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Apathy Is Boring
Apathy is Boring (A is B) is a Canadian, non-partisan, youth-led charitable organization that supports and educates youth to be active and contributing citizens in Canada's democracy. History A is B began in January 2004 when founders, Ilona Dougherty, Paul Shore, and Mackenzie Duncan saw that many of their peers felt disengaged from the political process. This was especially evident following the 2000 general election in which the youth voter turnout reached an all-time low of 25%. When the 2004 Federal Election was called, work began on what would be A is B's first federal "Get out the Youth Vote" campaign. Using a website, digital media technology, concerts, and a media outreach campaign, A is B was able to reach over 500,000 young people in Canada in less than four months. Throughout that campaign A is B was repeatedly featured in the national media, including ''Canada AM'','' Mike Duffy Live'', '' The National'', CBC Radio – '' The House'', Global TV, MuchMusic and newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census Metropolitan Area#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest city, and List of cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General Of Canada
The governor general of Canada (french: gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal viceregal representative of the . The is head of state of Canada and the 14 other Commonwealth realms, but resides in oldest and most populous realm, the United Kingdom. The , on the advice of Canadian prime minister, appoints a governor general to carry on the Government of Canada in the 's name, performing most of constitutional and ceremonial duties. The commission is for an indefinite period—known as serving ''at Majesty's pleasure''—though five years is the usual length of time. Since 1959, it has also been traditional to alternate between francophone and anglophone officeholders—although many recent governors general have been bilingual. The office began in the 17th century, when the French crown appointed governors of the colony of Canada. Following the British conquest of the colony, the British monarch appointed governors of the Province of Quebec (later the Canadas) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasha Kheiriddin
Tasha Kheiriddin (born 1970) is a Canadian public affairs commentator, consultant, lawyer, policy analyst and writer. Early life and education Born on June 25, 1970, Kheiriddin was born and raised in Montreal and earned a law degree from McGill University. Career Kheiriddin began her career as a litigation lawyer for Spiegel Sohmer in Montreal where she practiced for three years. After practising law in Montreal, she moved to Toronto, where she was legislative assistant to the Attorney General of Ontario. Kheiriddin was president of the Progressive Conservative Youth Federation of Canada from 1995 to 1998. She subsequently worked as a television producer at CBC Newsworld and a host and producer on the Cable Public Affairs Channel. Kheiriddin was the Ontario director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for several years before returning to Quebec to join the Montreal Economic Institute, a free-market think tank. She then worked as the director for Quebec in the Montreal off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Johnston (political Scientist)
Richard Johnston may refer to: Politics * Richard Johnston (died 1706), MP for Clogher (Parliament of Ireland constituency) * Sir Richard Johnston, 1st Baronet (1743–1795), MP for Kilbeggan and Blessington * Archibald D. Johnston (1940–2003), popularly known as Dick Johnston, provincial politician, Alberta, Canada * Richard Johnston (Ontario politician) (born 1946), provincial politician, Ontario, Canada * Ricky Johnston (born 1943), Australian politician Other * Richard C. Johnston, U.S. Air Force general * Richard F. Johnston (1925–2014), American ornithologist, academic and author * Richard Johnston (composer) (1917–1997), Canadian composer, arts administrator, music critic, and music educator * Richard Johnston (musician), American blues musician * Rich Johnston, comic book columnist * Richard Malcolm Johnston (1822–1898), American writer and educator * Dick Johnston (1863–1934), baseball player *Dick Johnston (journalist) (1919–2008), Canadian sports journali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Graves (pollster)
Francis Louis Graves, known as Frank Graves, is a Canadian applied social researcher. He is the founder and president of Ekos Research Associates. Education Graves received a Bachelor of Arts in social anthropology from Carleton University in 1976 and a Master of Arts in sociology from Carleton University in 1977. He has completed doctoral coursework in sociology. Career Graves has lectured at the Rotman School of Management, the Kennedy School at Harvard, the University of Ottawa, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in Washington, DC. Graves also serves on the advisory board at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. In an April 2010 interview with Lawrence Martin, Graves acknowledged that he informally advised the Liberal Party to invoke a "culture war" by accusing the Conservative Party of being homophobic, racist, and autocratic. Graves later apologized for what he described as his "incendiary" comments. Conservative Party Presi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Gibbins
Roger Graeme Gibbins (born 6 September 1955) is an English former professional footballer. He represented England at Schools level. Career Having represented Enfield, Middlesex and London at schools level, Gibbins began his career as an apprentice with Tottenham Hotspur, where his father Eddie had played in the early 1950s. Joining the club at the age of thirteen, he scored the winning goal for the club in the 1974 FA Youth Cup final against Huddersfield Town. He turned professional in December 1972. He spent a further two and a half seasons at White Hart Lane, but left in August 1975, to join Oxford United, without making his league debut. He stayed at the Manor Ground for only one season, before joining First Division Norwich City on a free transfer in June 1976. He gradually established himself at Norwich and started 1977–78 season as a regular in the Carrow Road side. He left Norwich in 1978 after 12 goals in 48 games, to play in the NASL for the New England Tea Men (cost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Fontaine
Larry Phillip Fontaine, (born September 20, 1944) is an Indigenous Canadian leader. He completed his third and final term as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in 2009. Early life Fontaine, an Ojibwe, was born at the Sagkeeng First Nation on the Fort Alexander Reserve in Manitoba, about 150 kilometers north of Winnipeg. His first language is Ojibway. In his youth he attended a residential school operated by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Sagkeeng. He also attended the Assiniboia Residential School in Winnipeg and he graduated from Powerview Collegiate in 1961. In 1973, Fontaine was elected Chief of the Sagkeeng community for two consecutive terms. Upon completion of his mandate, he and his family moved to the Yukon, where he was a regional director general with the Canadian government. Political career In 1981 Fontaine graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political studies. After graduation, he worked for the Southeast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Collenette
Penny Collenette (born May 20, 1950, in Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadians, Canadian lawyer, professor and political figure of the Liberal Party of Canada. The wife of former Liberal Member of Parliament and Cabinet of Canada, cabinet minister David Collenette, she sought, and won, the 2008 Liberal nomination over community activist and businessman Scott Bradley for the riding of Ottawa Centre (federal electoral district), Ottawa Centre, which was held by Paul Dewar of the New Democratic Party (Canada), New Democratic Party. She came in second to Dewar in the election. She was vice-chair of the human rights committee for Liberal International in 1987, and director of volunteers for Jean Chrétien’s leadership race in Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 1984, 1984 and campaign director in the successful Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 1990, 1990 bid, as well as national director and director of legal services for the Liberal Party of Canada in the 1993 C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piya Chattopadhyay
Piya Chattopadhyay () is a Canadian journalist, currently host of '' The Sunday Magazine'' on CBC Radio One. She is known for her work on CBC Radio,CBC’s Piya Chattopadhyay: ‘doing what I want to do’ by Constance Scrafield; at the Orangeville Citizen; published October 31, 2013; retrieved May 1, 2014 as well as on Fox News Radio, and . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Campbell
Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell (born March 10, 1947) is a Canadian politician, diplomat, lawyer, and writer who served as the 19th prime minister of Canada from June 25 to November 4, 1993. Campbell is the first and so far only female prime minister of Canada. Prior to becoming the final Progressive Conservative (PC) prime minister, she was also the first woman to serve as minister of justice in Canadian history and the first woman to become minister of defence in a NATO member state. Campbell was first elected to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly as a member of the British Columbia Social Credit Party in 1986 before being elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a PC in 1988. Under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, she occupied numerous cabinet positions including minister of justice and attorney general, minister of veterans affairs and minister of national defence from 1990 to 1993. Campbell became the new prime minister in June 1993 after Mulroney resig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Axworthy
Lloyd Norman Axworthy (born December 21, 1939) is a Canadian politician, elder statesman and academic. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Following his retirement from parliament, he served as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Winnipeg from 2004 to 2014 and as chancellor of St. Paul's University College (a constituent institution of the University of Waterloo). He is currently the Chair of the World Refugee & Migration Council. Biography Axworthy was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan to parents Norman and Gwen Axworthy and into a family with strong United Church roots, and received his BA from United College, a Winnipeg-based Bible school, in 1961. He is the older brother of Tom Axworthy, Robert Axworthy (former Manitoba Liberal Party leadership candidate). He received his Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University in 1972 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "The task force on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Jean-Pierre Kingsley (born July 12, 1943) is a Canadian civil servant and businessman who served as the president and CEO of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). He was the chief electoral officer of Elections Canada before he stepped down in December 2006. On April 28, 2009, he announced his resignation as president of IFES. He was succeeded by Bill Sweeney. Early life and career He was born in Ottawa in 1943. He was educated at the Académie De La Salle and went on to earn a BCom and a master's degree in Hospital Administration from the University of Ottawa. Kingsley was named chief electoral officer in February 1990 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Prior to serving in that position, he served as: * District manager for Travelers Insurance (1966-7) * Head of hospital administration at the Department of Veteran Affairs (1967–71) * Associate and then executive director of Edmonton's Charles Camsell Hospital (1971-3) * President and chief executive o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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