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Hate on display: How two years online helped shape a full scale occupation
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What happened in Ottawa offers a window into the antagonism fed by two years of living in self-affirming bubbles, writes Erin Gee
Is the ‘Freedom Convoy’ a sign of inequality-fuelled escalation of violent class conflict?
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Resentment over growing wealth and inequality in Canada helped to generate sympathy toward the Convoy insurrection
Canada’s crisis of democracy
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What is the point of a political system that ignores the needs of its people during a crisis?
We need bold action.
Yes, let’s lower the voting age in Canada.
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Excerpt: Envisaging a people’s senate
Photo credit: “Canadian Senate Chamber” © Saffron Blaze – Own work. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Safeguarding our Parliament
The following editorial will appear in the November issue of the Monitor. The CCPA’s National Office is in downtown Ottawa, about ten blocks from Parliament Hill.…
When Most Votes Don’t Count
Lack of democracy is at the root of Canada’s worst problems The Senate scandal that has obsessed the media in recent months is the least…
Salvaging the Senate (Part II)
The Senate can be made a vital part of good governance “Parliamentary government,” Eugene Forsey wrote, “is not just a matter of counting heads instead of…
Salvaging the Senate (Part I)
Properly run, the Senate can enhance and protect democracy “The idea of senators as lazy old busters who sit twiddling their thumbs and don’t earn…
Election Stimulus
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November 2007: Another Setback For Democracy
Electoral reform in Ontario fails to win enough votes Readers supporting the creaky old “first-past-the-post” (single member plurality, or SMP) electoral system will find neither…
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