202:, as well as former operator of "The Ganja Tree" in Woodstock, Ontario. Bender has been involved in social protest for many years in several areas. He is a proponent of legal marijuana, regulated by the government with similar control and distribution mechanisms in place in order to stabilize the industry, removing it from the paradigm of criminality. At present he is working on a pesticide ban, the redirecting of a golf course, (in order to protect a wetland area) and is a member of the Trans National Radical Party which holds NGO in consultant status with the United Nations.
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Marijuana advocate, Terry Parker received 311 votes (0.58%) finishing fifth out of eight candidates. Parker also ran in this riding in the 2000 and 2004 general elections. In 2000 he received 711 votes (1.85%) and in 2004 received 384 votes for (0.82%). He ran again in the riding in 2008 earning
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Party leader Blair
Longley, received 332 votes (0.72%) finishing fifth out of six candidates. He ran previously as Parti Marijuana Party leader in the 2004 general election for the BC riding of North OkanaganâShuswap earning 492 votes (0.95%). Longley ran again in the Hochelaga riding during the
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Marijuana Party and was a twenty-year-old History student at the time of the 2006 election. When he declared his candidacy, he was quoted as saying, "The cannabis issue is a great example of everything the government has mishandled and done wrong. It is a great protest vote
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Bender ran unsuccessfully for city council in
Woodstock, Ontario, in the November 2006 municipal elections. He garnered 2023 votes (6.4%). Bender also ran in the 2007 Ontario general elections as an Independent candidate, coming in fourth place ahead of the Family Coalition, a branch of the
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to run a $ 0 campaign. He finished fifth of six candidate with 426 votes (0.61%) with the riding being won by Gordon O'Connor. Kolaczysnki ran previously in the LanarkâFrontenacâLennox and
Addington riding (won by Scott Reid) during the 2004 general election, winning 479 votes (0.85%).
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Fiset listed his occupation as
Philosopher in 2000, Educator in 2004, and Horticulturalist in 2006. Fiset received 397 votes (0.8%) finishing sixth out of six candidates. Fiset received 401 votes (0.83%) in the 2004 federal election, and 968 votes (2.42%) in the 2000 federal election.
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198:(born 1964) earned 771 votes (1.55%), the most of any Parti Marijuana Party candidate, finishing sixth of seven candidates. Running previously in the riding during the 2004 general election he received 794 votes (1.73%). Bender is self made, formerly operating Lady Godiva's in
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Giroux listed his occupation as Father in 2000 and Driver in 2006. He received 371 votes (0.76%) finishing sixth out of six candidates. Giroux received 547 votes (1.17%) in the 2004 federal election, and 1020 votes (2.26%) in the 2000 federal election.
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receiving a total of nine-thousand two-hundred and seventy-five votes, averaging (0.82%) across the 23 ridings fielding candidates. In
Nunavut, Ed Devries won 7.9% of the vote finishing in fourth place, ahead of the Green Party candidate. Party leader
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Tanguay listed her occupation as Paper
Carrier. Tanguay received 338 votes (0.69%) finishing sixth out of nine candidates in the riding won by Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe. Tanguay received 572 votes (1.2%) in the 2004 federal election.
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Thinker, Longley previously ran twice in the Vancouver Quadra riding during the 1984 and 1988 general elections. He received 364 votes (0.62%) as Green candidate in 1984, and received 52 votes (0.1%) as an independent in 1988.
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use has kept her alive by causing the condition to subside. He joined the
Marijuana Party after he was denied a certificate to grow marijuana for medical purposes and sentenced to nine months in jail for illegal cultivation.
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to work in the oilpatch for five years, and spent five additional years working at a sour gas factory. He has a Fourth Class
Stationary Engineering certificate from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.
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Poet, John Akpata received 387 votes (0.58%) finishing sixth out of nine candidates. He received 495 votes (0.84%) in the Ottawa-South riding in the 2004 federal election.
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Dowling received 390 votes (0.74%) finishing sixth out of seven candidates. He received 519 votes (1.07%) in the riding during the 2004 federal election.
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Chisholm listed his occupation as a Call Center Tech Support in the 2006 campaign. He received 193 votes (1.01%) finishing fifth out of six candidates.
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Marshall finished sixth of six candidates in the riding won by Stephen Harper. He did not receive any votes, likely due to missed filing deadline.
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Thompson received 424 votes (1.1%) finishing fifth of five candidates. In the 2004 election he received 547 votes (1.51%) in the riding.
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Minister of the Church of the Universe Ethier received, just over 420 votes. His 421 votes (0.92%) put him sixth of seven candidates.
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Bender regularly contributes to many national and local newspapers as an opinion writer. He operates an online newspaper known as the
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Wiechula was on the left wing of the Marijuana Party. He has said that he became interested in politics via an opposition to the
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St-Onge, a Gardener, was one vote shy of 420, earning 419 votes (0.8%) finishing sixth out of six candidates.
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Heathcliff Dionysus Campbell received 259 votes (0.45%) finishing sixth of seven candidates.
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Denis Carriere received 486 votes (1.25%) finishing fifth of five candidates.
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Lauren Gilchrist, "Aiden Wiechula: One voice heard," 18 January 2006, p. 8.
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Wiechula received 455 votes (0.72%) on election, finishing fifth against
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Anthony received 436 votes (1.0%) finishing fifth out of six candidates.
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Felger received 334 votes (0.71%) finishing fifth of seven candidates.
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Banov received 327 votes (0.63%) finishing fifth of seven candidates.
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Marijuana Party (Canada) candidates for the Canadian House of Commons
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Lauren Gilchrist, "Goal attained: Wiechula beats dad's vote total,"
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Mallach won 311 votes (0.5%) finishing fifth of seven candidates.
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Marijuana Party candidates in the 2004 Canadian federal election
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Marijuana Party candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election
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He received 501 votes (0.84%), finishing sixth against
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248:was born on November 10, 1985, in
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368:Edmonton-Strathcona: Dave Dowling
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313:1975 Ontario provincial election
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171:, and Rathwell believes that
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573:Jimbenderoxford.blogspot.com
413:Vancouver Quadra: Marc Boyer
241:Peterborough: Aiden Wiechula
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102:Trois-RiviĂšres: Paul Giroux
68:Kings-Hants: Chummy Anthony
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721:Peterborough This Week
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682:Peterborough This Week
671:, 11 January 2008, B2.
421:Victoria: Fred Mallach
389:Abbotsford: Tim Felger
227:Oxford Marijuana Party
799:Conservative minority
708:Peterborough Examiner
704:Peterborough Examiner
669:Peterborough Examiner
36:2006 federal election
973:Progressive Canadian
278:New Democratic Party
191:Oxford: James Bender
50:Prince Edward Island
434:Nunavut: Ed Devries
335:209 votes (0.43%).
1273:Cannabis in Canada
949:(Sandra L. Smith,
923:Jean-Serge Brisson
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844:(Ron Gray,
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578:2016-01-27
459:References
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185:Scott Reid
183:incumbent
933:Marijuana
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