UncategorizedThe burden that is democracyJohn Mraz makes the humbling comparison. Canadians don’t want an election, to be sure. Yet the act of voting should not be...
UncategorizedA vicious circleShauna Sylvester laments for our democracy. While I think most Canadians want a federal government that sets national...
OttawaI would play this gameThomas Axworthy preaches better knowledge through gaming. To that end, the Centre for the Study of Democracy, in partnership with...
OttawaCanada < AfricaJim Travers lays the smack down on Canadian democracy. Canada today is not Africa then or now. Our wealth and health, and our...
OttawaAlternatives to reading Obama’s inaugural poemThere’s been a bit of discussion of the poem read at Barack Obama’s inauguration by Elizabeth Alexander. I wasn’t moved, and...
GeneralThe Madness: Democrats vs ParliamentariansAs we lead up to the return of the House, battle lines are being drawn over the legitimacy of the forgotten-but-not-dead...
GeneralA tinpot Parliament voted in by a tiny minorityOne crude but effective remedy is to do as Australia has done: make voting mandatory
UncategorizedAnother brave Iranian democratI first met Akbar Ganji, one of Iran’s most famous dissidents, two years ago at a vigil outside BBC World Service’s Bush House...
GeneralCanadian politics just crackedOpen, I mean. A little. First the Bloc , then the NDP , and at last the Conservatives have buckled, and now the Greens are in the...
GeneralMegapundit: Stop the presses! Byelections don’t matter!Must-reads: John Robson on superbugs; Colby Cosh on the wardrobe malfunction; Dan Gardner on crime statistics. By-election fever!...