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Elections
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Auteur:Steele, GrahamSommaire:On October 8, 2013, Nova Scotia’s NDP government went down to a devastating election defeat. Premier Darrell Dexter lost his own seat, and the party held the dubious distinction of being the first one-term majority government in over...
- Auteur:McLeod, JamesSommaire:
Newfoundland and Labrador had three premiers in a single year-- three and a half, if you count Frank Coleman. An elected politician broke down crying on live radio. In less than eighteen months, the Official Opposition went from six to...
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Auteur:Schraff, Anne E.Sommaire:Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
- Auteur:Liddell-Westefeld, ChrisSommaire:
Chris Liddell-Westefeld and dozens of other staff and volunteers dedicated every ounce of their time, intelligence, and limited resources to helping elect Obama, as what started in Iowa spread nationwide. Drawn from more than 200...
- Auteur:Ivery, KwameSommaire:
Uly would rather watch old Westerns with his new girlfriend, Sallie, than get involved in his school's politics-why focus on the "bad" and "ugly" when his days with Sallie are so good? His older sister Regina...
- Auteur:Berry, SteveSommaire:
Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about...
- Auteur:Richler, NoahSommaire:
During the 2015 federal election, approximately 1200 political campaigns were held across Canada. One of those campaigns belonged to author, journalist and political neophyte Noah Richler. Recruited by the NDP to run in the bellweather...
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The Canadian federal election of 2019 is extensively analyzed in this collaborative volume edited by Jon Pammett and Christopher Dornan. Bringing together leading political scientists and media scholars, the book examines the strategies...
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Auteur:Pammett, Jon H., Dornan, ChristopherSommaire:The Canadian Federal Election of 2008 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters are written by leading professors of political science, journalism, and communications. They examine the...
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Auteur:Harper, Stephen, Mulcair, Thomas, Trudeau, JustinSommaire:Prime Minister Stephen Harper, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau squared off on September 28, 2015, in Toronto, for the first-ever federal election debate on Canada’s foreign policy.Too often, foreign policy...
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Auteur:Saramago, JoséSommaire:On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule for another day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. At four, voters rush...
- Auteur:Tremblay, ManonSommaire:
Political representation requires participation: voting, joining political parties, running as candidates, acting as politicians. Yet the election of openly LGBTQ people is a relatively recent phenomenon in the West. Queering...
- Auteur:Stephenson, Laura B., Lawlor, Andrea, Cross, William P., Blais, AndréSommaire:
In parliamentary systems like Canada, voters directly contribute to the election outcome only in their own riding. However, the focus of election campaigns is often national, emphasizing the leader rather than the local candidate, and...
- Auteur:Winston, SherriSommaire:
Start counting your votes . . . and your friends. When Brianna Justice's hero, the famous celebrity chef Miss Delicious, speaks at her school and traces her own success back to being president of her fifth grade class, Brianna...
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Auteur:Aiken, GordonSommaire:Canadians took politics seriously in the years following Confederation and Gordon Aiken's novel about pioneer Muskoka and the fledgling nation's capital shows why. Unique events in the Dominion's second election, in 1872, inspired Aiken...
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Auteur:Walters, EricSommaire:Sam Campbell's school team, the Laggan Lairds, always loses. When someone suggests that their name be the Laggan Lard Butts, Sam thinks the team should change its name. What is a Laird anyway? The basketball coach agrees, and soon the...
- Auteur:David, Charles-PhilippeSommaire:
« C'est facile de travailler avec moi. Vous savez pourquoi ? Je prends toutes les décisions. » Donald Trump a beau fanfaronner, la crise du coronavirus a pourtant révélé les carences d'un système intoxiqué par un style présidentiel et...
- Auteur:Mason, DebbieSommaire:
A second chance is the best Christmas gift of all. Out of money and out of options, Skylar Davis returns to Christmas, Colorado, seeking the comfort of her best friends. With the small mountain town all decked out for the holidays,...
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Auteur:Cross, William P., Malloy, Jonathan, Small, Tamara A., Stephenson, Laura B.Sommaire:Elections are not just about who casts ballots – they reflect the citizens, parties, media, and history of an electorate. Fighting for Votes examines how these factors interacted during a recent Ontario election. Drawing on a wealth of...
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