Sentences with phrase «leader debates»

"Leader debates" refer to public discussions or conversations between leaders or representatives of political parties. These debates usually happen before elections and allow voters to hear different leaders' perspectives and proposals on various issues. Full definition
The country's political landscape was changed forever with the first - ever televised leaders debates.
What idiot scheduled the big Canadian leader debate on the same night as the American VP showdown?
Too busy to watch the full hour and a half of last night's second leaders debate?
The conference opened with high - level politicians and C - level industry leaders debating industry trends and outlook.
They were the last of their kind, and in order to accommodate them, the government of South Africa set up a makeshift home in District 9 as politicians and world leaders debated how to handle the situation.
Kathleen Wynne talks to the media after the Ontario Provincial Leaders debated at the CBC Building on Front Street in Toronto.
While world leaders debate the erection of walls or the deportation of refugees, and as our political rhetoric grows increasingly divisive, die level of critical and ethical engagement that the exhibition performs — with questions of nation and migration, community and cosmopolitanism, and the aftermath of colonial violence — is more urgent now than ever.
Douglas Carswell faced a media scrum in the rain asking about further possible defections, the Rochester and Strood by - election, and TV leader debates for the 2015 general election.
Miliband has come across in the first two leader debates as a competent, articulate and capable individual and, in that sense, he has done himself some good.
Three Liberal MPPs head for the exits, while PC leader Doug Ford declines to attend the Black Community Provincial Leaders Debate.
On the very day of the televised leaders debate for the 2017 BC Election, Premier Christy Clark has suddenly found a reason to ask Prime Minister Trudeau to ban thermal coal exports from BC ports.
Tim Montgomerie concluded he was hoping a spectacular performance from David Cameron in the final leaders debate on BBC this Thursday.
Leaders are an important element of election campaigns in the UK, perhaps increasingly so with the adoption of leader debates.
As thought leaders debated the future of American public education during the Department of Education's «Education Drive America» 2012 Bus Tour this week, and with more news that the nation's students are falling behind, attention is once again turning to the next great hope in education reform: the Common Core State Standards.
In the 2010 campaign, David Cameron was laughed at for his use of «ordinary voter» anecdotes in the first leader debate.
While tech leaders debate ways to fix the issue, Kathryn Finney is attacking it head - on.
The Conservative leader skipped a recent leaders debate organized by the Black community, Royson James writes, even as Premier Kathleen Wynne and others attended.
Quebec dairy farmers thrust their fight over supply management into the election spotlight today, bringing a pair of cows to the site of tonight's federal leaders debate.
Ultimately, though, whether the 2015 election is truly presidential depends on whether the broadcasters succeed in getting the parties to agree to leader debates again.
The amounts of the proposed surcharges are likely to change as state lawmakers, Cuomo and city leaders debate the details.
Instant polls following last night's leaders debate showed the Liberal Democrat and Conservative leaders in a virtual dead heat as they batted for viewers» approval in the second prime ministerial debate.
The press draws election battle lines between the three parties after a fiery leaders debate that saw Nick Clegg and David Cameron come out top in the polls.
The 2001 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient recounted his experience at an African Union (AU) Summit where he overheard two leaders debating who had overstayed in power.
Mandelson said broadcasters shouldn't «empty - chair» Cameron if he doesn't do leaders debates.
The Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru are not taking part in the debates, although the BBC is to hold separate leaders debates in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
While government policy leaders debate their countries» responses to this phenomenon, it continues to disrupt ecosystems with unsettling speed.
More than 200 Iraqi - American intellectual leaders debated that question at a meeting last weekend in Washington, D.C..
On Thursday, European Union leaders debate a range of ambitious steps to better protect their 28 nations from terrorism threats.
As political leaders debate how best to fix Social Security, many policymakers are focusing on the wrong issue.
While federal and provincial leaders debate how to solve the pension crisis during meetings in Whitehorse this week, an interesting proposal has been suggested by the head of Ontario's municipal workers pension plan: let anyone join a government employee pension plan.
In the [Maclean's Leaders Debate], he was asked point - blank if he would meet with the premiers to talk about the Senate, and he said no.
A poll for ITV reveals Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg as clear winner in the first televised leaders debate.
When this new alliance - the European Conservatives and Reformists - was created after the 2009 Euro - election with «a bunch of homophobes, anti-Semites and climate - change deniers» (as Nick Clegg later described them in a TV leaders debate) I objected and was expelled from the Conservative Party.
The assembled journalists in the spin room, a couple of hours ahead of the final leaders debate, all ready to see whether the leaders would slug it out or whether it would all be a bit samey by now.
Listen in as nuclear experts and world leaders debate the future of the Iran Deal, the Trump administration's nuclear posture, and the future of North Korean proliferation.
The low threshold for success means she is free to play offense — as she did Thursday in the Maclean's leaders debate.
During the 1997 election, both NDP leader Pam Barrett and Social Credit leader Randy Thorsteinson were allowed to participate in the leaders debate.
«I know the math is difficult...» Jim Prentice to Rachel Notley during the Leaders Debate Apr 23, 2015 Ms Soapbox doesn't like math.
The leaders debates will only further sharpen grassroot appetites.
Last week a poll from Survation suggested that the huff and puff of the campaign, including not least two televised leader debates that took place either side of the Easter weekend, had not made much difference to the balance of voting intentions for next month's Scottish Parliament election.
I hope the leaders debates and this campaign have reminded just how far out of touch you are about this subject.
Finally, Jane raised the question of whether the accusations made during the second leader debates would further alienate and confuse voters already struggling to trust politics and politicians.
Asked about the leaders debates at the next election half of people now want Nigel Farage included.
Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted on the inclusion of the Green party if televised leaders debates are to go ahead as part of the general election.
Greens, Scottish Nationalists and Plaid Cymru are demanding they are included in the TV leaders debates.
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