Heart failure ( HF ), often called congestive heart failure ( CHF ) or congestive cardiac failure ( CCF ), is an inability of the heart to provide sufficient pump action to distribute blood flow to meet the needs of the body.

In the 1943 provincial election, the Tories, now called the " Progressive Conservatives ", won a minority government, narrowly beating the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) led by Ted Jolliffe.

He was a Rhodes Scholar in the mid-1930s, and came back to Canada to help the CCF, after his studies were complete and being called to the bar in England and Ontario.

Natural gas in the U. S. is measured in CCF ( 100 cubic feet ), which is converted to a standardized heat content unit called the therm, equal to 100, 000 British thermal units ( BTU ).

The CCF runs ActivistCash. com, a website that states it " provides the public and media with in-depth profiles of anti-consumer activist groups, along with information about the sources of what is called their exorbitant funding.

Some individuals within the gaming community expressed disappointment about the decision ; prominent author and game designer Rich Burlew, for example, called it " insulting ," and the response by gamers led both the CCF and Gen Con to issue official statements explaining what had happened.

The by-election was called at a time when the CCF, which had been almost wiped out in the 1958 federal election, was embroiled in a debate about merging with the Canadian Labour Congress in order to create a new, labour-based, social democratic political party.

He stood again for the CCF when a by-election was called after the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) resigned in order to allow the new Conservative leader, former Prime Minister Arthur Meighen, to win a seat in the Canadian House of Commons.

One local newspaper described the result as a " big upset ", and provincial CCF leader Lloyd Stinson later called it " a pretty shocking experience for South Winnipeg ".

Not a formal political party, the MDM called for the Progressive Conservatives to leave the coalition government and supplant the CCF as the province's primary opposition.

CCF leader Lloyd Stinson once called him " a most useful and cooperative member of caucus ", assisting other members behind the scenes.

The CCF argued that they ought to be called upon to form a government as, with Uphill as a labour MLA, the left had as many seats as Social Credit and that, with much more parliamentary experience than the Socreds, they were better positioned to form a government.

In a 1945 letter to the Manitoba CCF executive committee, Richards and fellow maverick Dwight Johnson called for cooperation with other left-wing and progressive parties against the Progressive Conservatives in the upcoming federal election.

Christ's Commission Fellowship ( simply called as CCF ) is a non-denominational megachurch founded by Rev.

The emphasis of CCF is on the active participation and ministry of lay people committed to fulfilling Christ's purpose, and all Christians are called by the Lord to be ministers to make committed followers of Jesus Christ.

PCRM — along with PETA and groups such as the Centers for Disease Control, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving — has been the subject of public criticism for several years by the Center for Consumer Freedom ( CCF ), a non-profit lobby group representing the food and beverage industry.

The emergence of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), forerunner of the NDP – a left-of-centre political party formed by the coming together of various socialist, farm and labour groups under a united front – forced the Liberals to the right.

In reality, CCF is a front group for the tobacco, restaurant and alcoholic beverage industries, which provide all or most of its funding.

The Center for Consumer Freedom ( CCF ) is one of the more active corporate front groups and one of several front groups created by Berman & Co., a public affairs firm owned by lobbyist Rick Berman.

By 1937, she joined the Communist Party of Canada but did not disclose her membership until 1943 remaining a member of the CCF until her riding association was dissolved in 1939 because of its support of a popular front campaign with the Communists.

The issue of what relationship the CCF should have with the Communist Party would come to the fore again in 1936 with the party voting to ban any united front with Communists, over the objections of prominent CCFers such as East York reeve Arthur Henry Williams.

Turner was known as a skilled politician, and was described by CCF leader Lloyd Stinson as " undoubtedly the brightest front bench performer in the latter days of the Campbell regime ".

The party was especially upset at Richards's decision to meet with the CCF executive in Portage la Prairie, to discuss the possibility of running a " united front " candidate of the left.

The CCF claimed in a press release that "( a ) n official report filed by PETA itself shows that the animal rights group put to death nearly every dog, cat, and other pet it took in for adoption in 2006.

Noseworthy's victory was also a significant breakthrough for the CCF giving it credibility as a national party where it has previously been seen as a Western Canadian regional protest party.

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) ( French: Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif, then in 1955 rebranded in French as Parti social démocratique du Canada ) was a social-democratic and democratic-socialist political party in Canada, founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, agrarian, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction.

It can be said that the CCF was founded on the 26th of May 1932, when the Ginger Group MPs and LSR members met in William Irvine's office, the unofficial caucus meeting room for the Ginger Group, and went about forming the basis of the new party.

The party was formed in 1933 as the British Columbia section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) by a coalition of the Socialist Party of Canada ( BC ), the League for Social Reconstruction, and affiliated organizations.

When Social Credit lost a motion of no confidence in the legislature in March 1953, Winch argued that the CCF should be allowed to try to form a government instead of the house being dissolved for an early election.

The 1958 Canadian general election was a disaster for the CCF, with its caucus reduced to eight, and its leader M. J. Coldwell losing his own seat, the party executive knew that their party was dying and needed radical change.

This leadership challenge jeopardized plans for an orderly transition to the new party that was being planned by the CCF and the Canadian Labour Congress.

While the NDP did better in elections than its CCF predecessor, the party did not experience the breakthrough it had hoped for and did not recognize his abilities until later in the days.

He was also known for his retelling of the fable of " Mouseland ", likens the majority of voters as mice, and how they either elect black or white cats as their politicians, but never their own mice: meaning that workers and their general interests were not being served by electing wealthy politicians from the Liberal or Conservative parties ( black and white cats ), and that only a party from their class ( mice ), originally the CCF, later the NDP, could serve their interests ( mice ).

Iroquois Falls lawyer Bill Grummett held the riding for the CCF from 1943 to 1955, when he was defeated by Timmins mayor Wilf Spooner.

Brownlee adhered to a conservative view of how politics should be conducted, and was perhaps put off by the audacious telephone call ; despite an apology from Coldwell, Brownlee did not indicate any further interest in running for the CCF.

After the Sixth form go on study leave, the CCF prepares for the Annual House CCF Competition, known as the Thompstone Trophy, after Lieutenant Colonel Brian Thompstone.

Hepburn himself was re-elected in his riding as an Independent Liberal while calling for a Liberal-Conservative coalition against the burgeoning CCF.

Ms. Clark was working for the Christian Children's Fund ( CCF ) at the time.

The final glory for the Ontario CCF came in the 1948 election, when party elected 21 MPPs, and again formed the official opposition.

The breaking point for the Ontario CCF came in 1951.

The Bennett years left the Conservatives in the worst shape they had ever been-not only did enmity towards the Tories continue in Quebec as a legacy of the Conscription Crisis of 1917, but they were now reviled in the West for their perceived insensitivity to the needs of farmers in the Dust Bowl and Westerners turned to Social Credit or the CCF making the Tories their fourth choice.

In 1955, he left the CCF over the issue of corporate taxation and sat out his term as an Independent MP before running unsuccessfully for the Liberal Party of Canada in the 1957 federal election.

Tommy Douglas, a charismatic federal CCF MP was persuaded to challenge Williams for the leadership and succeeded in defeating him for the party presidency in 1941 and for the party leadership in 1942.

Since that election, the CCF / NDP has won 12 out of 17 elections and held power for 47 of 63 years ( as of 2007 ).

In a reversal of earlier times it was under McDonough's leadership that either the CCF or the NDP was able to win seats on the mainland for the first time.