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Identity Politics? 2025 Election priorities? The core problem is political identity silos!
I was watching some Daily Show clips, and I noticed a reference to something I familiar.
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I’m back in Ottawa Center. Goodbye Ottawa South and David McGuinty
Electoral District boundary redistribution means I'm back in Ottawa Center, where I was in 1987.
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Why I don't see myself in the NDP
I wasn’t excited about the Ontario Election, especially in a district where the outcome seemed certain. It is the Electoral District that matters, not…
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Ottawa Siege: Why didn't "dictator Trudeau" just remove all mandates?
As my high school teaching wife would say: This is a good teachable moment.
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Why I trust Jody Wilson-Reybould, and never again Justin Trudeau
A few ideas are in my head.
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Letter to Hill Times Re: Are political parties undermining democratic practices?
The following is the unedited version of the letter to the Hill Times editor that became: Canada’s electoral system needs to truly modernize…
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Hill Times Letter: Canada’s electoral system needs to truly modernize, democratize
Letter to the Hill Times Editor published August 9, 2021
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Is Canada a democracy?
One of the articles assigned for NS 115 students this week is an essay by Jessica Kolopenuk titled Provoking Bad Biocitizenship…
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Let's work to fix parliamentary flaws which block holding a Premier or Prime Minister accountable.
In my New Years note yesterday, the last paragraph was about Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips, and why I felt he should be fired from his position.
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"Party popular vote" vs Indigenous self-government and sovereignty
While I've been thinking about electoral reform since the 1990's, I learned quite a bit since that time and thus changed my opinion with new knowledge.
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Why are social scientists and fellow social liberals allowing Jordan Peterson to win the policy discussion?
Youtube regularly recommends videos of someone attempting to debate Canadian clinical psychologist and UofT psychology professor Jordan Peterson.
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The Conservative Party of Canada's US-style primaries is counted today.
I disagree with Canada's adoption of US-style primaries where political tourists decide who will be treated as the leader/dictator of Canadian political…
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