In Canada It’s All Part of the Game
The Canadian federal general election has come and gone and from what I can gather most Canadians are pretty well satisfied with the results: a majority government, the centre left…
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Huge Distortions of the Popular Vote Mire Canadian Election Results
How is it that a supposedly developed country, a member of the G-8, endures a medieval electoral system?The Conservatives's quest for what Canadians erroneously refer to as a majority government…
Canada’s Facebook Election Changes the Face of the Nation
Yes, I've seen the latest polls and have jumped on the bandwagon. I'm putting aside the pessimist belief that the vagaries of the voting system would undo the sudden rise…
Canada’s Progressives Are About to Get Screwed by a Corrupt Electoral System
The sudden rise of the NDP in the polls gives reason to hope that the political landscape is about to change fundamentally.Don't bet the farm on it.What the pundits don't…
Are the Political Planets Re-aligning in Quebec?
Elsewhere in Canada, the political continuum is from right to left. Here in Quebec, the parties have been aligned on the basis of a federalist-nationalist allegiance for more than 30…
The NDP Has Gone Viral in Quebec
I woke up this morning to see confirmation in two polls that with regard to voting intentions in the upcoming federal elections Quebecers have gone viral in their support of…
North America Has Become a Huge Fat Farm
Last year, I had the shock of my life when I visited the US. I had never seen so many super obese people in all my life. Statistics say that…
The Sacred Cows No Politician Dares To Touch
Thank God the Stanley Cup Playoffs start this evening. This has to be the dullest federal election since Sir John A. swore off the bottle. Same old. Same old.Yet, around…
Tired of Having the News Dumbed Down? Turn Off the Tube and Get An iPad!
I've enjoyed my iPad for about a year now. For someone who is an info-holic and works in communications, it's changed the way I access information and there's no going…
In Canada the Powers that Be Conspire to Suppress the Emergence of Alternative Voices
Catch 22 for the Green Party of Canada. Because the Greens haven't won a seat in Parliament, their leader can't participate in the televised leaders debate. Because their leader doesn't…
Canada Should Look Down Under to Address Its Democratic Deficit
I think that most people would now recognize that the world has moved on and Canada is still stuck with it colonial system of governance. No modern democratic state has…
We All Lose When Only the Winners Gain Representation
While campaigning against the alternative vote option on the ballot in the UK referendum on the voting system, British Prime Minister, David Cameron makes the following analogy that underscores the…
Contesting Canada’s Shamocracy
"Although we like to think of ourselves as living in a mature democracy, we live, instead, in something little better than a benign dictatorship, not under a strict one-party rule,…
The Bloc Quebecois Has the Last Laugh Since Canada Has Become Ungovernable
One thing is for sure. Once the writ is dropped, partisan interests prevail and the leaders can't see the forest for the trees.For example, all this fear mongering about the…
Truth Be Told Coalition Governments Have Become the Norm in Westminster Parliaments
The red door and the blue door. Forming a coalition with the socialists and the separatists. Give me a frickin break.Here we are about to embark on our fourth general…
Forget an Election. We Need a Referendum on the Electoral System!
So here we are. Yet again facing the possibility of a general election that won't resolve anything. A few seats will change hands, but for the most part the distribution…
How to Best Stop Natural Gas Drilling in Quebec? Give the Administrative Regions the Power to Revoke Corporate Personhood.
Like the majority of Quebecois, I feel that we are being taken for a ride when it comes to the drilling for natural gas using the controversial hydofracking process.Essentially, a…
Corporate Fascism
If there is a God, he must ask for our pardon.(Words scratched onto the walls of the barracks in the Mauthausen concentration camp)There are times when we learn things that…
Hey Quebec! What Are You Waiting For? Take It to the Streets
Maybe it's just me. When the president of the association of the province's crown attorneys declares publicly that the Quebec government is acting in a manner that is unconstitutional, irresponsible,…
The Tyranny of Class in the Anglo-American Empire
Money, money, money. Lots of it. Can't get enough. Makes the world go around. Keep your grubby hands off my pile.Familiar words? They should be. These are the sentiments at…