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Populism and faux feminism: Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau | Feb 14 2017 | Duncan Cameron | Justin Trudeau arrived in Washington on Monday with a plan to help Trump polish his image with women, even though Canadian women are still waiting for action on public child care from our feminist PM.

Dear B.C. Liberals: Your budget priorities need fixing. | Feb 12 2017 | Lizanne Foster | Finance Minister De Jong's claims to a balanced budget actually reveal years of fiscal mismanagement and neglect.

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Spring political follies: Three Canadian leadership races | Feb 7 2017 | Duncan Cameron | In Canadian politics a winning candidate is currently defined as one that can take on Justin Trudeau and make him look weak. Runners in three leadership races will have to measure up.

Keeping first-past-the-post is a gift to the right | Feb 6 2017 | Karl Nerenberg | Conservatives are thrilled we're keeping first-past-the-post. It gives them a chance of repeating 2011: winning a majority, even though most voters would choose anybody but them.

Trudeau provides weak justification for breaking electoral reform promise | Feb 2 2017 | Karl Nerenberg | Trudeau calculates that he can get away with breaking his electoral reform promise. Maybe so. Many who encouraged strategic voting for him are now bitterly disappointed. They should have known better.

This feels like it's happened before … it's Groundhog Day and the Liberals have just broken a promise! | Feb 2 2017 | David J. Climenhaga | Did anyone really expect Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to keep his electoral reform promise? Other than the Green Party leader, that is.

Five things you need to know about Alberta's latest Electoral Boundaries Commission | Jan 12 2017 | John Ashton | A useful primer on the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission by former NDP Caucus director John Ashton.

Trudeau's new 'democracy' minister is personally committed to electoral reform | Jan 11 2017 | Karl Nerenberg | Prime Minister Trudeau has given another very young and very inexperienced MP the difficult electoral reform job. That worries many. But there may be method to the PM's madness.

For the sake of a healthy democracy, Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission needs to extend submissions deadline | Jan 11 2017 | David J. Climenhaga | The population of Alberta has grown about 20 per cent in less than a decade and, face it, most of those folks didn't move to Manyberries, Vegreville or Zama City.

The consultation process for electoral reform has been a shambles. Here are three ways to save it | Jan 4 2017 | Rudayna Bahubeshi | The much-criticized electoral reform consultation process has gone far too fast and got the important parts wrong. Even so, there's still time to fix it.

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Electoral College may be last salvation to block Trump from taking office | Dec 15 2016 | Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | The Electoral College meets Dec. 19, when its 538 members cast their votes. The hope of many Trump opponents is that at least 37 Republican electors will vote for someone else.

Slowly but surely, Kathleen Wynne reveals herself to be a standard issue Liberal | Dec 9 2016 | Rick Salutin | It's hard to recall the hopes Kathleen Wynne once inspired and how fresh she seemed. Let's refresh our memories.

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Consultations Provide Strong Mandate for Proportional Representation

The government should have the recommendation about electoral reform by Dec. 1. At the consultation, of the witnesses with a position on voting systems, 88% recommended proportional representation.

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