Posts Tagged ‘vote’

• The House stands with asbestos

  By a vote of 152-123 this evening the House defeated the NDP’s motion on…

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, November 1, 2011

• The popular mandate

  I ran these sorts of numbers a few years ago, so, for the sake…

  by Erica Alini - Tuesday, May 17, 2011

• Over-thinking it

  Alice Funke takes apart the strategic voting movement.
  I think it’s time to say…

  by Erica Alini - Monday, May 16, 2011

• Don't split the difference

  Conservative strategist Ken Boessenkool and NDP strategist Brian Topp dispute the vote-splitting conventional wisdom….

  by Erica Alini - Tuesday, May 10, 2011

• The case for proportional representation

  Popular vote and seat totals for the province of Saskatchewan.
  Conservatives 256,004 votes (13…

  by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, May 4, 2011

• What just happened? (IV)

  Eric Grenier points to the vote splits.
  Of course, votes are not easily transferred…

  by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, May 4, 2011

• Two recounts

  There will be two automatic recounts—in Etobicoke Centre where the Conservative candidate beat a…

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, May 3, 2011

• Plus/minus

  Changes in popular vote totals for the parties from 2008 to 2011.
  NDP +1,933,186…

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, May 3, 2011

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  Aw, voting two whole times in five years?

  Harper feels our pain, and he’ll take a majority to end this chore called democracy

  by Scott Feschuk - Monday, April 25, 2011

• Get out the vote

  Those who are keen to cast a ballot or who won’t be in their…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, April 22, 2011

• This complicated democracy

  Frances Woolley sets out to consider the efficiencies of vote-swapping and ends up considering…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, April 15, 2011

• Voter engagement (II)

  The Conservative campaign has issued the following statement.
  The Conservative Party encourages all Canadians…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, April 15, 2011

• The House: 'Our democracy remains a work in progress'

  Eight years ago, Stephane Dion delivered a speech on the “state of Canadian democracy”…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, February 25, 2011

• Idea alert

  In a letter to the Economist, Hitotsubashi University professor Reiko Aoki suggests extending the…

  by Aaron Wherry - Thursday, January 6, 2011

• The voting age: should it be raised to 50?

  Makes about as much sense as lowering it to 16

  by Colby Cosh - Thursday, December 16, 2010

• It doesn't matter, but it does

  Ryan D. Enos and Anthony Fowler argue we vote for reasons beyond a belief…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, November 12, 2010

• Where was the youth vote?

  POTTER: No one bailed on Obama as pathetically as young voters

  by Andrew Potter - Friday, November 12, 2010

• The rebels gather

  This Tory AGM will determine Stelmach’s future—and Alberta’s

  by Nicholas Köhler - Friday, November 6, 2009

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