democracy

John Mraz makes the humbling comparison. Canadians don’t want an election, to be sure. Yet the act of voting should not be...

Shauna Sylvester laments for our democracy. While I think most Canadians want a federal government that sets national...

Thomas Axworthy preaches better knowledge through gaming. To that end, the Centre for the Study of Democracy, in partnership with...

Jim Travers lays the smack down on Canadian democracy. Canada today is not Africa then or now. Our wealth and health, and our...

There’s been a bit of discussion of the poem read at Barack Obama’s inauguration by Elizabeth Alexander. I wasn’t moved, and...

As we lead up to the return of the House, battle lines are being drawn over the legitimacy of the forgotten-but-not-dead...

One crude but effective remedy is to do as Australia has done: make voting mandatory

I first met Akbar Ganji, one of Iran’s most famous dissidents, two years ago at a vigil outside BBC World Service’s Bush House...

Open, I mean. A little. First the Bloc , then the NDP , and at last the Conservatives have buckled, and now the Greens are in the...

Must-reads: John Robson on superbugs; Colby Cosh on the wardrobe malfunction; Dan Gardner on crime statistics. By-election fever!...