The Clarity Act and Alberta’s Tricksy Question
This October, Albertans will vote on a referendum question that arguably rivals the word salad that René Levesque imposed on Quebeckers in 1980 for obfuscation and confusing wording: “Should Alberta…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Crawford Killian writes about the dangers of becoming unduly relaxed about a new COVID wave (with particular reference to South Korea’s experience).…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Bruce Arthur examines what the spread of the Omicron COVID variant figures to mean for Ontario. Rachel Emmanuel reports on the National…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – As Jason Kenney and Scott Moe rush to slash public health protections including mask mandates, Gavin Leech et al. study how important…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Wren-Lewis discusses how media negligence allowed austerian economics to be treated as credible long after any pretense of academic merit has…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The New York Times’ editorial board comments on the predictable flow of the Trump tax cuts toward primarily the few who already…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Abigail McKnight and Richard Reeves write about the gilded floor that prevents the wealthy from facing the realities lived by most people. Eric…
Will city folk continue to be Alberta’s second class citizens?
Amid debate about adopting a voting system to replace the egregiously undemocratic first-past-the-post, another offense against fair voting is sometimes overlooked. In Alberta, an opportunity to redress that particular sin…
Will city folk continue to be Alberta’s second class citizens?
Amid debate about adopting a voting system to replace the egregiously undemocratic first-past-the-post, another offense against fair voting is sometimes overlooked. In Alberta, an opportunity to redress that particular sin…
The Reason I’m Not Voting In Today’s Election Is That Canada Does A Poor Job Of Protecting Voting Rights
OK Canada, you win. Keep your outdated voting system. Continue to outsource the nation’s governance function to one person and his inner circle. Carry on with this democratic farce called…
The Reason I’m Not Voting In Today’s Election Is That Canada Does A Poor Job Of Protecting Voting Rights
OK Canada, you win. Keep your outdated voting system. Continue to outsource the nation's governance function to one person and his inner circle. Carry on with this democratic farce called…
The Reason I’m Not Voting In Today’s Election Is That Canada Does A Poor Job Of Protecting Voting Rights
OK Canada, you win. Keep your outdated voting system. Continue to outsource the nation’s governance function to one person and his inner circle. Carry on with this democratic farce called…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jim Stanford writes that Tim Hudak’s combination of austerity and indiscriminate tax slashing represents a recipe for less jobs rather than more: Mr.…
Reasons to vote
In this week before the U.S. election, noted film maker Errol Morris had a great short film that ran in the New York Times. It’s about voting and is meant…
The first robocalls victim – again
The Ottawa Citizen published an op-ed by former Saanich-Gulf Islands Liberal candidate Briony Penn on Tuesday: “I was the first robocalls victim.” It tells the story of the 2008 federal…
RCMP on the robocalls case
The lead story on the CTV national news last night was this: “RCMP investigates voter fraud allegations.” Interesting video report at the link where, among other things, a friend of…