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The Yale Political Union (YPU) is a debate society at Yale University, founded in 1934 by Alfred Whitney Griswold.It was modeled on the Cambridge Union and Oxford Union and the party system of the defunct Yale Unions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which were in turn inspired by the great literary debating societies of Linonia and Brothers in Unity.
The Unionist Party was a centre to centre-right political party in Canada, composed primarily of former members of the Conservative party with some individual Liberal Members of Parliament. It was formed in 1917 by MPs who supported the "Union government" formed by Sir Robert Borden during the First World War, who formed the government through ...
The Liberal Party of Canada (LPC; French: Parti libéral du Canada, PLC) is a federal political party in Canada.The party espouses the principles of liberalism, [6] [7] [8] and generally sits at the centre [6] [9] [10] to centre-left [10] [11] of the Canadian political spectrum, with their main rival, the Conservative Party, positioned to their right and the New Democratic Party positioned to ...
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 enlarged the colony of Canada under the name of the Province of Quebec, which with the Constitutional Act 1791 became known as the Canadas. With the Act of Union 1840, Upper and Lower Canada were joined to become the United Province of Canada. By the 1860s, interest developed in forming a new federation between ...
The first party system emerged from pre-Confederation colonial politics, had its "heyday" from 1896 to 1911 and lasted until the Conscription Crisis of 1917, and was characterized by local patronage administered by the two largest parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives.
The Senate of Canada is Canada's unelected upper chamber. It currently has three non-party parliamentary groups: the Independent Senators Group (ISG), the Canadian Senators Group (CSG), and the Progressive Senate Group (PSG). These three groups do not share a formal ideology, platform, or membership in any one political party; the caucuses ...
Jamil Jivani MP (born October 24, 1987) is a Canadian politician, radio host, and political commentator. [1] He is the founder of the Policing Literacy Initiative, [2] is a co-founder of Teachers Beyond the Classroom, [3] sat on the Premier's Council on Equality of Opportunity and is the Advocate for Community Opportunities for the Doug Ford government.
The two dominant political parties in Canada have historically been the Liberal Party of Canada and the current Conservative Party of Canada (as well as its numerous predecessors). [21] Parties like the New Democratic Party , the Quebec nationalist Bloc Québécois and the Green Party of Canada have grown in prominence, exerting their own ...