* 1968 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.

Category: Leaders of the Liberal Party of Canada

Crandall University is a small Liberal Arts university located in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

The two dominant political parties in Canada have historically been the Liberal Party of Canada and Conservative Party of Canada ( or its predecessors ), and as of the 2011 election the social-democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has risen to prominence.

The Liberal Party of Canada has done well in the Maritimes in the past because of its interventionist policies.

In the aftermath of the 1989 budget, which saw a fillibuster by Liberal Senators in attempt to kill legislation creating the Goods and Services Tax, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney " stacked " the Senate by creating additional seats in several provinces across Canada, including New Brunswick ; however, there was no attempt by these provinces to increase the number of MPs to reflect this change in Senate representation.

John Hamilton-Gordon, was a Liberal politician and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1886 and from 1905 to 1915 and as Governor General of Canada from 1893 to 1898.

* 1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.

For example, the June 2004 election campaign of the Liberal Party of Canada was compared with " the Keystone Kops running around " by one of its parliamentary members, Carolyn Parrish.

St-Laurent's father, a Compton shopkeeper, was a staunch supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada and was particularly enamoured with Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

In the 1949 federal election that followed his ascension to the Liberal leadership many wondered, including Liberal party insiders, if St-Laurent would appeal to the post-war populace of Canada.

Examples of such colleges are Bishop's University in Canada, St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Canada, John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, European College of Liberal Arts in Germany, University College Utrecht in the Netherlands, Foundation for Liberal and Management Education in Pune, India, Campion College in Sydney, Australia and Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.

Trudeau began his political career campaigning for socialist ideals, but he eventually joined the Liberal Party of Canada when he entered federal politics in the 1960s.

Despite these connections, when Trudeau entered federal politics in the 1960s he decided to join the Liberal Party of Canada rather than the CCF's successor, the New Democratic Party ( NDP ).

Trudeau criticized the Liberal Party of Lester Pearson when it supported arming Bomarc missiles in Canada with nuclear warheads.

He also implemented many procedural reforms, to make Parliament and the Liberal caucus meetings run more efficiently, significantly expanded the size and role of the Prime Minister's office, and substantially expanded the welfare state, with the establishment of new programmes, and significant improvements in existing ones, with welfare payments to the aged, the young, and the underprivileged greatly expanded in an attempt to bring about a European-style social democracy in Canada.

By the late 1990s, there was talk of the necessity of uniting the right in Canada, to deter further Liberal majorities.

In Canada, the term " Tory " may describe any member of the Conservative Party of Canada, its predecessor party the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, or any similar affiliated conservative provincial party ; the term is frequently used in contrast to " Grit ", a shorthand for the Liberal Party of Canada.

The title refers to the nickname given his wife by the composer, who is also a member of the National Film Board of Canada.

But, particularly in the United States and Canada, the racial or ethnic classification also refers to people with all possible kinds of skin pigmentation from the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors, including albinos, if they are believed by others to have African ancestry, or to exhibit cultural traits associated with being " African-American ".

In the United States and Canada, the term Conservative, as applied, does not always indicate that a congregation is affliliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the movement's central institution and the one to which the term, without qualifier, usually refers.

Higher education in the United States and Canada specifically refers to post-secondary institutions that offer Associate's degrees, Bachelor's degrees, Master's degrees, Education Specialist ( Ed. S.

" ROW " means " rest of world ", refers to non-US or Canada cars.

Stephen Harper, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and the Prime Minister as a result of the January 2006 election, regularly refers to himself as a Tory and has suggested that the new party is a natural evolution of the conservative political movement in Canada.

In British usage, barbecuing refers to a fast cooking process directly over high heat, while grilling refers to cooking under a source of direct, high heat — known in the US and Canada as broiling.

In Canada, " High School " ( also known as " Secondary school " or " Collegiate Institute ") generally refers to a school comprising grades nine through twelve, but this can vary between provinces and school districts.

The Indian Trade refers to trade between Europeans and their North American descendants with the Indigenous people of North America ( today known as Native Americans in the United States, and First Nations in Canada, but formerly as " Indians ").

The prefix " lower " in its name refers to its geographic position farther downriver from the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River than its contemporary Upper Canada, present-day southern Ontario.

In the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth Countries such as Australia and New Zealand, timber is a term used for sawn wood products, such as floor boards, whereas generally in the United States and Canada, it refers to felled trees, later milled into boards referred to as lumber.

In the United Kingdom, corned beef refers to the variety made from finely minced corned beef in a small amount of gelatin ( bully beef ; from the French bouilli " boiled "), and is sold in distinctive oblong-shaped cans, just as in the U. S. and Canada, or in slices from supermarkets.

The Canada in the song refers to Lower Canada, today's southern Quebec.

Politically, the term refers to the three territories of Canada: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.

The name Canfield also refers to several communities in the United States and one in Canada:

The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard or the Atlantic Seaboard, refers to the easternmost coastal states in the United States, which border the Atlantic Ocean and stretch up to Canada.

Some sources speak of a " 1965 Missal ", but this generally refers to orders of the Mass that were published with the approval of bishops ' conferences, for example, in the United States and Canada, rather than an editio typica of the Roman Missal itself.

Its full name is a parody of This Hour Has Seven Days, a CBC newsmagazine from the 1960s ; the " 22 Minutes " refers to the fact that a half-hour television program in Canada and the U. S. is typically 22 minutes long with eight minutes of commercials.

In some Westminster systems, for example Canada, and some other parliamentary systems, the phrase ' dropping the writ ' refers to the dissolution of parliament and the beginning of an election campaign to form a new one.

In Canada, a debenture refers to a secured loan instrument where security is generally over the debtor's credit, but security is not pledged to specific assets.

In Canada, " First Ministers " is a collective term that refers to all Canadian first ministers of the Crown, otherwise known as heads of government, including the Prime Minister of Canada and the provincial and territorial premiers.

* Automated banking machine, another term for Automated teller machine used mainly in Canada

D-AMPS was a digital, 2G standard used mainly by AT & T Mobility and U. S. Cellular in the United States, Rogers Wireless in Canada, Telcel in Mexico, Telecom Italia Mobile ( TIM ) in Brazil, VimpelCom in Russia, Movilnet in Venezuela, and Cellcom in Israel.

Today's strip artists, with the help of the NCS, enthusiastically promote the medium, which is considered to be in decline due to fewer markets ( today few strips are published in newspapers outside the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, mainly because of the smaller interest there, with translated versions of popular strips-particularly in Spanish-are primarily read over the internet ) and ever-shrinking newspaper space.

Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada.

Molokans are said to be numerous in Canada, mainly over 1, 000 reside in the province of British Columbia and hundreds more in Alberta with their traditional communal lifestyle remains intact today.

Although many English speakers from outside North America regard such terms as distinct Americanisms, they are often just as ubiquitous in Canada, mainly due to the effects of heavy cross-border trade and cultural penetration by the American mass media.

As Canada East and Canada West each held 42 seats in the Legislative Assembly, there was legislative deadlock between English ( mainly from Canada West ) and French ( mainly from Canada East ).

Local government in Canada West operated mainly at the district level until 1849, when a system based on counties was introduced.

They are mainly rowed in central Canada.

* Federal Duck Stamps ( stamps for duck hunting licenses, mainly U. S. with some other countries such as Canada and New Zealand )

Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mainly in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.

Houses are made in many different architectural styles which may be of European, American and International architecture and which vary in size, although the main difference with the US and Canada is that houses are mainly constructed with bricks and concrete instead of wood ; thus houses tend to last much longer, approximately 50 years.

Top political programs such as The Rush Limbaugh Show are never broadcast in Canada mainly due to high rights fees.

This form of speed skating was mainly practiced in the United States and Canada, as opposed to the international form, where skaters skated in pairs.

The tasks of the Security Service of virtually no different from its predecessors ( MBP and Kds. BP ), they relied primarily on the protection of the communist system inside the country ( and beyond ) through the control and penetration into all structures of social life in Poland and abroad ( SB has such a deep penetration of Polish citizens living abroad mainly in America, Canada and the UK ).

Michif ( also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree ) is the language of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who are the descendants of First Nations women ( mainly Cree, Nakota and Ojibwe ) and fur trade workers of European ancestry ( mainly French Canadians and Scottish Canadians ).

Lay magistrates are sometimes still addressed as " Your Worship " in England, South Africa and Canada, mainly by solicitors, but this practice in other Commonwealth countries is nearly obsolete.