The Best and Worst Thing About Each Canadian Political Party
What is your favourite and least favourite thing about Canada’s federal parties? As a Canadian who has intently followed US politics and is now endeavoring to take an active interest…
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Why Cats Elect Dogs
Alternate Voting - or AV - will have massive implications with respect to voting in Canada (and will hopefully marginalize all of those who vote for dogs instead of cats).
NDP Leaders: Stop Sugar-Coating Brosseau’s Election
As a Canadian secular progressive who has followed US politics closely for a few years and is just now making a serious effort to get into Canadian politics, I have…
The Liberal party needs to play a long game on leadership
After its crushing defeat on May 2nd, the Liberal party has some considerable soul searching to do. Not least among its problems is the task that has recently proved most…
The Landslide Election Victory That Isn’t
I 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…
Dissecting the 2011 vote
Having reaffirmed once again my inability at making accurate predictions, I am going to offer now my very personal reading of the results of the general election held in Canada…
TFSAs and progressive savings policies
With Harper's majority secured, it is quite likely that the popular Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSA's) will double the allowable contributions to $10k per year by 2014. There is a…
First-past-the-post creates a conservative English Canada vs. a progressive Quebec
The NDP scored a number of firsts for itself in the 2011 election: the first time with seats in the triple digits, the first time as Official Opposition, the first…
MayDay 2011 Aftermath: Let the Distractions and Deflections Begin
Constantly lampooning the NDP for having the only youth in their party may provide a short-term distraction from the crimes of the Cons, but it ain't gonna last.
CBC Radio column: Time to change Elections Canada’s arcane rules
In this alberta@noon column on CBC Radio One with host Donna McElligott I talk about Elections Canada’s ban on reporting the results of a federal election in a time zone…
Conservatives win majority
NDP places second, which is the first time a Canadian government has had an opposition party other than the Liberals or Conservatives. It’s certainly a disappointing result, but hardly unanticipated.…
MayDay 2011: 4 Years is Just the Beginning
4 year is just the beginning, folks.
Catch 22’s first look at the election…
This is a high level summary of campaign results in ridings identified by the Catch 22 campaign. Over the coming weekend, we'll publish an editorial. Then in a few weeks…
Confessions of an Election Hawk and Red Tory
I’ll confess it. I’ll admit it and put it on my sleeve. I was one of the election hawks in March. I did not get the government I voted for,…
The 2011 Liberal Party election results might count as ethnic cleansing
So… that was interesting. I, for one, am blown away at the collective humph to the nuts of the Liberal Party of Canada. It’s about time. The last fourteen years…
Hobbits for Electoral Reform
Dear Wise Races of the United Kingdom of Middle Earth, Please forgive a humble Hobbit for bothering you but I just wanted to write about an urgent matter of democracy.…
Electoral math II: vote splitting in the Liberal ridings the Conservatives won
While there was an enormous transfer of seats towards the NDP from the Bloc and to a lesser extent the Liberals, the Conservatives managed to move from a minority to…
Electoral Math I: Vote Splitting and the NDP+Liberal merger hypothesis
This historic election has seen the complete collapse of the Bloc Québécois and the decline in the Liberal party to historic lows while propelling the Conservatives to a majority government…
A Conservative government: What now?
Last week I wrote an editorial exploring the role of the arts in creating healthy and prosperous countries. With the government of Canada making major shifts across the board last…
A future Liberal Party may want to consider…
There’s a lot of personal tragedy in elections, and it couldn’t get any worse for Michael Ignatieff. He’s finally succumbed to wounds meted out by the most vile, relentless attack…