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Monarch Park Collegiate Institute

During the 2009-2010 school year NDP party leader Jack Layton visited the school during an effort to help keep it open to the students and public.


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Brad Trost

In 2004, in what was the closest 4-way race in the country, Trost received 417 more votes than second place candidate, the NDP's Nettie Wiebe, 435 votes ahead of the third place candidate, Liberal Patrick Wolfe, and 2368 votes ahead of former Canadian Alliance Member of Parliament Jim Pankiw.

Brian Mason

In the provincial election of 2008 Mason again retained his seat, and was joined in caucus by newly elected NDP MLA Rachel Notley from Edmonton-Strathcona, the seat previously held by Pannu.

British Columbia New Democratic Party

The BC NDP introduced capital taxes, slashed funding to universities, but suffered the most for bringing clarity to the accounting Social Credit had used, and showed that BC was significantly in debt.

Bud Wildman

The NDP actively targeted this seat as winnable, and party leader Alexa McDonough visited the riding very late in the campaign.

Wildman supported Jim Foulds's bid to lead the provincial NDP in 1982, and made little secret of his opposition to Bob Rae's leadership in the years that followed.

Canadian leaders debates

Two parties, the Conservatives and the NDP, opposed the inclusion of the Green Party, citing a deal struck between the Green Party and Liberals where the Liberals would not run in Green Party leader Elizabeth May's riding, Central Nova, and the Green party in Liberal leader Stéphane Dion's riding, Saint-Laurent—Cartierville.

David William Warner

The Liberals under David Peterson were able to form a minority government with outside support from the NDP, and Warner served as his party's critic for Education and Skills Development over the next two years.

Dean Del Mastro

In March 2013, NDP MP Charlie Angus called on PM Stephen Harper to remove Del Mastro from the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.

Eldred Hallas

In the 1918 general election, Hallas was elected with the Coalition coupon for the NDP in the new Birmingham Duddeston constituency.

Elmer Buchanan

The NDP won a majority government under Bob Rae in the provincial election of 1990, and Buchanan defeated Jim Pollock by 896 votes.

Frank Sheehan

Sheehan was elected to the legislature in the 1995 provincial election, defeating Liberal Harry Pelissero by about 8,000 votes in the southern Ontario riding of Lincoln (NDP incumbent Ron Hansen was third).

Graham Letto

During the Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2003, he ran in the provincial riding of Labrador West as the Progressive Conservative candidate, but was defeated by Randy Collins of the NDP.

Ian Waddell

He attempted to return to the House of Commons as an NDP candidate in both the 2004 federal election and 2006 federal election in the riding of Vancouver Kingsway, but was defeated both times by Liberal candidate David Emerson.

Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) is a provincial crown corporation in British Columbia created in 1973 by the NDP government of British Columbia.

Jim Walding

When NDP cabinet minister Andy Anstett restricted the amount of time the bells could ring, the Conservatives boycotted the assembly entirely.

John O'Toole

O'Toole scored a significant victory over incumbent New Democrat Gord Mills in the provincial election of 1995, scoring 62% of the popular vote (this was part of a provincial trend in which a number of working-class ridings shifted from the NDP to the Tories).

John Paul Ruttan

In 2008 he appeared as a guest star on The Rick Mercer Report portraying a young Jack Layton, a Canadian NDP leader, on the episode Election Kids.

John Thomas Wolfe

He served a single term, and was defeated by Lewis Draper of the NDP in the 1991 general election.

Kathy Dunderdale

33 per cent of respondents also said that NDP leader Lorraine Michael was their preferred choice for premier, compared to 32 per cent who chose Dunderdale and 17 per cent who chose Liberal leader Dwight Ball.

Kevin Lamoureux

He finished second to New Democratic Party (NDP) incumbent Pat Martin.

Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba

The governing New Democratic Party (NDP) lost its thin majority in the legislature when one of its Members of the Legislative Aseembly, Jim Walding, moved to an opposition party and voted along with the rest of the opposition against the proposed budget, a matter of confidence and supply.

Margaret Harrington

The NDP were defeated in the 1995 provincial election, and Harrington finished third against Progressive Conservative Bart Maves in her bid for re-election.

Mark Morrow

In 1993, Morrow, Kormos and Karen Haslam were the only members of the NDP caucus to vote against the Rae government's Social Contract legislation, which restructured the province's labour laws and introduced unpaid leave days for some workers (Dennis Drainville also voted against the legislation, although he had left the NDP caucus by this stage).

Micheline Montreuil

Jack Layton, leader of the party, commented favourably on her candidacy, saying that he was pleased with her candidacy and that having candidates who could raise questions of equality showed that the NDP was quite open and that Quebecers were progressive enough to accept differences.

National Abortion Federation

NAF launched a Canadian Public Policy and Outreach Program on May 16, 2006 with the support of Senator Lucie Pépin, Federal MP and former Minister of State for Health Carolyn Bennett and NDP Status of Women Critic Irene Mathyssen.

National Democrats Party

Kyle Chapman became Deputy Chairman of the NDP, and ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Christchurch in 2007, pulling approximately 1% of the vote.

Nettie Wiebe

She was once again the NDP candidate in Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar in the 2008 federal election, but Conservative candidate Kelly Block defeated her by just 262 votes (0.98%), Wiebe's narrowest loss to date.

Neutron depth profiling

In NDP, a thermal or cold neutron beam passes through a material and interacts with isotopes that emit monoenergetic charged particles upon neutron absorption; either a proton or an alpha, and a recoil nucleus.

Norcanair

Saskatchewan's 1964 general election saw the NDP government defeated by the Liberals.

A tentative deal was struck, but before it could be finalized, the NDP government fell and its replacement, the Progressive Conservative party, resold the firm to Saskatoon businessman Albert Ethier, who combined the airline with his own charter firm, Hi-Line Airways.

Norm Jamison

The NDP were defeated in the 1995 provincial election, and Jamison finished third against Progressive Conservative Toby Barrett in his bid for re-election.

Nortel Discovery Protocol

The Nortel Discovery Protocol (NDP) is a Data Link Layer (OSI Layer 2) network protocol for discovery of Nortel networking devices and certain products from Avaya and Ciena.

Northwestern Ontario

Provincially, NDP Sarah Campbell represents Kenora—Rainy River while Liberals Bill Mauro and Michael Gravelle represent Thunder Bay—Atikokan and Thunder Bay—Superior North respectively.

Patrick Michael Hayes

The NDP were defeated in the 1995 provincial election, and Hayes finished third in Essex-Kent, finishing 2,293 votes behind the winning candidate, Liberal Pat Hoy.

Raymond Parkinson

He represented Vancouver-Burrard in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1966 to 1969 as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member.

Ron Kanter

Kanter's connection to the tainted Starr scandal was mentioned as one of the reasons that he finished third in his bid for re-election, 1,383 votes behind winner Zanana Akande of the NDP.

Russ Powers

Powers defeated Sweet by a margin of 39.5% to 36%, with the NDP candidate Gordon Guyatt receiving 21% support.

Russell Doern

Initially regarded as a supporter of youth and the arts (he had tried to book John Lennon for a concert in 1970), Doern eventually became associated with the more conservative wing of the NDP.

Ryan Bater

During the 2007 provincial election, Bater ran as the Liberal candidate in the constituency of The Battlefords, placing second behind the NDP and Saskatchewan Party candidates with 93.36% of the vote.

Sam Cureatz

He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1977 provincial election, defeating Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) incumbent Doug Moffatt by 122 votes in the riding of Durham East.

Saskatchewan general election, 1991

The Progressive Conservative government of Premier Grant Devine was defeated by the New Democratic Party, led by former provincial NDP Attorney General Roy Romanow.

Saul Cherniack

He initially considered challenging Paulley himself, but declined, reportedly on the advice of NDP research adviser Doug Rowland.

Ted Bounsall

He remains politically active as part of the Windsor West New Democratic Party Riding Association and is a supporter of NDP Member of Parliament Brian Masse and Windsor Ward 2 City Councillor Ron Jones.

Terry Kirkland

Kirkland attempted to win a seat in the Edmonton Highlands by-election held on June 12, 2000 but was defeated by NDP leader Brian Mason.

Thomas R. Berger

Described as a "Young Turk" and "young man in a hurry", Berger challenged long-time BC CCF/NDP leader Robert Strachan for the party leadership in 1967.

Tony Lupusella

Redistribution of electoral boundaries forced Lupusella to run against fellow NDP Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Ross McClellan for the party's nomination in Dovercourt after McClellan's Bellwoods riding was eliminated.

Zach Churchill

On July 24, 2012, Churchill caused a controversy when he posted on Twitter that former NDP leader Jack Layton would be disgusted the way the provincial NDP are operating in Nova Scotia and described Premier Darrell Dexter as making Prime Minister Stephen Harper, "look like a saint".


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