Reading Time: 3 minutes Received lowest percentage of votes to win the largest percentage of seats since 1867
Tag: Democracy
Humanitarian compassion a democratic indulgence
Reading Time: 3 minutes Compassion for the suffering of others not often shared by others in the world
Worker choice laws make union leaders more accountable to their members
Reading Time: 3 minutes They also lead to a stronger labour market and economy
Political parties corrupting representative government
Reading Time: 4 minutes The power of political parties and modern communications has corrupted the practical reality of representative government
2015 election could have far reaching political consequences for Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes The 2015 vote could lead to deep uncertainty about how we’ll even choose our Parliament in the future
Extend secret ballot voting to all Canadian workers when forming a union
Reading Time: 3 minutes Workers more likely to reject unionization when there’s no automatic certification
Corporations are the new sovereign power
Reading Time: 3 minutes Throughout the entire Western world the idea of a ‘sovereign’ public is being eroded
Time for First Nations to embrace citizenship
Reading Time: 3 minutes First Nations need not give up their status to become citizens
Greece is learning what giving up sovereignty really means
Reading Time: 3 minutes Absent its own currency and the ability to conduct an independent monetary policy, no country can be really sovereign
Young voters have no taste for old-school politics
Reading Time: 3 minutes Restoring faith in our electoral system will require a new style of politics that eschews much of the current orthodoxy