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Plymouth Colony. / 41.8450; -70.7387. Plymouth Colony (sometimes Plimouth) was the first permanent English colony in New England from 1620 and the third permanent English colony in America, after Newfoundland and the Jamestown Colony. It was settled by the passengers on the Mayflower at a location that had previously been surveyed and named by ...
Jagmeet Singh. Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal MP ( / dʒəɡˈmiːt sɪŋ / jug-MEET SING; [3] born January 2, 1979) [4] [5] is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2017. Singh has sat as the member of Parliament (MP) for Burnaby South since 2019. [6] He was elected to the Legislative Assembly ...
New Democratic Party leadership elections, more commonly known as leadership conventions, are the process by which the Canadian New Democratic Party elects its leader. Before 2003, when a modified one member, one vote (OMOV) system was adopted, every biennial New Democratic Party convention, since 1961, was a leadership convention.
The New Democratic Party (NDP; French: Nouveau Parti démocratique, NPD) is a federal political party in Canada.Widely described as social democratic, the party occupies the centre-left of the political spectrum, with the party generally sitting to the left of the Liberal Party.
In 1961, at the end of a five-day-long Founding Convention which established its principles, policies, and structures, the New Democratic Party was born and Tommy Douglas, the long-time CCF Premier of Saskatchewan, was elected its first leader. [1] In 1960, before the NDP was founded, one candidate, Walter Pitman, won a by-election under the ...
Pierre Marcel Poilievre PC MP (/ ˌ p ɔː l i ˈ ɛ v / PAW-lee-EV; born June 3, 1979) is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Official Opposition since 2022. He has been a member of Parliament (MP) since 2004. Poilievre was born in Calgary, Alberta.
Lawyer. Writer. Elizabeth Evans May OC MP (born June 9, 1954) is a Canadian politician, environmentalist, author, activist, and lawyer who is serving as the leader of the Green Party of Canada since 2022, and previously served as the leader from 2006 to 2019. She has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Saanich—Gulf Islands since 2011.
Pierre Nantel. New Democratic. Independent. Expelled from NDP caucus following revelations that he had been in private talks to run for another political party in the next general election [38] September 1, 2019. Victoria. Murray Rankin. New Democratic. Vacant.