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Is this why Andrea Horwath is going to such extreme efforts to hide her “team”? Less than 3 weeks before the start of the writ, and the ONDP website still has zero me…
Continue readingA previous version of this post is the most Googled thing I’ve ever written, so I’ll keep re-posting it with updates as the busy electoral season approaches. It’s a calendar of upcoming dates and deadlines for political junkies/candidates/hacks across …
Continue readingWith the HST referendum underway and ballots supposedly in the mail (I should have mine in the next couple days…) I’ve had a thought that there may be a bigger question than the subtleties of consumption taxation. The question has to deal with two issues near and dear to my heart: Democracy and evidenced-based policy. […]
Continue readingBuilding on an idea that seems to have originated with Newt Gingrich, Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has spent the past few weeks calling for the Environmental Protection Agency to be abolished. In the June 13th GOP debate, Bachmann said she w…
Continue readingSo the referendum is technically on for the BC HST; however, with the postal strike, it’s hard to know when I’ll actually get my ballot. Nevertheless, when my ballot does come, I will be voting yes to extinguish the HST. Of course, it’s not a simple issue. The HST is a simpler tax for businesses […]
Continue readingWe learned this weekend, through the NDP’s convention in Vancouver, and the Liberal Party’s extraordinary convention held online and over the telephone, that each of the parties will be taking two full years to make some key decisions.The Liberals have…
Continue readingIt really is amazing how difficult it is to drag oneself back into longer writing after a significant time away.Anyway, I just want to run with an idea regarding the recent Canadian federal election that’s not being well-discussed (or discussed at all,…
Continue readingCANADIAN POLITICS:SOME LATE LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON THE RECENT CANADIAN ELECTION:It’s been decades since I voted in any governmental elections (the associations that I belong to don’t count). Still, like a reformed smoker, I find myself glued to the TV …
Continue readingAs long as I have been involved in the Liberal Party, it has been my conviction that for all its strengths, its one fundamental weakness has been an unhealthy obsession with the identity of its leader. This impulse has taken us from being a party of th…
Continue readingThe Center for Urban Pedagogy’s latest issue of Making Policy Public takes you behind the scenes of the largely invisible redistricting process in which politicians often get to choose their voters, instead of the other way around.
Continue readingI initially had a vague plan for this post but have decided to go with whatever comes to mind to create an election commentary medley of sorts. Actually, it more resembles a rather large balloon filled with statistics and cynicism and it keeps growing! The Conservatives have won a majority government and this ensures their […]
Continue readingCanadian politics are plagued by an archaic electoral system where whoever gets one more vote than second place gets sole command over their constituency. This practice is known formally as “single-member plurality” or first-past-the-post voting and remains in use only in Canada, the UK, and the USA. When Canada was founded, and only 2 major […]
Continue readingThis past Wednesday I attended my local riding’s all-candidate’s debate at UBC, hosted by the Professor Emeritus Association. All of our candidates were in attendance, including incumbent Liberal Joyce Murray, NDP Victor Elkins, Green Laura-Leah Shaw, and Conservative Deborah Meredith. The debate was 2 hours, with opening and closing statements from each candidate and then […]
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Continue readingWhile the Liberals and Conservatives spout on about how well each has handled Canada’s financial economy they are both equally guilty of ignoring Canada’s social economy. What is the social economy? Well it is wide range of community, voluntary and not-for-profit… ..
Continue reading“it isn’t special … there’s nothing special about it”
Continue readingthe voters elect the House of Commons to governthe leader of the current government (the government before the election) has the right to meet the House and attempt to gain its confidence, however usually the party with the most seats gets the first op…
Continue readingMany die hard Liberals are questioning the validity of voting for the NDP. Many go so far as to say a vote for the NDP is a vote for the Conservatives. I don’t believe in telling people how to vote and for those Liberals that don’t understand how ballots work.
Continue readingApril Reign As support for the NDP rises there rumblings from some quarters that the NDP is somehow betraying Canada by running a great campaign. Like Harper they have fallen victim to the idea of Canada as a two party system. The concept is that by not supporting the Liberals
Continue readingFrom CBC.ca’s Canada Votes 2011 Vancouver Quadra riding profile:
That’s right, a full 137% of us have post-secondary degrees.
Just not in math I guess.
