Federico Vargas Why and how Canada should lower the voting age to 16 Few today would question the right of 18-year-olds to vote in elections. Until as recently as 1971 however, Canadians younger than 21 years of age were barred from casting a ballot for federal elections. A survey conducted in 1958 also found that…
Tag: Democracy
Poly-partisanship: Why you should vote for party leadership
People are ‘infiltrating’ the Conservative Party of Canada. Learn why this is happening and what you can do.
From Wonderful to Nasty to Smart: The Many Faces of Hillary Rodham Clinton (according to Donald Trump)
Rohan Balram Although two weeks have passed since the U.S. Presidential Election, for many of us it’s still a very topical issue. And rightly so – because when all is said and done, this was an election like no other. While the 2008 presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain inspired hope in much…
Trump is a sore loser—and it’s hurting America’s democracy
Madeline Rowland The 2016 presidential election has become something of a spectator sport for Canadians. We have watched with a mix of horror and schadenfreude as Donald Trump rallies a sizeable base using little more than overt racism, scare tactics, and his (not so tremendous) business record. Watching the democratic process run its course this…
Keeping our House in order: How the Speaker of the Commons is Chosen
Alexa Grieg The night of October 19th, 2015 was a big one for Canadians. Many outstanding (and longstanding) questions were answered. Did voter turnout finally increase? A whopping 69.1 per cent of eligible voters exercised their democratic right to vote, the highest turnout in a Canadian federal election since 1993. Did we elect a new…
Don’t call it “positivity”. Call it “respect”.
Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston Do you believe that the Liberals won this campaign because of “positivity”, or “sunny ways”? If so, congratulations: you’ve just lost yourself an election. Attributing their win to “positivity” is making exactly the same mistake the Conservative campaign recently made. The seeds of the Tories’ rout can be seen in the subtext of…
