Just had a very nice chat with one of my local candidates for #Elxn44 in #KitchenerCentre. It was @morricemike of the @CanadianGreens. He does bookable short calls with voters to talk about issues. It’s a great idea and shows a lot of confidence. After watching some debates between local candidates
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Pop The Stack: Early Soundbite Grading-Part 1
So it’s a few days into **Election 41** and I’m still trying to finish all the grading for my Spring courses. But I can’t help bring out the red grading pen for some party leader moments this week. ## Part 1 – **Jagmeet Singh** l’ve been pleasantly surprised how extensive
Continue readingPop The Stack: A Test of the PopTheStackEmail Blogging System
This is a test of the Pop The Stack email blogging system. If this were not a test, you would be reading erudite, or at least, passionate, opinionating on the political situation of the day in Canada with a particular leaning towards the health of our Democracy and the mechanisms
Continue readingPop The Stack: On the Burning of Bridges
So we just got another call from the Peter Mackay campaign to ask for our support. I don’t think he gets it. We just laughed and laughed. Sigh…. Many people who used to vote Progressive Conservative, including some in our household, will NEVER support Mr. Mackay. He betrayed that movement
Continue readingPop The Stack: Dust Off That Blog, It’s Election Time
Whew, it’s been a while hasn’t it? There’s dust everywhere…how do you even get dust inside a blog? Oh well. There’s an election in Ontario on June 7, 2018 and well, I have opinions (see @rateldajer for the political part of me on Twitter). What’s on my mind right now: In something I
Continue readingPop The Stack: Yes, Change is Hard and Requires Math, That is Why We Elected You
So it seems that the response about the electoral reform committee (EMME) process is that there are lots of committed, organized, focused, passionate people who want to make this country better, speaking for the importance of changing our voting system to one that assigns seats in proportion to the total votes. But…that
Continue readingPop The Stack: Don’t Throw Away Our Shot
For the first time, we find ourselves not as a reflection of another power. Our politics is not a derivation of Westminster or Washington anymore. Our politics is specific to us, not a derivation from a distant metropolis. — “Canada in the Age of Donald Trump” — Stephen Marche, The
Continue readingPop The Stack: Message to Trudeau: #StickToThePlan
According to this article the Prime Minister had some words the other day in Montreal’s Le Devoir newspaper about how much support is now needed for different kinds of electoral reform. They weren’t the best words. “Under the current system, (Canadians) now have a government they’re more satisfied with and
Continue readingPop The Stack: Teaching Yellow Dogs New Tricks
This is an interesting point by Stewart Prest at the Ottawa Citizen: Here’s an argument for Proportional Representation – the yellow dog effect. A yellow dog riding is what some call a ‘safe riding’ where the same party always wins the same seat election after election. More proportional voting would make most
Continue readingPop The Stack: My Letter to my MP on Electoral Reform
Dear Mr. Saini, I am one of your constituents and I must say very happy you won your seat and your party won the recent election even though I am not always a Liberal voter. I was unable to attend your open house last night in Kitchener with Minister Monsef but I have a strong […]
Continue readingPop The Stack: Come on Colorado, Just Take One Whiff, What Harm Could It Do?
Colorado may be about to try out another experimental lifestyle habit, single payer universal healthcare: Colorado May Replace Obamacare with Single Payer Prominent Democratic Consultants Sign Up to Defeat Single Payer in Colorado Lobbyists Move to Stop Colorado Report says ColoradoCare would have higher revenues than McDonald’s This needs to happen. Just try it out […]
Continue readingPop The Stack: Amazing advice! One thing you can do today. The results will astound you!
Vote. Filed under: Politics
Continue readingPop The Stack: Seven simple steps that will change everything. You won’t regret it.
On Monday, get out of bed half an hour early to do a little bit of planning how to vote. Find your voter information card to find out where to vote or if you don’t have one type in your postal code here. Determine when you’re going to vote, before
Continue readingPop The Stack: Wow. This will change everything. Find out how to ensure you aren’t left out!
On Monday, vote. Filed under: Politics
Continue readingPop The Stack: Are you fighting with your partner or friend all the time? One simple fix you won’t believe, scientifically proven results!
Bring your friend or partner to vote. Vote. Filed under: Politics
Continue readingPop The Stack: The one simple thing you can do next week to improve your life, you won’t believe how easy it is.
Vote. Filed under: Politics
Continue readingPop The Stack: Executed Prisoners Are Not Political Props
Huffington Post: The Conservative Party of Canada uses the execution videos of the people they want to protect as props to attack Liberal leader as unprepared for leadership. Whether military action is warranted and productive is a case by case decision. That is a discussion to have and the Liberals and
Continue readingPop The Stack: If an election falls in the forest and nothing changes…ever, is it still a democracy?
I’m an outsider to Alberta politics so I will attempt to refrain from making any statement about who I think should win or what the important issues are in the election. But there are some disturbing, anti-democratic threads in the wave of editorial endorsements for the ruling PC party in Alberta
Continue readingPop The Stack: On the significance of sound and fury.
Oh journalists, you love a strong response to an unanswerable question don’t you? The media are really into nailing down what each party leader thinks about coalitions after the next election at the moment. Case in point, this week’s little drama with Liberal leader Justin Trudeau trying to answer questions about
Continue readingPop The Stack: Should America Make Voting Mandatory?
So US President Obama recently suggested that making voting mandatory. There are multiple reasons for this, one being that the people who don’t vote are more likely to be low income and democrat so it would favour his party. But he also suggested it would reduce the influence of money
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