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Columnists
Rick Salutin
| An impressive consensus, about 65 per cent, on basics like climate, was spread across at least four parties, determined to throttle each other. |
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Blog
David Suzuki
| I'm not seeing much evidence that adults are any better at making political decisions than young people. So many grown-ups are electing politicians who don't even accept climate science. |
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News
Tarah Brookfield
| This excerpt from Tarah Brookfield's book "Our Voices Must Be Heard" shows that the women's suffrage movement went far beyond the Southern centres of early 20th century Canada. |
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Podcast
Piergiorgio Moro
| While the independence referendum and national elections confirmed the status quo, social changes are happening in both countries. |
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Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| On Nov. 8, 2016, Crystal Mason, an African-American mother of three, went to the polls and voted. What Crystal didn't know was that in Texas, you can't vote while on parole or supervised release. |
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Columnists
Rick Salutin
| What I like about the blender model is it still leaves room for change and for wide swings between options, versus being stuck in a static politics of us versus them. |
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Blog
J. Baglow
| There has been much discussion lately around lowering the voting age to sixteen. Why not get rid of the age bar entirely? |
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Blog
J. Baglow
| The new online survey is biased against proportional representation. |
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Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| There is much to be learned about how to do democracy better in Canada. Let's hope the new special parliamentary committee can get it right. |
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News
Karl Nerenberg
| In a remarkable willingness to compromise, the Liberals have backed the NDP electoral reform committee. Now it's on to finding a voting system more than one party will support. No easy task. |
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News
Jennifer Dalton
| Indigenous electoral disengagement is rooted in discrimination and marginalization, which have perpetuated alienation and discouraged Indigenous people from participating in Canadian elections. |
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News
Anita Nickerson, Antony Hodgson
| What do you need to know about implementing proportional representation in Canada? Well for starters, the main differences between Single Transferable Vote (STV) and Mixed-Member Proportional (MMP). |
