Molly’sBlog 2012-01-07 15:04:00
AMERICAN POLITICS: OBAMA BE DAMNED: BREAKING THE CHAINS OF ILLUSION.
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POLITICS/HUMOUR: WHERE THE BALLOT “COUNTS”
Why I voted as I did in the Ontario Election
While I wrote quite a few blog posts on the 2011 Ontario Election, both generally and specifically with regards to my riding of Parkdale-Highpark, I never actually indicated precisely who…
The sensitivity of the Ontario election results to the Green Party vote
One of the interesting results of the Ontario general election was the collapse of the Green Party from its 2007 peak of 8% down to just over 3% in 2011.…
Ontario Election 2011: Why the left should hope for a Liberal Minority with NDP support
I suspect that many people, perhaps most, have a favorite party that they would prefer to win a majority. Somewhat incorrectly, I think, it has become the conventional wisdom that…
Encouraging Early Political Engagement: CitizenNext.ca
It is not an accident that I am a political junkie. Even as a toddler, I was fed a steady diet of left-of-centre ideology, pro-union sentiments and anti-monarchist dogma. My…
My deflating optimism about the NDP leadership race
For a while, I was feeling very energized about the NDP leadership race. We on the left were going to get six months or so to have a real and…
2011 Ontario Election: Parkdale-Highpark All Candidates Forum Response
The following is my observations and reflections from attending an All Candidates Forum for the riding of Parkdale-Highpark. Click here for an overview on the candidates for this riding. While…
NDP vs Liberal Leadership Election Procedures
We are at a unique position not seen in a long time when both the NDP and the Liberals are set to elect new leadership and are currently led by…
Why we should not hold a referendum on proportional representation
It seems that every time the subject of changing the voting system comes up, we automatically assume that a change must be sanctioned by a referendum. I increasingly feel this…
Somewhere, Stephen Harper is smiling at this.
Statistics Canada released a survey today on the reasons given by those Canadians as to why they did not vote in the May 2 federal election: ..The most common response…
On governance (2): Parliament
This one's going to be a little disconnected. The overarching thread, as said yesterday, is figuring out how to adjust our governing institutions to suit the importance of the principle…
Crunching the numbers, who Canadians voted for in the 2011 federal election
As previously stated by many liberal bloggers the Conservatives now dominate the rich west, where most of their votes, that put them in a majority government, came from, the NDP…
Don’t mess with my vote, Jack
With 59 of their 103 seats in Quebec, we could expect the NDP to pay close attention to Quebec's concerns. That would, of course, be appropriate. But what I wouldn't…
On election 41.
It 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…
Know Your Lines – Center for Urban Pedagogy’s latest poster tackles redistricting
The 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…
After an election about personalities, not policies, we can and must do better
We have just witness an election which while historic in many ways was not one of any significance in terms of a discussion of actual issues or policies. The political…
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…
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Canadian Election: Fringe Edition
Warning: This post will only make sense to you if you follow the recurring adventures of the characters discussed in it as they try to save our nation and the…