After I published my previous blogpost on December 9 I received a comment on Facebook asking what the results would have looked like using proportional representation. Good question. I have…
After I published my previous blogpost on December 9 I received a comment on Facebook asking what the results would have looked like using proportional representation. Good question. I have…
I previously posted a revised version of an article published in Inroads last spring on the forthcoming federal election, part of a series of regional analyses. It concluded provincial politics…
I previously posted a revised version of an article published in Inroads last spring on the forthcoming federal election, part of a series of regional analyses. It concluded provincial politics…
Polls and Seats: Divergent messages The polls in this campaign appear on the surface to be telling a similar story: a close election, outcome uncertain. However, different surveys, examined closely,…
Polls and Seats: Divergent messages The polls in this campaign appear on the surface to be telling a similar story: a close election, outcome uncertain. However, different surveys, examined closely,…
Polls and Seats: Divergent messages The polls in this campaign appear on the surface to be telling a similar story: a close election, outcome uncertain. However, different surveys, examined closely,…
The Manitoba election is on September 10 and while most polling suggests an easy PC win, it may be closer than it appears. The most recent poll from Mainstreet Research…
The Manitoba election is on September 10 and while most polling suggests an easy PC win, it may be closer than it appears. The most recent poll from Mainstreet Researchhas…
In June I attended a dinner celebrating the 50th anniversary of the election of Ed Schreyer's NDP government in Manitoba in 1969. Fifty years ago I had just turned 21…
In June I attended a dinner celebrating the 50th anniversary of the election of Ed Schreyer’s NDP government in Manitoba in 1969. Fifty years ago I had just turned 21…
The post below was published as part of a longer article in Inroads: The Canadian Journal of Opinion in their new issue released this week. In it several contributors assess…
A great deal of recent punditry is creating an expectation that Jagmeet Singh will lose the Burnaby South by-election, forcing him to resign as leader, creating a dilemma for the…
The first thing that needs to be said about this is BC may well vote to change its electoral system. Much of the polling to date has been favourable to…
This is an essay I wrote in 1997 titled Ten Arguments for Proportional Representation. I used the 1993 federal election as a starting point. Some of the discussion is clearly…
If entirely conventional benchmarks were what mattered in the U.S. elections on November 6 the current strength of the economy – essentially the pinnacle of the growth cycle that started…
Normally it would be absurd to pose such a question so early in a new government’s term. However, if Doug Ford thought the electorate would submit meekly to his authoritarian…
The Ford government lost for a second time in the courts on one of its early and arbitrary initiatives – the downsizing of Toronto City Council. Ontario Superior Court Justice…
When the Ontario campaign got underway it appeared the PCs were headed for an out-sized majority. They stumbled, largely because they are led by an unctuous idiot. The Wynne Liberals,…
A key feature of this campaign is the unpopularity of the Wynne Liberals; they have become the unacceptable alternative, making the effective choice between the Doug Ford PCs and Andrea…
