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Following the 2004 American election, some Americans distributed the satirical Jesusland map on the Internet, depicting a similar proposal under which the "blue states" were part of a new political entity called "The United States of Canada". In 2019, there was a petition calling for the United States to sell Montana to Canada to pay off the U ...
The Anti-Confederation Party won 18 of the 19 Nova Scotia seats in the new House of Commons of Canada in the 1867 general election, and 36 of the 38 seats in the Nova Scotia legislature; however, the party was unsuccessful in achieving independence for Nova Scotia.
Criminal and civil lawsuits against the government and churches began in the late 1980s and shortly after the last residential school closed. By 2002, the number of lawsuits had exceeded 10,000. In the 1990s, starting with the United Church, the churches that ran the residential schools began to issue formal apologies.
The lawsuits also prompted several Congressional Democrats to send a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, calling on him to ensure military service members overseas get to vote.
Republicans in the US House of Representatives have standing to proceed with a lawsuit against US President Barack Obama's administration over his signature healthcare law, a federal judge said ...
Alberta separatism comes from the belief that many Albertans hold that they are culturally and economically distinct from the rest of Canada, particularly Central Canada and Eastern Canada, because of economic imbalances whereby Alberta is a net over-contributor to the system of equalization payments in Canada. [6]
The federal lawsuit accuses the officers of recklessly using excessive force in the shooting that killed 39-year-old Tyrea Pryor in 2022. ‘Ready to shoot no matter what’: Family sues ...
The acronym was coined in the 1980s by University of Denver professors Penelope Canan and George W. Pring. [13] The term was originally defined as "a lawsuit involving communications made to influence a governmental action or outcome, which resulted in a civil complaint or counterclaim filed against nongovernment individuals or organizations on a substantive issue of some public interest or ...