Ottawa’Our voting system is weakening Canada’s cohesion’Stephane Dion’s speech on electoral reform to the Green party convention this past weekend. The text is here . Mr. Dion previously...
WorldFrench voters rush for the ballot boxMore than 80 per cent of registered voters are casting their ballots
UncategorizedWill no one rid us of these turnout nerds?Our voter-turnout figures are low by historical standards partly because we lowered the voting age in 1970. Why would lowering it again fix things?
On CampusWestern University elections sabotagedVoters asked to choose Justin Bieber’s haircut in "erection"
OttawaThe kids are, you know, fine and stuff, I guessElections Canada has released its national survey of young adults. Three-quarters of them claim to be voting and they generally...
OttawaVote first, solve other problems laterKate Chappell considers the Occupy movement and the act of voting. Jeff Jedras previously quibbled with the suggestion the the...
OttawaThe patient is unresponsiveJane Hilderman argues that people won’t vote if they don’t think the system is truly accountable. On that note, Mark Dance has...
OttawaHow low can we go?Kate Chappell relates a tale from the polling station. A question to those who aren’t presently moved by the decline in voting...