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BC Greens call for electronic voting, new referendum on electoral reform - The Canadian Press
BC Greens call for electronic voting, new referendum on electoral reformThe Canadian PressThe Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform spent months hearing from more than 1000 people and groups in an effort to decide whether change was needed or ...
Status quo woes - Toronto Sun
Status quo woes
Toronto Sun
It's called proportional representation. It is tried and tested and in use by the vast majority of democracies on earth. It would eliminate overnight the ...
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Importance of local reps a shallow argument for existing system - The Kingston Whig-Standard
Importance of local reps a shallow argument for existing system
The Kingston Whig-Standard
When the Ontario referendum on proportional representation failed in 2007, one of the arguments in favour of our existing first-past-the-post system was the ...
Electoral reform would help women in politics - Chatham Daily News
Electoral reform would help women in politicsChatham Daily NewsOn Monday, like other countries around the world, Canada will celebrate International Women's Day, now in its 99th year. But many of the "celebrations" will ...
Electoral reform would help women in politics - Toronto Sun
Electoral reform would help women in politicsToronto SunOn Monday, like other countries around the world, Canada will celebrate International Women's Day, now in its 99th year. ...and more »
Downsize the PMO - The Mark
Downsize the PMO
The Mark
Ending the archaic “first past the post” voting system, instituting proportional representation for the election of some portion of Members of Parliament, ...
Canadians should care about Senate - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Canadians should care about Senate
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Senate reform is an opportunity to introduce proportional representation to the federal system. It is not a cure for every representational weakness of our ...
Electoral Reform Society: Big public endorsement for PR - Politics.co.uk
Electoral Reform Society: Big public endorsement for PR
Politics.co.uk
The Electoral Reform Society has welcomed news that Proportional Representation has topped the Power2010 poll of reforms necessary to fix our broken ...
Electoral reform requires real anger - The Guardian
Electoral reform requires real angerThe GuardianBut what are the chances that major electoral reform will actually be passed? Evidence here doesn't get us far in answering this. ...
John Baglow: Two classes of constituent - National Post (blog)
National Post (blog)
It may be a while before we get another crack at achieving proportional representation (PR) in this country, one of only a handful of nations retaining a ...
Task Force Should Consider All Options for Civic Election Reform Say Advocates - Canada NewsWire (press release)
Task Force Should Consider All Options for Civic Election Reform Say AdvocatesCanada NewsWire (press release)"In particular, Mayor Campbell 's 2004 electoral reform commission, chaired by former supreme court justice Thomas Berger , recommended the province give ...
Citizens jury recommends changes to politcal party financing - CTV.ca
Citizens jury recommends changes to politcal party financingCTV.caClaude Bechard, the minister responsible for electoral reform, tabled a bill on party financing at the end of November. The proposed legislation called for ...
Translating online advocacy into reform - Toronto Star
Translating online advocacy into reform
Toronto Star
So after you sign up on Facebook to register your disgust with prorogation, navigate to Fair Vote Canada's Declaration of Voter Rights and help work for a ...