Canada - was going to reach 100 years of age in 2003.
http://www.ourtimes.web.ca/features/03_dec_04_jan.html   (1760 words)

  
 Briarpatch Magazine: 70th anniversary of the CCF - Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and first leader, J.S. ...
Murray Fines was only 1 year old in 1933 when his father, Clarence Fines, attended the first national convention of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in Regina.
In 1921, he was elected to the House of Commons.
This July celebrates the 70th anniversary of the first national convention of the CCF and the Regina Manifesto.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0JQV/6_32/105160303/p1/article.jhtml   (1025 words)

  
 Socialist History Project
Around 140 delegates convened in Regina, Sask., during the closing days of July, for the first national convention of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation.
The delegates came from the six major Canadian provinces.
Moriarty's Toronto-based group, the Marxian Educational League, joined the Ontario CCF's Labour Conference in 1933, and he was elected a delegate to the Regina Convention of July 1933.
http://www.socialisthistory.com/Docs/CCF-NDP/MoriartyOnCCF.htm   (1480 words)

  
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With its leader J.S. Woodsworth, by 1934, the party had become the official opposition in Saskatchewan and in British Columbia.
After the Liberal’s victory in 1896, he became minister for trade and commerce in Laurier’s cabinet.
This Canadian socialist political party was founded in Calgary in 1932 and first met in Regina in 1923.
http://www.edunetconnect.com/cat/candict/c.html   (2592 words)

  
 William Moriarty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the M.E.L.'s delegate at the national Cooperative Commonwealth Federation convention that drafted the Regina Manifesto in 1933.
This page was last modified 22:06, 5 August 2005.
The Regina Convention of the C.C.F. Moriarty's account of debates at the 1933 CCF convention on adopting the Regina Manifesto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moriarty   (234 words)

  
 Canada 1918 - 1950
Regina Police and RCMP attempt to arrest On to Ottawa trek leaders at a rally in Regina.
The Social Credit Party lead by William Aberhart wins 56 of 63 seats in the Alberta legislature ousting the scandal plagued United Farmers of Alberta administration
Eight leaders go on to a meeting with Prime Minister Bennett.
http://www.worldatwar.net/nations/canda/timeline.html   (7866 words)

  
 FEDERATION
Four decades later, the day before the Queen was to sign the new Constitution with its Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Trudeau spotted the 82-year-old Scott in a royal receiving line in Ottawa.
He had been one of the authors of the Regina Manifesto, the founding document of the CCF, predecessor to the New Democratic Party.
http://www.vigile.net/ds-federation/docs/02-4-14-fraser-3-1982.html   (2329 words)

  
 Frank Scott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Through the LSR, Scott became an influential figure in the Canadian socialist movement and a founding member of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and a contributor to the Regina Manifesto.
He went on to serve as national chairman of the CCF from 1942 until 1950.
The Great Depression greatly disturbed Scott and he and other intellectuals formed the League for Social Reconstruction to advocate socialist solutions in a Canadian context.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.R._Scott   (349 words)

  
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Regina Saskatchewan- Louis Riel 1844-1885 found guilty of treason and sentenced to death; defense's plea of insanity not believed by Anglo-Saxon, Protestant jury.
On his return to Canada, he studied law at McGill University, joined the Law Faculty, and in 1932 was a founder, with Frank Underhill, Eugene Forsey and others, of the League for Social Reconstruction, a socialist study group.
He also served as national Chair of the CCF and helped in the founding of the NDP.
http://www1.sympatico.ca/news/otd/otd.98.08.01.html   (1738 words)

  
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McGuigan graduated from St Dunstan's College and Laval; 1930 appointed Archbishop of Regina; 1935 Archbishop of Toronto; Dec. 23, 1945 appointed Canada's first non-French Cardinal by Pope Pius XII.
Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Toronto, was born on this day at Hunter River, PEI, in 1894; died at Toronto Apr. 08, 1974.
http://www1.sympatico.ca/news/otd/otd.98.11.26.html   (1370 words)

  
 Co-operative Commonwealth Federation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nevertheless, the party did poorly in the 1958 election, winning only eight seats.
The party's 1933 convention, held in Regina, Saskatchewan, adopted the Regina Manifesto as the party's program.
Federally, during the Cold War, the CCF was accused of having communist, dictatorial leanings.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Commonwealth_Federation   (672 words)

  
 Saskatchewan’s 1944 CCF Election
On July 10, 1944 the ministers of the first Socialist Government in North America was sworn to office in Regina.
J.S. Woodsworth was (in)famous for his pacifism during the First World War.
The CCF won 47 of the 52 seats.
http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/election/election.htm   (331 words)

  
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At Regina in 1933, the new party adopted a manifesto and chose Woodsworth as its leader under the name the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
Although in 1956 the party produced a new manifesto, the Winnipeg Declaration, that was seen by many as more moderate than the Regina Manifesto, in 1958 the party suffered a serious defeat.
Although the CCF was well established, it was accused of being associated with communism and this charge, though false, was damaging during the McCarthy era of the 1950s.
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/ip/government/fedelect/nat/ndp/about/brief.history   (2587 words)

  
 THE NEW PARTY IS FORTY YEARS OLD
Forty years ago, during a sweltering five days in August 1961, 2000 delegates crammed into a convention centre in Ottawa to launch a new Canadian social democratic party.
The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), conceived in Calgary in 1932 and born the following year in Regina, had been languishing in the polls.
In 1958, in the federal election in which John Diefenbaker’s Tories took 208 out of 265 seats in the House of Commons, the CCF won only eight ridings.
http://www.jameslaxer.com/newparty.htm   (1851 words)

  
 publicpower :: The Ontario NDP
Coldwell resigned leaving Hazen Argue as house leader.
It was also underfunded compared to the other main parties who could rely on generous corporate support.
Despite the movement away from the socialism of the Regina Manifesto and towards an acceptance of a mixed economy, many saw the CCF as out of step.
http://www.publicpower.ca/the_party/history_4.htm   (2445 words)

  
 Regina Manifesto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Regina Manifesto was the programme of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and was adopted at the first national convention of the CCF held in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1933.
The Regina Convention of the C.C.F. Bill Moriarty's account of debates at the 1933 CCF convention on adopting the Regina Manifesto.
This page was last modified 15:58, 30 January 2006.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Manifesto   (225 words)

  
 Sask New Democrats
The Regina Manifesto was the founding document of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
Authorized by the Chief Official Agent for the Saskatchewan New Democrats, Regina, SK.
The 1983 Statement of Principles was debated and passed at the 1983 National Convention held in Regina.
http://saskndp.com/history   (395 words)

  
 Socialist History Project
Last year, the year before and the year before that, the public program of the movement was not socialist.
The parliamentary caucus conducts itself in the house as if clubs, constituencies, conventions and manifestos did not exist other than to ensure their election.
Certainly the Regina Manifesto has been a continued source of embarrassment to the leaders of the party.
http://www.socialisthistory.com/Docs/CCF-NDP/What_Next-56.htm   (1611 words)

  
 BCCLA Position Paper: Statement of Claim in BC Supreme Court regarding Recall Legislation, 1998
Ramsey has forgotten the socialist roots of the New Democratic Party in the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Regina Manifesto.
http://www.bccla.org/positions/political/98recall.html   (2772 words)

  
 RPL Matters of Interest
Regina Leader Post, May 21, 1953 and beyond.
in Regina, Queen Elizabeth II granted a Royal Warrant augmenting
Neal, May. Regina, Queen City of the Plains: 50 Years of Progress.
http://www.reginalibrary.ca/matters_interest.html   (1237 words)

  
 publicpower :: The Ontario NDP
Its leaders would be elected and its policies would be chosen by a convention of members and its sources of funds would be open for public inspection.
Their strike and trek was broken up after a riot which was initiated by the RCMP.
Even more importantly, it would build a political party that would be completely controlled by its members.
http://www.publicpower.ca/the_party/history_2.htm   (2663 words)

  
 ESR Farmers for economic freedom
(The CCF was renamed the New Democratic Party when unions officially amalgamated with the party.) The Regina Manifesto has never been publicly denounced.
The Manifesto proudly states that “no CCF government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism…” and what it views as all of its inherent evils.
This is not to single out any particular political party as none of Saskatchewan’s political parties have introduced a motion for debate in the legislative assembly on the wisdom of keeping the Regina Manifesto as a publicly displayed document.
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1002/articlecfen.htm   (2282 words)

  
 Adopted at First National Convention Held at Regina,
Adopted at First National Convention Held at Regina,
The CCF is a federation of organizations whose purpose is the establishment in Canada of a Co-operative Commonwealth in which the principle regulating production, distribution and exchange will be the supplying of human needs and not the making of profits.
From Leo Zakuta's A Protest Movement Becalmed: A Study of Change in the CCF, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964).
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ECON/needhdata/Regina_Manifesto.html   (3842 words)

  
 GARAMOND PRESS
Manifesto of the Communist International to the Proletariat of the Entire World, 1919 • Manifesto of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, 1947 • Second Declaration of Havana, 1962 • International Women’s Day Committee Basis of Unity, 1979 • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme (“Regina Manifesto”), 1933 • Redstockings Manifesto, 1969.
Manifestos and declarations have been used throughout history by political groups, revolutionaries, and social activists as essential statements of the change these people envisioned.
Recife Declaration, 1987 • Manifesto of the Front de Libération du Quebec, 1970 • A Declaration of the First Nations, 1980 • Initial Manifesto of Futurism, 1909 • The Dada Manifesto, 1918 • First Surrealist Manifesto, 1924.
http://www.web.net/~garamond/cormack.htm   (364 words)

  
 Winnipeg Manifesto (1956) - WANDP
This is, and always has been, the aim of the CCF.
Canada is a better place than it was a generation ago, not least because of the cry for justice sounded in the Regina Manifesto and the devoted efforts of CCF members and supporters since that time.
The Regina Manifesto, proclaimed by the founders of the movement in 1933, has had a profound influence on Canada's social system.
http://www.nwtndp.com/principles.html   (1728 words)

  
 The Development of Socialism in Canada
This was amended first in the Regina Manifesto and then in the Winnipeg Manifesto which gave rise to the New Democrat Party.
If we don’t the document will always be flawed and create the climate for opportunists to take over the parade of social justice and create another dictatorship, which was what the document and the parade started to oppose in the first place.
Likewise, Canada has taken Socialism, opposed human rights violations, amended it and learned to implements it’s principles within a Democratic system.
http://www.cupwnewvision.org/soc.htm   (1144 words)

  
 The evolution of CCF into NDP: 1961 and after
This replaced the "Regina Manifesto" as the party's statement of basic aims and purposes.
At the height of the anti-Communist fervor of the "Cold War," the CCF passed the "Winnipeg Declaration" at their 1956 convention.
The Declaration dropped proposals for large-scale government ownership, stopped targeting capitalists as the enemy, and proposed an alliance of progressively minded farmers, workers and middle class people interested in greater equality in Canada.
http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/study_guide/roots/ccf2ndp.html   (468 words)

  
 paulmitchinson.com » Calgary Neo-Cons Hunt Controversy
In 1933, he helped pen the Regina Manifesto, a cornerstone of the newly-formed Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).
Earlier this century, Frank Underhill had a long career as a historian and political activist of the left.
http://www.paulmitchinson.com/calgary.html   (1426 words)

  
 F.R. Scott
The new party which Scott and Underhill anticipated was to come much sooner than expected.
Eugene Forsey, not a member of the executive, was one of the group.
In 1932 in Calgary, J.S. Woodsworth founded the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and members of the LSR offered to assist with the drafting of a party programme for the first convention of the CCF in Regina in 1933.
http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol04/djwa.htm   (6154 words)

  
 4th-36th Vol. 71B-Motions of Condolence
I believe that stood for the Canadian Commonwealth Federation, a co-operative that was borne to some extent here on the Prairies.
That transformation took place in the year 1966, here in Winnipeg, and elected as their first leader the then and still well remembered and successful leader, Tommy Douglas, to head the New Democratic Party onto the national scene.
Certainly, we recall the kind of binding document known as the Regina Manifesto that to a large extent provided the philosophical and intellectual basis for this prairie movement that then went on with some considerable success in its transformation to what we now call the New Democratic Party.
http://www.gov.mb.ca/leg-asmb/hansard/4th-36th/vol_071b/h071b_9.html   (6886 words)

  
 The Political Page
The Reform Party of Canada - The best political site on the net.
The Regina Manifesto-The Bible of Canadas NDP/Socialist Party.
Quackgrass press - Separating the prairie wool from the P.C.city crabgrass!
http://www.cableregina.com/users/ddiduck/politics.htm   (119 words)

  
 Study Guide
In the early 1930s, which two organizations were formed to strengthen western opposition to "old party" politics?
The theory which the Social Credit party embraced argued that _________.
What were the main points of the CCF's "Regina Manifesto"?
http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/study_guide/roots/study_guide.html   (515 words)

  
 Pearson Education Canada Making History
Learn more about the October Crisis of 1970, its aftermath, the War Measure's Act, Trudeau's actions, the Front de Liberation du Quebec's manifesto, and Premier Bourassa's position during the crisis.
http://www.pearsoned.ca/school/history/wlinks.html   (6621 words)

  
 Lecture 9 for a course in Canadian economic development
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) was formed at a conference in Regina in 1933 bringing together
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~echist/lecnotes/hi9_ft.htm   (1466 words)

  
 Academic Freedom - Remarks to INTERCHANGE '96 Conference
They took the lead in drafting the CCF platform, 'the Regina Manifesto' in 1933.
http://www.uwo.ca/uwofa/articles/acfree_jt.html   (4650 words)

  
 Vive le Canada - Rebel Yell
Nor are the Liberals the party of Mackenzie King and C.D. Howe nor the NDP the party of the Regina Manifesto.
But thats not the point, the right wing in Canada has adopted the program of reforms first put forward by the Canadian left at the turn of last century.
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20050711033121924   (4665 words)

  
 391: manifestos: television manifesto of the spatial movement by ambrosini, burri, crippa, deluigi, de toffoli, dova, ...
391: manifestos: television manifesto of the spatial movement by ambrosini, burri, crippa, deluigi, de toffoli, dova, donati, fontana, giancarozzi, guidi, joppolo, la regina, milena milani, morucchio, peverelli, tancredi, vianello - 17th may 1952
by ambrosini, burri, crippa, deluigi, de toffoli, dova, donati, fontana, giancarozzi, guidi, joppolo, la regina, milena milani, morucchio, peverelli, tancredi, vianello
For the first time throughout the world, we Spatialists are using television to transmit our new forms of art based on the concepts of space, to be understood from two points of view:
http://www.391.org/manifestos/televisionmanifesto.htm   (320 words)

  
 Journal of Canadian Studies: Of charters and justice: The social thought of F.R. Scott, 1930-1985
The principles of the Regina Manifesto were now being translated into "practical plans." The CCF had "a better understanding of the graduations of steps by which (socialism) must be obtained.
The distinction between immediate and remoter issues has been sharpened.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_199704/ai_n8761483   (7286 words)

  
 Saskatchewan Recording Industry Association
Delegates were invited to sign a one pager, now called the Regina Manifesto, which aims to resolve tax issues by:
Canadian Conference of the Arts, in partnership with the Sask. Arts Alliance, held its national policy conference in Regina on November 19 and 20, 2004.
In some cases, updates can be found in a more recent edition of The Session.
http://www.saskrecording.ca/session/2005/0205_statusartist.html   (1591 words)

  
 UBC Special Collections - Archival Research Collections S
Evelyn Smith joined the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1933 but later disagreed with the movement for what she believed were its departures from the principles of the Regina Manifesto.
The research collection consists of textual records, newspaper clippings, documents, photographs, printed material, photographs, audio cassettes, and a VHS video cassette relating to the On-to-Ottawa Trek Committee, On-to-Ottawa Historical Society, and the publication, Work and Wages.
In recent years, she has become a strong environmental activist.
http://www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll/rescol/rescols.html   (5405 words)

  
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After listening to party members across the country, the renewal commitee concluded the following on the issue of debts and deficits: "Excessive public debt leads to regressive transfers.
In the words of the Regina Manifesto, from working taxpayers to 'the interest-earning class'.
http://www.ncf.ca/ip/government/fedelect/nat/ndp/leader/nystrom.pol.jobs   (3474 words)

  
 Shorthanded. Not Shortsighted
Oddly enough this is when T.C. Douglas first became premier.
Even more amazing the peak of our population boom coincides with the CCF developing the Regina Manifesto (pdf file).
http://shorthandedfiles.blogspot.com   (3195 words)

  
 Bob Rae and the NDP
It is different from the Regina Manifesto: it is not the eradication of capitalism that we should be seeking, but the strengthening of our community, and a broader, more democratic economy.
http://www.ndsu.edu/instruct/isern/382/ndp.htm   (663 words)

  
 Canadian Auto Workers History, Ch 2 Searching For A New Deal
We aim to replace the present capitalist system with its inherent injustice and humanity by a social order from which the domination and exploitation of one class by another will be eliminated, in which economic planning will supersede unregulated private enterprise and competition, and in which genuine self-government based upon economic equality will be possible...
Although the CCF’s Regina Manifesto (adopted in 1933) echoed with denunciations of capitalism, the views of the groups that made up the CCF alliance were very diverse.
The CCF quickly evolved to an orientation geared to the reform, rather than the relacement, of the existing system.
http://www.caw.ca/whoweare/ourhistory/cawhistory/ch2/p1c2_3.html   (1298 words)

  
 Brennan (1984) "Building the Co-operative Commonwealth": Essays on the democratic socialist tradition in Canada
Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina (Regina)
Based on papers delivered at the Regina conference, June 23-25, 1983, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Regina Manifesto.
http://www.getcited.org/pub/102505926   (63 words)

  
 Bibliography on the CCF-NDP and Canadian Social Democracy
The LSR, Regina Manifesto and the Birth of the CCF:
Horn, M. "Frank Underhill's Early Drafts of the Regina
Ed Broadbent and the Search for the Ordinary Canadian and Electoral Breakthrough in the 1980s: New Regina Manifesto
http://www.web.net/%7Eondp/biblio_whitehrn.html   (1348 words)

  
 Populist History
1933: Regina Manifesto of the CCF (Cover Image and Brief Discussion)
The Non-Partisan League (and the Bank of North Dakota)
http://www.sfworlds.com/linkworld/populist.html   (533 words)

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