In the Blogosphere
This page provides a list of recent external blog postings about proportional representation, Fair Vote Canada, and electoral reform.
Canadian Election Watch: Proportional Representation
Proportional Representation. If the Tories win a minority, but the NDP gets more seats than the Liberals and more than the Bloc in Québec, will we get a majority in favour of electoral reform? Posted by Election Watcher at 21:17 ...
Negative voting | Gary Dale's Blog
He is best known for founding and running FaxLeft in the 1990s, for running in Ontario and Canada elections, and for serving on the National Council of Fair Vote Canada. He has had a large number of letters to the editor published in a ...
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http://garydale.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/negative-voting/ Julien Lamarche » The “all candidates should be voted directly ...
We can do that with Multi-Member District Single Transferable Vote, which was proposed in British-Columbia and got a majority support in 2005 - but failed because of the government's setting the threshold to 60%. ...
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http://www.julienlamarche.ca/?p=706 Campaign Update – Day 25. Honkin' in the rain!
I really enjoyed participating in the Fair Vote Canada debate tonight. Needless to say, there was no Conservative in sight. I have long been a supporter of proportional representation, and welcomed the opportunity to discuss the “why's” ...
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http://marthahallfindlay.liberal.ca/blog/campaign-update-day-25/ It's Time to Consider Proportional Representation | The Mark
Too many Canadians' votes are wasted under our first-past-the-post electoral system.
For Great Justice - Rosti's Blog: The 2011 Referendum - The ...
A while back I signed up to a petition somewhere for voting reform to the Single Transferable Vote system, which gives fairly proportional representation in parliament to the number of votes each party got. If your party got around 10% ...
Canada Needs Electoral Reform miriam
Why we need electoral reform, simplified. I will definitely be bringing this issue up to my riding's candidates. The Greens and the NDP are the only ones I know of who officially endorse electoral reform. ...
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http://blogs.ubc.ca/yamyam/archives/607 Reminder: All Party Debate tonight on Parliament is Dysfunctional ...
All-Party Debate -- All welcome Wednesday April 20, 7:00 - 8:30 pm St Paul's Church, 227 Bloor Street E (east of Church Street) sponsored by: Fair Vote Canada Toronto Chapterand Canadians Advocating Political Participation 'Our ...
Humanist Toronto: Reminder: All Party Debate tonight on ...
Martha Hall Findlay, MP, Liberal, Willowdale. Ellen Michelson, Green Party Candidate, Toronto Centre. William Molls, NDP Candidate, St. Paul's. Conservative Candidate: TBA Moderator: Wayne Smith, Fair Vote Canada Executive Director ...
Why I'm Voting No To AV « Double Trouble
I would much rather see the Single Transferable Vote used in mutli-member constituencies for Westminster, as it is for Council elections in Scotland. This is actually the system that the Lib Dems favour, but they couldn't persuade ...

