2003 Nova Scotia election - 2003 Nova Scotia election The 2003 Nova Scotia election was held on August 5, 2003. It saw the ruling Conservatives reduced to a minority government. The elction was called by John Hamm's Conservatives who decided to hold a rare summer election in hopes of strengthening their hold on the legislature. Running against them were Darrell Dexter's NDP and Danny Graham's Liberal's. Hamm's party ran on a policy of fiscal management, tax cuts, and on there record of fufilling most of their promises. While the NDP agreed in principle to tax cuts their main cause was the creation of a public auto insurance company. The Liberal's were the only party to criticize the tax cuts. For the most part the campaign was quiet and uneventful. Hamm received.
List of Nova Scotia general elections - List of Nova Scotia general elections Nova Scotia is part of Canada. Nova Scotia general election, 2003 Name Seats Pop Vote Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party 25 % Nova Scotia New Democratic Party 15 % Nova Scotia Liberal Party 12 % see also Canadian general election history all data from http://www.gov.ns.ca/elo/elections/.
July 2003 - July 2003 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for July, 2003. See also: Afghanistan timeline July 2003 Dodgy Dossier Columbia investigation EU enlargement Hong Kong Basic Law Monkeypox North Korea crisis Occupation of Iraq: Timeline Road map for peace Same-sex marriage SARS: Timeline SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit US v. EU on GM food War on Terrorism July 31, 2003 The Israeli parliament passed a law preventing Palestinians married to Israelis from gaining Israeli citizenship or residency rights. The law is thought necessary to maintain the Jewish character of the state of Israel, today inhabited by 20% Arabs.[1] It is reported.
2003 in Canada - 2003 in Canada See also: 2002 in Canada, other events of 2003, 2004 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Music 4 Television 5 Deaths Events January 20 - Avalanche kills eight skiers in eastern British Columbia February 2 - An avalanche in Glacier National Park, British Columbia, kills six boys and one girl. February 22 - 2003 Canada Winter Games March 5 - Sui-chu Kwan, who travelled to Hong Kong in February, dies of SARS in Toronto. March 10 - Scarborough's Grace Hospital closes as a result of SARS, the first of many hospital to do so March 17 - Health Canada announces 17 suspected SARS cases in Canada March 26 - Ontario declares.
August 2003 - August 2003 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for August, 2003. See also: Afghanistan timeline August 2003 California recall Dodgy Dossier Columbia investigation EU enlargement Hong Kong Basic Law Hutton Inquiry Liberian crisis North Korea crisis Occupation of Iraq: Timeline Road map for peace Same-sex marriage SARS: Timeline SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit US v. EU on GM food US-Canada blackout War on Terrorism August 31, 2003 Tens of thousands of people turn out in Baghdad for the funeral procession of the murdered Shia Muslim leader Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim. [1] The Iraqi police handling the investigation say they have.
Canadian federal election, 2004 - Canadian federal election, 2004 A Canadian federal election will most likely be held in early 2004. Canadian voters will elect a new House of Commons (the lower house of Parliament). If the currently governing Liberal Party of Canada wins neither a majority nor a plurality, the Governor General will invite the leader of the party that controls the most seats to form a new government. In the event of a tie, parliamentary tradition states that the party that had more seats in the last sitting will form government. All four of the five major parties will run under different leaders in this next election than the last, held in 2000. This election will also mark the debut of the new Conservative Party of Canada. Most pundits are predicting.
Canadian Politics in 2003 - Canadian Politics in 2003 2003 was a particularly active year in Canadian politics, with significant changes at almost every level of government. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Party Leadership 2 Conservative Party of Canada 3 Provincial Elections 4 Municipal Politics 5 Same Sex Marriage Party Leadership Three of the five parties currently represented in the Canadian House of Commons had leadership races in 2003. On January 25, Jack Layton was chosen as leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, winning 53.5 per cent of the vote on the first ballot. The NDP convention was notable for being the first political convention in Canada to allow Internet voting. Eligible party members who were not physically present at the convention were given a password for a secure website where.
September 2003 - September 2003 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for September, 2003. See Also: U.S. Presidential Election Iraq timeline Afghanistan timeline September 2003 California recall Hutton Inquiry Liberian crisis North Korea crisis Road map for peace Same-sex marriage'' SCO vs IBM War on Terrorism September 30, 2003 Air France and KLM are completing their merger. Alitalia could be a part of the new big airline. [1] EU Agriculture Commissioner, Franz Fischler urged EU ministers to lift the ban on GMO food, as the EU risks facing legal challenges by the US and other countries at the World Trade Organization. [1] Russia stalls.
Joe Clark - sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada from June 4, 1979 to March 2, 1980 and a prominant Canadian politician until his retirement in 2003. He was born in High River, Alberta. Joe Clark was the son of the publisher of the local newspaper and attended local schools and the University of Alberta, where he earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in political science. He went on to study law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was active in student politics and eventually left law school to work full time for the Progressive Conservative Party. Joe Clark married Maureen McTeer, a well-known author and lawyer. Their daughter, Catherine, is an Art History graduate from the University of Toronto. Politically.
John Savage - O.C, O.N.S, M.D., LL.D., (May 28, 1932 - May 13, 2003) was premier of Nova Scotia, Canada between 1993 and 1997. Born in Wales, and keeping his Welsh accent to the end, Savage was a doctor in Newport until he emigrated to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 1967. He made a name for himself as the "hippie doctor" in the 1970s, setting up a detox centre, and a free clinic in the disadvantaged community of North Preston. After unsuccessful tries as a Liberal candidate in two federal elections, he became mayor of his hometown of Dartmouth in 1985. While mayor, he received a reputation as a left-wing free spender. In 1992 Savage decided to try his hand at provincial politics, running for the leadership of the Nova Scotia Liberal party. Winning on.
John Hamm - MLA, MD, (April 8, 1938 - ) is the current premier of Nova Scotia, Canada. Hamm, a graduate of the University of King's College, was a family doctor in his hometown of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and the president of the Nova Scotia Medical Society. He entered politics in 1993, becoming the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the riding of Pictou Centre. Hamm became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia in 1995. His party won 14 seats in the 1998 provincial election and held the balance of power in a minority government where both the Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party had nineteen seats. His party defeated the government on a budget vote in May 1999, in the subsequent election on July 27, 1999, Hamm became.
John F. Stairs - September 26, 1904) was an entrepreneur and statesman, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, a member of the prominent Stairs family of merchants and shippers that included the Victorian explorer, William Grant Stairs. Known as "John F.", he studied at Dalhousie University and then entered the management of the family's vast business empire. He was elected to the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly in 1879, resigning in 1882 to successfully run for election to the Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa where he served as a Conservative Party member until 1896. Stairs was president of many companies, including Nova Scotia Steel, Eastern Trust, Trinidad Electric (B.W.I.) and Royal Securities. He served as director of the Dartmouth and Halifax Steamboat Company, Nova Scotia Sugar Refining, the Union Bank of Halifax, Consumer Cordage, and.
June 12 - a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam 1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfuses the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy. 1758 - James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins 1838 - The Iowa Territory is organized. 1839 - Abner Doubleday creates the game of baseball, according to legend. However, evidence has surfaced that indicates that the game of baseball was played before 1800. 1849 - The gas mask is patented by L.P. Haslett 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: - General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves.
History of Canada - lived in the arctic regions. The First Nations populations were extremely diverse. Some such as the Iroquois and Haida were settled and agricultural. Others like the Blackfoot were nomadic hunter gatherers. Some states like the Iroquois had advanced political structures, others still operated almost wholly on the tribal level. Some common factors include a shamanistic religion, a lack of all but stone age technology, and all participated in a trading network that spanned the continent. The European arrival Around the year 1000, Leif Ericsson briefly established a colony in Vinland, believed by many to coincide with the Viking colony L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada. The Vikings may have travelled the coast from Labrador to Nova Scotia, and possibly even further south, but they were soon forced to abandon their colony.
Global Television Network - was already owned by CTV.) Although Global network service is not officially available in Newfoundland and Labrador, a private station there, NTV, airs much of the Global network schedule. In 2001 Global started a national newscast, which is anchored by Kevin Newman. Global airs almost exclusively United States-produced programming, and has been criticized for not producing enough Canadian content. More recently, the network attracted controversy when its Manitoba station aired its usual programming schedule on the night of the 2003 provincial election rather than producing any special news programming, and when its Ontario station bumped its own election night newscast to sister station CHCH, in order to avoid pre-empting Survivor. Incidents such as this reinforce the perception among some viewers that Global is not concerned with serving the public interest. Hit.
1998 - 1994 1995 1996 1997 - 1998 - 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 This is a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) International Year of the Ocean See also: 1998 in art 1998 in film 1998 in literature 1998 in music 1998 in science 1998 in sports 1998 in television 1998 in Canada Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes 6 Heads of state and government Events January: A massive ice storm, caused by El Niño, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths. January 1 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants January 2 - Russia begins to circulate new rubless to.
Alexa McDonough - financial researcher for the NDP's predecessor, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and an early financial backer of the NDP when it formed in 1961. McDonough attended Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 and a Masters of Social Work in 1967. She worked in the United States for two years, and then returned to Nova Scotia to work for the Department of Social Services. After two unsuccessful campaigns for federal politics in 1979 and 1980, she became the leader of the provincial NDP in Nova Scotia, winning a seat in the Nova Scotia legislature in 1981. Although she spent the next three years as the only New Democrat and the only woman in the provincial Legislature, she was widely regarded as a tough, passionate and.
Canadian Senate - General as advised by the Prime Minister, and senators serve until they reach the age of 75. 24 are from the Maritime provinces (10 from Nova Scotia, 10 from New Brunswick, 4 from Prince Edward Island); 24 from Quebec; 24 from Ontario; 24 from the Western provinces (6 each from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia); six from Newfoundland and Labrador; and one each from Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. This arrangement has had the effect that Ontario and the West, the fastest growing regions of Canada, are severely underrepresented relative to their population, while the Maritimes are substantially overrepresented. There is provision also for four or eight extra Senators: one—or two—from each of the Maritime provinces, Quebec, Ontario and the West; but this has been used only once, in.
Charlottetown Accord - would partially or fully fund programs such as medicare, social services, post-secondary education, etc., which otherwise would fall within areas of provincial jurisdiction. The federal government has typically attached conditions on this financing arrangement. The Charlottetown Accord would have guaranteed federal funding for such programs, severely limiting the federal government's authority to set out conditions for the provision of this funding. The accord proposed a social charter to promote such objectives as health care, welfare, education, environmental protection and collective bargaining. It also proposed the elimination of barriers to the free flow of goods, services, labour and capital, and other provisions related to employment, standard of living and development among the provinces. The accord also contained the "Canada Clause", which sought to codify the values that define the nature of the.
Scott Brison - The Honourable Scott Brison (b. 1967, Windsor, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian Member of Parliament, representing the Nova Scotia riding of Kings-Hants for the Liberal Party of Canada. Although openly gay, he states that he is "not a gay politician, but a politician who happens to be gay". Brison obtained a Bachelor of Commerce from Dalhousie University, and worked in corporate sales for ten years before running as a candidate in the 1997 Canadian election. His party, the Progressive Conservatives performed better than expected in that election, and Brison became one of a number of new, young Tory MPs elected that year (others included Peter MacKay, John Herron and André Bachand.) In July 2000, Brison resigned his seat on behalf of PC leader Joe Clark, so that Clark could gain a.
