Fiona Downey With the upcoming federal election looming, parties are looking to rally their voters and bring Canadians to the polls. Leaders and candidates are connecting with citizens in the hopes these contacts will translate into votes and, ultimately, seats. It is therefore in the interest of parties to mobilize as many eligible voters as…
Tag: Civic Engagement
Seen and Heard: The Role of Social Media in Civic Engagement
The ‘Public Policy and Governance Review Abroad’, or PPGR Abroad, is a new initiative for 2014. Undertaken in collaborative with exchange students from the Master of Public Policy program at the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto, it will featured policy insights and analyses direct from Berlin and Paris. Sydney Raeburn-Bell Political campaigns…
My Backyard
Vass Bednar Nobody seems to like NIMBY-ism. It has a bad – if not the worst – rep in policy discourse. As such, I’m compelled to stand up for the backyard – for the minute, the inflated, the hyper-local – and not just as devil’s advocate. Why? Because we’ve got to stop discounting it if…
