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Canada and the 1960 United States presidential election

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As in the United States, Canadians were divided over the presidential election in their largest ally, the United States of America. While official Ottawa leaned towards supporting Richard Nixon, the Canadian public was much more favourable to John F. Kennedy.Kennedy vs. NixonWhil...

Canada and the 2016 United States presidential election

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So far Canada has played a very minor role in the upcoming US presidential election. However, it is playing an ongoing role in the 2016 Republican primaries. Ted Cruz controversyRepublican candidate Ted Cruz was born in Canada and is a former citizen of Canada. Some legal scholar...

Canadian Clean Start Party

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The Canadian Clean Start Party was a short-lived political party in Canada. This internet initiative was based in Langley, British Columbia. The website was initiated in 2000, and there appears to have been no subsequent activity.The aim of the party was "to seek public office wi...

Canadian Collaborative Study of Hip Fractures

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The Canadian Collaborative Study of Hip Fractures compares health outcomes among patients exposed to various wait times before hip fracture surgery. The study tests whether preoperative deaths were more frequent among patients 65 years of age or older who remained untreated for n...

Canadian Ethnic Cleansing Team

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The Canadian Ethnic Cleansing Team (CECT) was an Ontario-based white power website that was operated by Alexan Kulbashian and James Scott Richardson (a member of Tri-City Skins). The group was active in the late 1990s until soon after the September 11 attacks when the CECT wrote ...

Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre

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The Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre (CFAWC) is an Canadian Air Force lodger unit based at 8 Wing Trenton, with a sub unit located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was established in October 2005 and reports to the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS). Activities include education,...

Canadian Gun Nutz

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Canadian Gun Nutz (CGN) (CanadianGunNutz.com) is a large and well-known Canadian Internet forum dedicated to discussing firearms. CGN is an active forum with over 360,000 threads, 5,000,000 posts and nearly 90,000 members, as of January 2012.HistoryCGN was started in 2002. There ...

Canadian National Federation

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The Canadian National Federation is a Canadian political advocacy organization. Called the "CNF", for short, it was created in early 2004 to push for national sovereignty, responsible business practices, ethics in government, and electoral reform.The Federation made a niche for i...

Canadian Political Science Review

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The Canadian Political Science Review (CPSR) is an ominbus electronic journal of political science founded in 2007 by the British Columbia Political Studies Association, the Prairie Provinces Political Studies Association and the Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association.I...

Candace Duval

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Candace Duval was the 2012 Democratic nominee in Texas's for the United States House of Representatives. She lost to incumbent Lamar Smith in the general election on November 6, 2012.Early life and educationDuval was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. She earned an associate degree f...

Cannabis dispensary

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A cannabis dispensary or marijuana dispensary is a local government regulated physical location, typically inside a retail store front or office building, in which a person can purchase cannabis and cannabis related items for medical or recreational use and/or consumption. First ...

Cannabis in Canada

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The cultivation of cannabis is currently illegal in Canada, with exceptions only for medical usage.LegalityThe legal status of cannabis in Canada is under dispute. Superior and appellate courts in Ontario have repeatedly declared Canada's marijuana laws to be of no force and effe...

Cantonese independence

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Cantonese independence is a political movement whose goal is primarily to create an independent and sovereign Republic of Canton out of the lands of present-day Guangdong province currently occupied by the People's Republic of China.This movement currently has minimal support, al...

Cantr

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Cantr II is a text-based online society simulator with roleplay as the core driver of interaction. For that reason, the whole social world is developed by the players and there are no non-player characters. There is no prewritten history, no fixed economic or political system, no...

Cape Verdean Mozambican

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Cape Verdean Mozambican are Mozambican residents whose ancestry originated in Cape Verde.Many Cape Verdeans moved to Mozambique as intermediary officials during the Portuguese colonial period. After independence in 1975, some remained in the country. In 1995, there was an estimat...

Capitalism Magazine

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Capitalism Magazine is an online magazine dedicated to the advocacy of unregulated capitalism, which is maintained by Mark Da Cunha. The principles he advocates derive from a reading of the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand. Several related webpages run by the magazine such as C...

Capstone Right

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The Capstone Right is expressed in a US Official Act passed unanimously by the Continental Congress in 1774 (the same Congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence), in which the Founders said: 1774, Journals of the Continental Congress, 1:105-113:If money is wanted by Ru...

Captain Michael Dunphy

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Michael Dunphy, a local government employee, who was born in Mooncoin in 1886, served in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, ending up with the rank of captain. He entered the local government service in Waterford as a young man, and on the outbreak of the First World War he joined the B...

Captain Square

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Captain Square, CBE, DSO was a character of the BBC TV comedy series Dad's Army, set during the Second World War. He was played by Geoffrey Lumsden. The character Square was commander of the Home Guard platoon in Eastgate (a fictional town, but evidently quite near Walmington-on-...

Capture the Spirit of Ramadan

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The "Capture the Spirit of Ramadan" International Photography Award™, also known as the IRPC (International Ramadan Photography Competition) is an unprecedented.... annual global photography competition founded in 2011 by StudioBasel. The competition aims at p...

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