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The 2003 New Democratic Party leadership race to replace New Democratic Party of Canada leader Alexa McDonough ended January 25, 2003 with the first ballot victory of popular Toronto city councillor Jack Layton. NDP leadership conventions are the process by which the Canadian New Democratic Party elects its leader. ... This page is about the Canadian political party. ... Alexa McDonough (born August 11, 1944) is a Canadian politician, and former leader of the New Democratic Party. ... January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... Motto: Diversity Our Strength Map of Ontario Counties, Toronto being red Area: 641 sq. ... John Gilbert Jack Layton (born July 18, 1950, Hudson, Québec)is a social democratic Canadian politician. ...
The leadership race was the first to be conducted under the NDP's new partial one member, one vote system, in which the popular vote of the members is weighted for 75% of the result. The rest are votes cast by delegates for affiliated organizations (mainly labour unions). It was also the first Canadian leadership convention to allow Internet voting; delegates who chose to vote electronically were given a password to a secure website to register their votes. The Internet, or simply the Net, is the publicly available worldwide system of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using a standardized Internet Protocol (IP) and many other protocols. ... A website, Web site or WWW site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of webpages, that is, HTML/XHTML documents accessible via HTTP on the Internet; all publicly accessible websites in existence comprise the World Wide Web. ...
The race was heated, with the leaders campaigning to NDP audiences across Canada. One of the most notable events of the campaign occurred at the convention in Toronto, when candidate Pierre Ducasse made a stirring speech that resulted in several prominent changes of allegiance and was hailed as one of the best NDP speeches since the days of Tommy Douglas. It was speculated that if the great majority of New Democrats hadn't voted electronically and by mail before convention, he would have obtained a much higher percentage of the vote on the strength of that speech alone. Pierre Ducasse (born August 18, 1972), a Canadian politician, is a prominent New Democratic Party activist. ... Thomas Clement Douglas PC,CC,SOM (October 20, 1904 - February 24, 1986) was a Scottish-born Canadian Baptist minister and democratic socialist politician. ...
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Jack Layton - former Toronto City Councillor (winner, 53.5%)
This fear prompted those two parties to form a united Conservative Party of Canada, which was approved by the members of the Canadian Alliance on December 5, 2003 and controversially by the delegates of the Progressive Conservatives on December 6, 2003.
Although on the eve of the election the party was polling slightly ahead of the Liberals everywhere west of Quebec, it had dropped in support, polling behind or on par with Liberals everywhere except Alberta and British Columbia, where it held onto its traditional support.
Before the announcement of the union of the right-of-centre parties, some were predicting that the NewDemocraticParty would form the official opposition because the NDP was polling ahead of both right-of-centre parties.
He has also conducted research on how news media cover environmental issues: as an environmental scientist he is interested in how the scientific aspects of these issues are presented and as a citizen he is concerned with their impact on policy formulation.
Her new book is Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (Oxford University Press), for which she surveyed over 1500 members of the World War II generation and conducted interviews with 30 veterans in all regions of the United States.
He has published on legislative politics, distributive justice, health care policy, and democratic politics and the Internet, and is currently at work on two books: one on health care reform and distributive justice, and the second on the Internet and political life, focused on the 2004 election cycle.
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