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President of Mauritania (2007–2008) 2008: Overthrown [20] Mohamed Bacar Anjouan: President of Anjouan (2001–2008) 2008: Illegally entering a country [21] Marc Ravalomanana Madagascar: President of Madagascar (2005–2009) 2010: Murder [22] Mamadou Tandja Niger: President of Niger (1999–2010) 2010: Overthrown [23] Eugene Koffi Adoboli Togo
According to one poll, support for the death penalty in Canada is approximately the same as its support in the United States, at 63 percent in both countries as of 2013. [46] A 2012 poll by the Toronto Sun found that 66 percent of Canadians favoured capital punishment, but only 41 percent would actually support its re-introduction in Canada. [ 47 ]
This is a list of prisons and other secure correctional facilities in Canada, not including local jails. In Canada, all offenders who receive a sentence of 24 months or greater must serve their sentence in a federal correctional facility administered by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). Any offender who receives a sentence less than 24 ...
Francis Boucher was the president of the Sorel chapter of the White Power Canada group as well being a member of the Quebec Ku Klux Klan youth wing. [50] On 31 July 1992, Francis Boucher at the age of 17 organized a Nazi rally, the Aryan Festival '92, which attracted much negative publicity and was also one of the first times his father was ...
The Liberals won 184 of the 338 seats, with 39.5% of the popular vote, for a strong majority government; [169] [170] a gain of 150 seats compared to the 2011 federal election. [169] This was the second-best performance in the party's history. The Liberals won mostly on the strength of a solid performance in the eastern half of the country.
The St. Lawrence Seaway, a joint project between Canada and the United States, is officially opened. [114] 1960 1 July First Nations people are granted the right to vote in federal elections without having to give up their status and treaty rights. [115] 1965 15 February Canada adopts the maple leaf for the national flag. 1967 27 April
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The October Crisis (French: Crise d'Octobre) was a chain of political events in Canada that started in October 1970 when members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped the provincial Labour Minister Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross from his Montreal residence.