Liberal leader Justin Trudeau promised to replace the first-past-the-post electoral system of Canada during the last federal election campaign a year ago. Now that he is prime minister with a parliamentary majority, there is an…
View More Don’t Mess with a Vote System that WorksOn December 3, 2015 Geoff Regan was elected as the 36th Speaker of the House of Commons —reportedly the first from Atlantic Canada in almost 100 years. The veteran politician, who was first elected to…
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While Canada’s recent federal election resulted in more visible minorities being elected to Parliament than ever before, many also lost and are in the process of moving forward with the lessons they learned. Rev. KM…
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Diversity of all kinds was pivotal for Justin Trudeau in the recent election, and on Wednesday, the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada kept one of his main campaign promises. We now have a cabinet that…
View More A Cabinet that Looks Like Canada[Part 3 of 3 of an in-depth investigative series] The settlement service sector across the country is undergoing major changes and facing several challenges as a result. Unlike Ontario and the Atlantic region, both B.C.…
View More B.C. and Manitoba Settlement Agencies Suffer Under New ControlPolitics, generally speaking, is about reason and passion, intellect and emotion. Elections, on the other hand, always come down to numbers. The party or candidate that gets the larger numbers wins (almost always). With Canada’s 42nd general election…
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A warm welcome back to Ottawa to MPs of all parties. I hope you had a great time over spring break, but as we all move inexorably towards October, it’s time to review the rules…
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In 2009, Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan founded the political think tank Samara. They were concerned about a growing disengagement among Canadians from their political system, what MacMillan describes as a “turning away from the…
View More Fed Up With Politicians? So Is Your MP