That seems to be the opinion of Elections Ontario, which as you’ll read here, seems determined to give as little information out to the voters of Ontario as possible with regards to what they will be voting either for or against with regards to electoral reform.
Its unfortunate that it appears some back-room power-brokers are doing [...]

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.. a sitting MP who’s on a town hall tour and who is holding some of them in (gasp) CONSERVATIVE held ridings?
Or, another sitting MP of the BC Caucus from another party makes an appointment of a “go-to” person in an opposition held riding where that MP (from outside the riding as [...]

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I haven’t seen too much discussion about this SES poll other then a blogpost early this AM at BCL’s, but it basically confirms the Ipso’s poll done a couple of days ago. Both polls gives the Liberals a 6 or 7 point lead at this stage of the campaign over the PC’s.
Unlike BCL however, who [...]

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I was asked if I would consider participating in a yes or no columns debate on MMP over at The Great Canadian Debate website, which puts out a different question every week and has 2 bloggers from opposing sides go at it. I of course agreed to do so, and you can find my [...]

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Enough outrage has been vented already in the progressive blogosphere about the blatant undemocratic attempt of the Conservatives to bypass NDP MP Nathan Cullen by appointing the local Conservative candidate as the “government go-to person”, claiming Cullen as a 4th party MP wasn’t able to get the same services a Conservative MP could for [...]

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A critical component to the proposed MMP electoral reform system for Ontario are the List MPP’s. There has been much gnashing of teeth over whether these are “democratically accountable” MPP’s or not. I will not re-visit that argument today, but what I will be touching on today is what might be the best method (from [...]

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I hate to break Cam’s bubble here, but today’s poll shows the provincial Liberals going UP, not down.
Regrettably for me as a social liberal values person, it’s because of the school funding issue where the pickup has occurred. However, we can’t always be one-issue people, and overall, I’d much prefer Dalton to have another mandate [...]

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With the NDP and BQ having threatened to force non-confidence votes on the environment and Afghanistan respectively, and with Dion joining in on that threat, I’m beginning to think a Fall Election appears a lot more likely, despite CW amongst the pundit class apparently being still that any election won’t happen till the Spring, [...]

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I was very pleased on the weekend to see the Camp Okutta website and Youtube video produced by WarChild Canada get some mainstream press coverage. One of War Child’s founders, Dr. Samantha Nutt, explained in the story they thought it was a good way to draw attention to the fact that there are an [...]

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I’ve not commented a lot on provincial politics, or more specifically the Ontario provincial election that is coming up in Ontario. I’ve obviously said a fair bit (and will continue to do so) about the referendum on whether to choose MMP or not, but that’s not quite the same as the general election campaign [...]

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