Prime Minister Layton and Proportional Representation
Since during the federal election campaign over the last 3 months I’ve talked with friends about the outside chance of Jack Layton becoming prime minister. It’s still an outside chance, but it improved when Flaherty said an unsurprising bunch of nothing useful last night. I’ve been impressed with the social movement that swept Obama to [...]
Theft: Arbitrary Credit Card Charges
You don’t have to go far to read about insurance companies whose initial reaction to claims is rejection. Out of hand. Many claimants will just go away. Those who don’t have to pursue it to get any blood from the stone. And I don’t even want to think about what our current economic meltdown is [...]
Why Vancouver’s NPA Lost Badly Today
Because I like to make electoral predictions, I guessed that the NPA would elect 5 people to various councils in Vancouver. It turns out I was generous. They got 4 in, unless more official results in the coming days alter that. This doesn’t really prove that the NPA is dead. Corporate donations will keep the [...]
Plumping the Municipal Election
There is no grand prevailing wisdom about how people should vote. It’s hard enough to get people to show up at the polls as it is–and for many good reasons. But once people show up, there are competing views about how we should cast our votes: in this case, to plump or not to plump. [...]
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