This article on the ongoing decline in Canadian voter participation, particularly by youth in the Globe today by Michael Adams, President of the Environics Institute for Survey Research and Maryantonett Flumian, President of the Institute on Governance has been shared by more than a few people I know on Facebook, so I
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The Liberal Scarf: Mississauga Ward 4 by-election had been called for April 27th! Check out Joe Horneck’s campaign website and support a strong voice for transit!TodayT
Last month,
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Joe Horneck would be strong addition to Mississauga City Council
It was a great personal experience to serve as Alvin Tedjo’s campaign manager in Mississauga Ward 2 this fall, one that really made me think about the future of my hometown as it builds an independent identity for itself. With that in mind, some interesting things have happened since the
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Good read on Liberal MPP Milczyn’s private members bill to promote affordable housing
As Toronto and other Canadian major cities continue to grow, more and more density and population growth is certain to happen. With that in mind, policy makers need to consider how to ensure affordable housing in urban cores remains available. This PMB by Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Peter Milczyn is something worth
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Whitby-Oshawa Conservative candidate Pat Perkins questions science on climate change
So Pat Perkins is willing to spend thousands of your tax dollars to fly herself out to a real-estate conference in Cannes, France that by her own admission “nothing concrete” has come out of, but she isn’t willing to listen to scientists on climate change? Whose priorities do you think
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Dean Del Mastro guilty on election charges
Del Mastro was Harper’s former Parliamentary Secretary. So much for judgement, eh? Del Mastro could possibly resign his seat, triggering a by-election in Peterborough.
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Why I’m supporting Alvin Tedjo for Mississauga Ward 2
I haven’t had too much opportunity to blog lately, but it certainly hasn’t been as a result of not being politically active – indeed, I’ve been working every day for the past month or so helping run the campaign of Alvin Tedjo, who is running for City Council in Mississauga’s
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Donna Tiqui-Shebib for OWLC President
Now, I will preface this by saying that obviously I won’t be able to vote for Donna, but I encourage all Liberal women attending the LPCO convention to support Donna Tiqui-Shebib for OWLC President. Donna has been a very strong supporter of local Young Liberals, and has the political experience
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: New Brunswick Conservative’s pull out of leaders debate – don’t want to talk about the David Alward record?
I’m in New Brunswick for a couple weeks, so might as well take a shot at the Tories while I’m here. With the writ formally dropping tomorrow, and signs going up across the province (I’ve seen probably about a dozen already driving around Saint John) Conservative leader David Alward is running
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: "Limiting information" on oilsands probe demonstrates Harper government problems with both openness and the environment
This story out of The Star hits at two major problems of the Harper government – an inability to take environmental concerns seriously, and a desire to limit access to critical information by the media and citizens. “Environment Canada’s enforcement branch asked a spokesman to “limit information” given to reporters about
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: CBC article on Ontario budget mentions my youth voter registration policy
Yes, this is shameless self-promotion on my part, but hey, my Mom thought it was cool: “The Liberals also plan to revamp the Grade 10 Civics curriculum to get students more involved in their communities and introduce voter registration in high schools.”
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: What can the results of the last Ontario PC leadership race tell us about the current one? That Elliott could be hard to beat
Long-time readers will remember when I did some fairly in-depth coverage of the 2009 Ontario PC leadership race. I was reading over some blog posts from that era, bit of a trip down memory lane. I kind of forgot Hudak’s big selling point to grassroots conservatives was pledging to eliminate Human Rights
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Joe Cressy: "[the next election] is going to won or lost based on seats where you’re taking on Tories." I agree, so let’s check the numbers
This graph has been making the rounds on social media to show growing support for the federal Liberals in by-elections across Canada, including Trinity-Spadina, where I was happy to do a bit of volunteering for Adam Vaughan. Speaking of Trinity-Spadina, I’ve quoted NDP candidate Joe Cressy above from this article
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Assorted thoughts from the ground from a Liberal majority
Well, having had a few days to think about it, I had some scattered thoughts about the Ontario political scene in the aftermath of a Wynne majority government. I am so happy to have played a small part in it in York South-Weston. In no particular order, here are some
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: My policy on improving civic education makes the Ontario Liberal Party platform!
Readers of this space will remember my policy on youth voter registration that was passed as a priority policy at the Ontario Young Liberals Summer Fling last year. The policy was also debated on Common Ground platform building discussion site where it became one of the top ranked policies in the
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Is Andrea Horwath for real?
That’s what the new Kathleen Wynne ad asks Ontarians after Horwath said NO to an increased child benefit, an Ontario Pension Plan, better transit, and a new job creation strategy for Ontario. I’m really digging the “I’m Kathleen Wynne and I stand behind this message” tag the Premier has been
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: While Horwath is silent, labour and progressive speak: The Ontario Budget deserves support
While Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath was silent on Ontario’s Budget today, continuing her approach that saw her take no position on the minimum wage and pensions, labour and other progressive are speaking loud and clear that Ontario’s 2014 Budget deserves support for the people of Ontario. JERRY DIAS, NATIONAL
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Anita Vandenbeld on the "Fair" Elections Act
Anita Vandenbeld, past federal candidate in Ottawa West-Nepean and green lit candidate for the 2015 nomination has written a fantastic post for iPolitics about the “Fair” Elections Act and how regressive it truly is. “The last time I worked in a country where a government used its majority in Parliament
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Mapping out past Quebec election results – vote splits and vote efficiency make the different in Quebec provincial elections
In preparation for the Quebec provincial election on Monday, I mapped out some past Quebec election results, comparing the vote and seat share received by each party. Click the graph to embiggen, the vote share is on the left, seat share on the right. In Quebec elections, the Parti Quebecois
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Button collection!
In lieu of posting actual content, check out my button collection! Been actively collecting them since the 2006 federal leadership, my oldest button is a Harry Jackman for Rosedale button, dating back to the 40’s. Not as impressive a collection as some political types, but I’ve been meaning to share
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