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1. Haiti -- Elections
   The occasion, as Jim Zwick points out in a lucid essay on Haiti and the anti-imperialist tradition, was the election of 1920, when Roosevelt was running for vice president. It was, remarks Zwick, "one of the more notable gaffes of the campaign."
2. Vancouver Canadians -- Innings
   In the Canadian House of Commons, Vancouver is represented by five Members of Parliament. In the 2004 federal elections, the Liberal Party of Canada won four seats and the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) one. In the 2006 federal elections, all the same Members of Parliament were re-elected. However, on February 6, 2006, David Emerson of Vancouver Kingsway defected to the Conservative Party, giving the Conservatives one seat in Vancouver. As of February 2006, the Liberals hold three seats, and the NDP and the Conservatives hold one each.
3. Constitution of Canada -- Canadian Forces
   Fortunately, a majority of Canadians voted 'NO' to the question: "Do you agree that the Constitution of Canada should be renewed on the basis of the agreement reached on August 28, 1992?" Thus Canadians were spared the entrenchment of even more power in the hands of politicians and left the way open to negotiate a Canadian constitution that might be drafted for the people, instead of for the politicians.
4. Rick Mercer -- Canadian Tv
   Rick Mercer is an anomaly in Canadian show business: an entertainer whose sights aren't set on the bright lights and big cities of America. As one of Canadian television's most recognizable faces, he's content being this country's foremost political satirist.
5. Canadian House of Commons
   The Canadian House of Commons has unanimously voted on June 22, 2006 to bestow the Dalai Lama one of the country's highest honors, the Honorary Citizenship. The Dalai Lama will be the third non-Canadian to receive this honor, the other two being Raoul Wallenberg in 1985 and Nelson Mandela in 2001.
6. Canadian House of Commons -- Canada
   OTTAWA, CANADA – The Canadian House of Commons today debated a private member’s motion to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Motion M-380, which had its first Reading today, was moved by MP Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral’s (Laval Centre, BQ), and seconded by MPs Sarkis Assadourian (Brampton Centre, Liberal), Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Conservative Party of Canada) and Alexa McDonough (Halifax, New Democratic Party).
7. Pierre Trudeau -- Canadian Encyclopedia
   Charismatic, bicultural, and intellectual, Pierre Trudeau was the towering figure of the Canadian 20th century. For a complete picture of his legacy one can look to his influential early political essays and to the excellent biographies by Richard Gwyn as well as Christina McCall and Stephen Clarkson, but the first place to turn is Trudeau's own account, in his 1993 Memoirs.
8. Canada -- Canadian Senate
   Classic works on early Canada are those of Francis Parkman. See ... G. M. Wrong, The Rise and Fall of New France (2 vol., 1928; repr. 1970); D. G. Creighton, The Story of Canada (rev. ed. 1971); R. C. Brown and Ramsay Cook, Canada, 1896–1921: A Nation Transformed (1974); Robert Bothwell et al., Canada Since 1945: Power, Politics, and Provincialism (1981); L. D. McCann, Heartland and Hinterland (2d ed. 1987); R. T. Naylor, Canada in the European Age, 1453–1919 (1988); George Woodcock, A Social History of Canada (1988); H. Crookell, Canadian-American Trade and Investment Under the Free Trade Agreement (1990); R. C. Vipond, Liberty and Community: Canadian Federalism and the Failure of the Constitution (1991); R. K. Weaver, The Collapse of Canada? (1992). See also The Canadian Encyclopedia (4 vol., 1988).
9. Canadian House of Commons -- Prime Minister
   Unlike the Presidential system of government used in countries such as the United States, an elected member of the Canadian House of Commons must follow strict party discipline and has difficulty voting against the party line. If any elected member of the Prime Minister's governing party votes against any new legislation, the Prime Minister has the exclusive authority to expel that person from the party. A Member of Parliament (MP) who has been expelled from their party will then sit as an independent MP with extremely limited resources to conduct their work and almost no procedural right to ask a question or raise any issue in Parliament. MPs are only expelled from a party for voting against important legislation, such as the budget. This happened to Liberal MP John Nunziata who was expelled by Jean Chr�tien for voting against the 1995 budget. At the next election, the expelled member will usually not be allowed to run for the party again.
10. John A. Macdonald -- Canadian Confederation
            In 1856 Macdonald became, for the first time, leader of the Upper Canadian section of the government, replacing MacNab. The manner in which he assumed control has been the subject of some controversy. MacNab had come under increasing criticism within the coalition because of his lingering reputation as a compact tory and his growing ineffectiveness due to ill health. No doubt he should have resigned but he refused, making it necessary to force him out of office so that a reconstruction of the cabinet could occur. Macdonald does not appear to have acted purely out of personal ambition; he too had become convinced that MacNab had to go. He took part in the ouster, first by sending MacNab an ultimatum, which he rejected, and then by joining the Reform members of the cabinet, Joseph Curran Morrison* and Robert Spence*, in resigning from it on 21May (the other Upper Canadian Conservative, William Cayley*, soon followed) on the grounds that the government had been in a minority among the Upper Canadian members on a vote of confidence. MacNab had no choice but to place his portfolio at the disposal of Governor GeneralSirEdmund Walker Head*.

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