2013 Canadian federal budget, Expenditures, Borders
In order to cover the costs associated with processing visa claims and immigration applications, the budget proposal allocated an additional $42 million for visa and $44 million for citizenship programs. This was expected to reduce the backlog of almost 320,000 unprocessed citizenship applications. The costs for submitting an application were also increased.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Expenditures, Infrastructure spending
The proposal allocated about $2 billion annually from gasoline tax revenues to municipalities for infrastructure development and maintenance, including public transit, under the Community Improvement Fund starting in 2014–2015. It replaced the similar fund introduced in the 2005 budget by the 38th Canadian Parliament, and increased by 2% annually. Infrastructure projects that may use such funding include highways, short-line rail, regional and local airports, short-sea shipping, broadband internet connectivity, redevelopment of brownfields, disaster mitigation, and those involving culture, tourism, or sport and recreation. Municipalities will receive funding for projects on a per capita basis.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Expenditures, Infrastructure spending
The Building Canada Fund managed by Infrastructure Canada was renewed for ten years, receiving $210 million in 2014-2015, and increasing annually to $2.1 billion in 2021-2022. About $4 billion over ten years was allocated for projects of national significance, including development and expansion of public transit and roads, and $155 million to be used for First Nations infrastructure programs. The fund was also extended for use by educational institutions and airports. The Goods and Services Tax rebate for municipalities was also extended for 10 years, by which municipalities will be able to collectively claim about $1 billion annually via the GST Rebate for Municipalities.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Expenditures, Environment
In a press release on 21 March 2013, the Nature Conservancy of Canada supported the $20 million, one-year extension of the Natural Areas Conservation Program, a national public-private partnership by which ecologically sensitive lands are acquired and conserved.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Expenditures, Environment
Sustainable Development Technology Canada, a government-funded venture capital firm, was allocated to receive $325 million over eight years.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Expenditures, Culture
Government event promotion and execution, such as activities related to Canada Day and Winterlude, were transferred from the National Capital Commission to the Department of Canadian Heritage, which also resulted in the transfer of up to 80 employees.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Expenditures, Culture
The budget allocated $8 million to renovate Massey Hall in Toronto.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Expenditures, Canada Job Grant
The budget established the Canada Job Grant, which provides $5,000 for an individual's training in trades and skills, requiring matching funds from provincial governments and the individual's employer.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Expenditures, Canada Job Grant
The Canada Job Grant is a training fund, that was established in 2014 via the budget, which will enable individuals to receive up to $15,000 in training services, funded equally by the federal government, a provincial government, and the individual's employer. The federal government expects to fund the $300 million program by renegotiating the Labour Market Agreement it has with each of the provinces, which expired in 2014. The program will train 130,000 individuals annually when it is fully operational.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Expenditures, Canada Job Grant
Brad Duguid, Ontario's minister of training, colleges, and universities, stated that the program will shift $194 million from programs "that target our most vulnerable and have the greatest barriers to entering the workforce".


2013 Canadian federal budget, Expenditures, Canada Job Grant
Quebec's Minister of Finance, Nicolas Marceau, stated that the federal government was "undoing and sabotaging what Quebec has long been doing". On 22 March 2013, Labour Minister Agnes Maltais of the Government of Quebec formally requested exclusion from the program. It prefers to operate its own program, instead of participating in a joint federal-provincial program.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Expenditures, Canada Job Grant
Objections were also raised by First Nations about a five-year $241 million skills training program available only to reserves which make it "mandatory for those receiving income assistance payments to be retrained".


2013 Canadian federal budget, Expenditures, Canada Job Grant
Provincial government officials also stated that it removed full control of spending of the funds by the provinces. Marceau described it as "economic sabotage". At the July 2013 Council of the Federation at Niagara-on-the-Lake, premiers unanimously opposed the Canada Job Grant, and Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne stated "It's not going to work the way it is".


2013 Canadian federal budget, Other impacts of the federal budget
Approximately 12,000 government services employees were laid-off, and 7,000 jobs were eliminated via attrition. the budget enabled a government official to sit at any collective bargaining negotiation between a Crown corporation and its employees, and the government must approve the terms of such negotiations.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Other impacts of the federal budget
The budget bill also called for administrative changes to government operations. It merged the Canadian International Development Agency into the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Other impacts of the federal budget
The budget discontinued funding for mixed police squads, that is police squads composed of members from police services of more than one municipality. This funding had been used in Quebec to fund regional police services "to help fight organized crime".


2013 Canadian federal budget, Other impacts of the federal budget
The opposition parties have complained that the budget bill is an omnibus bill, like the 2012 budget, containing non-budgetary items.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Other impacts of the federal budget
The government invested $23 million over two years to attract foreign students.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Reactions
The budget was poorly received by the general public. A pan-canadian poll carried out by Leger Marketing showed that 52 % of Canadians were dissatisfied with the federal budget (of which 23 % were not satisfied at all) and only 29 % were satisfied. Satisfaction was highest in Alberta (51 %) and the lowest in Quebec (15 %) and the Atlantic provinces (16 %).


2013 Canadian federal budget, Reactions, Provinces
Nicolas Marceau, Quebec's Finance Minister, severely criticized the federal budget as a frontal attack on Quebec and an economic sabotage undertaking.


2013 Canadian federal budget, Reactions, Provinces
Raymond Bachand, Liberal MNA and predecessor of Nicolas Marceau as Quebec's Finance Minister, regretted that the budget plans the phase-out of the Labour-sponsored funds tax credit between 2015 and 2017.


2013 Canadian honours
The following are the appointments to various Canadian Honours of 2013. Usually, they are announced as part of the New Year and Canada Day celebrations and are published within the Canada Gazette during year. This follows the custom set out within the United Kingdom which publishes its appoints of various British Honours for New Year's and for monarch's official birthday. However, instead of the midyear appointments announced on Victoria Day, the official birthday of the Canadian Monarch, this custom has been transferred with the celebration of Canadian Confederation and the creation of the Order of Canada.


2013 Canadian honours
However, as the Canada Gazette publishes appointment to various orders, decorations and medal, either Canadian or from Commonwealth and foreign states, this article will reference all Canadians so honoured during the 2013 calendar year.


2013 Canadian honours
Provincial Honours are not listed within the Canada Gazette, however they are listed within the various publications of each provincial government. Provincial honours are listed within the page.


2013 Canary Wharf Squash Classic
The Canary Wharf Squash Classic 2013 is the 2013's Canary Wharf Squash Classic, which is a tournament of the PSA World Tour event International (Prize money: $50,000). The event took place at the East Wintergarden in London in England from 18 March to 22 March.


2013 Canary Wharf Squash Classic, Prize money and ranking points
For 2013, the prize purse was $50,000. The prize money and points breakdown is as follows:


2013 Canberra Raiders season
The 2013 Canberra Raiders season was the 32nd in the history of the Canberra Raiders. Coached by David Furner and then Andrew Dunemann, and captained by Terry Campese, the club competed in the National Rugby League's 2013 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season 13th (out of 16 teams) and thus failing to make the finals.


2013 Canberra Raiders season
The Canberra Raiders started the 2013 NRL season with what was considered especially strong young talent.


2013 Canberra Raiders season
After the loss to the Bulldogs in Round 23, Canberra's coach David Furner was sacked amidst rumours of player dissatisfaction.


2013 Canberra Raiders season
The club's top try scorer in 2013 was Blake Ferguson, and their top point scorer was Jarrod Croker. The 2013 season's Mal Meninga Medal for player of the season was awarded to Anthony Milford.


2013 Cannes Film Festival
The 66th Cannes Film Festival took place in Cannes, France, from 15 to 26 May 2013. Steven Spielberg was the head of the jury for the main competition. New Zealand film director Jane Campion was the head of the jury for the Cinéfondation and Short Film sections. French actress Audrey Tautou hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. Actress Kim Novak was named guest of honour and introduced a new restored version of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.


2013 Cannes Film Festival
The festival opened with The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann and closed with Zulu, directed by Jérôme Salle. The film poster for the festival featured husband and wife actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola, opened the Un Certain Regard section.


2013 Cannes Film Festival
The French film Blue Is the Warmest Colour won the Palme d'Or. In an unprecedented move, along with the director, the Jury decided to take "the exceptional step" of awarding the film's two main actresses, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, with the Palme d'Or.


2013 Cannes Film Festival
On the occasion of 100 Years of Indian Cinema, India was the Official Guest Country at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Seven Indian feature films were premiered among various sections on the festival. Actress Vidya Balan was one of the official Jury of the festival. The first Incredible India Exhibition, a joint participation of the Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Republic of India was inaugurated by Indian delegate Chiranjeevi.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Juries, Independent juries
The following independent juries awarded films in the frame of the International Critics' Week.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, In competition - Feature films
The following films have been selected for the In Competition section. The Palme d'Or winner has been highlighted.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Un Certain Regard
The following films have been selected in the Un Certain Regard section. The Un Certain Regard Prize winner has been highlighted.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Films out of Competition
The following films were selected to play out of competition:


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Special screenings
The following films were presented in the Special screenings section:


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Cinéfondation
The Cinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools. The following 18 entries (14 fiction films and 4 animation films) were selected, out of 1,550 submissions from 277 different schools. One-third of the films selected represented schools competing for the first time. It was also the first time for a Chilean film to be selected in Cinéfondation. The winner of the Cinéfondation First Prize has been highlighted.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Short film competition
Out of 3,500 submissions, the following films were selected to compete for the Short Film Palme d'Or. The Short film Palme d'Or winner has been highlighted.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Cannes Classics
The Festival uses Cannes Classics to place the spotlight on rediscovered or restored masterworks from the past, or ones that have been re-released in theatres or on DVD.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Cinéma de la Plage
The Cinéma de la Plage is a part of the Official Selection. The outdoors screenings at the beach cinema of Cannes are open to the public.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, International Critics' Week
The line-up for the International Critics’ Week was announced on 22 April at the section's website. The following films were selected:


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, International Critics' Week
Feature films - The winner of the Grand Prix Nespresso has been highlighted.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, International Critics' Week
Short films - The winner of the Canal+ Award has been highlighted.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, Directors' Fortnight
The line-up for the Directors' Fortnight was announced at a press conference on 23 April with the following films being selected.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, Directors' Fortnight
Feature films - The winner of the Art Cinema Award (and the Prix SACD) has been highlighted.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Awards, Official awards
The French film Blue Is the Warmest Colour, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, won the Palme d'Or. In a first for the competition, the jury decided to award the Palme d'Or to Kechiche and the actresses who star in the film: Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux. Blue Is the Warmest Colour is a coming-of-age film that tells the story of a lesbian relationship between a 15-year-old girl and an older woman. It has shocked some critics with its graphic and controversial sex scenes.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Awards, Official awards
A reporter for the Radio France Internationale stated that Kechiche paid tribute to the "Tunisian revolution" and "the right to love freely" during his acceptance speech. The president of the jury, Steven Spielberg, said "The film is a great love story … We were absolutely spellbound by the two brilliant young actresses, and the way the director observed his young players." The Grand Prix was won by the Coen brothers's Inside Llewyn Davis, while Bruce Dern and Bérénice Bejo were awarded Best Actor and Best Actress respectively.


2013 Cannes Film Festival, Awards, Official awards
The following films and people received the 2013 Official Selection awards:


2013 Canning riots
The 2013 Canning riots were riots against Bengali Hindus by Bengali Muslims in the Indian state of West Bengal on 21 February 2013. The riots occurred in the Canning subdivision, after a Muslim cleric was killed by unidentified assailants. Following this incident, Muslim mobs burned down over 200 Hindu homes in the villages of Naliakhali, Herobhanga, Gopalpur and Goladogra villages in the Canning police station area. 24 (Two dozen) Hindu-owned shops were looted in Jaynagar police station area under Baruipur subdivision. Incidents of violence were reported from Canning, Jaynagar, Kultali and Basanti police station areas.


2013 Canning riots, Background
On 19 February 2013, shortly after midnight, Indian Standard Time, a Muslim Imam from Ghutiari Sharif in Canning subdivision was returning from a religious congregation at Jamtala in Jaynagar, in a motorcycle along with a colleague. When they reached Naliakhali around 2 a.m., they were intercepted by a gang of waylayers, who robbed the cleric and shot him. According to police sources the cleric was reportedly carrying ₹ 1,150,000 in cash that was looted by the unidentified gunmen. The altercation resulted in the death of the Imam, although his companion managed to flee after sustaining injuries.


2013 Canning riots, Background
At dawn, the driver of the first bus from Golabari to Canning discovered the body and intimated the Canning police station. Several other bus drivers travelling on that route communicated their findings to the police station. The police initially took the incident casually and made no effort to visit Naliakhali. Police has so far not been able to trace the culprits or even the motive behind the murder and with the murder of another Muslim cleric with large followers in the same district emotionally charged the locals.


2013 Canning riots, Violence
Naliakhali is a Hindu majority village in the Gopalpur panchayat that fell under the executive jurisdiction of the Canning police station.


2013 Canning riots, Violence
A crowd gathered at the site of the attack and rumors began to spread that the killers were from the village of Naliakhali. Thousands of people from neighbouring areas, such as Canning, Jibantala, Sarengabad, Jhorormore, Narayanpur and Dhoaghata gathered on the site and refused to part with the body of cleric. When the police tried to take away the body of the cleric for processing, the mob attacked the police with brickbats. Anup Kumar Ghosh, the sub-inspector of the police station at Canning, was injured and had to be admitted to the Canning Sub-divisional Hospital. Seven policemen were injured in the attack. The mob also attacked and damaged police vehicles.


2013 Canning riots, Violence
In the meantime, neighbors of the killed cleric were transported to Canning from Kolkata in trucks. A local school principal reportedly incited the mob into violence. At around 10 a.m., a heavily armed mob of at least 10,000 began an attack upon Naliakhali. They ransacked and looted the homes of Bengali Hindus as the residents fled for their lives. The rioters hurled bombs, doused the houses with petrol and set them on fire. Violence and arson spread to nearby locations such as Dhopar More and Bangalpara. Hindu homes and places of business were ransacked in Gopalpur, Goladogra and Herobhanga. The crowd blocked the road at Bhangankhali, Priyor More, Hospital More and Natunhat. Protesters also staged a rail blocked at Ghutiari Sharif station in the Sonarpur-Canning section of the Sealdah South lines.


2013 Canning riots, Violence
At around 11 a.m., the South 24 Parganas District Superintendent of Police Praveen Kumar Tripathi, reached the spot along with a massive riot squad and Rapid Action Force battalions. They resorted to a lathi charge in order to pacify and disperse the mob. The body of the Imam was then sent for an autopsy. In the late afternoon reinforcements from the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate and the Howrah Police Commissionerate reached with water cannons to douse the flames of the burning village. The police evoked Section-144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and established a curfew in the area.


2013 Canning riots, Aftermath
In the violence, more than 200 houses were burnt in several villages that came under the jurisdictions of the Canning, Jaynagar, Kultali and Basanti police stations, displacing more than 2,000 people. Some of the displaced people took shelter in makeshift relief camps while others had to live on the road. The state government announced a compensation of ₹ 300,000 to the family of the murdered cleric and ₹ 10,000 to each of the 93 families displaced by the violence. 52 people were arrested by the police in connection with the violence. Some NGOs have provided food and medicine to the affected region in Naliakhali.


2013 Canning riots, Aftermath
West Bengal Minister of State for Minority Affairs and Trinamool Congress MLA. from Magrahat West constituency Giasuddin Molla accused the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Indian National Congress of fomenting trouble in the state before the panchayat elections. The Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has appealed for peace and promised a special investigation into the murder case. Political observers have linked the violence to the forthcoming panchayat elections in the region, where the Trinamool Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) are trying to woo Muslim voters in the district.


2013 Cannondale season
The 2013 season for Cannondale began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI ProTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2013 Canoe Marathon European Championships
The 2013 Canoe Marathon European Championships were the tenth edition of the Canoe Marathon European Championships, which took place between 7 and 9 June 2013 in Vila Verde, Portugal. The competition was staged on the Cávado river and consisted of fifteen events – ten in kayak and five in canoe – divided in junior, under–23 and senior categories.


2013 Canoe Slalom World Cup
The 2013 Canoe Slalom World Cup was a series of five races in 5 canoeing and kayaking categories organized by the International Canoe Federation (ICF). It was the 26th edition. The team events were held as part of the world cup program for the first time in history, but no points were awarded for them.


2013 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Calendar
The series opened with World Cup Race 1 in Cardiff, Wales (June 21–23) for the second year in a row and ended with the World Cup Final in Bratislava, Slovakia (August 23–25), also for the second consecutive year.


2013 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Final standings
The winner of each race was awarded 60 points. Points for lower places differed from one category to another. Every participant was guaranteed at least 2 points for participation and 5 points for qualifying for the semifinal run. If two or more athletes or boats were equal on points, the ranking was determined by their positions in the World Cup Final.


2013 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, World Cup Race 1
The opening race of the series took place at the Cardiff International White Water facility in Wales from 21 to 23 June. It featured the team events for the first time at a world cup meeting. The organizers experienced water pump problems during the C1 final which caused a lack of water on the course and a 30-minute delay of competition. Great Britain topped the medal table in the individual events with 2 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze.


2013 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, World Cup Race 2
Augsburg Eiskanal hosted the second world cup race of the season from 28 to 30 June. France won 2 golds and 1 bronze in the individual events to top the medal table.


2013 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, World Cup Race 3
The third world cup race took place at the site of the 1992 Olympic race, the Segre Olympic Park in La Seu d'Urgell from 5 to 7 July. Slovenia won the medal table in the individual events with 2 golds and 1 bronze.


2013 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, World Cup Race 4
The penultimate world cup race took place in Tacen, Slovenia from 16 to 18 August. The organizers were forced to re-run the final races of the women's K1 event and the men's C2 event due to troubles with the water level. For the same reason the team events in these 2 disciplines have been cancelled. The women's C1 team event did not take place due to lack of participating teams. Slovenia won 2 golds and 2 bronzes in the individual events which was enough to win the medal table. Jessica Fox won both the K1 and the C1 event, becoming the first female paddler to win both events at one world cup race.


2013 Canoe Slalom World Cup, Results, World Cup Final
The world cup final took place in Bratislava, Slovakia from 23 to 25 August. The home paddlers won the individual medal table with 2 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze. Michal Martikán made his first competitive appearance since the London Olympics and he won the C1 event. The women's C1 team event did not take place. Both teams which entered the competition (Germany and Great Britain) did not start.


2013 Canoe Sprint European Championships
The 2013 Canoe Sprint European Championships were the 25th edition of the Canoe Sprint European Championships, an international canoe and kayak sprint event organised by the European Canoe Association, and the 15th edition since its revival in 1997. They were held for the first time in Portugal, at the Center for High Performance in Montemor-o-Velho, between 14 and 16 June 2013. As in the previous edition, the competition comprised 26 events, of which 16 were for men and 10 for women.


2013 Canon Media Awards
The 2013 Canon Media Awards were presented on Friday 10 May 2013 at the Pullman Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand. Awards were made in the categories of photography, online, magazines, newspapers, and general. Organisers received more than 1400 entries. The awards were judged by 26 industry experts from New Zealand, Australia and Asia. The New Zealand Herald was awarded Newspaper of the Year.


2013 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs season
The 2013 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs season is the 79th in the club's history. Coached by Des Hasler and captained by Michael Ennis, they competed in the National Rugby League's 2013 Telstra Premiership. Finishing the regular season in 6th place (out of 16), they thus reached the finals for the second consecutive year. The Bulldogs were then knocked out in the first week of the finals by the Newcastle Knights.


2013 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs season, Squad
Jim Dymock – Assistant CoachHarry Harris – High Performance CoachTony Grimaldi – Head ConditionerTony Ayoub – PhysiotherapistDr Joe Lombardo – Club DoctorJohn Novak – Head of Mind Management Brett Kimmorley – Specialist CoachFred Ciraldo – Team ManagerGarry Carden – Assistant Strength & Conditioning CoachSteve McCullagh – Assistant PhysiotherapistLarry Britton – Head TrainerDr Hugh Hazzard – Medical ConsultantAndy Patmore – NYC Coach & Manager Coaching and DevelopmentBarry Ward – NSW Cup Coach


2013 Cape Verdean Football Championships
The 2013 Cape Verdean Football Championship season was the 34th of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. Its started on 11 May and finished on 13 July, slightly earlier than last year. The tournament was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation. CS Mindelense won the ninth title. They did not participate in the 2014 CAF Champions League. In 2014, Mindelense would become the second and most recent club to win both the cup and the super cup title in the same season.


2013 Cape Verdean Football Championships, Overview
Sporting Praia was the defending team of the title. A total of 12 clubs participated in the competition, one from each island league and one who won the last season's title. More than three clubs shared the same club name starting with Académic- numbering four out of twelve, one less than last season. Half of Group B clubs would bear the first club name but only half would bear the name in the knockout stage.


2013 Cape Verdean Football Championships, Overview
The biggest win was Mindelense who scored 4-0 over Ultramarina, other matches that finished with four goals who scored by Desportivo Praia (1-4 over Ultramarina), Solpontense and Académico 83 with four and Desportivo Praia (1-4 over Juventude da Furna).


2013 Cape Verdean Football Championships, Overview
The season would have one of fewest goals in history after the expansion of the clubs to over ten. Week one had only one victory of each of six matches, five games were tied, one being one and the remaining zero and made it the worst of any soccer week in Cape Verdean football (soccer) history. Week two had no points higher than two scored, the remaining three weeks were better, week four had only one and four points of each of the four matches while two games were finished without a single goal.


2013 Capital Football Federation Cup
Clubs affiliated with Capital Football in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) – and surrounding areas of New South Wales – competed in 2014 for the Capital Football Federation Cup. Teams from the same Club playing in multiple divisions were allowed to compete. This knockout competition was won by Tuggeranong United, their 4th  title.


2013 Capital Football Federation Cup
Winning the 2013 Federation Cup also entitled Tuggeranong United to become the ACT's sole qualifier for the 2014 FFA Cup, entering at the  Round of 32. The original intention from Capital Football was that the Federation Cup would be the qualifying tournament to determine the ACT qualifier, but match scheduling issues meant the 2014 winner would not be decided until after the qualifier needed to be named. To overcome this Capital Football announced that the 2014 winner of the ACT's pre-season competition was to be the ACT's qualifier in 2014 , but Tuggeranong United successfully appealed to qualify them as the ACT's FFA Cup entrant for 2014.


2013 Capital Football Federation Cup, First round
22 teams from various divisions of the ACT State Leagues, as well as 4 Masters teams, entered into the competition at this stage. Matches in this round were played on 6 April 2013.


2013 Capital Football Federation Cup, Second round
Matches in this round were played on 13 April 2013.


2013 Capital Football Federation Cup, Third round
8 Clubs from the ACT National Premier League (Tier 2) entered into the competition at this stage. Matches in this round were played on 2–23 May 2013.


2013 Capital Football Federation Cup, Quarter finals
All matches in this round were completed by 3 July 2013.


2013 Capital Football Federation Cup, Semi finals
Matches in this round were played on 25 July–1 August 2013.


2013 Capital Football Federation Cup, Final
The winner also qualified for the 2014 FFA Cup Round of 32.


2013 Capital Football season
The 2013 Capital Football season was the first season under the new competition format in the Australian Capital Territory. The competition consisted of two divisions across the ACT, created from the teams in the previous structure. The overall premier for the new structure qualified for the National Premier Leagues finals series, competing with the other state federation champions in a final knockout tournament to decide the National Premier Leagues Champion for 2013.


2013 Capital Football season, League Tables, 2013 National Premier League ACT
The 2013 National Premier League ACT season was played over 25 rounds, from March to August 2013.


2013 Capital Football season, League Tables, 2013 ACT Capital League
The 2013 ACT Capital League was the first edition of the new Capital League as the second level domestic association football competition in the ACT. 12 teams competed, all playing each team in their pool twice and the other pool once for a total of 16 rounds. Canberra FC B withdrew during the season, leaving Pool B with only five teams.


2013 Capital Football season, League Tables, 2013 Capital Football Division 2
The 2013 ACT Capital Football Division 2 was the first edition of the new Capital League Division 2 as the third level domestic association football competition in the ACT. 12 teams competed, all playing each team in their pool twice and the other pool once for a total of 16 rounds.


2013 Capital Football season, Cup Competitions, 2013 Federation Cup
2013 was the 51st edition of the Capital Football Federation Cup. In 2013, the Federation Cup, which is open to all senior men's teams registered with Capital Football, consisted of three rounds, quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final. NPL clubs entered the tournament in the third round. The Cup ran from 6 April 2013 (first round) till 28 August 2013 (final). Tuggeranong United clinched the 2013 Cup with a 3–2 victory in extra time over Cooma Tigers. Although not originally intended, the 2013 Federation Cup became the qualifying tournament to determine the FFA Cup ACT representative for the inaugural 2014 FFA Cup after holders Tuggeranong lodged a successful official appeal, supported by the other NPL clubs, to Capital Football in early 2014.


2013 Capital One Bowl
The 2013 Capital One Bowl, the 67th edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on January 1, 2013 at the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida as part of the 2012–13 NCAA Bowl season.


2013 Capital One Bowl
The game, which was broadcast at 1:00 p.m. EST on ABC, featured the #7 (BCS) Georgia Bulldogs from the Southeastern Conference versus the #16 (BCS) Nebraska Cornhuskers from the Big Ten Conference.


2013 Capital One Bowl
Entering the game both teams suffered a loss at their respective conference championship games. The Georgia Bulldogs, winners of the SEC Eastern Division, were ranked #3 in the BCS going into the game. They lost to #2 Alabama 32–28. Meanwhile, the Nebraska Cornhuskers, winners of the Big Ten Legends Division, were ranked #12 going into the game. They lost to unranked Wisconsin 70–31.


2013 Capital One Bowl
Prior to this bowl, Nebraska had played Georgia just once in football. During the 1969 Sun Bowl, the  9–2 Nebraska Cornhuskers defeated the  5–5–1 Georgia Bulldogs by a score of 45–6. This season was of note in that it featured 31-year-old Tom Osborne in his first year as an offensive coordinator for Nebraska.


2013 Caribbean Premier League
The 2013 Caribbean Premier League season was the inaugural season of the Caribbean Premier League, established by the West Indies Cricket Board. The tournament began on 30 July and ended on 24 August 2013.


2013 Caribbean Premier League, Format
The tournament has six teams and is divided into a group stage and a knockout stage. The group stage comprises 21 matches, with each team playing 7 matches. The knockout stage features two semi-finals and a final.


2013 Caribbean Premier League squads
This is a list of the squads of the teams that participated in the 2013 Caribbean Premier League.


2013 Caribbean Series
The fifty-fifth edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was played in 2013.


2013 Caribbean Series
The Series was held from February 1 through February 7, featuring the champion teams of the 2012–2013 season in the Dominican Winter League (Leones del Escogido), Mexican Pacific League (Yaquis de Obregón), Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League (Criollos de Caguas), and Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (Navegantes del Magallanes).


2013 Caribbean Series
The format consisted of twelve games, in a double round-robin format with each team facing each other twice, while the championship game was played between the two best teams of the round robin. All of the games were played at Estadio Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico.


2013 Caribbean Series, Scoreboards, Game 10, February 5
* Tejada extended an all-time home run record (15) in the Series he already held.


2013 Carinthian state election
The 2013 Carinthian state election was held on 3 March 2013 to elect the members of the Landtag of Carinthia.


2013 Carinthian state election
The election saw a massive shift in Carinthian politics, which had been dominated by the Freedom Party in Carinthia (FPK) and Governor Jörg Haider since the 1990s. After Haider's death in 2008, he was succeeded by Gerhard Dörfler. After winning the 2009 election, Dörfler's government suffered a string of scandals and the FPK's popularity plummeted. Ultimately, they suffered a catastrophic loss of 28 percentage points, the worst ever suffered by a party in post-war Austria. They finished on 16.8%, a distant second place behind the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), which won 37.1%. The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) retained third place, but declined to 14.4%. Apart from the SPÖ, other beneficiaries of the FPK's collapse were The Greens, Team Stronach, and Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ), who each made significant gains.


2013 Carinthian state election, Background
Prior to amendments made in 2017, the Carinthian constitution mandated that cabinet positions in the state government (state councillors, German: Landesräten) be allocated between parties proportionally in accordance with the share of votes won by each; this is known as Proporz. As such, the government was a perpetual coalition of all parties that qualified for at least one state councillor.


2013 Carinthian state election, Background
In 2005, then-Governor and former federal leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) Jörg Haider split from the party due to internal disputes, and founded the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ). The Freedom Party in Carinthia, then the FPÖ's state branch and led by Haider, changed its allegiance and became the Carinthian branch of the BZÖ. The large majority of its leadership and structure followed, with only a small minority defecting to the FPÖ's new Carinthian branch. Shortly after the 2008 federal election, Haider was killed in a car accident.


2013 Carinthian state election, Background
He was succeeded by Gerhard Dörfler, who became the new Governor of Carinthia and leader of the FPK. In the 2009 Carinthian state election, Dörfler led the party to a strong victory under the name "Freedom Party in Carinthia – BZÖ List Jörg Haider". The FPÖ's new state branch won 3.8%, failing to enter the Landtag.


2013 Carinthian state election, Background
In December 2009, the FPK split from the BZÖ in protest of new federal leader Josef Bucher's policies, becoming an independent party operating in Carinthia. The party announced it would support the FPÖ on a national level, while the FPÖ's state branch would be dissolved. The FPÖ and FPK compared their new relationship to that of the CDU/CSU in Germany. The BZÖ subsequently founded a new Carinthian branch to compete with the FPK.


2013 Carinthian state election, Background
Between 2009 and 2013, Dörfler's government suffered a string of scandals involving current and former government officials, including the late Haider. In January 2010, Vice Governor Uwe Scheuch was exposed for offering Austrian citizenship to a Russian investor in exchange for investments in Carinthia and donations to the then-BZÖ. Scheuch resigned from all political positions in mid-2012 and was found guilty in December. In July 2012, a government tax consultant was caught up in a corruption scandal involving the FPK and BZÖ, which led to an early election being scheduled for March 2013.


2013 Carinthian state election, Electoral system
The 36 seats of the Landtag of Carinthia are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between four multi-member constituencies. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 5 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hare quota, with any remaining seats allocated using the D'Hondt method at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.


2013 Carinthian state election, Contesting parties
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.


2013 Carinthian state election, Contesting parties
In addition to the parties already represented in the Landtag, six parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot.


2013 Carleton Ravens football team
After a 15-year hiatus, the Carleton University Ravens Canadian football team returned to Canadian Interuniversity Sport play, as part of the 2013 CIS football season. The season began on Labour Day (Sept 2) with a 71-4 loss to the Western Mustangs. The season wrapped up on October 19 when McMaster Marauders defeated Carleton 45-3 at home at Keith Harris Stadium in Ottawa. The team was winless in their 8 games and was outscored 95-390. The team finished last, in 11th place in the OUA conference.


2013 Carleton Ravens football team, Regular season
The Ravens play an 8-game schedule, playing all but two OUA football teams, the Laurier Golden Hawks and the Queen's Golden Gaels.


2013 Carleton Ravens football team, Game Summaries, Vs. Ottawa
The Panda Game returns for the first time since 1998.


2013 Carlton Cannes heist
The Cannes jewel heist was an armed robbery at the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, a city on the French Riviera. The thief stole gemstones and watches ultimately valued at $136 million (€103 million/£89 million). (Initial estimates had only reached $53 million (€37–38 million/£33-34 million), as they had not taken into account another room in the hotel.)


2013 Carlton Cannes heist, Theft
The valuables were stolen from a private hotel salon, which was very poorly guarded, the guards having no weapons. The jewels were present due to a display by Lev Avnerovich Leviev, the Israeli billionaire.


2013 Carlton Cannes heist, Theft
The armed thief was described as having a baseball cap and scarf, carrying a handgun. The theft initiated a manhunt but no arrests were made. Milan Poparic, a known member of the Pink Panthers, an organized crime gang, has been suggested as a potential suspect, having escaped prison days before the heist. According to reporting by investigative journalist Ryan Jacobs, most believe the thief was unlikely to be acting on his own.


2013 Carlton Cannes heist, Theft
The thief, carrying an automatic pistol, entered the salon through a french door, which might have been forced or left open, and picked up a sack containing 72 jewels, 34 of which have been described as exceptional, in a suitcase. The heist has been called the biggest heist ever in France, and possibly the biggest heist of all time. The theft was at the same hotel where Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film To Catch a Thief was set.


2013 Carlton Cannes heist, Theft
The robbery was the third in the Riviera over a short period, following the theft from the Cannes Film Festival of jewels worth $1.4 million, and the theft of a $1.9 million necklace.


2013 Carlton Cannes heist, Theft, Reward
10 days after the heist SW Associates, working for the insurers Lloyd's of London, offered a $1.3 million (€1 million) reward to the first person to give information leading to recovery of the stolen items, and released images of some of the stolen jewellery.


2013 Carlton Football Club season
The 2013 AFL season was the 117th season in the Australian Football League contested by the Carlton Football Club. It was the first season coached by new coach Mick Malthouse, who replaced Brett Ratten after the club failed to reach the finals in 2012. Carlton finished sixth out of eighteen teams for the season, after finishing eighth after the home-and-away season.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary
The 2013 AFL season was the 117th season of the VFL/AFL competition since its inception in 1897; and, having competed in every season, it was also the 117th season contested by the Carlton Football Club. As in previous years, the club's primary home ground was Etihad Stadium, with home games expecting to draw larger crowds played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and with traditional home ground Visy Park serving as the training and administrative base.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary
The club's two joint major sponsors, car manufacturer Hyundai and confectionery company Mars, and the club extended its deal with Mars for a further three years. Carlton continued its alignment with the Northern Blues in the Victorian Football League, allowing Carlton-listed players to play with the Northern Blues when not selected in AFL matches.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary
The club adopted a new clash guernsey design for 2013, which was predominantly white with navy blue monogram, numbers, shoulders and waist; the new guernsey replaced the predominantly sky blue clash guernsey which had been in use for the previous two seasons.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary
The club used the membership campaign slogan "I am Carlton" for the second consecutive season, after having success with the personalisable slogan in the 2012 season. The club set a new membership record of 50,564, breaking by more than 10% the previous record of 45,800 set in 2012.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Senior Personnel
There were several changes to Carlton's senior coaching panel after the 2012 season. Brett Ratten, who had coached the club since late 2007, was sacked with one year remaining on his contract after Carlton underperformed in the 2012 season, finishing tenth when a top four finish had been expected. Shortly after the season, Ratten was replaced in the role by experienced coach Mick Malthouse, who was signed to a three-year contract.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Senior Personnel
Malthouse was at the time a three-time premiership coach at West Coast (in 1992 and 1994) and Collingwood (in 2010), with twenty-eight seasons and 662 games of VFL/AFL coaching experience with Footscray, West Coast and Collingwood; he had last coached in 2011, and had spent the 2012 season as part of the Seven Network's football commentary team.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Senior Personnel
Several of Ratten's assistants also departed after 2012, and Malthouse restructured the coaching panel. Senior assistant coach Alan Richardson and midfield assistant coaches Mark Riley and Paul Williams were all sacked with time remaining on their contracts, and development coach and Northern Blues senior coach Darren Harris left the club to pursue a career in leadership consulting.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Senior Personnel
Western Australian state Under-16s coach Robert Wiley, who had previously worked as an assistant coach under Malthouse at West Coast, joined the club in the new role of Director of Coaching and Development, and recently retired Melbourne player Brad Green joined the club as a midfield development coach. Development coach Luke Webster took on the additional responsibility as Northern Blues coach for 2013.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Senior Personnel
Chris Judd opted to step down from the role of club captain, having served in the role for five seasons from 2008 until 2012; he was replaced in the role by Marc Murphy, with Kade Simpson and Andrew Carrazzo named as vice-captains. The leadership group was reduced from nine players to five, with Murphy, Carrazzo, Simpson and Jarrad Waite all holding their places from 2012 and Nick Duigan being elevated to the group for the first time.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Senior Personnel
Former club champion Stephen Kernahan continued as club president in the 2013 season, a position he had held since August 2008.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Squad for 2013
Statistics are correct as of end of 2012 season. Flags represent the state of origin, i.e. the state in which the player played his Under-18s football.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Playing list changes
The following summarises all player changes between the conclusion of the 2012 season and the conclusion of the 2013 season.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Playing list changes
The 2012/13 offseason was the first in league history to allow players to switch clubs as free agents. Two players who qualified for unrestricted free agency – Jordan Russell and Bret Thornton – announced their intentions to seek other clubs following the 2012 season. Russell moved to Collingwood in the club's only transaction during the initial free agency and trade period; Thornton was delisted, and ultimately recruited by Greater Western Sydney in the preseason draft.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary
During November 2012, the playing list attended a high-altitude training camp in Arizona. New coach Mick Malthouse had taken his team to several such training camps in Arizona while coaching at Collingwood.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Pre-season matches
Carlton won three of its four preliminary matches; due to its strong percentage, the club finished second on the NAB Cup ladder to qualify for the Grand Final, to play against Brisbane Lions, the only undefeated team in the preliminary rounds. Brisbane then defeated Carlton in the Grand Final by 40 points.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
Carlton finished the season with a win-loss record of 11–11, the ninth-best record in the league. In summary:


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home and away season
Coming into the last two rounds of the season, Carlton needed to win both of its games to qualify for the finals; so, when Essendon won in Round 22 by six points, Carlton was eliminated from finals contention. However, during the season, Essendon was investigated over irregularities in its supplements and sports science program, and three days after the Round 22 match, the AFL excluded Essendon from the 2013 finals series (relegating it to ninth) as part of the penalties handed down over the scandal, promoting Carlton to eighth place. Carlton then needed to win or draw, or lose and see other results fall favourably, in the final round to hold onto eighth place – and succeeded, overcoming a 39-point third quarter deficit to record a one-point victory against Port Adelaide.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Finals
In the elimination final, Carlton faced Richmond, which was in its first finals match since 2001. Carlton trailed by 32 points early in the third quarter, before an eight-minute purple patch in which it kicked five consecutive goals to bring the margin back to one point; Carlton went on to kick six goals to two in the final quarter to win by 20 points. Sydney was a comfortable winner in the semi-final, leading by 54 points at three-quarter time before finishing with a 24-point win.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Leading Goalkickers
Jeff Garlett was Carlton's leading goalkicker for the season, with 43 goals. It was the first time Garlett had won Carlton's goalkicking.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, John Nicholls Medal
The Carlton Football Club Best and Fairest awards night took place on 1 October. The John Nicholls Medal, for the best and fairest player of the club, as well as several other awards, were presented on the night.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, John Nicholls Medal
The winner of the John Nicholls Medal was Kade Simpson, who polled 92 votes. It was Simpson's first John Nicholls Medal. Simpson won ahead of Andrew Walker and Lachlan Henderson. The top ten is given below.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, John Nicholls Medal
The following other awards were presented on John Nicholls Medal night:-


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records, AFLPA Awards
For each of the AFLPA awards, one or three Carlton players were nominated following internal vote of Carlton players; Marc Murphy was also nominated for the Best Captain award by default. Kade Simpson finished fifth for the Robert Rose Awards; no other Carlton player finished in his respective top five.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Northern Bullants
The Carlton Football Club had a full affiliation with the Northern Blues during the 2011 season. It was the eleventh season of the clubs' affiliation, which had been in place since 2003. Carlton senior- and rookie-listed players who were not selected to play in the Carlton team were eligible to play for either the Northern Bullants seniors or reserves team in the Victorian Football League. As in 2012, home games were shared between the VFL club's traditional home ground, Preston City Oval, and Carlton's traditional home ground, Visy Park.


2013 Carlton Football Club season, Northern Bullants
The Northern Blues finished 9th out of 14 in the VFL, missing the final eight by four premiership points and percentage; there had been speculation that the Northern Blues could have been promoted to the eighth if the AFL and AFL Victoria had decided to exclude the eighth-placed Essendon reserves team from the VFL finals as part of the punishments for the club's supplements scandal, but the league did not apply this punishment.


2013 Carolina Challenge Cup
The 2013 Carolina Challenge Cup was the 10th staging of the tournament. The tournament began on February 16 and concluded on February 23.


2013 Carolina Challenge Cup
D.C. United were the three-time defending champions of the preseason tournament, but did not participate in this year's edition of the cup.


2013 Carolina Challenge Cup
Chicago Fire has won the 2013 Carolina Challenge Cup. It was the club's first title.


2013 Carolina Panthers season
The 2013 season was the Carolina Panthers' 19th in the National Football League and their third under head coach Ron Rivera. NFL.com ranked the Panthers' schedule as the strongest in the league, with opponents having a combined 2012 record of 138–116–2 and a winning percentage of .543.


2013 Carolina Panthers season
After starting the season 1–3, the Panthers went 11–1 the rest of the way, including a then-record eight-game winning streak, securing their first winning season and playoff appearance since 2008, the first winning season under Rivera and the fifth in franchise history. During Week 12, they defeated the Miami Dolphins, also a franchise first for the Panthers. They also notched their third NFC South title, their first since 2008 and their fourth division title overall. The Panthers' season ended in the Divisional round of the playoffs with a 23–10 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Draft
Note: The Panthers did not have selections in the third or seventh rounds. The team traded its third-round selection (74th overall) and a 2012 sixth-round selection to the San Francisco 49ers in exchange for the 49ers' 2012 fourth-round selection, as well as its seventh-round selection (219th overall) to the Oakland Raiders in exchange for wide receiver Louis Murphy.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Seattle Seahawks
The Panthers opened up the regular season at home in an NFC battle with the Seattle Seahawks. Seattle got on the board first with Steven Hauschka hitting a 27-yard field goal in the second quarter. The Panthers gained the lead when quarterback Cam Newton made a 3-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Steve Smith with 3:13 left in the first half. The Seahawks cut the Panthers lead to one point when Hauschka put through a 40-yard field goal in the third quarter.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 1: vs. Seattle Seahawks
The Seahawks continued to dominate the second half when quarterback Russell Wilson threw a 43-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jermaine Kearse in the fourth quarter with 10:13 remaining in the game. The Panthers were on the verge of scoring, however running back DeAngelo Williams fumbled the ball at the Seattle 8-yard line with 5:25 left in the game and the Seahawks recovered. Seattle went on to run out the rest of the clock and go to 1–0 while the Panthers fell to 0–1 for the fifth consecutive year. Also, the team dropped to 10–4 when Newton does not have a turnover.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 2: at Buffalo Bills
The Panthers came into Buffalo looking to recover from a close loss in Seattle the previous week. In the third quarter Cam Newton bombed a 40-yard touchdown pass to Ted Ginn, giving the Panthers a 14–6 lead. Fred Jackson then ran in a 4-yard touchdown to put the Bills behind 14–12. The Bills converted the two-point conversion, putting the score at 14–14. The Panthers stalled twice in the red zone, forcing them to kick field goals to make the score 20–14.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 2: at Buffalo Bills
After a Dan Carpenter 48-yard kick, the Panthers got the ball back, marched down the field, but were stuffed on 4th and 1 at the Bills' 22. The Panthers decided to kick the field goal to put them up 23–17. EJ Manuel and the Bills got the ball back and march down the field. With 20 seconds remaining in the game from the Panthers' 31, Manuel threw an interception, but it was called back due to Luke Kuechly, the linebacker, committing pass interference. With 2 seconds remaining from the Panthers' 2-yard line, Manuel hit wide receiver Stevie Johnson in the back of the end zone for the score. With the loss, the Panthers fell to 0–2, and 3–17 when Newton had at least a turnover.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 3: vs. New York Giants
At 0–2, the Panthers came onto their home turf desperate for a win. The Panthers romped the Giants (0–3) 38–0 behind seven defensive sacks and the flashy play of offensive weapons like Cam Newton and DeAngelo Williams. This was the largest margin of victory in Panthers history and this gave Giants' head coach Tom Coughlin his largest margin of defeat in his history of coaching the Giants. With the win, the Panthers increased to 1–2 and 4–17 when Newton turns the ball over.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 5: at Arizona Cardinals
With the loss, the Panthers dropped to 1–3. The team also dropped to 4–18 when Newton turns the ball over.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 6: at Minnesota Vikings
at Mall of America Field at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 6: at Minnesota Vikings
With the win, the Panthers improved to 2–3 and also 11–4 in games where Newton does not commit a turnover.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 7: vs. St. Louis Rams
With the win, the Panthers improved to 3–3 and 12–4 when Newton doesn't have a turnover.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 8: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
With the win, the Panthers improved to 4–3, and 13–4 when Newton does not turn the ball over.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 9: vs. Atlanta Falcons
For the first time in franchise history the Panthers scored 30 or more points in four consecutive games, routing NFC South rival Atlanta Falcons 34–10. With the win, Carolina increased to a 5–3 record. The team also improved to 5–18 when Newton turns the ball over.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 10: at San Francisco 49ers
Putting two of the NFL's best defenses against each other, the game indeed proved to be a defensive battle. The reigning NFC champions San Francisco, coming off a bye, only managed three field goals, partly due to the absence of start wide receiver Michael Crabtree and an early injury to tight end Vernon Davis. The 49ers received the opening kickoff and drove to the Carolina 33, where, on 3rd-and-2, Frank Gore was tackled for a 1-yard loss. Phil Dawson kicked a 52-yard field goal for the early 3–0 lead.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 10: at San Francisco 49ers
Punts filled the rest of the quarter, with less than a minute left in the first quarter, Drayton Florence muffed the punt with Eric Reid recovering for San Francisco. The 49ers converted that into a 43-yard field goal for a 6–0 lead. After both teams swapped punts, Cam Newton was intercepted by Tramaine Brock at the 49ers 35 who returned it 41 yards to the Panthers 24. The 49ers drove to the Panthers 7 and Dawson kicked his third field goal, connecting from 25 yards.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 10: at San Francisco 49ers
The Panthers finally responded on their next drive, storming 80 yards in just 8 plays with DeAngelo Williams bursting through for a 27-yard touchdown run, trimming the score to 9–7 at halftime. On the Panthers second drive of half they drove, 59 yards taking 5:44 off the clock, but Graham Gano missed a 48-yard field goal. The 49ers responded by driving to the Panthers 39, but Kendall Hunter was stripped by linebacker Thomas Davis and Quintin Mikell recovered for Carolina.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 10: at San Francisco 49ers
After both teams swapped punts again, Gano drilled a 53-yard field goal for a 10–9 Panthers lead, their first of the game. After both teams punted on their next two drives, Drayton Florence made up for his earlier mistake with an interception with 0:37 left to seal the 10–9 Carolina statement victory. The Panthers snapped the 49ers' five-game winning streak, extended their own winning streak to five, and further increased their record to 6–3. Also, the team's record when Newton commits at least one turnover increased to 6–18.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 11: vs. New England Patriots
With Monday Night Football back in Charlotte for the first time since 2008, it pitted the Panthers against the 7–2 New England Patriots, who were coming back from a bye. Down 17–20 with less than a minute left, Panthers quarterback Cam Newton threw a 25-yard touchdown to wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr., bringing Carolina up 24–20. The Patriots received the ball back, and with only three seconds remaining, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was intercepted by Panthers safety Robert Lester in the endzone.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 11: vs. New England Patriots
However, a flag was thrown by back judge Terrence Miles just after the ball was intercepted because Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, the intended target, was wrapped up by Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly. The officials initially called pass interference on Kuechly. With no time left, this would have resulted in an untimed first-and-goal from the one-yard line. However, after the officials talked it over, they picked up the flag and ruled that the pass was uncatchable due to it being underthrown, and the game ended in a Panthers win.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 11: vs. New England Patriots
The prime time victory, before one of the largest crowds in franchise and Bank of America Stadium history, extended the Panthers' winning streak to six, increased their record to 7–3 and improved to 14–4 when Newton does not turn the ball over. Both teams ended the game with identical records of 7–3.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 12: at Miami Dolphins
For the first time during the season, the Panthers allowed a touchdown drive in the first quarter, and were down 16–6 at halftime to the 5–5 Miami Dolphins. However, Carolina came back in the second half and ultimately held the Dolphins scoreless. Trailing 13–16 with two minutes remaining, quarterback Cam Newton converted a fourth-and-10 from the Panthers' own 20 with a completion to wide receiver Steve Smith, and a touchdown pass to tight end Greg Olsen with 43 seconds left won the game for the Panthers, 20–16. Carolina extended their winning streak to seven (tying the franchise record), extended their record to 8–3 and also improved 7–18 when Newton turns the ball over. It was also the first time in their franchise history the Panthers defeated the Dolphins.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 13: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
With the win, the Panthers broke their franchise record winning their 8th straight game improving to 9–3 in the process giving the team their first winning season since 2008 and also improving to 8–18 when Newton turns the ball over.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 14: at New Orleans Saints
With the loss, the Panthers fell to 2nd place in the NFC South sitting at 9–4 as they also dropped to 14–5 when Newton doesn't turn the ball over.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 15: vs. New York Jets
With the win, the Panthers improved to 10–4 and also came out to 15–5 when Newton doesn't turn the ball over.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 16: vs. New Orleans Saints
The Panthers came into the game hoping to avenge their loss to the Saints two weeks prior, with the winner taking first place in the NFC South. In the second quarter, a strong rain blanketed the stadium, reminiscent of a similar storm in 2011 against Jacksonville. New Orleans scored late to go up 13–10 with less than two minutes to play. Cam Newton led the offense down the field and into the red zone on the following possession.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 16: vs. New Orleans Saints
With under a minute to play, Newton threw the game-winning touchdown pass to receiver Domenik Hixon, who was replacing an injured Steve Smith. It was later reported the stadium's press box shook when Hixon caught the touchdown. Carolina's defense was able to prevent the Saints from completing a last-second Hail Mary. With the win, the Panthers clinched a playoff spot and improved to 11–4. The team also improved to 9–18 when Newton turns the ball over.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 17: at Atlanta Falcons
Despite sacking Matt Ryan nine times—a single-game franchise record—the Panthers were not assured of a win until the final seconds. With 31 seconds to go and trailing 21–20, the Falcons were driving in hopes of setting up a game-winning field goal. However, center Joe Hawley snapped the ball before Ryan was ready. The ball sailed back 16 yards to the Atlanta 27. Hawley later said that he was distracted by the noise from a large number of Panther fans who made the five-hour drive to Atlanta, and thought Ryan was calling for the ball. With the win, the Panthers clinched the NFC South, the #2 seed and a first-round bye, finishing 12–4 in the progress while going 10–18 when Newton turned the ball over. They swept the Falcons for the first time since 2005.


2013 Carolina Panthers season, Postseason, NFC Divisional Playoff Game: vs. #5 San Francisco 49ers
The Panthers played at home against the #5 seed 49ers. The 49ers led for most of the game and eventually won, ending the Panthers' season and dropping them to a 12–5 total. Also, Cam Newton went 0–1 as a starter for the Panthers in the playoffs while the team went 10–19 when he turned the ball over.


2013 Carolina RailHawks FC season
The 2013 Carolina RailHawks FC season was the club's seventh season of existence, and their third season in the North American Soccer League, the second division of American soccer.


2013 Castelar rail accident
The 2013 Buenos Aires rail disaster occurred on 13 June 2013 at about 07:30 local time (10:30 UTC), in Castelar, Buenos Aires Province, about 30km (19 miles) west of Buenos Aires, Argentina.


2013 Castelar rail accident
A passenger train travelling in the morning rush hour hit a stationary train that was empty. At least 3 people were killed and another 315 were injured. This crash took place on the Sarmiento line between Once railway station and Moreno, the same line which was the scene of the 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster.


2013 Castelar rail accident
Following official investigations which determined that the brakes were in working order and that the conductor sped through three warning signals without attempting to apply them, the conductor, Daniel López, was formally charged with negligent homicide on October 2.


2013 Castilla y León Cup
The 2013 Castilla y León Cup (Spanish: Copa Castilla y León 2013) is the fifth edition of this football trophy in its renewed version.


2013 Castilla y León Cup, Competition format
Valladolid, as La Liga team, and Mirandés as defending champion are directly qualified to semifinals. The other 12 teams are divided into four groups of three teams, where the top teams will qualify to the knockout stage.


2013 Castilla y León Cup, Competition format
Every team will play two matches in the group stage and until the final, every match will be played in the field of the team of lower category.


2013 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2013 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2013 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona on 16 June 2013.


2013 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix, Report
Dani Pedrosa took his second consecutive MotoGP pole position ahead of Cal Crutchlow and Jorge Lorenzo. Pedrosa set a new circuit record for MotoGP with a 1:40.893, which beat his former teammate Casey Stoner's record of 1:41.186 set in 2008. Lorenzo went on to win the race, ahead of pole sitter Pedrosa, and Marc Márquez. Valentino Rossi finished in fourth place, after the collision with Álvaro Bautista in Italy.


2013 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix, Report
Turn 10, a right hander after the back straight, had caught out many riders due to the hot temperatures on race day and caused many retirements during the first few laps of the race.


2013 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix, Report
In Moto2, Pol Espargaró took pole position, and went on to win the race, ahead of Esteve Rabat and Switzerland's Thomas Lüthi, who took his first podium of the season.


2013 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix, Report
In Moto3, Luis Salom took his second successive victory from pole position, ahead of Álex Rins and Maverick Viñales.


2013 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix, Classification, MotoGP
Hiroshi Aoyama was replaced by Javier del Amor after the third practice session.


2013 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round six has concluded.


2013 Catalans Dragons season
This article details the Catalans Dragons rugby league football club's 2013 season. This is the 18th season of the Super League era.


2013 Catalunya GP2 and GP3 Series rounds
The 2013 Catalunya GP2 Series round was a GP2 Series motor race held at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmeló, Spain on 11 and 12 May 2012 as the fourth round of the 2013 GP2 Series season. The weekend also saw the first round of the 2013 GP3 Series season, and the debut of the GP3 Series' second-generation chassis, the Dallara GP3/13.


2013 Catalunya GP2 and GP3 Series rounds
Robin Frijns took his—and team Hilmer Motorsports'—maiden GP2 Series victory in the feature race, ahead of Felipe Nasr. Stefano Coletti took his second race win of the season in the sprint race, beating Frijns by six-tenths of a second and further secured his championship lead with the result.


2013 Catalunya GP2 and GP3 Series rounds
Tio Ellinas inherited pole position in the GP3 Series feature race when pole-sitter Kevin Korjus was given a grid penalty, and he went on to win the race. Aaro Vainio won the sprint race, leading home team-mate Korjus to give team Koiranen GP the lead in the teams' championship in after their first GP3 Series round.


2013 Categoría Primera A season
The 2013 Categoría Primera A season (officially known as the 2013 Liga Postobón season for sponsorship reasons) was the 66th season of Colombia's top-flight football league. Millonarios came in as the defending champions having won the title in the 2012 Finalización.


2013 Categoría Primera A season, Format
Both the Apertura and Finalización had an identical format. Each championship was divided into three stages. The First Stage was contested on a home-and-away basis, with each team playing the other teams once and playing a regional rival once more. The top eight teams after eighteen rounds advanced to a semifinal round, of two groups of four playing once more on a home-and-away basis. The winner of each semifinal group advanced to the final of the tournament, which was played as a double-legged series. The winner of the final was declared the tournament champion and participated in the 2014 Copa Libertadores.


2013 Categoría Primera A season, Torneo Apertura, First Stage
The First Stage began in January and consisted of eighteen rounds and a series of regional rivalries on the ninth round. The top eight teams out of this stage advanced to the Semifinals. The first stage ended in May.


2013 Categoría Primera A season, Torneo Apertura, Semifinals
The Semifinal stage began on June 15 and ended on July 7. The eight teams that advanced were sorted into two groups of four teams. The winner of each group advanced to the finals.


2013 Categoría Primera A season, Torneo Finalización, Semifinals
The Semifinal stage began on November 16 and will end on December 8th. The eight teams that advanced were sorted into two groups of four teams. The winner of each group will advance to the finals.


2013 Categoría Primera A season, Relegation
A separate table is kept to determine the teams that get relegated to the Categoría Primera B for the next season. The table includes an average of all first stage games played for the current season and the previous two seasons.


2013 Categoría Primera A season, Relegation
Rules for classification: 1st average; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored; 4th away goals scored.


2013 Categoría Primera A season, Aggregate table
An aggregate table including all games that a team plays during the year is used to determine First Stage berths to both the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana. The best-placed non-champion will go to the first stage of the 2014 Copa Libertadores and the 2nd and 3rd best-placed non-champions will go to the first stage of the 2014 Copa Sudamericana.


2013 Categoría Primera B season
The 2013 Categoría Primera B season was the 24th season since its founding and was officially called the 2013 Torneo Postobón for sponsorship reasons.


2013 Categoría Primera B season, Format
The season consisted of two tournaments: the 'Torneo Apertura' and the 'Torneo Finalización'. Each tournament will have an identical format of eighteen rounds with a round of regional derbies in the ninth round. At the end of the first eighteen rounds, the eight best-placed team will advance to the Semifinal round where teams will be sorted into groups and play a short double Round-robin tournament group stage. The winner of each group will advance to the Final round, which will consist of two legs. The winner will advance to the season final at the end of the Torneo Finalización, with its winner being promoted to the Categoría Primera A.


2013 Categoría Primera B season, Torneo Apertura, Semifinals
The Semifinal stage began on June 2 and ended on June 23. The eight teams that advanced were sorted into two groups of four teams. The winner of each group advanced to the finals.


2013 Categoría Primera B season, Torneo Finalización, Semifinals
The Semifinal stage began on October 26 and ended on November 18. The eight teams that advanced were sorted into two groups of four teams. The winner of each group advanced to the finals.


2013 Categoría Primera B season, Promotion/relegation Playoff
As the second worst team in the relegation table, Cúcuta Deportivo had to play a two-legged tie against Fortaleza, the 2013 Categoría Primera B runner-up. As the Primera A team, Cúcuta played the second leg at home. Fortaleza won the tie and as a result were promoted to the Primera A for the 2014 season, while Cúcuta Deportivo were relegated to the Primera B.


2013 Cavan Intermediate Football Championship
The Cavan Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between Intermediate Cavan Gaelic football clubs. It was first competed for in 1925. The winners get to represent their county in the Ulster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship. Lacken have won the most titles, having been victorious 4 times. The current Intermediate football champions are Lacken who defeated Cootehill Celtic in the 2012 decider.


2013 Cavan Intermediate Football Championship, Format
14 teams will contest the Hotel Kilmore Intermediate Football Championship.


2013 Cavan Intermediate Football Championship, Format
4 teams will play in a Preliminary Round, the 2 winners will enter Round 1 while the two losers will  enter the "back door side" of the draw. 12 teams, made up of the 2 Preliminary Round winners and the 10 teams already through to Round, 1 will compete in Round 1 with 6 winners qualifying for the quarter final (Round 4). The 6 losers from Round 1 will join the 2 losers from the preliminary round on the "back door" side of the draw. These 8 teams will then be drawn against each other in Rounds 2 & 3 with the eventual two winners qualifying for the quarter final (Round 4). From Round 4 on (quarter finals) the competition will be "knock out". Quarter Final/Semi-final pairings will be based on an open draw.


2013 Cavan Intermediate Football Championship, Format
The Preliminary Round & Round 1 are Championship proper while Rounds 2 & 3 are "back door" Rounds


2013 Cavan Junior Football Championship
The Cavan Junior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the third-tier Cavan Gaelic football clubs. It was first competed for in 1913. The winner qualifies to represent their county in the Ulster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship. The current champions are Laragh United, who defeated Mountnugent in the 2012 decider on a scoreline of 0–10 to 2–03.


2013 Cavan Junior Football Championship, Format
10 teams will contest the Hotel Kilmore Junior Championship in 2013.


2013 Cavan Junior Football Championship, Format
Teams have been drawn into 3 groups, one 4 team (Group 1) and two 3 teams, (Group 2 & 3). The group stages will be played on a league basis. Where teams finish on equal points group placings will be decided in accordance with rule 6.20 of the GAA Official Guide 2013.


2013 Cavan Junior Football Championship, Format
The top team in each group will qualify for the semi-finals. The runner up in group 2 and 3 will play off (Round 4(a)), with the winner qualifying to play in a further play off against the runner up in group 1 (Round 4(b)). The winner of this play off will qualify for the semi-final.


2013 Cavan Senior Football Championship
The 2013 Cavan Senior Football Championship was the 105th edition of Cavan GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Cavan, Ireland. The tournament consists of 17 teams, with the winner going on to represent Cavan in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship.


2013 Cavan Senior Football Championship
Mullahoran were the defending champions after beating Kingscourt Stars after a replay the previous year.


2013 Cavan Senior Football Championship
Lacken made their return to the senior grade this year after winning the Cavan Intermediate Football Championship in 2012, while Crosserlough also returned to Senior ranks.


2013 Cavan Senior Football Championship
Ballinagh defeated a fancied Cavan Gaels side in the final to claim their 1st Senior title.


2013 Cavan Senior Football Championship, Team changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2013 championship season.


2013 Cavan Under-21 Football Championship
The Cavan Under-21 Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between Cavan Under 21 Gaelic football clubs. It was first competed for in 1975. Ramor United have won the most titles, having been victorious 5 times. 3 of these titles came when they amalgamated with Munterconnaught. The 2012 Under-21 football champions were Cavan Gaels.


2013 Cavite local elections
Local elections were held in the Province of Cavite on May 13, 2013 within the Philippine general election. Voters selected candidates for all local positions: a mayor, vice mayor, councilors, members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, the vice-governor, governor and representatives for the seven districts of Cavite.


2013 Cavite local elections
Incumbent Juanito Victor C. Remulla of the Nacionalista Party, Lakas–CMD and the local party Partido Magdalo ran for a second term and defeated 3rd District Representative Ayong Maliksi, his gubernatorial predecessor.


2013 Cavite local elections
Remulla and Maliksi's running mates are both sons of incumbent senators. Remulla ran with actor and Liga ng mga Barangay (League of Barangays) Provincial Chapter President Jolo Revilla of Lakas–CMD, son of senator Bong Revilla, while Ronald Jay Lacson, son of outgoing senator Panfilo Lacson, ran with Maliksi. Revilla went on to defeat Lacson by a comfortable margin.


2013 Cavite local elections, Opinion polling, Gubernatorial election
According to a survey conducted on 1,300 respondents by the Laylo Research Strategies (LRS) on April 14–21, Remulla led Maliksi by 14% or about 148,000 votes. The exact percentage of the respondents who will vote for the candidates was not shown.


2013 Cavite local elections, Provincial elections
The candidates for governor and vice governor with the highest number of votes wins the seat; they are voted separately, therefore, they may be of different parties when elected.


2013 Cavite local elections, Provincial elections, Gubernatorial election
Juanito Victor C. Remulla is the incumbent. Although he ran under the Alyansang Lakas at Magdalo (Alliance of Lakas and Magdalo), which was dominated by Lakas–CMD candidates, he was still a member of the Nacionalista Party, which was affiliated with the Liberal coalition to which Maliksi belonged.


2013 Cavite local elections, Provincial elections, Vice-gubernatorial election
Incumbent Recto Cantimbuhan, who was replaced as the Liberal Party's candidate by Lacson, ran as Independent.


2013 Cavite local elections, Congressional elections
Each of Cavite's seven legislative districts elected a representative to the House of Representatives.


2013 Cavite local elections, Congressional elections, 1st District
The seat was vacated when Joseph Emilio Abaya was appointed as DOTC Secretary. His brother Francis "Blue" Abaya is his party's nominee for the seat. He ran against former Kawit Mayor Federico "Hit" Poblete of the Nacionalista Party. Director Joel Lamangan, who was going to run under the local party Partido Magdalo, withdrew his candidacy.


2013 Cavite local elections, Congressional elections, 2nd District (Bacoor City)
Lani Mercado-Revilla is the incumbent. She faced off against former Bacoor Mayor Jessie Castillo.


2013 Cavite local elections, Congressional elections, 3rd District (Imus City)
Incumbent Ayong Maliksi ran for Governor. Former Board Member Alex Advincula is his party's nominee for the seat.


2013 Cavite local elections, Congressional elections, 4th District (Dasmariñas)
Elpidio Barzaga, Jr. is the incumbent and was also nominated by the Liberal Party.


2013 Cavite local elections, Congressional elections, 5th District
Roy Loyola is the incumbent and ran unopposed, his opponent Silang Mayor Clarito "Areng" Poblete (Lakas) did not run.


2013 Cavite local elections, Congressional elections, 6th District
Incumbent Antonio Ferrer ran for Mayor of General Trias; his brother, incumbent General Trias mayor Luis Ferrer IV is the party's nominee for the seat, he is also nominated by their old party, Lakas CMD. He squared off against former vice governor Dencito Campaña.


2013 Cavite local elections, Congressional elections, 7th District
Jesus Crispin Remulla is in his third consecutive term and is ineligible to run; his brother, former representative Gilbert Remulla is his party's nominee for the seat, and also nominated by Lakas. Remulla squared off against Tagaytay mayor Abraham Tolentino.


2013 Cavite local elections, Provincial Board elections
All 7 Districts of Cavite elected Sangguniang Panlalawigan or provincial board members. The first two candidates who obtained the highest number of votes were elected. Names in italics denote the incumbents.


2013 Cavite local elections, Provincial Board elections, 4th District (Dasmariñas)
Incumbents Teofilo Lara and Raul Rex Mangubat ran unopposed. Parties are as stated in their certificate of candidacies.


2013 Cavite local elections, City and municipal elections
All cities and municipalities of Cavite elected a mayor and vice-mayor this election. The candidates for mayor and vice mayor with the highest number of votes wins the seat; they are voted separately, therefore, they may be of different parties when elected. Below is the list of mayoralty and vice-mayoralty candidates of each city and municipalities per district. Names in italics denote the incumbents.


2013 Cavite local elections, City and municipal elections, 7th District, Bailen
Note: Bailen was listed as General Emilio Aguinaldo, its former name, in the ballots.


2013 Caymanian general election
General elections were held in the Cayman Islands on 22 May 2013. The incumbent United Democratic Party (UDP) government fell on a motion of non-confidence in December 2012 and was replaced by an interim government made up of former UDP members who formed the People's National Alliance (PNA). The main competition in the election was between the People's Progressive Movement (Progressives) and the UDP, with the PNA and a new political group the Coalition for Cayman (C4C) presenting an insufficient number of candidates to win a majority government.


2013 Caymanian general election
The Progressives won half of the seats (9), with the UDP and C4C taking 3 each, and outgoing Premier of the Cayman Islands Juliana O'Connor-Connolly holding the only seat for the PNA. The two incumbent independents were also re-elected. Progressive leader Alden McLaughlin formed a new government.


2013 Caymanian general election, Background
In the 2009 elections, the United Democratic Party led by its founder and former Premier McKeeva Bush won a majority government. Bush returned to office as Premier until December 2012, when he lost a motion of confidence in the legislature. The confidence motion was triggered by a criminal investigation of Bush and was supported by the opposition People's Progressive Movement and dissident members of his own party, including members of the cabinet. A new government was formed by these dissidents, led by Bush's former deputy Juliana O'Connor-Connolly.


2013 Caymanian general election, Background
Bush would later be charged with four counts of breach of trust, and five counts of theft. Bush continued to lead his party. O'Connor-Connolly and her cabinet formed their own party called the People's National Alliance, but only the five incumbent cabinet ministers stood as candidates under its banner. A fourth party, the Coalition for Cayman, put forward seven candidates, whilst 17 independents also contested the elections.


2013 Caymanian general election, Electoral system
The outgoing Legislative Assembly had 18 members, of which three were appointed (the Chief Secretary, the Attorney-General and the Financial Secretary) and 15 were elected. However, under constitutional changes passed in 2009, the new assembly will have 18 elected members. George Town gained 2 new seats, and Bodden Town gained one new seat. Each of the six districts forms a constituency, with six members elected in George Town, four each in West Bay and  Bodden Town, two in Cayman Brac and Little Cayman and one in North Side and East End. The members of the multi-member districts are elected by plurality-at-large voting, where every voter can vote for as many candidates as there are seats.


2013 Caymanian general election, Results
The opposition Progressives more than doubled their seat count to 9, bringing them one seat short of an overall majority. Progressive leader Alden McLaughlin has said he will talk with Change for Cayman (C4C) and independent MLAs about the possibility of supporting his government. Another option would be having an opposition member become speaker, which would give the Progressives a majority of 9-8 among voting members.


2013 Caymanian general election, Results
The opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) lost 1 seat but was down 6 from their 2009 result, and failed to sweep the West Bay district for the first time in 12 years. The governing People's National Alliance, a breakaway group from the UDP, lost 4 of its 5 seats. C4C, a new political organization, won 3 seats, while incumbent independents Ezzard Miller and Arden McLean (a former Progressive) held their seats.


2013 Caymanian general election, Aftermath, Government formation
No party won an overall majority, but with the Progressives winning half of the seats and three times more seats than any other grouping, they're expected to form the government, either on their own or in coalition with independent members. It is expected that the government will be formed within a week of the election.


2013 Caymanian general election, Aftermath, Government formation
Independent members-elect from the C4C group and others had held preliminary talks among themselves to see about forming a coalition government with the Progressives. However, Alden McLaughlin's Progressives have secured a workable majority in the legislature by getting the agreement of outgoing premier Juliana O'Connor-Connolly to serve as speaker, leaving the Progressives a 9-8 majority of ordinarily voting members. McLaughlin held a news conference on Saturday May 25 naming the Progressives that would sit in cabinet and also indicating that he had asked C4C-backed MLA Tara Rivers to join the cabinet, which would give the government a 10-7 working majority.


2013 Caymanian general election, Aftermath, Government formation
Thereafter, Rivers held a public meeting to assess her constituents views on whether to join the cabinet, the public was nearly unanimous in supporting her to join. Following Rivers public meeting, the two other C4C MLAs indicated that they would reconsider their previous announcement not to join the government. As a result, McLaughlin cancelled a planned morning news conference on Tuesday May 28 in order to have further discussions with the C4C MLAs with an eye to a potential Progressives/C4C coalition government.


2013 Caymanian general election, Aftermath, Government formation
Later Tuesday, it was announced that O'Connor-Connolly would join the Progressive caucus despite earlier statements that she would not do so when she was announced as speaker. As a result, the Progressives have a true majority of 10-8 allowing them to be appointed to government by the Governor of the Cayman Islands without a vote of the legislature. Thereafter, McLaughlin announced the full make-up of his cabinet, including a portfolio for C4C MLA Tara Rivers.


2013 Caymanian general election, Aftermath, Government formation
McLaughlin also announced that C4C MLA Winston Connolly would sit in the government caucus and play a role in Rivers' ministry in a non-cabinet position and that the government would support the other C4C MLA Roy McTaggart for chair of the Public Accounts Committee. Two weeks after the election, McTaggart crossed the floor to sit with his C4C colleagues in the government caucus, accordingly he will have to step down from his position as Chairman of Public Accounts, a post always occupied by an opposition member. This leaves the government with a 13-5 majority.


2013 Caymanian general election, Aftermath, Electoral reform
This will be the last election under the block voting system as a result of the election of the Progressives. Progressive leader Alden McLaughlin reiterated his commitment after the election to move to a "one man one vote" system with a single-member electoral districts. McLaughlin will use the result of the non-binding 2012 referendum on such a system rather than holding a new referendum.


2013 Caymanian general election, Aftermath, Eligibility challenges
After the results of the vote, the husband of the fifth-place finisher in the West Bay electoral district Velma Powery-Hewitt, filed a suit in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands challenging the eligibility of Tara Rivers to have run and serve in the legislative assembly. Had the challenge been successful, Powery-Hewitt stood to take Rivers' seat in the legislature.


2013 Caymanian general election, Aftermath, Eligibility challenges
The Cayman Islands constitution forbids election to the legislative assembly to a person:


2013 Caymanian general election, Aftermath, Eligibility challenges
The challenger argued that Rivers had been absent to the UK for more than 400 days where Rivers worked at a law firm. Rivers argued that her work at the law firm included extensive training and that it should be deemed "attendance as a student at (an) educational establishment" as permitted by the constitution. The challenger also argued that by applying for and receiving a U.S. passport, to which Rivers was entitled by virtue of having been born there, she was express allegiance to the United States and was therefore ineligible under the restrictions against dual citizenship. Rivers argued that no allegiance was given in exchange for the passport and that she was required by law as a U.S. citizen to enter the U.S. using a U.S. passport, not the passport of another country.


2013 Caymanian general election, Aftermath, Eligibility challenges
The court ruled with Rivers and she was allowed to keep her seat. This prompted some complaint from others who did not present themselves as candidates though they had the same qualifications as Rivers but were advised they were ineligible to run by elections officials, and by an individual who had renounced her U.S. citizenship believing she had to do so to run. Powery-Hewitt's husband later attempted to appeal the decision, but as the Constitution states that electoral questions are the sole jurisdiction of the Grand Court, the Court of Appeal declined to hear the case.


2013 Cebu City local elections
Local elections were held in Cebu City on May 13, 2013 within the Philippine general election. Registered voters of the city elected candidates for the following elective local posts: mayor, vice mayor, district representative, and eight councilors at-large for each district. There are two legislative districts in the city.


2013 Cebu City local elections, Mayoralty and vice mayoralty elections, Mayor
Michael Rama ran for his second term as the Mayor of Cebu City under his newly-formed group Team Rama facing off against his former partymate in Bando Osmeña – Pundok Kauswagan (BO–PK), Tomas Osmeña, whom he served with as vice mayor from 2001 to 2010. Rama went on to defeat Osmeña.


2013 Cebu City local elections, Mayoralty and vice mayoralty elections, Vice Mayor
Joy Augustus Young ran for his second term as the Vice Mayor of Cebu City and was defeated by a slim margin against incumbent Cebu City Councilor for the North District Edgardo Labella, who also left BO–PK to join Rama's group. It was Labella's first time to run for the said position.


2013 Cebu City local elections, District representatives, 1st District
Incumbent representative Rachel Marguerite del Mar, who was still eligible for a second term, decided against running for re-election to give way to her father Raul del Mar. The elder Del Mar defeated actress and talent manager Annabelle Rama.


2013 Cebu City local elections, District representatives, 2nd District
Incumbent representative Tomas Osmeña, who was still eligible for a second term, decided against running for re-election to reclaim his old post as Mayor of Cebu City. Incumbent Cebu City Councilor for the South District Rodrigo Abellanosa defeated lawyer Aristotle Batuhan.


2013 Cebu local elections
Local elections was held in the Province of Cebu last May 13, 2013 within the Philippine general election. Voters will select candidates for all local positions: a town mayor, vice mayor and town councilors, as well as members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, the vice-governor, governor and  representatives for the six districts of Cebu. Incumbent governor Gwendolyn Garcia is barred for seeking another term because she is limited to three terms only.


2013 Cebu local elections, Gubernatorial and vice gubernatorial election
On April 27, 2012, incumbent governor Gwendolyn Garcia announced her intention to run for senator. She also announced that her brother incumbent 3rd District Representative Pablo John Garcia will be running as governor of the province. On September 1, 2012, One Cebu announced that former Danao City vice mayor Ramon "Boboy" Durano IV as Garcia's running mate.


2013 Cebu local elections, Gubernatorial and vice gubernatorial election
On May 12, 2012, businessman Glenn Soco announced his intention to run for vice governor. He ran for that position in 2010 as running mate of Garcia. However, he lost to incumbent Greg Sanchez. He filed a protest, but Sanchez died on April 29, 2011.


2013 Cebu local elections, Gubernatorial and vice gubernatorial election
On May 25, 2012, Garcia joined PDP-Laban and was included in the senatorial line-up of the United Nationalist Alliance.


2013 Cebu local elections, Gubernatorial and vice gubernatorial election
On September 20, 2012 Vice President Jejomar Binay announced that Garcia withdrew her senatorial bid and will run for the House of Representatives instead.


2013 Cebu local elections, Gubernatorial and vice gubernatorial election
On September 28, 2012, Hilario Davide III, was announced by the Liberal Party as its candidate for governor. Davide first ran in 2010, but was defeated by Garcia. His running-mate is incumbent vice governor Agnes Magpale of the Barug Alang sa Kauswagan ug Demokrasya or Bakud. Magpale assumed as vice governor upon the death of former vice governor Greg Sanchez.


2013 Cebu local elections, Gubernatorial and vice gubernatorial election
On December 17, 2012, Incumbent governor Gwendolyn Garcia ordered a six-month suspension. (See full description about the suspension here)


2013 Cebu local elections, Provincial Elections
The candidates for governor and vice governor with the highest number of votes wins the seat; they are voted separately, therefore, they may be of different parties when elected.


2013 Cebu local elections, Provincial Elections, Candidates for Governor
Incumbent Gwendolyn Garcia is on her third term and is ineligible to run. She is running for congresswoman. Her brother, incumbent congressman Pablo John Garcia is running in her place.


2013 Cebu local elections, Provincial Elections, Candidates for Vice-Governor
Agnes Magpale is the incumbent after vice governor Gregorio Sanchez (+) died, she is running against businessman Glenn Soco and former Danao city vice mayor Ramon Durano IV.


2013 Cebu local elections, Congressional elections
Each of Cebu's Six and 3 others legislative districts will elect each representative to the House of Representatives. The candidate with the highest number of votes wins the seat.


2013 Cebu local elections, Congressional elections, 1st District
Incumbent Eduardo Gullas is term limited; he will run for mayor of Talisay City. His party nominated his grandson, Gerald Anthony.