NDP Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:42:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg NDP Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Ontario Premier Says She Can’t Win Election https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/06/05/ontario-premier-says-she-cant-win-election/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2018/06/05/ontario-premier-says-she-cant-win-election/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2018 01:05:29 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=17041 The current premier of Ontario says there will be a new premier after the election on June 7 and it most certainly won't be her.
That was a very surprising announcement.
Premier Kathleen Wynne leads the Ontario Liberal Party. She is one of three main candidates vying for the spot of premier in the upcoming election. The other two main candidates are Doug Ford Jr., who leads the Progressive Conservative (PC) party of Ontario and Andrea Horwath, who leads the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP).

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Canadians Elect Liberal Majority Government, Justin Trudeau as PM https://teachingkidsnews.com/2015/10/25/canadians-elect-liberal-majority-government-justin-trudeau-as-pm/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2015/10/25/canadians-elect-liberal-majority-government-justin-trudeau-as-pm/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2015 01:24:43 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=14900 Canadians will soon have a very different government in power.
In the federal election last week, the Conservative government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, was defeated.

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Canadians Vote On October 19 https://teachingkidsnews.com/2015/10/12/canadians-vote-on-october-19/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:37:34 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=14873 On October 19, Canadian adults will vote in a federal election. Their votes will help to decide who becomes the next Prime Minister.

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Big Political Shift In Alberta: NDP Majority https://teachingkidsnews.com/2015/05/10/big-political-shift-in-alberta-ndp-majority/ Mon, 11 May 2015 02:18:37 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=14703 Recently, Albertans held a political election. Its outcome was a big surprise to many people, including the people who forecast (predict who will win) elections.

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Big “Wynne Win” Surprises Pollsters https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/06/16/1-big-wynne-win-surprises-pollsters/ Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:27:42 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=13336 It came as a big surprise: Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals were elected on Thursday night with a majority government.

The people who predict how elections will turn out didn’t see that coming.

Until the last days before the election, the odds were that either the Liberals would win a minority government or the PC party, led by Tim Hudak, would win.

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How Ontario’s Leaders Would Handle Education https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/05/20/1-ontarios-leaders-handle-education/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/05/20/1-ontarios-leaders-handle-education/#comments Wed, 21 May 2014 03:06:25 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=13135 On June 12, Ontario is having an election. Each of the main political parties has a different idea about how they would spend money on education in Ontario.

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Surprising Win For Liberals In BC Election https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/05/15/1-surprising-win-for-liberals-in-bc-election/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/05/15/1-surprising-win-for-liberals-in-bc-election/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 03:31:49 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=10430 The Liberals unexpectedly won the provincial election in British Columbia on Tuesday surprising many people, who thought the New Democratic Party (NDP) would win.

The Liberals and the NDP are two of Canada’s biggest political parties.

The Liberals were already in power in B.C.; after this election, they will stay in power.

Being “in power” in this case means they are responsible for making many of the important decisions involving laws and money in the province. It also means that their leader is the Premier of the province.

Many people—including political experts—thought the New Democratic Party would win the election. Not only did the Liberals win, but they won a "majority government." That means they have more seats in the legislature than all of the other parties combined.

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Justin Trudeau New Leader Of Federal Liberals https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/04/15/1-justin-trudeau-new-leader-of-federal-liberals/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/04/15/1-justin-trudeau-new-leader-of-federal-liberals/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 03:44:46 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=10012 Justin Trudeau is the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Justin Trudeau is the son of Pierre Trudeau, who was the charismatic Prime Minister of Canada for more than 15 years in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

A new kind of Trudeaumania swept the Liberal Party on Sunday, where Justin Trudeau won the leadership of the party by a landslide.

He took more than 80 per cent of the vote, winning handily on the first ballot.

Trudeau has a big challenge—to get the Liberal party focused again, and eventually to get it back in power.

He wants to be Canada’s next prime minister.

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Giant Slumber Party In The House Of Commons https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/06/14/1-giant-slumber-party-in-the-house-of-commons/ Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:00:12 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=6926 The government of Canada had a sleepover, and all of the MPs were invited.

In fact, attendance was mandatory.

What’s really happened is that the Members of Parliament stayed up all night working.

They were voting on a bill, but the way they did it was very unusual—and very interesting.

It all started when Stephen Harper’s Conservative government introduced Bill C-38.

Bill C-38 is an enormous 425-page bill covering all kinds of things including budget items.

The opposition party (the NDP) wanted to protest the fact that the government bundled all of those extra items into the bill.

They say that when too many items are bundled that way, none of the items can be looked over and properly discussed.

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How Much Did Fighter Jets Really Cost? https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/04/17/how-much-did-fighter-jets-really-cost/ Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:01:23 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=6262 In 2010, new F-35 Fighter Jets were ordered by Canada’s Defence Department (the department that oversees the country’s military).The new jets were supposed to cost around $15-billion.

Now, however, the Auditor General of Canada has said that the 65 planes will actually cost $25-billion, $10-billion more than expected. The Auditor General’s office watches over Government spending.

NDP and Liberal MPs (Members of Parliament) have accused the Defence Department (part of the Conservative government in power) of “hiding” the extra $10-billion in their financial reports when the 2011 election was coming up. Some are saying that the Conservatives wanted to keep it secret so people wouldn’t see the real costs and not vote for them.

Now that it is in the open, some MPs have demanded that Canada’s Defence Minister, Peter MacKay, step down from his job.

The Defence Department has explained their position saying that their original estimate did not include many costs such as operations (day-to-day expenses), people to run the project, or a “contingency fund” (in this case, this refers to money set aside for unknown problems in the project). Some of that money was already recorded in other budgets.

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