Ontario’s democracy is in dire need of defence. Buried in last week’s COVID-19 bill, Doug Ford introduced legislation to take away the freedom of municipalities to improve their local voting systems ― including their ability to consider proportional options. With … Read More
Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been discussed for years, but it took the perfect storm of the 2008 economic crash, combined with the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” to squeeze so many workers out of the job market and so many others … Read More
Webinar with Dennis Pilon Almost 100 people joined us September 16th for our first webinar of 2020, Friends and Enemies: who wants proportional representation in Canada and who does not. And why. Professor Dennis Pilon joined us for a lively … Read More
Our first Letter-Writing Workshop Getting Letters To the Editor (LTEs) on Proportional Representation published in mainstream media is an important way for us to keep our issue consistently in front of the public and politicians. So we held our first … Read More
Proportional Representation in a Pandemic Here’s to the essential workers that have helped us survive the past five months! The brave health care professionals, the underpaid grocery clerks, the harried civil servants, and…the politicians? Yes, in fact. Governments have been … Read More
The urgent need for PR By Joyce Hall Realizing that PR is already on the NDP platform, I’m concentrating here on providing updated pro-PR points in the light of recent developments in our democracy. I’ll discuss two reasons PR is … Read More
One pro-PR message in the era of COVID-19 is to claim moral ground on the subject of equal representation. For example, “when government policy calls for massive social mobilization, we realize how important each citizen is. Not even the majority. … Read More