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| | Liberal Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It continues to be damaging to the party and serves as a threat to the Liberal's prospects of forming the government after the next federal election. | | | It was not until Wilfrid Laurier became leader that the Liberal Party emerged as a modern party. | | | After the King-Byng Affair of 1926, the Liberals argued that the Governor General of Canada should no longer be appointed on the recommendation of the British government. |
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| | Arthur Meighen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The party was defeated by the Liberals led by William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Meighen was personally defeated in Portage La Prairie. | | | He became leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party and Prime Minister on July 7, 1920, when Borden resigned. | | | Arthur Meighen (June 16, 1874 – August 5, 1960) was the ninth Prime Minister of Canada from July 10, 1920, to December 29, 1921, and June 29 to September 25, 1926. |
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| | Progressive Party of Canada |
| | Crerar became the first leader of the Progressive Party, and led it to win 65 seats in the Canadian federal election, 19211921 general election/. | | | It was linked with the provincial United Farmers parties in several provinces and, in Manitoba, ran candidates and formed governments as the Progressive Party of Manitoba. | | | After the collapse of the party, most Progressive voters returned to the Liberal Party. |
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| | Conservative Party of Canada (historical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In desperation, the Tories again turned to Arthur Meighen for leadership, but Meighen was trounced by the CCF when he attempted to enter the House of Commons in a February 1942 by-election in York South. | | | It ran in the 1940 election as "National Government" even though it was in opposition. | | | The trek ended in Regina on July 1, 1935 when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, on orders from the Prime Minister, attacked a public meeting of 3,000 strikers leaving one dead and dozens injured. |
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| | History of the Conservative Party of Canada - Canadian History |
| | It was also the party of federal rights, as opposed to provincial rights, and of the British connection, as opposed to [independence]. | | | This was a policy which he pursued throughout his long and successful political career. | | | IV, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 400p., pp. |
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| | Encyclopedia: International Democrat Union |
| | The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. | | | The Social Democratic Party (Portuguese: Partido Social Democrata) is a political party in Portugal. | | | In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. |
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| | Minor parties in the United States once had the jump on major parties on-line, but by 1996, the major parties had recovered and had largely taken over. | | | Party Competition on the Internet in the United States and Britain. | | | Beyond this, the major parties' Web presence tends to be strengthened through having elected officials listed--often with their party affiliations--on governmental Web sites at federal, state, and local levels. |
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| | Hard-Liners Triumph in Northern Ireland (phillyBurbs.com) Europe |
| | The hard-line Democratic Unionists were on course to win nine seats, up four from the last British parliamentary election in 2001, when the Ulster Unionists were still on top with six. | | | Social Democratic and Labour Party leader Mark Durkan was expected to win the seat in Londonderry, Northern Ireland's predominantly Catholic second-largest city, although the official result wasn't yet declared. | | | The opposite poles of Northern Ireland politics - the British Protestants of the Democratic Unionists, and the Irish Catholics of Sinn Fein - won the lion's share of 18 seats in this divided corner of the United Kingdom. |
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| | CBC News: Northern Ireland Unionist leader resigns |
| | When Trimble became the UUP leader in 1995, the uncharismatic former law professor was considered to be a hardliner within the party. | | | Trimble said he was pleased to have had the privilege of leading "the best and most democratic political grouping in Ulster," and blamed improper behaviour by the republican movement for his party's troubles. | | | The Democratic Unionist Party took nine Northern Irish seats — four more than before — while Sinn Fein, the political party most closely identified with the Irish Republican Army, gained one seat to take five in total. |
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| | BBC News NORTHERN IRELAND Trimble prepares for crucial week |
| | The anti-agreement camp in his party is trying to force Ulster Unionist ministers out of the power-sharing executive. | | | Mr Trimble's hold on his party has been slipping in recent months - 47% of council delegates voted against him in May when he sought permission to return to the power-sharing executive. | | | Stormont's first minister flew out of Northern Ireland on Saturday knowing that when he returns to Belfast late on Monday he will have just four days left to prepare for a make-or-break meeting of his party's ruling council. |
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| | Trimble, David -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Nationalist political party in Northern Ireland, distinguished from the province's other leftist and Republican groups by its commitment to political and nonviolent means of uniting Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. | | | As leader of the Social Democratic and Labour party (SDLP), the main moderate nationalist party of Northern Ireland's Catholic minority, he steadfastly denounced the violent tactics of... | | | in full William David Trimble politician who served as first minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–2002), leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP; 1995–2005), and a member of the British Parliament (1990–2005). |
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| | Canadian federal election, 1917: Information From Answers.com |
| | Under the elections law, Canada should have had an election in 1916. | | | * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. | | | To ensure victory for conscription, Borden introduced two laws to skew the voting towards the government. |
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| | First Minister - Free Encyclopedia |
| | (Until 2002*, the First Minister's post was held by David Trimble leader of the unionist Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), while the Deputy First Minister's post was held by Mark Durkan, the leader of the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). | | | The Executive is presided over by the First Minister, who is directly elected by the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland, while in the case of Scotland he is selected in a vote of the Scottish Parliament and then appointed by the Queen. | | | In one other difference, the office of First Minister in Northern Ireland is in effect two offices; the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister, this dyarchy created to enable the leaders of the main unionist and nationalist parties to work together as a team jointly representing both communities. |
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| | Conservative Election Federal Party Resources from the Right Side of the Web |
| | The 2006 elections could be a disaster for the Republican Party, and it doesn't have anyone to blame but itself. | | | Veteran politician and former NDP leader Ed Broadbent unveiled a package of parliamentary reforms intended to help his party fight the Liberals on the issue in the next election. | | | Conservative Election Federal Party Resources from the Right Side of the Web |
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| | Power-Sharing in Peril, Ulster Unionist Warns |
| | To attract support for his decision to participate in the new power-sharing administration, he vowed he would resign his leadership of the assembly and his party if there were no disarmament moves by the I.R.A. by February. | | | Sinn Fein's president, Gerry Adams, has warned that though his party is the political representative of the I.R.A., it cannot compel the underground army to start turning over its weapons now. | | | Trimble gained support from Seamus Mallon, the deputy first minister of the assembly and a senior member of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, the province's largest Catholic grouping. |
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| | CNN.com - Voters cast verdict on N. Ireland power-sharing - September 21, 2000 |
| | The Democratic Unionists are part of the coalition but refuse to sit in any Cabinet meetings alongside Sinn Fein, the hard-line Catholic party which is an ally of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). | | | Protestant Unionists vote to rejoin Catholic Sinn Fein in governing Northern Ireland | | | Trimble conceded that McCrea could win if moderate Protestants didn't bother to vote in sufficient numbers, as often happens in Northern Irish elections. |
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| | King is reported to have tied the knot at a ceremony in Canada before honeymooning in New York, prompting Paisley, the DUP's justice spokesman, to express his "amazement" and disgust. | | | has said the civil marriage of a senior unionist to his male lover in Canada is "obnoxious and highly offensive." | | | BELFAST -- The Democratic Unionist Party's Ian Paisley Jr. |
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| | Encounters with Canadians 1900-1957 - The Churchill Centre |
| | He once told the American Congress that if his father had been American and his mother British, he liked to think that he could have made it to Congress on his own. | | | Aitken's dearest friend was Andrew Bonar Law, the Unionist leader and another | | | Certainly each time he disembarked on the Dominion's soil it was enroute to or from the United States or to host an encounter with the American President. |
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| | CBC News Indepth: Canadian Government |
| | The first floor-crossing in the federal government was that of Stewart Campbell, who, in 1868, left Nova Scotia's Anti-Confederation party to sit with the Liberal-Conservatives of John A. Macdonald. | | | He won his B.C. seat in the 2004 election as a Liberal. | | | Transport Minister Jean Lapierre started out as a Liberal in the 1979 election, but left the party in 1990 to sit as an Independent, then sat with the Bloc Québ&3233;cois for two years. |
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| | Protestant Leader Wants IRA to Disarm (phillyBurbs.com) Europe |
| | The British and Irish prime ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, meet Monday to lead negotiations that are being billed as the last chance to repair the Ulster Unionist-Sinn Fein rift before a planned May election. | | | The Irish Republican Army must scrap its weapons in front of cameras or Protestant witnesses if Northern Ireland's Catholic-Protestant government is to be saved, the province's leading Protestant politician said Saturday. | | | Trimble's Ulster Unionists and moderate Catholics from the Social Democratic and Labor Party jointly led the coalition, which included top posts for both Sinn Fein and Protestant hard-liners from the Democratic Unionist Party. |
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| | Bloomberg.com: U.K. |
| | Trimble, 60, was beaten by David Simpson of the Democratic Unionist Party, the DUP, according to election results announced yesterday. | | | May 7 (Bloomberg) -- David Trimble, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize, quit today as leader of the Ulster Unionist party after he lost his seat in the British parliament from Northern Ireland, the BBC said. | | | Northern Ireland's unionists are turning to the DUP, which has refused to share power with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, until the IRA gives up its weapons. |
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| | The UUP North American Bureau also arranges and participates in Party visits to the US and maintains a network of private and public contacts in Washington DC and across the USA. | | | The Ulster Unionist North American Bureau opened in September 1995. | | | Liaison with the US Administration (State Department, etc), Congress, press & media |
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| | DAVID TRIMBLE: Robert talks to David Trimble - leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, the largest political party in Northern Ireland. | | | OUI, OUI, OUI: We present two perspectives on today's election in Quebec which will decide whether or not Canada's second largest province wants to leave the federation. | | | He says Sein Fein leader Gerry Adams has had the ear of American leaders -- and he is here to speak for the Protestant majority in the province. |
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| | CNN - Northern Ireland talks resume despite protests - July 17, 1996 |
| | It is quite clear the British government and leaders of unionist parties are afraid to negotiate that." | | | "We want to see the British government recognizing the rights of all the people in this island, Catholic and Protestant, unionist and nationalist, to self-determination," said Sinn Fein negotiator Martin McGuinness. | | | Ian Paisley of the hard-line Democratic Unionist Party, who also supported the Orange Order's stance. |
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| | Another Tory Name Change |
| | Conservative Party 1873-1878: After the Macdonald scandal the party chagned its name, while serving as her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. | | | Conservative Party, 1830s-1854: Before confederation, then name of the party was the Conservative Party, who then opposed the Reform Party (present-day Liberal Party; a more pro-US, free-trade party) in traditionalist titles: Conservatives wanted to maintain the status quo while the Reform Party wanted reforms. | | | Liberal-Conservative Party 1878-1894: Before forming the governement anew, the party rechanged its name. |
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| | Borden |
| | Sir Robert Laird Borden, a unilingual Conservative lawyer born in Grand-Pre, Nova Scotia in 1854, became his party's leader in 1901, endured electoral setbacks in 1904 and 1908, and became prime minister following the Conservative victory of 1911. | | | Borden was succeeded as party leader and Prime Minister in 1920 by Arthur Meighen. | | | He also wrote his memoirs, which were published after his death. |
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| | Conservative Party Resources from the Right Side of the Web |
| | Two potential candidates to replace John Hamm as Nova Scotia's Conservative leader are applauding the party's decision to have delegates pick the next leader, rather than allowing every card-carrying member to vote. | | | The new party is to elect a leader on March 20, 2004. | | | Donate.....about what is happening with the party across the province, and to.. |
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| | Alabama railroads |
| | United States President of the United States Woodrow Wilson nationalized major U.S. railroads under the Federal Possession and Control Act on December 26, 1917 as part of the war effort, however railways reverted to private ownership control afterward. | | | Railway companies of Canada, Railway companies of the United States, S&P/TSX Composite Index, Companies traded on NYSE, Canadian history, Alabama railroads, Illinois railroads, Indiana railroads, Iowa railroads, Kentucky railroads, Louisiana railroads, Michigan railroads, Minnesota railroads, Mississippi railroads, Missouri railroads, Tennessee railroads, Wisconsin railroads | | | The latter two events were particularly troublesome to the federal government in Canada, which entered the Russian Civil War in support of the Allies from the World War I, for which at the time, the outcome was uncertain at best. |
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| | Conservative Logo Party Resources from the Right Side of the Web |
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| | Belfast - daily news and current events |
| | Canada lined up for Windsor friendly v N Ireland | | | MP for Basingstoke defects to Democratic Unionist Party | | | BBC News Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble has accused the DUP of giving away too much in the latest round of negotiatio... |
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| | The strange affair of Steven King |
| | As a result he can argue that his unionism is based on British traditions of tolerance, against the clerical Irish state. | | | But unionist homophobia is not just a matter of party politics. | | | At the time the DUP backwoodsmen were very polite about him in public. |
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| | Unionist Party (Canada) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This tactic split the Liberal Party: those who did not join the Unionist Party ran as Laurier Liberals. | | | Accordingly, they ran in the election under the name National Government party but did not repeat the success of the previous Unionist party and failed to make a dent in King's governing majority. | | | To represent "labour" and the working class, Borden appointed to the Cabinet Conservative Senator Gideon Decker Robertson who had been appointed to the Senate in January and had links with the conservative wing of the labour movement through his profession as a telegrapher. |
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| | The Black and Tans: British Police in the First Irish War, 1920-21. | | | The Institutional Confinement of 'Idiot' Children in Twentieth-Century Canada: The Case of the Orillia Asylum, 1900-1935. | | | The Liberal Unionist Party and Late Victorian and Edwardian Politics |
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| | Conservative party on Encyclopedia.com |
| | British political party, formally the Conservative and Unionist party and a continuation of the historic Tory party. | | | Why I despair for the party I love; From one of the giants of Conservative politics, a heartfelt personal message. | | | Trouble in the ranks: by the time Margaret Thatcher finished with the Conservative Party, the aristocrats had been banished by free-market zealots who made it unelectable. |
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| | Are we wogs too ? - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | Mr McGivern this week instructed his lawyers to proceed with a race discrimination case against the party after the national executive failed to consider an application to set up a constituency party in the North. | | | The attacks have condemned by the British government, church and community leaders, unionist and nationalist politicians and even the Progressive Unionist Party which has links to the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force. | | | The trade unionist's campaign is also being supported by the GMB nationally and by a number of MP s including Andrew Mackinlay and Northern Ireland-born Kate Hoey. |
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| | ► Raulken Canada - Viewpoint: Time is still on the side of peace deal |
| | Ian Paisley, the leader of the hardline Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), has vowed not to work directly with Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, until the paramilitary group visibly disarms. | | | Belfast - Catholic leader Gerry Adams advised his Sinn Fein party on Monday to accept British-Irish proposals aimed at relaunching power-sharing between rival Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. | | | However, a Sinn Fein statement released after the meeting said the issue of disarming the Irish Republican Army (IRA) - Northern Ireland's main Catholic paramilitary group - had not been discussed. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Conservative party (British And Irish History) - Encyclopedia |
| | Conservative party, British political party, formally the Conservative and Unionist party and a continuation of the historic Tory party. | | | AllRefer.com - Conservative party (British And Irish History) - Encyclopedia | | | More articles from AllRefer Reference on Conservative party |
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| | In the political realm, Paisley’s leadership of the Democratic Unionist Party | | | In addition to the sixty Free Presbyterian churches which range throughout Northern Ireland the organisation has established churches elsewhere in Britain and Ireland, and has founded sixteen churches in the United States and eight in Canada. | | | In Northern Ireland the Free Presbyterian Church is well known for its denominational separatism and doctrinal fundamentalism. |
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| | List of elections in the Province of Canada | | | For a brief subject overview, see History of Canada. | | | More detailed articles and links can be found at Pre-Confederation history of Canada, Post-Confederation history of Canada, and the Timeline of Canadian history. |
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